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Ramzy Baroud writes in Palestine Chronicle January 3, 2022 At the onset, 2021 appeared to be another ordinary year, one of unrelenting Israeli occupation and continued Palestinian misery. While much of that remained true, the dynamics of the Israeli occupation of Palestine were challenged by an unprecedented sense of popular unity among Palestinians, not only […]

Alon Pinkas writes in Haaretz, 23 December 2021, “The conventional wisdom in Israel in the last decade has been that the “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is no longer an attainable or even a desirable option. This is so much the case that the issue has all but evaporated from the international agenda and […]

Jack Khoury writes in Haaretz on 25 September 2021: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ taped speech on Friday to the United Nations General Assembly was directed primarily at the international community and less to the Palestinians. He senses anger and frustration bubbling below the surface among the Palestinian public, as well as the erosion of confidence […]

Joshua Shanes writes in Haaretz on 21 July 2021: Much of the Jewish world is once again enraged about the allegedly unfair treatment of Israel.  Monday morning, the parent company of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream announced that they would no longer sell their products in the “Occupied Palestinian territories,” i.e. Jewish settlements in the […]

Nir Hasson writes in Haaretz, 15 June 2021, “A nonprofit settler group took over a building in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood that belongs to the family of Michael Ben-Yair, a former attorney general and retired District Court judge. The group controlled the building for years, collecting rent totaling hundreds of thousands of shekels from Palestinian […]

Nadda Osman reports in Middle East Eye: Israeli far-right politician Naftali Bennett is being ridiculed online after sharing a video on Twitter that showed an image of a hospital in Pakistan as he claimed that Hamas uses one of Gaza’s main hospitals as its headquarters. Bennett, a former minister of defence, posted the video on 20 May and tagged public figures […]

Oren Ziv reports in +972 May 8, 2021 For four straight days last week, Israeli police dispersed young Palestinians who had come to Sheikh Jarrah to show support for families facing forcible expulsion by settlers in the East Jerusalem neighborhood. The police labeled the nightly vigils “clashes” and “riots.” In reality, however, it was the […]

Amira Hass reports in Haaretz on 27 April 2021: In April and May 1967, about ten people living in the southern West Bank village of Jinba, then part of the Jordanian kingdom, were summoned to the Jordanian police station. They weren’t suspected of doing anything wrong: quite the contrary. They were summoned to receive compensation […]

Middle East Eye reports: The international publisher Pearson has paused further distribution of two textbooks used by UK high schools after a group of academics said in a report that they distorted the historical record and failed to offer pupils a balanced view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The report found that alterations had been made to text, timelines, […]

Aseel Jundi reports in Middle East Eye on 22 March 2021: At first glance, everything looked seemingly normal in Karm al-Jaouni in the Sheikh Jarrah district, but the clamour of gathering news outlets and legal institutions last week told another story of a neighbourhood in turmoil. The Sheikh Jarrah district is inhabited by refugees who […]