IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
The Iowa caucuses are tonight and Bernie Sanders is leading the polls in the Dem primary. His criticism of Israel's occupation is increasingly popular. But AIPAC-linked group Democratic Majority for Israel is spending thousands on anti-Sanders attack ads.
on February 3, 2020
President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met to plan the release of Trump's apartheid plan. The plan does nothing to address the fact that Palestinians are under Israeli military rule and are being deprived of basic human rights.
on January 27, 2020
Report from Doctors Without Borders on the destruction and treachery Israel unleashes on Palestinians living under occupation in Gaza.
on January 20, 2020
Israeli forces destroyed a Palestinian home and the foundations of an elementary school in the occupied West Bank. After the destruction of the Rib’i family home, all their possessions were left in a pile outside. "Israel’s planning and building policy is designed to suffocate Palestinian development in their land.”
on January 17, 2020
“What's your problem with our flag?" Israeli soldiers harassed the a-Tabib family in the occupied West Bank after they hung Palestinian flags on the fence of their home. Israeli soldiers snatched the flags and took them away.
on January 17, 2020
Israeli troops shot 34-year-old Abdullah Abu Tehaimer as he tried to cross Israel's apartheid wall to go to work, to feed his family. He was shot without warning. He was shot the way East German soldiers shot anyone who tried to cross the Berlin Wall.
on January 3, 2020
Whether dressed in a traditional Palestinian thobe in Congress or marching through streets around the world, 2019 was the year Palestinian women spearheaded the struggle for dignity and justice in Palestine-Israel.
on January 3, 2020
Senator Bernie Sanders said this during December's Democratic primary debate: "We must be pro-Palestinian as well...Right now in Israel we have leadership under Netanyahu, who has recently, as you know, been indicted for bribery, who in my view is a racist. What we need is a level playing field in terms of the Middle East which addresses the terrible crisis in Gaza, where 60 or 70 percent of the young people are unemployed."
on December 20, 2019
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor announced she plans to conduct an investigation into Israeli war crimes committed in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. However, before the inquiry starts, the prosecutor will wait for the ICC to decide over its jurisdiction in West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
on December 20, 2019