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Palestinians protest against an Israeli judge's approval of 'quiet' Jewish prayer, at the Al Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem's Old City, October 8, 2021. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Bibi and Trump scorched Jerusalem. Will Bennett and Lapid burn what’s left?

Despite the end of the Trump-Netanyahu era, Israel's new government has not reversed its predecessor's dangerous policies in Jerusalem. Quite the contrary.

By Daniel Seidemann November 17, 2021

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement to the press during a visit in Har Homa, East Jerusalem on March 16, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Inside Trump and Netanyahu’s ‘end of season’ settlement bonanza

Amid ongoing political instability in the US, Israel is advancing 'doomsday' settlements in East Jerusalem that would devastate prospects for a future peace deal.

By Daniel Seidemann November 24, 2020

Illustrative photo of Israeli Border Police officers guarding a settlement in the West Bank city of Hebron. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

America’s long history of tolerating Israel’s illegal expansion

The U.S. has never treated Israeli settlements as illegal, as expansion continues with little resistance from Washington. Still, Pompeo’s declaration will likely become the new normal.

By Mitchell Plitnick November 20, 2019

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Israeli police arrest an international solidarity activist who had attempted to block a bulldozer brought to prepare for the demolition of Khan al-Ahmar, July 5, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Three arrested blocking Israeli bulldozers in Khan al-Ahmar

Israeli forces are preparing to demolish and displace the entire Palestinian village of Khan al-Ahmar. European diplomats attempt a solidarity visit but aren’t allowed to enter. The demolition is part of Israel’s ‘E-1’ plan to dissect the West Bank, isolate East Jerusalem. By Oren Ziv Israeli police and army officials showed up in the Palestinian…

By Oren Ziv July 5, 2018

The mother of murdered Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khdair mourns his death, East Jerusalem, July 2, 2014 .Israeli police found a burnt body in a forest west of Jerusalem, early on Wednesday morning, in what appears to have been a revenge kidnapping and murder carried out by right-wing Israeli extremists after three Israeli teenage boys were found dead on Monday north of the Palestinian town Halhul, near Hebron. (Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

Photos of the week: A chronology of two kidnappings

This week: As Israelis mourn the murder of the three Israeli teenagers, right-wingers riot on streets of Jerusalem; a Palestinian teenager is murdered in a suspected ‘revenge attack,’ and the cycle of violence continues.

By Activestills July 3, 2014

Amna (right) and Salman Mansour mourn their son Ibrahim who was shot and killed on February 13 by Israeli forces while he was collecting gravel near the border with Israel in the Al Mentar area of the Gaza Strip, February 17, 2014. A witness who was working with him at the time said that no warning was given before a single shot struck Mansour in the head. He was 35 years old and leaves behind a wife and seven children. (photo: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)

Photos of the week: Mourning in Gaza and south Tel Aviv

This week: Mourning in Gaza and south Tel Aviv, asylum seeker solidarity, settlers protesting and protested against, activists arrested, tear gas returned, Bedouins marginalized, and separation roads traveled.

By Activestills February 20, 2014

PM Netanyahu and Secretary Kerry (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

How 24,000 new settlement homes allowed Netanyahu to save face

Israel’s nearly unprecedented announcement and subsequent ‘review’ of plans for 24,000 new settlement units was actually a win-win situation – for everyone but the Palestinians, of course. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was outflanked from the right on Tuesday, purportedly surprised by an announcement of 24,000 – yeah, you read that right – new settlement…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man November 13, 2013

Settlement construction in Gilo, January 21, 2010. (Photo: Activestills.org)

Housing Ministry publishes massive settlement plan, Netanyahu orders review

*POST UPDATED BELOW* Israel’s Ministry of Housing and Construction (run by Jewish Home MK Uri Ariel, who lives in a West Bank settlement) published tenders last week for 20,000 new settlements units, including a tender to build 1,200 units in the southern part of the highly controversial E-1 area, Haaretz (Hebrew) reported Tuesday. According to…

By Mairav Zonszein November 12, 2013

E1 doesn’t matter: One-state reality is here

Those who think that E1 is the nail in the coffin of the two-state ‘solution’ are willfully blind to the fact that a one-state outcome is already on the ground and that the Zionist militias started building it before there ever was an Israel. I know this is a little late. The big brouhaha about…

By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat December 27, 2012

Map of East Jerusalem and the Holy Basin, highlighting the planned construction projects for Jews and national parks (map: Emek Shaveh)

Israeli consensus much prefers Ma’aleh Adumim to peace

Netanyahu didn’t invent the E-1 dealbreaker that’s got the world so mad at him; it goes back to Rabin and reflects overwhelming Israeli opinion. Except for right wingers, people look at the outrage over Bibi’s revival of the E-1 plan, which would connect Jerusalem and the eastward Ma’aleh Adumim settlement with thousands of new homes,…

By Larry Derfner December 4, 2012