JTA reports that the US Senate has approved a “non-binding resolution marking the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem.” The bill was passed on Thursday, June 1st, the anniversary of Israel’s takeover of East Jerusalem in 1967. Most of the world rejects the label of “reunification,” rejecting Israel’s claim of sovereignty over the captured territories.
Israel’s foreign supporters have every reason to ask that it govern all people in its charge with the justice and humanity that constitute the core values of both Judaism and Western civilization.
Israeli soldiers invaded the Industrial Orphanage School in the Old City in East Jerusalem. The soldiers violently searched the school and interrogated many orphans…
Moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would mark a reversal of almost seven decades of US policy. Presidents from both parties have consistently refused to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem because it would impede efforts for peace, quite likely lead to fatal, tragic violence, and create dangerous hostility to Americans. Congress, at…
On Christmas Eve, latest headlines from Gaza, the West Bank/East Jerusalem, Israel, and beyond.
Israel refuses entry of medical teams to Gaza, releases 11 more Palestinian detainees, raids East Jerusalem schools; Trump ‘disappointed’ with Netanyahu
Netanyahu expected to approve expanded Gaza war plans; Day 3 of Int’l Court of Justice hearings against Israel; Israel closes schools for 800 Palestinian children in East Jerusalem; 100 days of Israeli assaults in West Bank; Israel’s plans for Syria; Israel boycotts in Texas; one win for student protesters
With a Palestinian coloring book as proof of ‘incitement,’ Israeli police raided East Jerusalem’s world-famous Educational Bookshop and arrested its owners.
Palestinian prisoners beaten for refusing to recite Torah; mass graves and skeletons found in Netzarim; Trump digs in on “owning” Gaza, makes veiled threat about skinny Israeli captives; Israel expands shooting orders in West Bank; Israeli forces raid famous East Jerusalem Educational Bookshop; Palestine solidarity at Superbowl
Life hangs by a thread in Gaza, as Israel drops bombs, withholds polio vaccines, tortures Palestinian prisoners; illegal Israeli settlers, Israeli gov’t threaten Palestinians in West Bank, East Jerusalem; in the US: silencing pro-Palestine voices on social media, at DNC convention; Blinken is “selling a bridge to nowhere”; more.