PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

by Mahmoud Abbas, President, Palestinian Authority, and Chairman, Palestine Liberation Organization Ramallah, December 9 – President Donald Trump and his advisers have tries to generate excitement over their impending Deal of the Century to resolve the conflict between us and ...

by Ann Teasemythe, party activist London, November 28 – Slander of our anti-racist political organization as racist against Jews continues despite the fact that only fifty-six percent of our members harbour such animosity towards those of the Hebrew persuasion. The ...

by Omar Shakir, Human Rights Watch New York, November 19 – Hello, thank you, how do you do? Yes, I do, thank you very much. My, what a lovely home. Well, except for all the bad  decorating, maintenance, management, parenting, ...

by Every Single Antisemite Masquerading as Just an Anti-Zionist as if There’s a Meaningful Distinction London, New York, Washington, wherever, November 7 – We see it everywhere: people who raise genuine, sincere criticisms of Israeli policy by calling for the ...

by Abdallah Qardash, Khalif, Islamic State Somewhere in Northeast Syria or Northwest Iraq, October 30 – Our movement’s recent setbacks, including the assassination of Khalif al-Baghdadi and his chief spokesman, point to a disturbing fact: our fellow Muslims have provided ...

by Rabbi Christine Matthews III New York, October 7 – Countless people I meet make the same error: assuming that just because the Hebrew Bible came from within the Jewish cultural tradition dating back thousands of years, it somehow represents ...

by MK Ayman Odeh, Joint List Haifa, September 23 – Our alliance of Arab parties has finally reached its fateful conclusion in the ongoing drama of the recent parliamentary elections: we have told President Rivlin that we back Benny Gantz ...

By Susan Lefkowitz-Li, J Street donor New York, September 12 – My status as wealthy Jewish-American grants me numerous privileges, which I acknowledge, but I savor none of them as much as I enjoy pontificating about the excessive measures the ...

by Subhi Sh’hada Hebron, September 3 – I need not inform the reader that my hometown bears the distinction of one of the most radicalized locations in the region, if not the world. A hardcore group of several hundred Jews, ...

By Rebecca Goldsmith, If Not Now activist I always counsel my pro-Palestine allies to keep the focus of rhetoric on Islamophobic manifestations and anti-Muslim violence, especially from Israel, but it can be hard to maintain that focus when others bring up ...