general assembly

JVP Boston activists protest the Veolia transportation company for operating bus lines serving settlements in the West Bank. November 14, 2012. (Tess Scheflan/ Activestills.org)
Could UNHRC’s settlement report put the ‘S’ back in BDS?
The last paragraph of the UN Human Rights Council-sanctioned report on Israeli settlements may lay the legal and practical foundations for a new, untried regime of economic and trade sanctions against Israel, or at least provide new tools to those already advocating BDS. The UNHRC-sanctioned International Fact Finding Mission’s report on Israeli settlements is by…
By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man February 4, 2013
Netanyahu targets UN and militant Islam in GA speech
Couching his speech in what he claims is the ‘truth’ as the representative of the ‘only true democracy’ in the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a defensive, hostile and unoriginal speech at UN on Friday – my initial reactions Bibi opened and closed his speech at the UN cordially on Friday afternoon,…
By Mairav Zonszein September 23, 2011
Obama and Netanyahu in the Oval Office (photo: Wikimedia commons)
Wild Card – last chapter: Bibi and Obama pave the way for one-state solution
SAVE THE DATE: September 23, 2011. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will give his “truth” speech at the UN General Assembly. The “truth” will actually be the annihilation of a two-state solution, and thus with it, the end of Zionism In October 2010 I started writing the “Wild card” campaign. To make a long story short,…
By Ami Kaufman September 18, 2011
Latest
Most Read
  1. ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
  2. An Israeli professor plotted to massacre Palestinians. Social media rejoiced
  3. Michigan’s midterms cemented a new political consensus on Palestine
  4. ‘Every drawer was opened’: Palestinians report looting amid Israel's Hebron siege
  5. Palestinian Bedouin women in Israel are leading a quiet revolution
  1. An Israeli professor plotted to massacre Palestinians. Social media rejoiced
  2. ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
  3. Why Israel’s election was a moment of Palestinian unity
  4. Palestinian Bedouin women in Israel are leading a quiet revolution
  5. In Gaza, the specter of famine is returning
  1. ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
  2. An Israeli professor plotted to massacre Palestinians. Social media rejoiced
  3. 50 shades of right: An Israeli election primer
  4. ‘There are no dreams here’: How Israel’s outgoing gov't remade the West Bank
  5. How Ben Gvir and Smotrich helped drive historic Arab voter turnout