Arab town and NGOs appeal to Supreme Court to prevent demolitions, overturn rules that hamper Palestinian building It was a large house with three floors and freshly painted pale blue shutters that had just been…
Nothing more exemplifies the historical whitewash of British rule in Palestine between 1917 and 1948 than the response (or lack of) to David Cameron’s speech in the Israeli Kneeset in March 2014. Therein he briefly propounded…
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Head of the Joint List shares his vision of a shared, equal future for Jews and Arabs in Israel. But is it a vision left-wing Israelis and liberal American Jews can sign onto? Ayman Odeh,…
May 11 Israel bought four German-made corvette warships on Monday to help secure its Mediterranean gas rigs, with Berlin heavily subsidizing the deal, Israel’s Defence Ministry said on Monday. The ships, worth 430 million euros…
ROME — The Vatican said Wednesday that it had concluded a treaty to recognize Palestinian statehood, a symbolic but significant step welcomed by Palestinians but upsetting to the Israeli government. Formal recognition of a Palestinian state…
http://www.map-uk.org/downloads/parliamentary-candidate-polling—dods.pdf New poll finds that a majority of parliamentary candidates support UK recognition of the State of Palestine in 2015 Parliamentary candidates standing in next week’s UK General Election have signalled their support for the…
Israel’s flagship annual cultural festival has been forced to curtail its 2015 schedule because last summer’s assault on Gaza and the growing impact of Palestinian calls for cultural boycott are making it harder to attract…
Israel doesn’t have to go all the way to Kathmandu to save lives; it would be enough to lift the siege it imposes an hour’s drive from Tel Aviv and let Gaza be rebuilt. By…
When the Liberal Democrats entered coalition negotiations with the Conservatives five years ago (how far back in time that now seems!), we in the Lib Dem Friends of Palestine (LDFP) were full of foreboding. We…
An article on American plans for mass celebrations of Israel’s existence follows Zvi Bar’el and an inset on Carl Cox, the British DJ who has accepted the gig of performing at the ‘mega-event’ in Israel.…
Jewish Home party leader says there’s no point relinquishing land to ‘satisfy the radical Islamist beast’BY ARON HELLER February 17, 2015, 11:18 am 46 Naftali Bennett, leader of the Jewish Home party — a lynchpin…
The justices said the controversial Absentee Property Law is applicable in East Jerusalem, but warned it should be used only rarely, and with explicit approval of the attorney general. By Nir Hasson | Apr. 16,…
Poisonous gases were sprayed on Wednesday but their effects started to appear on the crops over the weekend EXCLUSIVE IMAGES Israel has sprayed Palestinian farms with poisonous gases that damaged crops, Qudsnetreported farmers saying yesterday.…
Israel: Settlement Agriculture Harms Palestinian Children Press Release, Human Rights Watch April 13, 2015 (Jerusalem) – Israeli settlement farms in the West Bank are using Palestinian child labor to grow, harvest, and pack agricultural produce,…
High Court backs university’s decision to ‘postpone’ Israel conference Organisers of a conference on Israel and international law have failed in their bid to overturn a decision by the University of Southampton to cancel the…