JERUSALEM: Israeli police on Sunday detained the prominent activist El-Kurd twins, whose campaign against the threatened expulsion of Palestinian families from homes in the Israel-annexed east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah has found a global audience. On Sunday morning, police arrested Mona el-Kurd, 23, at her home in Sheikh Jarrah, where a legal battle between […]
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Western media – blind, deaf and mute when it comes to Palestine
A webinar by the Human Rights Chair of the University of Punjab discussed the Israel apartheid on Wednesday where a diverse range of speakers put forward their thoughts and ideas about the humanitarian crisis occurring in the Gaza strip, Jerusalem and other parts of what’s left of Palestine. Moderator Prof Dr Abida Ashraf initiated the […]
MP Cruddas asks UK govt to press Israel to end injustice against Palestinians
LONDON – British lawmaker Jonathan Cruddas, a senior member of the Labour Party, has asked the UK government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson to press Israel’s administration to end violations and injustices against Palestinians in the Middle East region. He said that the UK government cannot be a ‘passive observer when it comes to […]
Users accuse Facebook, Instagram of bias by censoring Palestinian content
Hundreds of users of social media networks have accused Instagram and Facebook of removing content and accounts reporting on violence in the Sheikh Jarrah, a neighborhood in East Jerusalem – a part of the Palestinian territories under international law, the Arab News reported. One of the videos that was deleted from the story […]