Posts Tagged: Israel Settlements
Another US Ambassador Who Financed a West Bank Settlement
JNS.org - Israel’s critics are all abuzz over the news that David Friedman, the US ambassador-designate to Israel, is connected to a handful of apartments in...
Renewed Questions About Future of Settlements After Amona Evacuation
JNS.org - Israel carried out the much-discussed evacuation of the Jewish outpost of Amona last week. The controversy raised renewed questions about the future of Israeli settlements,...
Understanding the Outposts
JNS.org - To hear the foreign news media tell it, Israel’s Knesset has approved extreme right-wing legislation that will steal Palestinian land by legalizing illegal outposts,...
Report: Israel’s Attorney General May Argue in Court Against ‘Regulation Law’ Retroactively Legalizing Outposts
JNS.org - Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, who opposes the Knesset's newly passed law to retroactively legalize 4,000 homes in outposts that sit on private Palestinian...
Understanding the Implications of New Jewish Construction in East Jerusalem
JNS.org - Following the Israeli government’s announcement of plans to approve nearly 800 apartments in Jewish communities located in contested eastern sections of Jerusalem, residents, experts...
Consequences on Jerusalem Will Be Devastating if UN Resolution Is Implemented, Say Representatives of Israeli Schools, Synagogues
JNS.org - The human consequences of implementing the recent United Nations resolution on Israel would be devastating, according to representatives of Israeli schools, synagogues and other institutions in...
UK Media Bias: Outlets Note Construction of Jewish Homes in ‘East’ Jerusalem, Ignore New Palestinian Homes
Here’s the complete text of Sunday’s announcement by the Jerusalem municipality concerning approved construction in the city: Today (Sunday), the Local Building and Planning Committee in...
After Bedouin Riots, Israeli Arabs Set Violent Precedent for Future Demolitions of Illegal Communities
JNS.org - Israeli authorities last week began dismantling Umm al-Hiran -- one of hundreds of illegal Bedouin communities throughout the Negev region -- as Arab activists and politicians and local Bedouins...
Ex-US Diplomat Sparks Controversy for Likening Israeli Settlements to ‘a Rash’
JNS.org - Jewish leaders are criticizing a former US diplomat for using what they say is “dehumanizing rhetoric” in his denunciation of Israeli settlements. David A. Korn,...
The United Nations Has Broken All Its Promises to Israel
A lot has been written about the UN Security Council resolution declaring all Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem to be illegal. Even so,...
Hispanic Christian Group Joins Lobbying Effort Against Anti-Settlement UN Vote
JNS.org - A leading pro-Israel Latino organization is planning to mobilize its supporters to lobby Congress next week to reject United Nations Security Council Resolution...
‘Illegal Settlements’ as Blood Libel: What Comes Next?
Many critics of President Obama's abstention from the recent UN Security Council vote, and Secretary of State John Kerry’s justification for this betrayal, underplayed or missed the...
The Disgrace of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334
President Obama’s groundbreaking abstention on a UN resolution refusing to accept any change to Israel's 1949 armistice lines -- and John Kerry’s one-sided rant against Israel -- have...
Experts: Kerry Farewell Speech Put ‘Posturing Over Policy’
JNS.org - The timing of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s so-called farewell speech on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seemed to stem largely from “personal animosity” between...
