Palestine

PARIS (AP) — U.N. cultural and scientific agency UNESCO announced Monday that the United States plans to rejoin — and pay more than $600 million in back dues — after a decade-long dispute sparked by the organization’s move to include Palestine as a member. U.S. officials say the decision to…

ColumnJune 8, 2023The CUNY Law grad’s much-discussed commencement speech was less a defense of Palestine than a prosecution of the Jewish state. June 8, 2023 Fatima Mousa Mohammed said many things during her 12-minute commencement address to the City University New York School of Law graduating class of 2023, earning…

BEIRUT: Hezbollah is refusing Israeli demands that it dismantle an outpost set up in the disputed hills of Kfarshouba on the border between Lebanon and Israel. Amid a tense standoff between the militant group and Israel over the issue, Israeli warplanes violated Lebanese airspace at low altitude over the border…

(June 7, 2023 / JNS) A member of the European Parliament received an award in Beirut last week from a group affiliated with the Hezbollah terrorist organization. The Global Campaign to Return to Palestine (GCRP) presented Spanish MEP Manuel Pineda, also known as Manu Abu Carlos, with an Ambassador of…

Did you miss out on tickets to Indonesia vs Argentina, which officials said sold out in mere minutes? Well, there’s another tantalizing friendly match to look forward to, as Indonesia is set to host Palestine on June 14 at the Gelora Bung Tomo Stadium in Surabaya, East Java. The Indonesian…

Five months after the disastrous Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, the rail giant is looking to dismiss a mass class action lawsuit it faces. Norfolk Southern is seeking to shut down the case, which is in fact a consolidation of over 30 separate lawsuits filed against the…

Egypt’s Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly has affirmed his country’s keenness to support the State of Palestine, and Cairo’s full commitment to its historical approach in devoting its efforts and diplomatic moves at all levels, with the aim of meeting the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people to establish their independent…

Op-ed When the pro-democracy ‘Safeguarding Our Home’ rallies are overwhelmed and undermined by adjacent, rival-allied ‘Free Palestine’ demonstrators David Horovitz is the founding editor of The Times of Israel. He is the author of "Still Life with Bombers" (2004) and "A Little Too Close to God" (2000), and co-author of…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of Jewish nationalists gathered on Thursday ahead of a parade through the main Palestinian thoroughfare of Jerusalem’s Old City, in a contentious event that has threatened to set off already simmering tensions. Over 2,000 police were deployed for the parade, many of them standing guard outside…

75 Years Later, A Changed Middle East Requires a Different Approach to Palestine As the 75th anniversary of the Nakba on 15 May passes by, historians of the Middle East would look and see a region changed many times over, sometimes positively and other times not so much. 75 years…