Palestine

Listen to this episode of The Times: Apple | Spotify | Stitcher | Google As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict keeps a cease-fire, its proxy wars continue to rage worldwide. One of the latest battlefronts has been in California classrooms. This past March, the California Department of Education approved an ethnic studies…

A social media campaign by pro-Palestine activists has pushed down the ranking for Facebook’s app in Apple and Google’s app stores, NBC News reported. The activists are seeking to protest Facebook’s alleged censorship of Palestinian accounts on its platform, and are instructing people to leave Facebook’s app a one-star review.…

P olice officers were forced to step in after a small group of people chanting “free Palestine” approached a gathering of pro-Israel protesters in London. The large crowd, which congregated in Kensington High Street on Sunday afternoon, waved Israeli flags and banners and chanted loudly, while a number of speeches…

— AFP/FileUNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council on Saturday issued the first statement since violence erupted in Gaza, calling on Israel and Palestinian groups to ensure "full adherence to the ceasefire". Security Council members also stressed "the immediate need for humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian civilian population, particularly in Gaza."…

Hundreds of people gathered on the lawns of Parliament House on Sunday calling for the Morrison government to take decisive action against Israel following 11 days of bloodshed. Protesters carried signs calling for an end to "ethnic cleansing" while crying out for a "fair go for Palestine" and urging support…

News Laurel V Williams Sunday 23 May 2021 - AYANNA KINSALE Hours before the National Day of Prayer, the Anjuman Sunnat-ul-Jamaat Association (ASJA), in collaboration with the ASJA Ulama council and imams’ councils, hosted a virtual night of prayer on Saturday night. Newsday spoke to several religious organisations about their…

The tensions between Israel and Palestine that resurfaced in May this year, escalated to what is being referred to as one of the greatest humanitarian crises. Why did the tensions reemerge? What led to the escalation of the protests? Check the details of the events that doomed the Middle Eastern…

Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Around 400 people have gathered in the centre of Cardiff on Saturday afternoon as part of a…

Thousands of protesters have turned out at passionate pro-Palestinian rallies calling on the Morrison government to hold Israel to account for alleged ethnic cleansing and war crimes. For the second weekend in a row, Sydney and Melbourne have hosted major protests in support of a timely two-state solution to the…

WASHINGTON (RNS) — After days of violence that took the lives of at least a dozen people in Israel and hundreds in the occupied Palestinian territories, officials in both regions finally agreed to a cease-fire that took effect on Friday (May 21). President Joe Biden, who had publicly urged Israeli…