Israel-Palestine

European Court of Human Rights Deals Major Blow to Israel’s War on Palestine Solidarity

June 14, 2020 UNAC Editor Israel-Palestine, Lawfare

by the Palestinian BDS National Committee, published on Global Research, June 11, 2020 The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled unanimously today that the French highest court’s 2015 criminal conviction of activists with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement advocating nonviolent boycotts of Israeli goods violated article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights.[…]

Joe Biden’s Hatred of Palestinians Echoes his Anti-Black Racism

May 23, 2020 UNAC Editor Israel-Palestine, Racism, US Politics

by Ali Abunima, published on The Electronic Intifada, May 22, 2020 Joe Biden has released his plan for Palestinians and Israelis. Interestingly it is not in his campaign website’s foreign policy section, but falls under the title “Joe Biden and the Jewish Community.” This is a clear indication that he views the matter as one of domestic political pandering, without[…]

Palestinian Movement Scores Big Legal Win for BDS Campaign in Britain

May 20, 2020 UNAC Editor Israel-Palestine

By Kathy Durkin, published on Workers World, May 6, 2020 The Palestine Solidarity Committee won a legal victory for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in Britain when the country’s highest court issued a landmark ruling that struck a blow against the Whitehall government on April 29. Supreme Court judges repudiated regulations that prohibited local governments from making “ethical” pension[…]

Hebrew, Arab and Apartheid

May 5, 2020 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Indigenous peoples, Israel-Palestine

by Jonathan Ofir, published on Mondoweiss, April 20, 2020 The creation of the modern Hebrew language around the end of the 19th century sought to resurrect an ancient language which had hardly been spoken colloquially among Jews, to become the new unifying ‘national language’ of the ‘Jewish nation’. This effort built upon romantic and messianic concepts of ‘return’ to the[…]

Israel Blocks Coronavirus Respirators, Aid

April 12, 2020 UNAC Editor Israel-Palestine, Palestine

By Motasem A Dalloul | @abujomaaGaza , published on Informed Comment, April 6, 2020 ( Middle East Monitor ) – In response to a humanitarian appeal launched by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza to obtain $23 million in urgent aid, in addition to medicine and medical equipment including 250 respirators in order to deal with the coronavirus in[…]

Israel Confiscates Materials for Clinic in the West Bank

March 30, 2020 UNAC Editor Healthcare, Human Rights, Israel-Palestine, Public Health, Racism

From B’tselem Website, March 26, 2020 This morning, Thursday, 26 March 2020, at around 7:30 am, officials from Israel’s Civil Administration in the West Bank arrived with a military jeep escort, a bulldozer and two flatbed trucks with cranes at the Palestinian community of Khirbet Ibziq in the northern Jordan Valley. They confiscated poles and sheeting that were meant to[…]

Sick Palestinian Laborer Dropped of Near Checkpoint by Israeli Police

March 26, 2020 UNAC Editor Israel-Palestine, Public Health

by Suha Arraf, published by +92 Magazine, March 24, 2020 What happens to Palestinian laborers in Israel who are suspected of contracting the novel coronavirus? Based on two recent stories, it appears the Israeli authorities are simply dropping off sick Palestinian workers at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank without any concern for their health and safety. Palestinian social[…]

Why Trump Can’t Save Israel

March 8, 2020 UNAC Editor Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine

by Tim Anderson, Published on the American Herald Tribune, January 29, 2020 Despite Trump’s apparent show of strength in the cynical ‘Peace to Prosperity’ plan, he is actually helping Netanyahu destroy Israel, the European colony in Palestine. Palestinian envoy to Britain Husam Zomlot said the announcement was a “piece of political theatre” and will push the situation “over the cliff[…]

What is the Trump/Kushner “Peace Plan” for Israel and Palestine?

February 1, 2020 UNAC Editor Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine

by François Dubuisson, published on Mondoweiss, January 31, 2020 Trump ‘Plan’ would create a fictitious Palestinian state devoid of rights under international law After being announced shortly after Donald Trump took office in 2017, the “Plan” (modestly called “the Vision”) supposed to put an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was made public on January 28th. It is therefore now possible to[…]

How to answer the question, ‘Do you recognize Israel’s right to exist?’

December 18, 2019 UNAC Editor Israel-Palestine

Steven Salaita is one of the academics who had his career destroyed by the Zionist cabal in the United States. He continues to write occasional pieces for publication in the alternative, media. In his latest article he addresses a pivotal subject. [ed] by Steven Salaita, published on Mondoweiss, December 10, 2019 When anti-Zionists discuss the Middle East, the topic of[…]