Worthless passports for Palestinians
Israel is trying to sneak back a policy that had to be dropped a few years ago after the US belatedly opposed it. Israel wants to bar “foreigners” in the West Bank – read: Palestinians with US or other...
View ArticleBBC echoes Israeli ‘demographic’ concerns
Thanks to Ben White for alerting me to this BBC report on the Bedouin inhabitants of the Negev, who are facing the renewed threat of ethnic cleaning as Israel intensifies its Judaisation programme. Ben...
View ArticleJudges import occupation into Israel
It’s often difficult to get people excited about mundane issues like water rights. But actually it’s precisely through the denial of access to water (and other resources) that Israel and other colonial...
View ArticleBen Gurion’s ethnic cleansing plan
Talking of ethnic cleansing and 1948, Israeli historian-journalist Tom Segev has a fascinating farewell column in Haaretz, in which he examines the minutes of a cabinet meeting in September 1948, at...
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