Palestine

TEL AVIV Israel is now headed to an unprecedented repeat election just weeks after the last poll, and this just as one rather significant foreign visitor, Jared Kushner, arrives in Jerusalem. While Kushners Israel sojourn was scheduled before this most recen…

Former CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill is set to host a morning digital talk show titled Black Coffee for BET. After revealing last month at Viacom’s NewFronts presentation that the series would debut sometime this year, the cable network announced Tuesday …

Protesting the electricity crisis, in the Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza, on January 12, 2017. One demonstrator holds a sign that reads, in Arabic, We want electricity. On that day, Hamas security forces detained scores who participated in the demonstrations in J…

Abdelhafiz Nofal, speaking at a press conference in Moscow, has referred to the upcoming peace “deal of the century” advertised by US President Donald Trump, as a “strange agenda.” They are suggesting turning Palestinian refugee camps into some new cities, t…

Bethlehem, West Bank—In a garden just off the main drag in Bethlehem, a bright-eyed Palestinian man named Muhammad Saleh talked to a visiting group about a crate full of empty tear gas canisters. The canisters, manufactured in Jamestown, Pennsylvania, at Com…

The Soho I live in todaynot to be confused with the more chichi SoHo in Lower Manhattanis not the Soho I came to 20 years ago. Its still Londons most bohemian suburb, home to the satirical magazine Private Eye and writerly clubs like the Groucho and the Acade…

A Twitter troll’s outrage is never spent, it seems. Fanboys across Twitter shed many fanboy tears about a deleted scene that Marvel Studios released to promote the June home entertainment release of “Captain Marvel.” It’s an extended and alternate version of…

This time next month the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) will be out of cash. Im not sure many people understand or care. But if this happens, a million Palestinians will go without food, schools across …

Punk Rock Band Says El Al Gave Them Middle Seats After Displaying Palestinian Flag Colors

Trump wants to dismantle the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and shift responsibility for Palestine refugees to the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). What has UNHCR got to say about…