On July 20, hundreds of New Yorkers marched in support of the historic Not On Our Dime! Act, which seeks to penalize nonprofits that are funding illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine.
In the past six months alone, Israel has approved the construction of 13,000 new settlement units, breaking the previous mark for the most settlement units approved in a single year.
The Biden administration criticized an Israeli announcement of 4,000 new illegal settlement units in the West Bank but appears to have no plans for taking action.
This week the Israeli government made a dangerous move that makes annexation of the West Bank an even closer reality, analysts say.
Israel deployed attack helicopters during a military raid on Jenin for the first time in 20 years but was forced to retreat in what may mark an evolution in the capabilities of the Palestinian resistance.
Israeli settlers established a yeshiva in the evacuated Homesh outpost two months after a Knesset bill pushing to legalize it. The Biden Administration says it is “deeply troubled” by the move.
The Zionist ethos of “maximum land, minimum Arabs” made the Nakba possible and allows the Nakba to repeat itself every time a Zionist colonist takes over Palestinian land, whether in Ein Samiya today or in Yaffa in 1948.
The bill to “End New York funding of Israeli settler violence Act” would establish a civil penalty for nonprofits that help fund settlements. The pro-Israel backlash has predictably described it as antisemitic.
New Likud MK Avichai Buaron published an editorial in 2010 that supported extermination camps for “Amalekites,” a thinly-veiled euphemism for Palestinians.
The Israeli Knesset just passed an amendment to the 2005 Disengagement Plan which will facilitate settler expansion in the West Bank and legalize racial discrimination.