Palestine

BRUSSELS: The European Union warned Serbia and Kosovo on Monday that they could undermine their EU membership hopes by moving their Israeli embassies to Jerusalem, as US President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement about the change left officials in Belgrade and Pristina scrambling to limit the political fallout. In an unexpected…

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The United Arab Emirates betrayed the Islamic world and the Palestinians by reaching a deal towards normalising ties with Israel, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a speech. The Palestinians have fiercely opposed the normalisation as weakening traditional Arab refusal to form ties with Israel before the establishment…

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader. — AFP/Files TEHRAN: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader on Tuesday said  the United Arab Emirates, by signing an agreement to normalise relations with Tehran's arch-foe Israel, has betrayed the whole Muslim world."The UAE betrayed the world of Islam, the Arab nations, the region's countries,…

JERUSALEM: Palestinian Alaa Borqan preferred to tear down his own house in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem after a court ruled that it was constructed illegally and must be demolished. The 35-year-old was given two options: To destroy his four-bedroom home in the Jabal Mukaber neighborhood himself, or to let the city…

The West is in freefall. Liberal-democratic institutions have suffered a near-fatal blow in the United States; Europe, caught leaderless as the United States vacates this position, is in disarray. Three words have come to define this moment: I can't breathe. These devastating words -- spoken by George Floyd, Eric Garner and the legion of…

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday he hoped the Israel-UAE deal can help realise a two-state solution with the Palestinians for peace in the Middle East.Israel and the UAE agreed to normalise ties in a landmark deal, only the third such accord the Jewish state has struck…

The Independent employs reporters around the world to bring you truly independent journalism. To support us, please consider a contribution. Donald Trump has announced the “full normalisation of relations” between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, suspending Israel’s efforts to declare sovereignty over a third of occupied West Bank territories to…

There was a time when Lebanon's coastal cities and snowy peaks were leading tourist destinations for the Jewish residents of Mandatory Palestine By AMIT NAOR/NATIONAL LIBRARY OF ISRAEL  AUGUST 9, 2020 17:36 An advertisement for a trip for Jews from Mandatory Palestine to Lebanon, Syria and Transjordan, seen in English…

A century of struggle in Palestine. Here’s the script: Criminalize the boycotts, deport the human rights advocates, rebrand anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism, smear the leftist Jews, infiltrate the leftist organizations, defund the aid programs, torpedo the political campaigns, fire the high school teachers and speech pathologists and network commentators, and pinkwash…