The Jewish founders of Ben & Jerry’s said they “unequivocally support” the ice cream maker’s move to boycott Israeli settlements in the West Bank, calling it “one of the most important decisions the company has made in its 43-year history.”
NEW YORK — A series of statements on Monday have worked to confuse Airbnb’s Mideast policies, with the company claiming to oppose the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement while still singling out Jewish West Bank homes for boycott.
TEL AVIV – A group of American Jews have sued Airbnb in a U.S. Federal Court on Wednesday over charges that the vacation rental giant’s new policy of barring Israeli apartments in the West Bank constitutes religious discrimination.
TEL AVIV – Airbnb could find itself sanctioned with a special tax over its decision remove all of its 200 listings located in Israeli settlements, Israel’s Tourism Minister said Tuesday.
Contrary to Palestinian claims, the core of the so-called Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not Jewish settlement activity but the Palestinian refusal to accept Israel’s existence, contended Breitbart Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday slammed the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem as a “settlement outpost,” and vowed that the Palestinians will not take part in peace talks brokered by the Americans “in any way, shape or form.” He also repeated the lie that Jews have no ties to the land of Israel.
The army on Wednesday announced it would impose a nine-day closure on the West Bank and Gaza for the entirety of the Passover holiday, beginning on Friday.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday that he asked for “courageous gestures” from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to restart the Middle East peace process.
The Obama administration earlier this year said unequivocally that it did not have a problem with the Trump transition team reaching out to foreign officials, contrary to reports suggesting otherwise.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United Nations Human Rights Council’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, Prince Zeid bin Ra’ad al-Hussein, plans to publish a “blacklist” of international companies that do business with or are operating in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Golan Heights (also referred to as Israeli settlements).
TEL AVIV — UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres visited Ramallah on Tuesday, where he made public remarks about the so-called Israeli-Palestinian conflict and key issues related to the region.
TEL AVIV – The UN Human Rights Council is ignoring the fact that more than 40 European companies – most of which are under some degree of state control in their home countries – operate in four areas around the world deemed occupied by the United Nations even while the agency continues to boycott businesses that operate in Israeli settlements, a new report found.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry on Wednesday summoned the Deputy European Union Ambassador Mark Gallagher for a clarification, after the EU accused Israel of demolishing Palestinian homes in Area C of the West Bank.
Egyptian and Palestinian leaders are holding talks in Cairo in what Egyptian media reports are branding a “reconciliation” meeting.
The United Nations Human Rights Council is set to debate a resolution on Monday demanding that the international community boycott Israeli settlements.
TEL AVIV – Now that President Donald Trump’s meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in the past, Israeli lawmakers are planning to reintroduce the annexation bill extending Israeli sovereignty to the Jerusalem-area settlement of Ma’ale Adumim.
A United Nations report on establishing a database of companies with business interests in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is set to be delayed until later this year, diplomats and activists said.
Just days after the settlement outpost of Amona was evacuated and demolished by order of Israel’s High Court of Justice, the Knesset passed controversial legislation to retroactively legalize all settlement housing sitting on property that has been identified as private Palestinian land.
On Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily, SiriusXM host Alex Marlow asked former U.N. ambassador John Bolton about the Trump administration’s evidently softening support for Israeli settlement construction.
JERUSALEM – The Knesset is slated to vote on Monday on a bill that would ban entry into the country of supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and other individuals calling for boycotts of the Jewish state or of products made in West Bank settlements.
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for UN envoy Nikki Haley this week slammed what she called the UN’s bias against Israel and the international body’s failure to address other, more pressing world problems.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has distanced the Turnbull government from a communique agreed by ministers and diplomats of 70 nations, including Australia, concerning the pathways to peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
A highly anticipated and hotly contested Middle East peace conference kicked off in Paris Sunday morning, with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault saying the gathering will strive to give the sides “new chances” to reach a peace agreement.
TEL AVIV – “Supernatural” actor Mark Pellegrino slammed the United Nations and the U.S. for the “unethical” Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements.
Following complaints, a French supermarket apologized for applying labels reading “made in Israeli settlements” on some of its products.
Arab social media users were not impressed with outgoing Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech outlining his vision of a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev has made public her pleasure that US President Barack Obama is soon leaving office.
The U.N. Security Council will vote on Friday on a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements after four council members again put forward the measure a day after Egypt withdrew it under pressure from Israel and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.
Ahead of a possible second attempt Friday to vote on a UN Security Council resolution declaring Israeli settlements illegal, Breitbart News sources speculated that Russia could use its veto to kill the measure, even if the United States would not.
WASHINGTON — The United States was planning to abstain from Thursday’s vote on an Egyptian-drafted resolution at the United Nations Security Council condemning Israeli settlements, according to NBC News and Reuters.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has instructed Egypt’s U.N. mission to postpone a Security Council vote on a draft resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements, a western diplomat told Reuters on Thursday.
President-elect Donald J. Trump demanded that President Barack Obama veto a UN Security Council resolution to be voted on Thursday that would declare Israeli settlements across the 1949 armistice line — i.e. in the West Bank — to be illegal.
Israel National News reports: The Middle East Quartet, made up of the US, EU, UN, and Russia, is scheduled to release a major policy report later in coming weeks, and senior diplomats involved in its drafting have indicated that the
The United States refused to say Thursday whether or not it would support a Palestinian proposal for a United Nations resolution to condemn Israeli settlement building — but ruled nothing out. While Washington often criticizes Israeli building work in occupied
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said there is an “urgent” need for a UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements, in an interview with AFP ahead of a multi-country diplomatic tour. “The Security Council is a very important subject because it has now
JERUSALEM – The White House has not yet decided whether it will support a Palestinian initiative for a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank. On Friday, State Department spokesperson Mark Toner told reporters in Washington: “We understand
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Palestinian UN Mission says it has circulated a proposed Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements to Arab nations. The draft was condemned Thursday by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
JERUSALEM – Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said this week he would urge the Israeli government to pull out of West Bank settlement and accused the Israel Defense Forces of using “disproportionate” force in its war against Hamas in Gaza in 2014.
The United States on Wednesday condemned a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution that calls for setting up a database of businesses operating in the occupied West Bank, a move that Israel has called a “blacklist.”
TEL AVIV – The United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday will debate a resolution that calls on member states to boycott Jewish settlements, the Jerusalem Post reported. The UNHRC is often charged with having an extreme anti-Israel bias. The resolution would
