Posts Tagged: Palestinian refugees
Iranian President Calls Israel Illegitimate, Urges Palestinians to Return
JNS.org - “Israel in its current form is not legitimate,” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told the television channel France 2 on Wednesday ahead of his trip...
Book Draws Parallels Between Holocaust and Palestinian Nakba, Sparks Outrage
JNS.org - A new book that draws parallels between the Holocaust and the Palestinian Nakba (the Arabic term for the displacement of Palestinian refugees during Israel’s...
UN Approves Accreditation for Hamas-Linked Charity Accused of ‘Promoting Terrorism’
The United Nations approved U.N. accreditation Monday for the London-based Palestinian Return Center in a defeat for Israel which claims the organization is affiliated with...
Why Doesn’t BDS Care About Expelled Jews and Arab Human Rights Abuses?
The man behind the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, Omar Barghouti, is a PhD student at Tel Aviv University. Yes, you read...
Palestinian Paper Claims 1.1 Million Gazans Were Driven Out of Israel
Ma'an reports that UNRWA is closing its shelters for displaced Gazans, saying that they can take care of all of them by paying their rent. It then says,...
UN Set to Vote on Granting Group With Hamas Ties Observer Status
A U.N. committee on nongovernmental organizations was set to vote on Thursday on granting observer status to a Palestinian advocacy group with close affiliation to...
The UNRWA Shill Game and State Department Compliance
The international scandal of our time, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), has persisted for sixty-five years. "By any measurement," Middle East Forum...
America’s Palestine Refugee Policy is Ludicrous
One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. By any measurement, Western policy towards United Nations Relief...
Abbas Again Says ‘We Cannot Recognize a Jewish State’
JNS.org - Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas said in an interview with the Egyptian newspaper Akhbar el-Yom over the weekend that he would not...
Telling the Truth About Israel on College Campuses
On Wednesday night, my son Mendy held a demonstration inside an event held by the Students for Justice in Palestine. They were screening a documentary...
Palestinian Human Rights Activist Calls for Major Overhaul of UNRWA (INTERVIEW)
Bassam Eid, a prominent Palestinian human rights activist, has issued an urgent plea for a serious overhaul of UNRWA, the UN agency tasked with caring...
Body and Soul: The State of the Jewish Nation (REVIEW)
At the present historical juncture, when millions of Arabs and hundreds of millions of Muslims awaken each morning thinking of ways to destroy Israel and...
The UN and Unequal Justice: The Case for Jewish Refugees From Arab Countries
The UN marked the 67th anniversary of the UN Partition Resolution of November 29, 1947, with an International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People....
Ending the Plight of Palestinian Refugees
During the donor conference recently held in Cairo, the U.S., EU, and other countries pledged $2.7 billion for reconstruction in Gaza. It is undoubtedly necessary...
