In September of last year, we noted that Facebook representatives were meeting with the Israeli government to determine which Facebook accounts of Palestinians should be deleted on the ground that they constituted “incitement.” The meetings — called for and presided over by one of the most extremist and authoritarian Israeli officials, pro-settlement Justice Minister Ayelet […]
Nikki Haley Takes on UN’s Anti-Israel Stance in Fiery Farewell Speech…
United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley delivered her final speech to the General Assembly on Tuesday, slamming the body for their anti-Israel bias. In the final monthly session of the year, Haley made it absolutely clear that the United States has run out of tolerance for the body’s hostility towards one of […]
A Texas Elementary School Speech Pathologist Refused to Sign a Pro-Israel Oath, Now Mandatory in Many States — so She Lost Her Job…
A children’s speech pathologist who has worked for the last nine years with developmentally disabled, autistic, and speech-impaired elementary school students in Austin, Texas, has been told that she can no longer work with the public school district, after she refused to sign an oath vowing that she “does not” and “will not” engage in […]
Israel Says Airbnb Walking Back Settlement Boycott; Company Denies…
Airbnb on Monday rejected an Israeli government assertion that it had agreed to walk back its decision to remove listings from Israeli settlements in the West Bank. “The reports issued earlier today are inaccurate,” the company said in a statement issued by its press secretary, Nick Papas. The apparent denial came shortly after the Tourism […]
Historic Photos Predating Israel Set Free by Wikimedia…
28,000 public-domain photos extracted from public and private archives in Israel are now available on Wikimedia Commons, the media sharing platform operated by San Francisco-headquartered nonprofit The Wikimedia Foundation Inc., which also operates Wikipedia. The released photos include images documenting the early days of the Jewish settlement in what later became the state of Israel. […]
Vacation Rental Giant Airbnb Bans Listings in West Bank Settlements…
Vacation rental operator Airbnb on Monday announced it would no longer host listings in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, drawing anger from Israeli leaders. The US-based Airbnb said in a statement posted on its website that after a reexamination of its policies, the company has “concluded that we should remove listings in Israeli settlements […]
U.S. Student Detained in Israel Over Support of Palestinian-Led Boycott…
An American student has been detained at an Israeli airport for more than a week due to her past support for a boycott against the country. Lara Alqasem arrived at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport on Oct. 2, but was blocked from entering the country, The Washington Post reported Monday. The 22-year-old, who is from […]
U.S. Peace Plan for Middle East Ready…
The White House-prepared peace plan to settle Israeli-Palestinian conflicts was ready, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley told reporters here at the UN Headquarters on Tuesday. “I have read the plan. It is thoroughly done,” Haley said at a briefing in her role as this month’s president of the Security Council, adding that Jared Kushner and Jason […]
Israel Approves More Than 1,000 Settlement Homes in West Bank…
Israeli authorities on Wednesday approved plans for more than 1,000 settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, the Peace Now NGO said, the latest in a raft of approvals since US President Donald Trump took office. The plans for 1,004 homes approved by a defence ministry committee are at various stages in the process. They […]
Israel Sentences Palestinian Poet Dareen Tatour to Jail for Facebook ‘Incitement’…
Israel sentenced Palestinian writer and poet Dareen Tatour to five months in prison on Tuesday after convicting her of “inciting violence” over a poem she posted on social media that prosecutors claimed urged violence against the occupation. Nazareth magistrates’ court in May found Tatour, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, guilty over the poem “Resist, My […]
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