Memoirs of an Arab-Jew
Marc Martorell Junyent
Informed Comment / October 2, 2023
Review of Avi Shlaim, Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew (London: Oneworld, 2023).
Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Avi Shlaim is an Israeli-British scholar who has authored six books on the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the role played in...
The UN’s acquiescence to erasing Palestine
Ramona Wadi
Middle East Monitor / October 2, 2023
Erasing Palestine is what the Zionist colonial project is about. At the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu illustrated the aim by showing a map of Greater Israel – completely eliminating the existence of Gaza and the occupied...
The IHRA definition of antisemitism is erasing Palestine from UK universities
Rebecca Ruth Gould
The New Arab / October 2, 2023
A new report shows how the IHRA definition of antisemitism has silenced criticism of Israel in UK universities. It continues to undermine academic freedom and muddle our understanding of anti-Jewish hatred, writes Rebecca Ruth Gould.
In 2016, the UK government...
Israel’s other looming showdown: The ultra-Orthodox army draft exemption law
Peggy Cidor
Middle East Eye / October 2, 2023
Haredi parties in government look to enshrine the controversial arrangement further, and ultimately the polarization it causes.
Amid the political turmoil in Israel, one age-old issue is slowly coming back to the centre stage of public debate: the military draft exemption of...
Israel offers economic aid to stop Palestinian Authority collapsing
Middle East Monitor / October 2, 2023
The Israeli occupation government has offered economic aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) to ease the financial crisis it is facing and enable it to crackdown on the Palestinian resistance.
According to Israel Hayom, Tel Aviv recently slashed the gasoline tax...
Has India taken a leaf out of Mossad’s assassination handbook ?
Omar Ahmed
Middle East Monitor / October 2, 2023
Canada’s diplomatic blunder on 22 September, when parliament gave two standing ovations to a Ukrainian Nazi veteran — “who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians” — has not managed to eclipse the controversy just four days earlier. That’s when...
Netanyahu excludes Ben-Gvir from security discussions
Middle East Monitor / October 2, 2023
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu excluded National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir from security discussions attended by most senior Israeli security officials on Sunday, it has been reported. Ben-Gvir’s position includes authority over the police, but this was not a...
Israeli police break into Al-Qibli Mosque in Al-Aqsa, assault Muslim worshippers, keep them out of...
WAFA / October 2, 2023
Israeli occupation police forcibly removing a Palestinian woman outside Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM – Israeli police today broke into Al-Qibli/Al-Aqsa Mosque, the main prayer area in the Muslim holy compound in Jerusalem, known as Al-Haram Al-Sharif or Noble Sanctuary, under the...
Israeli forces open fire in West Bank school during raid
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / October 2, 2023
The Ministry of Education has suspended classes in the village of Burqa after a child was wounded by Israeli forces who raided the school.
Classes were suspended in the village of Burqa, northwest of the occupied West Bank city...
PA extends detention of head of Palestinian engineers’ syndicate
Middle East Monitor / October 2, 2023
The Palestinian Authority (PA)’s Court of First Instance in Nablus yesterday extended the detention of the head of the Palestinian Engineers’ Syndicate in the city, Yazan Musbah Jaber, for 15 days, Safa news agency reported.
On Thursday, intelligence officials kidnapped the engineer...
