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Archives: Palestinian-Israelis
Are Palestinian-Israelis going from 2nd Class Citizens to 3rd Class?
By Nadim Nashif and Raya Naamneh | Al-Shabaka | (Ma'an News Agency) | - - Israel still portrays itself as a Jewish and democratic state. Yet in practice, as its Palestinian citizens…
President of Israel declares Israeli Squatting in Palestinian West Bank a “Right”, key to Zionism
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Monday declared Israeli squatting on the Palestinian West Bank a "right" and as an essential Zionist principle. Reuven,…
Despairing of 2-State Solution, E. Jerusalem Palestinians apply for Israeli Citizenship
VOA | (Vidoeo Report) | - - "Most Palestinians living in East Jerusalem have long rejected the option of full Israeli citizenship, seeing it as a betrayal to their political cause -…
A demolished Palestinian village comes back to life
By Melanie Nakashian | (Waging Nonviolence) | - - Among the hundreds of Palestinian villages that were evacuated between 1947 and 1951, there is one whose descendants are actually getting close to…
Teaching tolerance: Five Israeli schools unite Jews and Palestinians
By: Anna Kokko | (Ma'an News Agency) | - - JAFFA (Ma'an) -- Paper lanterns crafted for Ramadan are hanging over the heads of children as they run between a snack table…
Israel to Destroy Homes of 40 Bedouin Families
By IMEMC | - - Israeli administration has delivered notices for the demolition of dozens of makeshift Bedouin homes of Abu Nawar village, east of Jerusalem. Accordig to the PNN, the notices…
Israelis demolish 1,000 Palestinian Homes in Negev Per Year
By IMEMC | - - The Israeli Interior Ministry and Land Administration Agency, in cooperation with the Regavim NGO and the Jewish National Fund (JNF), have been demolishing 1,000 Arab homes in…
Implications for ICC? SCOTUS Jerusalem Decision shows Limits of Israel Lobbies
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - It has been the position of the US presidents for decades that the status of Jerusalem in international law is unsettled. That is…
UN Special Rapporteur: Israel Must Abandon Plans to Relocate Bedouin
IMEMC | - - United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Makarim Wibisono, today, repeated his call for the Israeli occupation to abandon its plans for the forced relocation of Palestinian Bedouins in the…
Israel: Court Permits Discriminatory Evictions of Palestinian-Israeli Villagers
Human Rights Watch | - Arab Villages in Israel, West Bank Face New Displacement (Jerusalem) – Separate Israeli Supreme Court decisions issued on May 5, 2015, open the way for state authorities…
Israel Pushes Negev Bedouin Palestinians into a Corner
By Ari Heistein | (Informed Comment) | - Israel’s latest move to demolish a Bedouin village and replace it with homes for Jewish citizens is no surprise to anyone familiar with…
Palestinian-Israelis: Hundreds pray outside closed mosque in Beersheba
BEERSHEBA (Ma'an) -- Some 250 Palestinians performed Friday prayers outside a mosque in Beersheba in southern Israel that Israeli authorities have kept closed since 1948. The prayers came amid heavy Israeli police…
Religion in Israel: It’s the Government’s Business
By Shalom Goldman | (ISLAMICommentary) - Shalom Goldman Surveys of religious affiliation in the U.S. reveal that more than 25% of American have joined a faith other than the one in which…
Obama with Drama: Translating his comments on Israel’s Netanyahu from the Vulcan
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - Now that Leonard Nimoy is most unfortunately no longer with us, Barack Obama is the primary exemplar in American popular culture of the maddeningly calm,…
The Palestinian-Israelis’ Selma Moment?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Ayman Odah, leader of the Joint Arab List, the party representing Palestinian-Israelis and elements of the Israeli left, responded late Tuesday to the news that Israelis…
Palestinian-Israelis Aspire to National Role after Elections
France24 | - At 20% of the Israeli population, Israelis of Palestinian heritage have united to back a single party and for the first time could lead the opposition in parliament with…
Dear MSM: The Israeli Elections are about Minority rights, not Iran
By Sammy Smooha | (The Conversation) There are 5.3 million eligible voters living in Israel today (votes may be not cast abroad). Among these voters there are three main minority (non-dominant) groups.…
Could a Netanyahu loss in Israeli Elections change Everything?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - Israeli polling is suggesting that Binyamin Netanyahu's party might get only 21 seats or less in the 120-seat Israeli parliament, with his rivals, the Zionist…