Each week, Benjamin Law asks public figures to discuss the subjects we’re told to keep private by getting them to roll a die. The numbers they land on are the topics they’re given. This week, he talks to Francesca Albanese. The 49-year-old is the United Nations special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, an Italian […]
Read MoreBiden orders sanctions on Israeli settlers in West Bank
Washington: Violent Israeli settlers in the West Bank will be hit with a fresh wave of travel and financial sanctions under a new executive order issued by US president Joe Biden to tackle growing instability in the Middle East. As tensions rise following the Israel-Hamas war, the White House says it will target four foreign […]
Read MoreGen Z women lead alarming new wave of radical activism
We need to talk about the radicalisation of young women. Data published by the UK’s Financial Times showed that among Gen Z, in nations as diverse as South Korea, the US, Germany and the UK, a majority of women have become “hyper-progressive” in a relatively short time frame. John Burn Murdoch, who compiled the research […]
Read MoreUS ‘approves strikes’ after drone attack, Biden imposes sanctions for Israeli settler violence
US names four sanctioned West Bank settlers By Staff Writers The US State Department has moved to sanction four Israeli citizens involved in extremist settler activities following President Joe Biden’s executive order today. The department named four people who it said were involved in settler-led attacks on Palestinians: David Chai Chasdai, Einan Tanjil, Shalom Zicherman […]
Read MoreSmotrich Signs Order to Pay Seized Palestinian Tax Revenue to Israeli Victims’ Families
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich defended the government’s decision to impose a series of sanctions on the Palestinian Authority on Sunday, asking reporters: “As long as [the PA] encourages terrorism, what’s my interest in helping it exist?” The comment came at a press conference as he signed an order to take hundreds of millions of shekels […]
Read MoreIsraeli Sanctions Will Lead to PA’s Collapse, Palestinian PM Tells Haaretz
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has warned that Israeli sanctions on the Palestinian Authority “will promptly lead to its collapse.” Speaking to Haaretz, Shtayyeh was referring to the retaliatory sanctions the Israeli cabinet imposed over the weekend on the PA in response to the Palestinian request for an advisory opinion from the International Court of […]
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