Palestine

Samantha Vinograd is a CNN national security analyst. She served on President Barack Obama's National Security Council from 2009 to 2013 and at the Treasury Department under President George W. Bush. Follow her @sam_vinograd. The views expressed in this comme…

After her granddaughter, a US congresswoman, was barred from entering her country, then attacked by the president on Twitter, 90-year-old Muftia Tlaib had some choice words for President Donald Trump: "Trump tells me I should be happy Rashida is not coming…

Rep. Ilhan Omar accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of lying about the itinerary for her and Rep. Rashida Tlaib's canceled trip to Israel. "I planned to hold meetings with members of the Knesset (both Jewish and Arab) along with Israeli securi…

Visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions stands against everything I believe in, she wrote on Twitter. Silencing me & treating me like a criminal is not what she wants for me, Ms. Tlaib said of my sity, using an Arabic term for grandmoth…

A bipartisan US bill currently being considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee puts at stake the ability of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to engage diplomatic and legal channels to support Palestinian national aspirations and to seek accounta…

Just metres away from the towering concrete separation barrier in Palestines West Bank is a skatepark overlooking the small village of Jayyous and its undulating landscape. The site was constructed in 2017 by the charity SkatePal to enhance the lives of the a…

The Israeli government has announced that it will ban the only two Muslim women in Congress, representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, from entering the country. But the two weren't headed to Israel; their planned congressional trip was to Palestine. The…

United States congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar have called Israel's decision to bar them from entering the country ahead of a planned visit to the occupied West Bank "a sign of weakness" and "an insult to democratic values". Tlaib, a 43-year-old De…

When we first started telling people that we were going to hike in the West Bank, Palestine, they were incredulous. You’re going where? You’re doing what? Over a 3 week period, starting in Rummana at the northern Israeli/ Palestine border and ending in Beit…

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