UK charities, protest groups condemn Israeli ban threat after sanctions
Having warned London of 'consequences' for sanctions, Israel targets UK charities, campaign groups and Palestine Action.
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Having warned London of 'consequences' for sanctions, Israel targets UK charities, campaign groups and Palestine Action.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is among those barred for the second year in a row.
Ed Sheeran’s US tour has been plunged into chaos after all four supporting acts withdrew on Tuesday in solidarity with US rapper Macklemore, who had earlier been dropped from the tour after making comments in support of Palestine. Irish acts Aaron Rowe and Beoga, the Danish band Lukas Graham and American singer Finneas all said they would no longer be performing.
Supporting acts of Sheeran's US tour have quit in solidarity with Macklemore, banned for saying 'Free Palestine'.
The British musician said it was important to "set out some facts" after US rapper voiced support for Palestine.
New B'Tselem report frames events on ground as Israel's 'project of elimination' of Palestinians.
Israeli rights group B’Tselem says Israeli settler violence aims to eliminate Palestinian existence.
Ukraine is ready to halt attacks on Russian energy infrastructure if Moscow does the same, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday, after US President Donald Trump announced an apparent agreement between the two sides. Kyiv also warned that intensifying Russian strikes on Ukraine’s rail network are worsening each week.
American rapper Macklemore announced on Monday that he was dropped from Ed Sheeran’s US stadium tour after saying "Free Palestine" during a September 4 concert in New Jersey. The Grammy winner’s removal follows pressure from venue owners, including New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, over his criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza.
American rapper Macklemore announced Monday that he was dropped from British singer Ed Sheeran’s US stadium tour after saying "Free Palestine" during a September 4 concert in New Jersey. The Grammy winner’s removal follows pressure from venue owners, including New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, over his criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza.
Israeli rights group B'Tselem said Monday that Israeli actions in the occupied West Bank form part of a greater project designed to make it impossible for Palestinians to exist together as a people. In a report titled "The Elimination Project", the group alleged five connected Israeli tactics and policies in the West Bank: "violence, ethnic cleansing, movement restrictions, economic strangulation, social and political destruction". FRANCE 24's Selina Sykes reports.
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem details five mechanisms used by Israel to dismantle Palestinian collective life.
Some 750,000 settlers live across more than 500 illegal settlements and outposts, as Israeli pogroms hit record highs.
A pro-Palestine protest in Sydney demanded that the Australian government take further action and implement on Israel.
Israeli forces reportedly raided the Jenin home of Palestinian journalist Ali al-Samoudi and beat his son.
A Palestine Action prisoner's mother, politician George Galloway and a leftist news outlet are among those speaking up.
Israel’s decision to bar British MPs exposes how far it will go to avoid scrutiny over its treatment of Palestinians.
Israeli attacks on the occupied Palestinian territory continue despite a 'ceasefire' brokered in October.
Four-year-old Kinda Hassan is missing the start of her first school year amid a month-long siege by Israeli settlers.
Macklemore is facing backlash from pro-Israel groups after saying ‘Free Palestine’ while opening for Ed Sheeran.
With the left-wing coalition ahead in polling, the current right-wing government's policies could soon be up for debate.
The UK is planning to take new steps against illegal Israeli settlements as Palestinians suffer more violence.
Susan Sarandon says she still loses film roles over support for Palestine
US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Saturday visited Turmus Ayya, a Palestinian town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank that has been repeatedly targeted by Israeli settler violence. Huckabee, a staunch supporter of Israel and its illegal settlements in the Palestinian territory, said that it was in the Israeli government's interests to take action against violent settlers.
The Hanover affair exposes a new front in Israel’s long-running effort to shape how Palestinians are understood.
Palestine Action activists convicted of criminal damage “with a terrorist connection” are appealing their convictions.
Two Palestinian teenagers were killed on Wednesday in an attack by Israeli settler militants and army troops on their village in the occupied West Bank, local officials and the Palestinian health ministry said, amid an uptick in violence by Jewish settlers in the territory. The Israeli military said in a statement its forces had entered al-Mughayyir to provide security for police officers and an Israeli civilian seeking to retrieve livestock.
Two Palestinian teens were killed in the occupied West Bank as Israeli settlers and snipers surround a village.
In an interview with FRANCE 24, the secretary general of the Palestinian National Initiative (PNI) party Mustafa Barghouti said the level of Israeli attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank had become "totally unprecedented". With tensions escalating, activists accuse settlers of operating with total impunity. "Their goal is clear: it is ethnic cleansing," Barghouti stated, calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's reaction to the attacks hypocritical.
Al-Mughayyir's council says they were trying to stop settlers stealing sheep, but the Israeli military says they threw stones at its troops.