Category: news and analysis

An Israeli firm’s cyberespionage program is being used “to spy on rights activists, dissidents and journalists” … Israeli Spyware Maker Is in Spotlight Amid Reports of Wide Abuses (NY Times) … and their families: Jamal Khashoggi’s Wife Targeted with Spyware Before His Death (Washington Post) “[N]ew laws across India are seeking to ban all interfaith…

Protected by heavily armed Israeli occupation police, “1,371 Jewish settlers accompanied by Knesset members” stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque and clashed with Palestinian worshipers inside the third Islamic holy site: Israel Officially Supports ‘Orderly and Safe’ Storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque (Middle East Monitor) The inter-faith alliance between a major Muslim and Evangelical organization aims to strengthen the…

Human rights advocates say that Israel’s 18-year-old ban on family reunification, known as the Citizenship Law, turns a fundamental right “to live with one’s spouse and children” into a crime. Advocates also say it is discriminatory, because it largely does not apply to Israeli Jews, who rarely marry Palestinians: Israel Has Denied Certain Married Couples…

Israel’s increasingly frequent demolitions in Silwan are linked with plans to “build the City of David, a pseudo-archaeological theme park run by settlers” with the hidden intent of “bolstering Jewish presence and expelling the Palestinian population”: Why Israel is Trying to Steal Silwan From Palestinians (Electronic Intifada) Michael Lynk, a “UN special rapporteur on human…

A Palestinian imprisoned through Israel’s “administrative detention policy” used to arrest and hold Palestinians “without filing formal charges”, is hospitalized on the 65th day of his hunger strike: Israel to Release Palestinian Prisoner on 65th Day of Hunger Strike (Middle East Eye) Israel destroyed the home of a woman and her three children after rejecting…

Israel steals privately owned Palestinian land by legalizing settlements “by deploying a draconian interpretation of the Ottoman law” that if “the land was not cultivated for several years in a row” it would become the property of the state: The Draconian Law Used by Israel to Steal Palestinian Land (Al-Jazeera) Israeli forces demolished the Palestinian…

“[T]he Canadian government’s risk assessment for terrorism financing in the charitable sector focuses almost exclusively on Muslim charities, with little to no public substantiation of the risk”: Islamophobia: Why Is Canada Unfairly Targeting Muslim Charities? (Middle East Eye) “There is a moral discrepancy in claiming to be opposed to anti-Muslim bigotry domestically while easing the…

35 year old Najlaa Zaitoun was assaulted and chased by PA security forces while covering the Ramallah protests. The security forces “violently attacked her with a truncheon” and further went on to “threaten her with rape”: Palestinian Women Journalists Speak Out Against ‘Deliberate’ Attacks by PA Forces (Middle East Eye) Taliban now controls a third…

When questioned the editors did not explain why, after political pressure, they retroactively decided that “a summary of the health crisis taking place in the Gaza Strip as a result of the war” “fell outside the scope of the magazine: Scientific American Retracted Pro-Palestine Article Without Any Factual Errors (The Intercept) The NEA will debate…

On Tuesday, Israeli forces accompanied by bulldozers entered the Palestinian neighborhood and destroyed a butcher’s shop in Silwan. Soldiers used “tear gas and batons” against residents and activists as they carried out the demolition: Police, Palestinians Clash as Israel Begins Demolition in Jerusalem’s Silwan (Reuters) Following the Palestinian Authority’s violent and deliberate crackdown against “journalists,…