IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
News & Analysis
Even the Pope is against Trump and Netanyahu's apartheid plan for Palestinians. Pope Francis alluded to the plan in a recent statement, calling the proposals laid out by Trump “inequitable solutions."
on February 24, 2020
News & Analysis
Billionaire and staunch supporter of all things Israel, casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson is expected to donate 100 million to reelect Trump and other conservative republican politicians. What else does Adelson fund? Silencing free speech on college campuses.
on February 11, 2020
Op-Eds & Analysis
Palestinian scholar Rashid Khalidi on Trump's apartheid plan: "A tawdry deal has been done over the heads of the Palestinians, in their absence, and ignoring their rights – indeed their very existence as a people...The greatest power of the age, today the United States, is once again dictating terms for the disposition of Palestine tailored to meet the demands of only one side of the conflict."
on February 6, 2020
News & Analysis
Israeli forces are trying to crush Palestinian protests of the Trump apartheid plan with brute force. They have killed four Palestinians in a span of 24 hours.
on February 6, 2020
Op-Eds & Analysis
Palestinian Member of Knesset Aida Touma-Sliman responds to Trump's apartheid plan and the U.S. endorsement of de-nationalizing Israel’s Palestinian citizens. "As a Palestinian citizen of Israel myself, I have been treated with suspicion and as a threat by the government for my whole life, a fifth column in my own homeland. Will I now be told to move to the new Palestine, or remain and accept permanent second- or third-class Israeli citizenship?"
on February 6, 2020
News & Analysis
Former US President Jimmy Carter responds to Trump's plan: It's a violation of international law and "the new US plan undercuts prospects for a just peace between Israelis and Palestinians..."
on February 4, 2020
News & Analysis
Jewish settlers living on occupied Palestinians land across the West Bank are now rejoicing because Trump's apartheid plan recognizes them as rightful and legal owners of settlements, structures deemed illegal under international law.
on February 4, 2020
Op-Eds & Analysis
Mehdi Hassan: "...the average American, would not support this idea — that a Palestinian refugee not only loses their status as a refugee under this plan forever, but Israel gets to veto Palestinian refugees from returning even to a Palestinian state..."
on February 3, 2020
Videos
“This is a moment of reckoning for Americans.” We spoke with Rutgers University professor and Palestinian-American human rights attorney Noura Erakat to get her take on Trump’s apartheid plan.
on January 31, 2020