The Israeli parliament passed the legalisation law on Monday night – a piece of legislation every bit as suspect as its title suggests. The law widens the powers of Israeli officials to seize the final fragments of Palestinian land in the West Bank that were supposed to be off-limits. Palestinian leaders warned that the law…
The Israeli parliament has greenlighted the legalization of nearly 4,000 settler homes in Area C of the West Bank as it passed a controversial retroactive bill. Prior to its approval, the bill was likened to annexation and blasted by Israel’s attorney general. The highly controversial legislation, which challenges both international and Israeli law, was backed…
Analysts fear mixed signals from Trump administration may conceal a plan allowing the US ambassador to work out of Jerusalem From the windows of the grey, cube-shaped building that houses the US embassy in Tel Aviv, staff enjoy an undisturbed view out over the Mediterranean and a beach adorned in the summer with sunbeds and…
The Israeli government and its supporters need to break out of the prison house of their own thinking by taking a broader and more inclusive view of things. You can watch the Jewish American academic Norman Finkelstein on YouTube taking a question from the audience after one of his lectures in 2013. The questioner asks why the…
Donald Trump won’t be formally forbidding entry of Palestinians to his New Great America, because he doesn’t recognise Palestine and never will. But he has designed a way of preventing their travel and that of countless others by introduction of ‘extreme vetting,’ which will help to deny Palestine the legitimacy that the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly agreed…
Israel has approved the construction of more than 3,000 additional housing units in the West Bank – just a week after the government approved some 2,500 buildings in the occupied Palestinian territories. “The decision comes as part of the resumption of normal life in Judea and Samaria and in order to provide a real answer…
