Israeli forces shoot, kill 15-year-old Palestinian boy near Nablus
Israeli forces killed Mahdi Mohammad Hamdallah Hashash, 15, on November 9. (Photo: Courtesy of the Hashash family)
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DCIP director elected president of global child rights movement
Ramallah, November 12, 2022—The general director of Defense for Children International – Palestine was elected to lead the Defence for Children International global child rights movement during an international general….
Bisan Lecture Series – Esther Duflo – Social Experiments to Fight Poverty: From Research to Policy
The next Bisan Lecture webinar will take place on Wednesday, November 9th at 6pm Palestine time (5pm Central European Time, 11am US Eastern time) – ATTENTION unusual schedule. We will have the pleasure to welcome Prof. Esther Duflo (MIT, Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences in 2019) who will speak on Good economics for warmer times. You can register for the event on Zoom here.
We must acknowledge that Israel’s policies against Palestinians amount to the crime of apartheid, say former European foreign ministers
Five former European foreign ministers have written calling for the acknowledgment that Israeli policies against Palestinians, amount to the crime of apartheid. In their piece (originally in French in Le Monde), Mogens Lykketoft, former Foreign Minister and UN General Assembly President, (Denmark), Erkki Tuomioja, former Foreign Minister (Finland), Ivo Vajgl, former Foreign Minister (Slovenia), Hubert Védrine, former Foreign Minister (France) and Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, former Cabinet Minister and Foreign Office Minister for the United Nations, Human Rights and the ICC (United Kingdom), denounce human rights violations against Palestinians and call on the international community to hold the Israeli government to account.
Coverage can also be found in Le Monde in French and in English, and in Delo in Slovenian.
Anatomy of a scandal: Unraveling the myth of ‘Jewish-free zones’ at UC Berkeley
The manufactured controversy surrounding a student group pledge underlines the dangers of legal attempts to conflate anti-Zionism and antisemitism.
16-year-old Palestinian boy succumbs to Israeli gunshot wound
16-year-old Mohammad Fadi Hani Nouri is the seventh Palestinian child killed by Israeli forces in October this year. (Photo: Courtesy of the Nouri family)
Israeli soldiers detain 8- and 10-year-old at Hebron checkpoint for over 5 hours
On Monday, 12 September 2022, at around 12:30 P.M., two soldiers stationed at Checkpoint 160 (Diwan a-Rajabi) in central Hebron detained Palestinian brothers Hamam (8) and Ghazi (10) Maharmeh, who….
Shadi Khoury – an additional victim of the Occupation; when will Israeli human rights violations stop?
Shadi Khouri, 16, is the son of two prominent Palestinian personalities, Suhail Khoury and Rania Elias. Khoury directs the Edward Said National Conservatory based in Birzeit, north of Ramallah, while Elias directs the Yabous Cultural Center in East Jerusalem. Both were briefly detained by Israel two years ago.
West Bank visitors ordered to register romances as Israel brings in strict rules
Curbs on people falling in love with a Palestinian among measures expected to stifle economy and academia and hit aid agencies
U.S. Says Israel Still Not in Compliance With Visa Waiver Program Requirements
Department of Homeland Security tells Democratic congressman that Israel has yet to extend reciprocal visa-free travel privileges for all U.S. citizens