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Betty McCollum’s H.R. 2590 may finally hold Israel accountable
H.R. 2590 is a critical piece of legislation that will hold the government of Israel accountable for the abuse and cruel treatment of Palestinian children by Israeli military forces.
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.
Winners of Palestine Book Awards 2022 announced
Middle East Monitor’s flagship annual literary awards ceremony – the Palestine Book Awards (PBA) – has entered its 11th year today, as awards were handed out to the winning authors and books in the much-awaited event
The war that canonized America’s hasbara playbook
The defensive line taken by the American-Jewish establishment during the 1982 Lebanon invasion solidified many of the methods that are deployed when Israeli violence makes headlines today.
Not a “vibrant democracy”. This is apartheid.
The right to vote and run for office is fundamental to democracy. Without it, there is no democracy worthy of its name. This right is enshrined in the Universal Declaration….
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….