• Erdogan says Sweden can join NATO only if they join him in treating every person of Kurdish descent as a terrorist.
• Israeli authorities make it even more difficult for "foreigners" to visit Occupied Territories.
• Peruvian protesters continue to march in support of Castillo, after (US-supported) coup removed him, despite police and other paramilitary ( Read more... )

"...on Thursday, Israeli Supreme Court issued a ruling permitting the state to strip citizenship ( Read more... )

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By Jihan Abdalla

Critics say executive order violates free speech rights on college campuses and unfairly targets the BDS movement.

Washington, DC - Palestinian groups, free speech advocates and liberal Jewish organisations blasted on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump's executive order that threatens to withhold federal funding from ( Read more... )

By Juan Cole

Interim Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu committed again on Sunday that his government will steal the entire Jordan Valley from the Palestinians. He had floated this plan two months ago but now seems to be determined to move ahead. It makes up 25% of the Palestinian West Bank. Israel is forbidden to annex militarily occupied ( Read more... )

By Nora Barrows-Friedman

Canadian politicians are echoing fabricated claims of anti-Semitism after students rallying for Palestinian rights were attacked by a violent anti-Palestinian group at York University in Toronto last week ( Read more... )

Somehow Israel, despite explicitly creating an apartheid state, is receiving extraordinary amounts of support with this bigotry. Part of it is possibly that Israel is, firstly, almost untouchable in the States and, secondly, better understands the power of propaganda than did South Africa, to the extend J Street is one of the most powerful, and ( Read more... )

By Ramzy Baroud

Historically, the US has struggled in its understanding of international law, not because of its lack of legal savvy but because, quite often, US interests clashed with the will of the international community.It is hardly shocking that the United States government has finally decreed that illegal Jewish settlements which have been ( Read more... )

by RAMZY BAROUD

An Israeli attack on Gaza was imminent, and not because of any provocations by Palestinian groups in the besieged, impoverished Gaza Strip. The Israeli military escalation was foreseeable because it factors neatly in Israel’s contentious political scene. The war was not a question of “if”, but “when ( Read more... )

By Motasem A Dallou | @abujomaaGaza

On Tuesday, doctors at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem announced that they had successfully removed the remains of the left eye of Palestinian photojournalist Muath Amarneh, 32, who was shot by Israeli border police while covering their violent dispersal of protesters in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. ( Read more... )