Posts Tagged: settlements
US Criticizes ICJ Opinion on Israeli Presence in Palestinian Territories
The U.S. criticized "the breadth" of the top U.N. court's opinion that Israel's presence in Palestinian territories is illegal, with Washington saying it would complicate...
Despised Settlers
According to the Biblical narrative Abraham’s purchase of the Machpelah cave in Hebron as the burial site for Sarah (Genesis 23) marks the first property...
Palestinian Leaders Consider All of Israel a ‘Settlement’
JNS.org - The Biden administration issued what one news report called the “sharpest rebuke yet to Israel over settlements” late last month. Ned Price, a...
Tlaib, AOC Join Call for Treasury to Strip Tax-Exempt Status From US Charities ‘Supporting’ Israeli Settlements
US Representatives Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and five other Democrats have called for the US Treasury to stop granting tax exemptions to American...
President Biden, Equivocator-in-Chief
Marking the third anniversary of President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently celebrated that gift by...
Settlements: Calamity or Fulfillment?
Benjamin Kerstein has been commended as “one of the finest American-Israeli authors of his generation.” But his recent Algemeiner critique — “Zionism, Messianism and the...
Zionism, Messianism and the Question of the Settlements
At least 500,000 Israelis live in territories won in the 1967 Six-Day War, and possibly a great deal more than that. They reside everywhere from...
‘Annexation’ or Sovereignty?
“Annexation Looms” headlined a mournful New York Times article (June 19) co-authored by Jerusalem Bureau Chief David M. Halbfinger and Adam Rasgon, Palestinian affairs reporter...
‘Major Blow to BDS’: Bill Criminalizing Business With Israeli Settlements Shelved by New Irish Coalition
An Irish bill that would have criminalized doing business with Israeli settlements was shelved this week, when it was not included in the incoming coalition...
Netanyahu Tells German FM Israel Must Retain West Bank Security Control in Any Future Peace Deal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told visiting German Foreign Minister Heiko Mass on Wednesday that the Jewish state must retain security control over the West...
Settlements and Sovereignty
As the Trump administration develops its plan, soon to be announced, for the extension of Israeli sovereignty over Jewish settlements in the West Bank, fury...
UK Labour’s Corbyn Denounces Trump Peace Plan, Backs ‘Right of Return’ That Would Eliminate Israel’s Jewish Majority
UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who an overwhelming majority of British Jews consider to be an antisemite, has written a letter to Prime Minister Boris...
Editorialized News in The New York Times
“U.S. Sides With Israel on Settling West Bank” declared the front-page New York Times headline on November 19. Clearly the Times, with its century-long opposition...
Trump Middle East Envoy Greenblatt Slams Palestinians Over Peace Rejectionism
US President Donald Trump’s international negotiations representative Jason Greenblatt slammed the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday for "doing nothing” to advance peace. In a series of tweets,...
