Israel’s former attorney general says his country is an ‘apartheid regime’

MEE Staff Middle East Eye  /  February 11, 2022 Michael Ben-Yair agrees with the Amnesty report and urges the international community to recognize apartheid. Former Israeli attorney general Michael...

UN’s Guterres ensures Palestinian independence remains elusive

Ramona Wadi Middle East Monitor  /  February 11, 2022 "There is no Plan B." UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' favourite catchphrase wormed its way into his address at the...

Benny Gantz war crimes case will go to Dutch supreme court

Ali Abunimah The Electronic Intifada  /  February 10, 2022 Ismail Ziada is bringing his case against Israeli defense minister Benny Gantz and former air force chief Amir Eshel to the...

Cambridge students disrupt Israel’s racist ambassador

Asa Winstanley The Electronic Intifada  /  February 10, 2022 Students protested against Israeli ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely outside the elite Cambridge Union on Tuesday. They waved flags...

The obscure UN committee that (may) charge Israel with Apartheid

David Kattenburg Mondoweiss  /  February 10, 2022 The conclusions the UN Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination reaches may have huge consequences for Israel as it...

West Bank: Jewish settlers overrun historic Palestinian sites 

Middle East Monitor  /  February 10, 2022 Hundreds of illegal Jewish settlers have overrun a Palestinian archaeological site in the occupied West Bank town of...

Abbas accused of power grab after Palestinian appointments

Jehad Barakat Al-Jazeera  /  February 10, 2022 PA president used Palestinian Central Council meeting to entrench his power and secure his successor, critics say. Ramallah, occupied West...

Biden’s antisemitism envoy – meet Deborah Lipstadt

Michael Arria Mondoweiss  /  February 10, 2022 President Biden nominated the historian Deborah Lipstadt as the special envoy to combat and monitor antisemitism last July. This week...

Amnesty apartheid report: How Israel is using Google Ads to whitewash its record

Marc Owen Jones Middle East Eye  /  February 10, 2022 Online platforms should not allow states to use their services to perpetuate disinformation campaigns - and...

Why liberal Zionist groups won’t say ‘apartheid’

Mari Cohen & Alex Kane Jewish Currents  /  February 10, 2022 Pressed for specific disagreements with the use of the term, leaders of several prominent Jewish...