Posts Tagged: Israel Occupation
Why Cutting Aid to UNRWA Is Necessary
With the sole exception of the Palestinians, international law does not grant refugee status to generation after generation of any group until the end of...
Palestinian Leaders Threaten Jerusalem’s Arabs on Eve of Municipal Elections
JNS.org - Ten weeks before the local elections in Jerusalem on October 30, eastern Jerusalem residents are being increasingly pressured to stay away from the voting...
Why ‘Palestine’ Would Be a Dangerous Fiction
“The first general law, which is to be found in the very end of the society of Nations, is that each Nation should contribute as...
Foreign Policy and The Washington Post Whitewash UNRWA’s Misdeeds
“I worry,” Walter Cronkite once said, “that we’re not getting enough of the news to make us informed citizens.” Looking at recent coverage of the...
Washington Post Op-Ed Completely Distorts the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
No matter how often one reads about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and thinks that one had heard it all, someone comes along and shocks us with...
Jordanian University Offers Full Scholarship to Ahed Tamimi
Amman University has offered a full scholarship to Ahed Tamimi, who was recently released from Israeli prison for attacking an IDF soldier. The invitation was offered...
Keeping the Flag Flying in the Face of Hate
The process goes like clockwork. Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip attack Israel with rockets, kites, or huge crowds of people intent on crossing into...
How The New York Times Shills for ‘Largely Peaceful’ Gazan Rioters and Arsonists
JNS.org - A shill is the surreptitious partner of a huckster salesman, revving up an audience to believe a sales pitch and buy a product. Looking...
An Open Letter to the Participants Who Left Their Birthright Israel Trip
To those who recently left their Birthright Israel trip: I’m conflicted. On the one hand, I am hesitant to engage with you, because a response would...
A Literal Prison Camp in Lebanon for Palestinians
I've spoken about Ein al Hilweh, the Palestinian "refugee" camp in Lebanon that is surrounded by a high wall and watchtowers -- a literal prison...
Why Abbas Refuses to Ease Sanctions on Gaza
JNS.org - The two million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip are paying the price for the political rivalry between Fatah and Hamas. This week, the Israeli...
The American Jewish Committee’s Myth of a ‘Demilitarized’ Palestinian State
JNS.org - The phrase “demilitarized Palestinian state” is the very definition of an oxymoron: “a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in...
Gazans Close Kerem Shalom Crossing — By Their Own Hand
For the second day in a row, Palestinian workers at the Kerem Shalom crossing went on a partial strike, closing down the only major route...
Protests in Jordan: Revisiting the Arab Spring
The recent protests that forced Jordan’s prime minister to resign and laid bare the country’s systemic economic and political crisis have shed new light on the root...
