admin | May 15, 2020
The Nakba, Palestinians loss of their lands and homes, arguably began in the 1880s with the arrival of the first Zionist Jewish colonists, who evicted Palestinians fromland the colonists had purchased from absentee landlords. The Nakba is an ongoing calamity that continues to define the Palestinian condition today
admin | May 15, 2020
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Bayit Yehudi leader Rafi Peretz signed a coalition agreement overnight Friday.Peretz will serve as minister of Jerusalem affairs and heritage, the post that was sought by two Likud ministers. Peretz will be responsible for religious Zionist education. Peretz will also join the Likud faction in the Knesset.The move to join Netanyahu came after Peretz abandoned the Yamina alliance of right-wing religious parties and decided to join the new government instead of heading to the opposition benches.
admin | May 15, 2020
Islamic Jihad Palestinian Resistance movement stressed on the 72nd anniversary of Nakba that the armed resistance is its first choice. In a statement on the occasion, the movement said it will not bargain on the rights of Palestinian people at any expense. The movement affirmed that the right to liberate entire Palestine, voicing categorical rejection to all attempts of division or annexation of the Palestinian territories by the Zionist occupation
admin | May 15, 2020
By Rasha Herzallah RAMALLAH, Friday, May 15, 2020 (WAFA) In the midst of the massacres perpetrated by invading Zionist militias in pre-1948 historical Palestine that led to the creation of today's Israel, and in the middle of bombardment and ethnic cleansing, what does it mean for a human being to die alone of thirst? Can someone describe or imagine at least an event like this, or can they even imagine an event of this nature when death and displacement go on everywhere
admin | May 12, 2020
The Likud accused Yamina leader Naftali Bennett on Tuesday morning of "leaving the right-wing bloc" and refusing to help religious Zionist causes of his own party.Likud's attack came after a late-night phone conversation between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Bennett. The Likud released the statement after Bennett burned bridges with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by harshly criticizing him in an online press conference. Bennett said Netanyahu would create a Palestinian state, missed his chances to annex Judea and Samaria and cared only about his own criminal cases, not reforms in the Justice Ministry
admin | May 12, 2020
In Israels April 2019 election, the main parties running to the right of Likud, including those that didnt make it past the threshold, garnered a total of 9.66 percent of the vote. In the September election, they received a grand total of 7.75 percent. In the recent March 2 election, their share was down to 5.66 percent of the vote.
admin | May 12, 2020
(May 8, 2020 / JNS) If there was ever any doubt as to whether the BDS movement against Israel was anti-Semitic, the COVID-19 pandemic has put that to rest.
admin | May 12, 2020
SIR Maerton Daviss letter (10/4/2020), posted from Kfar Vradim, the industrial settlement founded by the Israeli Jewish businessman Stef Wertheimer on stolen Palestinian land in the Galilee, is full of misleading inaccuracies, both historical and contemporary. Davis does not tell us that Kfar Vradim was built in 1984 as part of a government plan to Judaize the Galilee. Despite mass expulsions of Palestinians by Zionist militias during the 1948 war in what Palestinians call their Nakba (catastrophe), Palestinian Arabs remained an overwhelming majority in the Galilee
admin | May 10, 2020
SIR Robert AH Cohen, a British Jew and broadcast journalist, asks some important questions of those who support Zionism, such as Rowe, Adam and Davis, whose letters offer only propaganda and never serious reflection or concern for casualties to the Israeli -Palestinian conflict on both sides. In spite of its many new allies, Zionism is under enormous pressure from within as more Jews, in Israel and elsewhere, come to question the wisdom of maintaining a Zionist state that consecrates discrimination and fuels violence.
admin | May 10, 2020
A version of this talk was delivered on February 28, 2020 at the symposium, Becoming Allies: Muslim-Jewish Solidarity in the Face of Islamophobia and Antisemitism, at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario. The author thanks Ariel Salzmann for organizing the symposium and Mir Yarfitz, Michaelle Browers, and Jennifer Greiman for their helpful feedback.
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