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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends weekly cabinet meeting at his office in disputed Jerusalem on July 15, 2018. (AFP/ RONEN ZVULUN)

July 19th, 2018 - 07:14 GMT

Israel Passes Racist 'Nation State Law' Giving Self-Determination Only to Jews

Israeli lawmakers on Thursday passed a controversial law declaring that only Jews have the right of self-determination in the country.

Many on the list are affiliated with the "boycott, divestment and sanctions" movement, or BDS, which discourages the purchase of Israeli goods and pressures international companies and celebrities to avoid doing business with or in Israel (AFP/File)

January 8th, 2018 - 06:06 GMT

Israel Bans 20 Organizations from Entry for Promoting Boycott of Country

Sheikh Abdullah Nimr Darwish died Sunday at age 69. (Flickr)

May 15th, 2017 - 08:00 GMT

Founder of Islamic Movement in Israel Dies Aged 69

Ahmad Dawabsheh. (AFP/file)

May 2nd, 2017 - 02:00 GMT

Little Boy Lost Family to Settler Attack, but he’s not a ‘Terror Victim’ Israel says

A number of Palestinian activists have criticized the two-state solution as unsustainable and unlikely to bring durable peace, proposing instead a binational state with equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians. (AFP/File)

March 6th, 2017 - 07:00 GMT

Palestine’s Fatah tells US Congress an embassy move to Jerusalem will ‘explode the situation’ in all MENA

Palestinians hold a protest beside illegal Israeli settlements. (AFP/File)

February 7th, 2017 - 12:00 GMT

Israeli law normalizing colonial settlements denounced as ‘land theft’ and a ‘war crime’

The bill affects some 4,000 homes in the West Bank and stipulates that Israeli settlements found to be illegally built on Palestinian-owned land will not be removed. (File photo)

February 7th, 2017 - 08:00 GMT

Palestinian officials condemn Israeli move to legalize settlements built on stolen land

Bennett has repeatedly asked Netanyahu to rescind his support for the two-state solution and the creation of a Palestinian state, which Bennett perceives to be a security threat to the state of Israel. (Twitter)

January 22nd, 2017 - 02:00 GMT

As Trump takes office, hundreds of illegal Israeli settlements get the green light in East Jerusalem

Israeli construction cranes and excavators at a building site in the Israeli settlement of Neve Yaakov, in the northern area of east Jerusalem on March 29, 2016. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

October 8th, 2016 - 08:00 GMT

Both US and EU condemn Israel’s latest plan for the expansion of illegal settlements

Jewish settlers stand on the roof of a building after entering two homes in the center of Hebron on January 21, 2016. (AFP/Hazem Bader)

August 23rd, 2016 - 07:00 GMT

Right of return for Jews only: Hebron settlements expansion gets the go-ahead

Palestinian members of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, take part in a gathering on January 31. (AFP/File)

July 14th, 2016 - 11:00 GMT

Israeli lawyer sues Facebook for allowing Hamas to use the social media platform

Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Habayit Hayehudi party leader Naftali Bennett announce a coalition deal on Wednesday. (AFP/File)

May 19th, 2016 - 09:00 GMT

Netanyahu to expand Israeli rightwing government coalition

Thousands of Palestinian workers cross through checkpoints every day. (AFP/File)

March 24th, 2016 - 01:00 GMT

Hundreds of Palestinians detained in major crackdown on illegal workers