The following report is republished from Middle East Monitor of June 25, 2019: The Kuwaiti parliament announced yesterday that it will boycott the Manama conference and has stressed its support for Palestinian rights. In a statement read during an open meeting, Parliament Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim said: “Kuwait is a supporter of occupied Palestine and rejects…
The following statement was republished from the European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine: More than 150 European researchers and academics have written to the European Commission demanding the exclusion of Israel and its military companies from new EU research program Horizon Europe. Since years, the EU has approved hundreds of research projects with Israeli companies, such as…
That’s how much Middle East wars have cost the US since the first Gulf War in 1990. US military spending is currently more than all the rest of the national budget. Wonder why we can’t get money for our streets, our schools, our health and our poor? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? On May 29, 7…
The following article is republished from Middle East Monitor: A new report has found that last year Israelis incited against Palestinians on social media every 66 seconds, pointing to a worrying increase in anti-Palestinian rhetoric. The report – which was conducted by 7amleh: The Arab Centre for the Advancement of Social Media and distributed by…
Jewish Voice for Labour published a new study on reporting on anti-Semitism in the UK media conducted by three researchers, Jonathan Coulter, Tim Llewellyn and Dr. Alan Maddison. The report, available below in PDF or on the JVL website, noted that “media claims about rampant left-wing antisemitism are based on unproven and unsourced allegations, resulting…
The following article by Stuart Littlewood was republished from Redress Online: Grandma Ashrawi is more than a match for Israel’s stooges in the White House and whatever “deal of the century” they have cooked up for the Holy Land By Stuart Littlewood So, the Trump administration will no longer allow Hanan Ashrawi into the US, even…
The following statement is reprinted from BDS South Africa: The Israeli lobby, in an insult to South Africans, has shamefully attacked South Africa’s Minister of International Relations, Cde Lindiwe Sisulu, with Zev Krengel of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies falsely claiming that she is the “single biggest threat” to the Jewish community. The attack…
The following article, by As’ad AbuKhalil, was originally published at Consortium News: There is great speculation about the “Deal of the Century” for the Middle East, about which very little is known. What is known is that the Trump administration formulated the plan basically through bilateral talks with the Israeli government, as the Palestinian Authority…
The following article, by James Zogby, was originally published at the Arab American Institute: By Dr. James J. Zogby I believe that it was Henry Kissinger who described his approach to running Arab-Israeli negotiations as creating the illusion of momentum to compensate for the lack of momentum. The goal wasn’t the outcome. It was to…
The Free Palestine Movement congratulates Bahia Amawi and her attorneys on an important step forward for everyone standing for justice in Palestine across the United States. The following article, by Matthew Watkins, was published on April 25 in the Texas Tribune, covering the legal pushback to Texas’ state anti-BDS laws: A federal judge has temporarily…