Turkey: World must recognize east Jerusalem as Palestinian capital
The world to recognize east Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state, Turkey said on Wednesday at the opening of an extraordinary summit of. The Islamic summit called in response to a US decision More...
Creeping Annexation
I’m writing to sound the alarm regarding the settlement movement’s plans for “creeping annexation” of East Jerusalem and the West Bank. This past week, several proposals surfaced — and one More...
UN blacklist of companies doing business in settlements to be released by year’s end
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Prince Zeid bin Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein from Jordan, plans to publish by the end of the year a blacklist of international companies doing business More...
Lone Jewish EMT in east Jerusalem saves lives of his Arab neighbors
Two weeks ago, the lone Jewish EMT in the East Jerusalem chapter of United Hatzalah raced across the Arab neighborhood of Wadi Qadum as he got one of the emergency medical calls that he has become accustomed More...
UN body to compile blacklist of settlement businesses
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva approved a resolution on Thursday to gather a blacklist of Israeli and international companies operating directly or indirectly in settlements in the More...
Uri Avnery: Weep, Beloved Country
SOMETIMES, A small incident can pierce the darkness and reveal a frightening picture. This happened last Sunday in Beersheba, the capital of the Negev. The picture was frightening indeed. THE INCIDENT started More...
Uri Avnery: The Settlers’ Prussia
ISRAELI DEMOCRACY is sliding downwards. Sliding slowly, comfortably, but unmistakably. Sliding where? Everybody knows that: towards an ultra-nationalist, racist, religious society. Who is leading the More...
Israel approves 300 new settler homes in occupied West Bank, US ‘deeply concerned’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved the “immediate” construction of 300 settler homes in the West Bank. The approval came after the Israeli High Court earlier upheld a demolition More...
Israel launches intense efforts to halt EU directive to label settlement products
Israel has launched intensive diplomatic efforts to try and stop, or at least postpone, a planned European Union directive to label goods that originate in West Bank settlements, East Jerusalem and the More...
Israeli Government Gives $2.5 Million to Hotels Employing the Poor
Israel’s Ministry of Economy has granted NIS 10 million ($2.5 million) to 16 hotels in that country which have committed to employing about 200 workers from sectors with low rates of employment, including More...