The Nation: Israel Is Throwing a 75th Birthday Party. Palestinians Have Little to Celebrate.

Originally posted on Levant's Agora:
By Rashid Khalidi. While Israelis hail the 75th anniversary of their country’s founding, Palestinians are preparing to mark 75 years of brutal oppression. The coming month witnesses two very different, albeit intimately linked, 75th anniversaries. This May, Palestinians will solemnly commemorate the Nakba, the catastrophe that befell their society…

2023 Easter Sunday’s essential news

The leader of the Scottish Conservatives has told voters to back Labour at the next election to oust the SNP, prompting fury in Tory HQ. Plus: Two Britons killed in the West Bank have been named. Tory fury | Douglas Ross, the Scottish Conservatives leader, has provoked anger in the party’s London headquarters after saying

Westbank problems 2nd Weekend of April 2023

Friday April 7 2023 Tensions flare after Lebanese militants fire at Israel Saturday April 8 2023 Britons killed in West Bank | Two sisters shot dead by a Palestinian militant in the West Bank on Friday were killed in an apparent revenge attack after Israel bombed Gaza and Lebanon on Friday morning. No group immediately

The New Arab: Israel’s Knesset votes to extend ‘racist’ citizenship law, banning Palestinian family unification

Originally posted on Levant's Agora:
By The New Arab staff. Israel’s parliament voted on Sunday to extend a citizenship law which bars Palestinians who marry Israelis from attaining a resident status in the country.? The law – which has been slammed as “racist” and a “love ban” – effectively bans the unification of Palestinian…

Mondoweiss: The Palestinian Authority is a figleaf for Israeli apartheid. Disband it.

Originally posted on Levant's Agora:
By Tom Suarez. At this point in history, the Palestinian Authority serves only to empower the two-state ruse until Zionism has achieved its singular, century-old goal: a race state in all of historic Palestine. Three decades ago, the Palestinian Authority, advertised as a five-year interim body that would give…

Global Headlines for 2023 March 01

Extending reach | Xi moved to consolidate the Communist Party’s hold over the world’s second-biggest economy, touting plans for sweeping changes to China’s bureaucracy and more influence within private companies. He said the party would roll out plans for “deepening structural reform” in the financial sector and boost control over science and technology, as well

Violence escalates after deadly Israeli military raid in West Bank

Israel’s Army targeted an armed Palestinian group that was partly responsible for a surge in violence last year, and was planning imminent attacks.

The Telegraph looking at the world 2022 December 29

Good morning. A landmark review by William Shawcross, pictured above, into the Government’s flagship Prevent programme has found that taxpayers’ money has been handed to groups promoting Islamist extremism. Meanwhile, teachers’ unions fear that ballots for national strike action in 2023 have been put at risk by postal strikes.   Headlines: Today’s essential news China

The Guardian reviewing 2022 July 18 – July 24

July 18 Heatwave / UK braces for record temperature as first ever red heat warning comes into effect Network Rail says to avoid trains unless absolutely necessary, with much of country covered by extreme heat alert ‘Shameful diversion tactic’ / UK’s ‘quick-fix’ asylum policies criticised in damning MPs’ report ‘It’s socialism’ / Heated Tory leadership

Why Israel’s annexation of the West Bank should worry every human rights defender: self-determination as integral to basic human rights

Originally posted on BPP Human Rights Law Blog:
Thiago Rix gives his assessment of the legal and humanitarian implications of Israel’s slated annexation of the West Bank. The views expressed herein are the author’s own. Background Having missed the proposed date of 1st July, Israel is still planning to unilaterally annex 30% of the Palestinian…