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UN report: Palestinian development impossible without ending Israeli occupation
As Israel and its advocates promote a depoliticised framework of economic improvements for Palestinians under military occupation, a new United Nations (UN) document is required reading. Late last month, the….
Israel threatens to toss Antony Loewenstein after he asked Lapid question about apartheid
The Jerusalem Post reports that the Israeli government is thinking of ending Antony Loewenstein’s press credentials, forcing him to leave Jerusalem, because he asked a tough question of a government….
Richard Falk: ‘History is on the side of the Palestinians’
The former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine talks about his career, his commitment to the Palestinian cause and his hopes for the future
Israeli Occupation Continues to Strangle Palestine’s Education
In continuation of its barbaric aggression on our people and national institutions, the Israeli occupation forces stormed Birzeit University’s campus in the early morning hours of Wednesday 14 December 2016…..
German Bank for Social Economy Closes Account of Jewish Peace Group
Our organization, the “Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East” (JS) was founded thirteen years ago as the German Section of the “European Jews for a Just….
European Trade Union Initiative for Justice in Palestine
Recently over 100 trade union delegates, representing twenty nine unions and three million members from all over Europe, gathered in a historic first meeting in Brussels to challenge European governments’….
Palestine: The End of the Bedouins?
One way to tell the story of the Middle East as a whole is to describe the endemic struggle between peripatetic nomads and settled peasant farmers—a struggle attested already in….
Strangled Education: Reporting on higher education in Palestine and Israel
This January, after several years of often-heated discussion and review, the Modern Language Association’s representative body, the Delegate Assembly, will consider a resolution to endorse the Palestinian call for a….
Israel conference banned in UK moves to Ireland
An academic conference about Israel banned in the UK two years in a row, will go ahead at a new venue in Ireland, organizers announced this week. “International Law and….