IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
Similar to the main character in the movie "The Terminal," Alaa Yasin is a man without a homeland, according to the U.S. government. Unlike the movie, however, Yasin has spent the last eight months in a jail cell instead of a terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.
on May 20, 2016
Fact Sheets
The IMEU offers select quotes from senior Israeli officials expressing extremism and incitement to racial hatred towards Palestinians, migrants, and other citizens and residents of Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.
on October 23, 2015
As the train packed with refugees left Budapest's Keleti station in the direction of Austria, only one family remained on the platform. "We couldn't buy tickets because we don't have any money, armed thieves took everything from us," said Tarek al-Hajj Khalil, a Palestinian from the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus, Syria.
on September 13, 2015
In the wake of the drowning of some 700 migrants off the coast of Italy, and as EU foreign ministers prepare to hold urgent talks on the crisis, one individual account illustrates the plight of migrants risking their lives to reach European shores. The Independent published on Monday the story of 17-year-old Yusuf, who left the Gaza Strip to escape "the death that was all around."
on April 20, 2015
As Europe is accused of “closing its eyes” to the tragic deaths of hundreds of desperate migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean, one boy from Gaza has told his harrowing story. Yusuf, 17, survived being kidnapped, beaten, imprisoned and starved in his battle to reach Europe for a better life. He fled conflict and poverty, like many of the refugees pouring into Italy from Syria, Somalia, South Sudan and other war-torn countries.
on April 20, 2015
n a move unprecedented in Western countries, Israel’s outgoing interior minister announces plan to compel asylum seekers to leave the country. Israel’s High Court has repeatedly struck down laws that authorized the indefinite detention of asylum seekers.
on March 31, 2015
Numbers of Palestinians from Gaza illegally emigrating to Egypt and Europe have tripled since the Israeli assault on the enclave, sources told PNN. It is claimed as many as 10,000 people have fled in the last 8 months as life in Gaza has become unbearable.
on September 10, 2014