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Fiona Wright in conversation with Abeer Baker and Anat Matar, editors of Threat: Palestinian Political Prisoners in Exile (Pluto Press).

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Law bent in favour of settlers to ‘legalize’ illegal outposts

Netanyahu has not only reversed the policies of previous Prime Minsters (that outposts – precursors of settlements – were illegal and would be removed) but it is reported that outposts built on privately-owned West Bank land will be ‘legalised’. Report from Peace Now, and Lara Friedman and Hagit Ofran on this abuse of law

Water: one law for Palestinians, quite another for settlers

To collect and store water in the occupied West Bank there is a planning process. Israel has changed the laws to limit representation of local Palestinians in the process. Settler representation is guaranteed by military order. A disturbing document from the Swedish NGO Diakonia, http://www.diakonia.se/about.

‘We don’t have another country’ – children of migrants

counterpunch

Israel has imported many migrants to replace the labour of Palestinians. Parents can be deported quickly, but what of their Israeli-born non-Jewish children? Confusion and anger grow.

Boycott? Child’s play

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Insults fly over the proposed Boycott Law going through the Knesset. Behind them is the most serious issues of freedom of speech