Two Jewish-American women displayed a controversial “Boycott Israel” banner at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem on Tuesday. For Jews, the Wailing Wall, otherwise known as the Kotel or Western Wall, is one of the most sacred holy sites in the world. The banner declared: “American Jews Support BDS”. Additional placards read[…]
At the start of the school day, students at the Tariq bin Ziyad school in Hebron mill around outside the white-brick building, talking to friends and playing football. The teenage students show no rush to head to class. Conversations drift from friendly rivalries between Real Madrid and Barcelona supporters, to[…]
A 24-year-old Palestinian woman was shot dead by Israeli military forces at a checkpoint in Qalqiliya after she allegedly attempted to carry out a stabbing attack on Monday. Israel’s Defense Ministry said that a Palestinian woman approached cars at a military checkpoint north of the illegal Alfei Menashe settlement south[…]
Tens of thousands of Israelis have gathered in Tel Aviv to commemorate the late Israeli leader Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated by an ultra-nationalist Israeli twenty years ago. “Two decades have gone by, and still we remain overly focused on the wounds of the past, and not enough on building[…]
An eight-month-old Palestinian baby died Friday from tear gas inhalation in Beit Fajjar village south of Bethlehem during clashes in the area, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said. The ministry said in a statement that Ramadan Mohammad Faisal Thawabta died after inhaling tear gas when clashes erupted nearby between Palestinians[…]
The United Nations has warned that a deadly surge in violence between Israelis and Palestinians is leading them towards a “catastrophe”. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Wednesday that the latest flare-up in the six-decade-old conflict was “dangerous in the extreme”. “The violence between Palestinians and the Israelis[…]
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has called for “international protection” for his people as the death toll in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories continues to rise. While addressing a special meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday, Abbas called for the creation of a “special[…]
Since the beginning of October, hundreds of young men from Jerusalem have spent the night in Oz – not the magical fairy-tale land, but a police station in Jabal al-Mukaber. Like the rest of occupied East Jerusalem, the neighbourhood is mired in neglect and has become a scene of regular[…]
A Palestinian was shot and killed near the Tel Rumeida area of Hebron after allegedly attempting to stab an Israeli soldier, the third Palestinian to be killed on Tuesday. A Palestinian man reportedly attempted to stab an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint in Tel Rumeida and was shot dead by[…]
This is the final article in a series focusing on BDS movements around the world. In 1948, Israel was founded as a Jewish state on land ethnically cleansed of its indigenous Palestinian population. As a result, most Palestinians became refugees and to this day are not allowed by Israel to[…]
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