Posts Tagged: west bank
US Drafted Memo Condemning UK Over West Bank Sanctions. It Was Never Released.
In early September, US officials in Jerusalem and Washington prepared a draft statement attributed to Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemning plans by the UK, France, and Canada to block...
The United Nations and the Fantasies That Feed the War
Two days before Emmanuel Macron told the UN General Assembly that Hamas had "never been active" in Judea & Samaria (aka, the "West Bank"), a...
B’Tselem’s West Bank Report: The Organization’s Latest Attempt to Delegitimize Israel
What do a terror-affiliated NGO, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and several mainstream media organizations all have in common? Over the past...
Rubio Issues Mild Response to UK Sanctions on Israeli Settlements, Affirms US Won’t Join
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stopped short on Tuesday of forcefully condemning Britain's sweeping new sanctions targeting Israeli settlements, instead offering a notably restrained...
Huckabee Warns Settler Violence Damaging Israel’s Global Standing as Attacks Mount
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee warned Friday that violence by a small fringe of Jewish extremists in the West Bank is increasingly damaging Israel's...
Mike Huckabee Latest Pro-Israel Figure to Slam Settler Extremists, Calling Them ‘Israeli Terrorists’
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, one of the Trump administration's staunchest supporters of the Jewish state and a longtime defender of Jewish communities in...
US Supreme Court Allows For Enforcement of $656 Million Lawsuit Against PA and PLO
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to halt enforcement of a $656 million judgment against the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO),...
Bret Stephens Warns Jewish Extremist Violence Poses ‘Direct Threat’ to Israel
Prominent New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, a vocal longtime supporter of Israel, sharply condemned extremist violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, arguing that...
Rep. Ro Khanna Pressed to Support Oct. 7 in Interview with Pro-Hamas News Outlet
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) faced a barrage of criticism from the political left this week after refusing, in a contentious interview, to endorse the idea...
Fundraiser Nears $25K for Cornell Student ‘Not Interested in Working for a Jew’
Far-right extremists have raised nearly $25,000 in a crowdfunding campaign for a Cornell University student who told a potential employer that he has "no interest...
A Third of Labour Lawmakers Urge Britain to Ban Trade With Israeli Settlements
More than a third of lawmakers from Britain's governing Labour Party signed a letter on Monday calling on the British government to end trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has had to balance Britain's...
Arab Israeli Terrorist Kills One, Wounds Five in Multi-Site Shooting Attack Across Central Israel
An Arab Israeli terrorist killed a 35-year-old man and wounded five others in a rolling shooting attack across several central Israeli communities on Sunday before...
Ireland to Ban Goods From Israeli Settlements in West Bank by July
Ireland aims to pass a law curbing goods traded with Israeli settlements in the West Bank by mid-July with Israel, some US lawmakers, and business groups opposing the move,...
‘No Peace’: Anti-Israel Mob Storms Jewish Neighborhood in New York City
New York City saw another bombardment of a Jewish house of worship on Monday, compounding an antisemitism crisis that has plunged the municipality into episodes...
