Israel has approved construction of 900 settler homes in annexed East Jerusalem, a watchdog said Thursday shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formed a new right-wing religious coalition. The new homes will be built in the east Jerusalem settlement neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo following a decision late Wednesday by[…]
Prominent former minister Tokyo Sexwale visited the Palestinian town of Hebron earlier on Wednesday where he was harassed by Israeli soldiers and settlers, according to media reports. Sexwale witnessed the multiple barriers set up by Israeli soldiers at all entrances and exits of the town to harass Palestinian citizens and[…]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held on to his job, announcing that he had hammered together a new coalition government just ahead of a midnight legal deadline. But with a knife-edge majority of just one seat in the 120-member parliament expectations were that he would have to expand the ruling[…]
Jerusalem’s Latin Patriarchate on Wednesday hailed the upcoming canonization by Pope Francis of two nuns who will become the first modern-day Palestinian saints. Marie Alphonsine Ghattas of Jerusalem and Mariam Bawardy of Galilee, both of whom lived in Ottoman Palestine during the 19th century, will be canonized at the Vatican in[…]
Anti-apartheid activist, former South African minister and prominent businessman Tokyo Sexwale is visiting Palestine this week as the president of the anti-racism campaign, Global Watch. Global Watch is a brainchild of Sexwale and is supported by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, South Africa’s ANC party as well as[…]
US Grammy-winning rapper and R&B singer Lauryn Hill has canceled her upcoming Israeli gig following calls by the global Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and her fans and supporters. The former lead vocalist of The Fugees made the announcement via her official Facebook page. Several Israeli Jews were part[…]
Fed up with being treated as second-class citizens for decades, Israel’s Ethiopian Jews are warning they will no longer stand idly by in the face of institutionalized racism. In the mainly Ethiopian-Jewish area of central town Ramle, there is no sign of the anger that has fueled clashes between protesters[…]
The Student Representative Council’s (SRC) of five of South African universities have joined the academic and cultural boycott of Israel. This was announced at a joint press conference with Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS South Africa) at UNISA on Monday. The universities, UNISA, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Durban University[…]
OPINION by Iqbal Jassat – The dawn of winter in South Africa marks a drop in temperature as is nature’s norm. However, in direct contrast, temperatures are rising in the country’s diplomatic arena. Thanks to Israel and Egypt, heat generated by their foolish actions may offset some of South Africa’s[…]
The UN’s new Middle East peace envoy on Thursday urged Palestinian factions to unite and Israel to lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip, on his first visit to the territory. “I strongly believe that it will hurt the cause of the Palestinian people if division, if the lack of[…]
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