Palestine

For years the number of countries using technology to monitor and track their citizens has been growing. China and Russia have been the most active in applying the technologies; Beijing increasingly uses surveillance methods within its own country, Moscow eng…

Amnesty International is urging UN member states to use the next Human Rights Council session on Palestine to demand the release of a database of companies operating in the illegal Israeli settlements. In a new report published on Friday, the rights organisa…

Just two days after being named to the national board of the Womens March, Zahra Billoo, a Bay area civil rights activist and Muslim leader, has been removed from the board over Tweets criticizing Israel in what she calls an Islamophobic smear campaign. The …

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Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday that Israeli officials "played" President Donald Trump in their conversations with him, warning that a "healthy amount of skepticism" is needed in dealings with Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu…

Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. | Alex Wong/Getty Images Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday that Israeli officials "played" President Donald Trump in their conversations with him, warning that a "healthy amount of skepticism" is …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's spell may have finally worn out. He tried every trick in the book to win Tuesday's Knesset elections but failed to secure enough seats to form a government. For months, the incumbent premier lied to his constituenc…

Subscribe to the Deconstructed podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Radio Public, and other platforms. New to podcasting? Click here. Israeli voters returned to the polls this week for the second time in five months to elect the 120 members …

The German city of Dortmund has withdrawn its decision to award a British Pakistani writer a literature prize, citing her support for the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.  Acclaimed novelist Kamila Shamsie was announced as th…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is moving quickly to alter the political reality in Palestine, and facing little or no resistance. On September 10, Netanyahu declared his intentions to annex swathes of Palestinian land adjacent to the Jordan River,…