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Maariv newspaper reported on its website that it has obtained an unusual letter written to the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy for the...
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Middle East,
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Moroccan human rights organisations and associations have demanded the dismissal of the Israeli company, "G4S", from Morocco stating that they intend to call on representative institutions and official bodies...
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Palestinian Christians in the village of Beit Jala in the occupied West Bank have written an open letter to Pope Francis in protest at the Israeli decision to build...
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An Israeli amusement park has been accused of operating an apartheid booking policy after an Arab school teacher was told that a particular day was not available once the...
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Middle East,
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticised the management of Superland Amusement Park for refusing to allow Arab students to enter on the same day as Jews. He described...
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Middle East,
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Former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert has said he does not want to live in a "racist state which controls millions of Palestinians through oppression and racism but...
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Middle East,
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has set out his conditions for the resumption of talks with the Palestinians; the establishment of a demilitarised Palestinian state which recognises Israel as...
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Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that he would never accept preconditions from the Palestinians for resuming talks, just a day after appearing to set his own condition that a...
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Middle East,
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South Africa's Ambassador to Israel, Ismail Coovadia, has rejected a 'gift' from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The 'gift' came in the form of a certificate [click to...
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Middle East,
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The Ministerial Committee for Legislative Affairs in Israel has ratified a new law relating to the "rights of servants of the state". The proposed legislation will give demobilised soldiers...
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Middle East,
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The Knesset, Israel's parliament, has approved a "racist" bill which will lead to the eviction of "illegal" Palestinian Bedouin communities from the Negev Desert occupied in 1948 by Israel,...
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Middle East,
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The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics expects Israel's population to reach 11.4 million in 2035, of which 73 per cent will be Jews. That is slightly lower than the...
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Middle East,
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The parliamentary bloc for the National Democratic Rally has asked the legal advisor to the Israeli government to launch an investigation into comments made by right-wing politician and Minister...
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Middle East,
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Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon has criticised the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli negotiations and refuses to consider the evacuation of settlements in the occupied West Bank to be negotiable. "The negotiations...
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The Yedioth Ahronoth website reported on Sunday morning that the Israeli right-wing is introducing a series of laws during the Knesset's winter session primarily aiming to limit the power...
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Israeli settlers have, on Sunday, sprayed racist slogans outside the walls of a mosque in Baqa Al Gharbiyeh town in Israel. Local residents told reporters the settlers sprayed racist...
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The Islamic Resistance Movement; Hamas has paid tribute to Nelson Mandela saying he was one of the most important symbols of freedom in the world. A member of Hamas...
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has paid tribute to former South African President Nelson Mandela who passed away on Thursday. "He was," said Mr Abbas, "the bravest and most important...
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According to the Los Angeles Times newspaper, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be attending Tuesday's funeral for the former leader of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, due to...
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Middle East,
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Although the Israelis have cited cost and security problems as the reasons for the absence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres from the Mandela memorial service...
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Middle East,
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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has incurred harsh waves of criticism against his government's policy over the past few months, not only from Europe and the United States, who...
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Middle East,
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A senior member of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, has claimed that Palestinian Christians "are not Arabs". The Chairman of the governing coalition, Yariv Levin MK, made his comment in...
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Middle East,
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The government of Morocco has announced that it will not invite Israeli scientists to attend a scientific conference in Fez, local newspapers said on Friday. The news was confirmed...
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Africa,
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On Friday the South African foreign minister criticised the Israeli occupation of Palestine and said that it reminded her of the era of racial discrimination in her country, news...
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Africa,
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Leaders around the world have paid tribute to Nelson Mandela, who died on Thursday in Johannesburg, South Africa, aged 95. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon described Mandela as a "source...
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Africa,
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More than 100 American professors and teaching staff at Columbia University have called for five American companies to withdraw their investment in Israeli jails over "breaches of human rights...
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VIDEOBelow is a statement from the 'Students Against Israeli Apartheid': On 4th June, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert visited Washington D.C.'s Woodrow Wilson Centre to offer a so-called...
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The Teachers' Union of Ireland (TUI) has ratified a proposal to impose an academic and cultural boycott of Israel. Israeli newspaper Maariv said that the union, which has 14,000...
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The authorities in Holland have refused to prosecute a Dutch construction company which supplied construction equipment to Israeli companies for use in building the so-called "Separation Barrier" in the...
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Many Western activists are sceptical of the role of religion in Palestine solidarity. Beyond the problem of Islamophobia, which is sadly manifest across the political spectrum, activist views of...
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Activism,
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The New York Times recently published an editorial by Yuval Steinitz, an Israeli politician and Knesset member for the Likud party, under the headline "How Palestinian hate prevents peace"....
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January 30, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
Only a week ago I wrote in this very column of my hope for more revelations about Israel emerging from the cache of secret National Security Agency documents leaked...
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