IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
Students at Palestine’s leading university will choose their new president on 16 May, after recent elections in which a Hamas-linked bloc won a majority of seats, but a prominent student activist says their new leader will almost certainly be imprisoned by Israeli authorities.
on May 9, 2016
Q&As
As 2015 comes to a close, the IMEU offers the following expert Q&A on the year's events in Palestine/Israel, as well as a look ahead to 2016, with political analysts Diana Buttu and Mouin Rabbani.
on December 21, 2015
Fact Sheets
Tonight, Republican presidential candidates will meet for their fifth debate, at The Venetian Las Vegas, a hotel and casino owned by right-wing billionaire Sheldon Adelson. The IMEU offers the following list of some of the most offensive and egregious statements that Adelson has made about Palestinians, Israel, and US foreign policy over the last few years.
on December 15, 2015
Officials at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee knew the odds were against them in the fight to block President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran from surviving a congressional vote. But the influential pro-Israel group threw itself into a nearly $30 million advertising and lobbying effort to kill the accord anyway.
on September 10, 2015
The Israeli authorities released Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan on Sunday, two weeks after a deal was reached to end a 55-day long hunger strike that brought him close to death. Adnan, 37, went on hunger strike in June to protest the Israeli practice of administrative detention, under which Palestinians can be held without trial or charge indefinitely. His release Sunday came after 11 months in Israeli custody.
on July 12, 2015
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finalized the formation of a new government this week when he signed a coalition agreement with far-right settler party Jewish Home. As part of the agreement, Rabbi [Eli] Ben-Dahan will be Israel’s next deputy defense minister, responsible for the army’s “Civil Administration.”
on May 9, 2015
The final hours of Israel’s close-fought election campaign were overshadowed by an ugly row over racism as the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, warned that his party was at risk of losing power because the country’s Arab citizens were voting in “droves”. In a video clip posted on his Facebook page Mr Netanyahu said: “The rule of the right is in danger..."
on March 17, 2015
RAHAT, Israel—This Arab Bedouin city deep in the Negev desert could play a wild card in Israel’s election. Three hundred volunteers from United List, the only Arab party among the 11 contesting Tuesday’s election, are canvassing for votes among Rahat’s 80,000 people. Polling indicates it could emerge as the third-largest party in Israel’s parliament.
on March 13, 2015
Fact Sheets
Although Israel is nominally a parliamentary democracy, over the course of the country's nearly 67-year history there has been a period of only about one year (1966-67) that Israel did not rule over large numbers of Palestinians by military decree, granting them no civil or political rights simply because they are not Jewish.
on March 12, 2015