Jared Kushner Failed to Disclose West Bank Funding
Jared Kushner failed to disclose his role as a co-director of the Charles and Seryl Kushner Foundation from 2006 to 2015, a time when the group funded an Israeli settlement considered to be illegal under international law, on financial records he filed with the Office of Government Ethics earlier this year. The latest development follows […]
Palestinian farmer shot dead by Israeli settler
A village in the Nablus district of the occupied West Bank has expressed outrage over the killing of a Palestinian farmer by an Israeli settler under disputed circumstances on Thursday. According to locals, Mahmoud Odeh, 47, was shot by an Israeli settler while on his private agricultural land in the village of Qusra. He died […]
Jewish Home minister threatens to bolt coalition over Trump peace plan
By Raoul Wootliff A government minister from the Jewish Home party threatened Saturday to leave the coalition over reports that the Trump administration is ready to recognize a Palestinian state as a central element of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal accepted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “The National Union will not remain in a government that […]
Israel condemned for using bodies as ‘bargaining chips’
Human rights groups have condemned Israel’s decision to withhold the bodies of five Islamic Jihad members who were killed in an Israeli attack on a tunnel dug under the Gaza-Israel border last week. Israeli authorities announced on Sunday that the army had uncovered the bodies of the five men – identified by Islamic Jihad as […]
Why does Israel keep attacking Syria?
Over the weekend, cross-border violence between Israel and Syria set off an exchange of heated threats between the two countries. On Saturday, the neighbours traded blame when Israel attacked Syrian artillery cannons, claiming it was responding to what might have been errant rocket fire that landed in the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights. However, neither the […]
Why Is Israel Spending $800 Million on a New Wall?
President Donald Trump has said repeatedly he is an admirer of Israel’s controversial wall building program, and the Middle Eastern country is giving him another structure to envy—Israel’s army has announced construction details of a new underground wall to run along the country’s border with Gaza. The $800 million barrier will stretch across the country’s […]
Behind the headlines in Jerusalem
Jerusalem has been in the spotlight again recently as tensions reached the boiling point after the mid-July attack on Israeli forces in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem. Despite the apparent resolution of the immediate crisis owing to mass Palestinian civil disobedience, which forced Israel to reverse its attempt to change the status quo […]
Democratic Socialists of America passed BDS motion at convention
‘Largest socialist organization in US’ gets 90% approval by 697 delegates from 49 states for anti-Israel vote By JTA Illustrative: Members of the Democratic Socialists of America marching at the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York, September 2011. (CC BY David Shankbone, Wikimedia Commons /File) The Democratic Socialists of America voted to endorse a […]
Palestinians Urge ‘Day of Rage’ Over Holy Site
The Palestinian Fatah party, led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, called for a “Day of Rage” on Wednesday to protest new Israeli security measures at the contested Jerusalem holy site after a deadly shooting attack that killed two policemen last week. Israel closed the site on Friday after three Arab-Israeli citizens from the northern […]
Israel reopens al-Aqsa Mosque compound
Israel has reopened al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City following two-day closure after three Palestinians and two Israeli police officers were killed in a gun battle in the mosque compound. Crowds chanted “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) as a number of initial visitors entered the compound on Sunday. The compound was shut down on […]