IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
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Gaza Strip - Farah Qanoua's first day at school after the 2014 Israeli war on Gaza was a day she will not forget. On July 23, 2014, 11-year-old Farah saw on the news that Shujayea's primary school, where she attended classes, had been hit by Israeli missiles. Still, what she observed on that first day back was beyond her expectations…
5 hours ago
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JERUSALEM — Israel is pushing forward with the construction of dozens of homes in a Jewish West Bank settlement. Israel issued a tender for the 42 homes in the Kyriat Arba settlement on Wednesday. Israel announced that it was pressing ahead with the construction following the deadly stabbing by a Palestinian of a 13-year-old Israeli girl in the settlement last week…
6 hours ago
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In recent months, a number of states have passed laws or taken other official actions to punish companies that participate in boycotts against Israel. California soon may do the same. But if it does, it will be making a mistake. You don’t have to support the so-called Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement to be troubled when state governments in this country penalize...
about 1 day ago
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Ahlam Khalil, 19, rejects the future that the Israeli government has laid out for her. “We want to stay. The government is trying to take from us all that we love. How do you think we will feel? It will be the hardest thing to face,” she says, sitting on her porch in the Bedouin village of Atir in the Naqab desert in the south of present-day Israel…
about 1 day ago
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For many people, summer is a time for travel and visiting new places. In anticipation of this, Airbnb recently launched a new marketing campaign urging travelers to use the online accommodation service to rent people’s homes instead of staying at hotels so that they don’t just “go there,” they actually “live there.” This idea becomes particularly fraught when we’re talking about where I live...
about 1 day ago
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As is well-known by now, the unilateral decision of New York governor Andrew Cuomo to create a blacklist of businesses and organizations abiding by divestment and boycott campaigns related to Israeli human rights abuses has drawn widespread criticism for both its high-handedness and for its violation of constitutionally guaranteed freedoms…
about 2 days ago
News Roundup
Israeli forces demolished two Palestinian homes overnight Sunday in the Qalandiya refugee camp, displacing at least six Palestinian refugees and sparking clashes in the densely populated West Bank camp which left four Palestinians injured by Israeli fire. The punitive demolition was carried out against the Assaf and Abu Habsa families as punishment...
about 2 days ago
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Settlement watchdog Peace Now slammed the Israeli government’s approval of 800 housing units in the Maale Adumim illegal settlement bloc and in occupied East Jerusalem on Monday, saying the decision endangered “both the possibility for peace and two states and the security of Israeli citizens.”
about 2 days ago
News Roundup
Hunched over a white cooler box, Aziz al-Turi sifted through his most important possessions and pulled out an antique brass coffee pot. "You know how old this is? Fifty years old," he declared. "It came from Syria, via Jordan, here to Araqib." Along with pillows and carpets from Araqib's hospitality tent, the centre of social life in the village, these were the items that Turi rushed...
about 3 days ago