The Histadrut, by far the largest labor union in Israel, on Sunday urged a counterpart union in Germany to abandon its bid to boycott Israel, saying that such actions would harm both Israeli and Palestinian workers, Benjamin Weinthal of The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. After learning that the Oldenburg chapter of the Education...
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The global police agency Interpol has rejected the Palestinian Authority’s bid for membership, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. The Palestinians had sought a vote on membership during Interpol’s annual meeting this week in Bali, but 62 nations voted in a preliminary hearing against placing the proposal on the agenda. “Many others abstained,...
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On October 25, the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University (CPS) co-hosted with Columbia’s Law School an event titled “Human Rights, International Law, and the Israeli Occupation of Palestine.” As evidenced by the speakers at this event, the topic of conversation had no hope of being anything but yet...
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A top official of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has called for its inclusion in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), an umbrella group internationally recognized as the representative of the Palestinians, while stressing the Islamist movement’s continued commitment to attacking Israel, The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. The PLO is dominated by the...
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Three Israeli soldiers were wounded, one seriously, when a Palestinian Authority police officer opened fire on a security checkpoint near Ramallah in the West Bank, The Times of Israel reported Monday. The policeman, identified as 26-year-old Muhammad Turkman, opened fire at the Focus checkpoint with an AK-47 rifle before being fatally shot...
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Mohammad Shtayyeh, a former Palestinian negotiator and current advisor to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, presented a deceitful account of Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy over the course of the Obama administration in a New York Times op-ed published on Wednesday. The tone of the op-ed, which calls on the United States to support the French initiative “for...
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