Palestine

Decision comes after President Trump invited Netanyahu and Gantz to hear details of long-delayed peace plan Correction: 01/26/2020: An earlier version wrongly stated business visitors can stay for nine days. This has been corrected to 90 days. Israel on Sunday announced it would permit Israeli citizens to travel to Saudi…

( Middle East Monitor ) – We are about to witness the third Israeli election in the space of one year. The elections for the Knesset, Israels parliament, which are coming in March, are being held after the failure of anyone to either score an overall majorit…

By Ramona Wadi | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The EU is predicting an increase in Israeli demolitions of Palestinian dwellings and structures in the occupied West Bank, thus perpetuating the problem of displacement. Israeli Defence Minister Naftali Bennett ha…

By Ramona Wadi | – (Middle East Monitor ) – Israeli media has reported that the International Criminal Court (ICC) could issue secret arrest warrants for Israeli officials involved in war crimes against the Palestinian people. According to a senior Israeli official who spoke to Israel Hayom, “The very fact…

By Asaad Abdel Rahman | – (Middle East Monitor ) – Although the Palestinian-Israeli conflict takes place within a relatively small geographic region, it receives great political and media attention, due to the involvement of many international parties and ev…

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced new guidelines on Thursday that ban athletes from making political, religious and ethnic demonstrations at the upcoming 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. The Olympics “are not and must never be a platfor…

NEW YORK (AP) Producers of the game show Jeopardy! have apologized for a clue that waded into political hot water involving Israeli control of the West Bank, saying an incorrect version of the show was sent to television stations. A game shown last Friday as…

"Jeopardy!" has issued an apology for initially ruling that the historic Church of the Nativity is in Israel and not Palestine. During last week's broadcast, "Jeopardy!" posed a question of where is the Church of the Nativity located. One of the contestants…

The producers of Jeopardy! are setting the record straight about a contentious question that aired during Friday’s episode, in which it seemingly deemed that Bethlehem is located in Israel and not Palestine in its answer. The controversy began when contestan…

A representative for Jeopardy! is speaking out in response to the uproar over a question on the show last week, in which Palestine was not recognized as a correct response. The $200 clue for the “Where’s That Church?” category was, “Built in the 300s A.D., t…