Tag: Palestinian Refugees
Human Rights Watch crosses the line with latest attack on Israel
Anti-Semitism may be the world’s oldest hatred, but it’s still a long way from death’s door. What I find particularly distressing, if not surprising, is to see self-proclaimed human rights activists demonizing the world’s...
GOP senators to Blinken: UNRWA has outlived its mandate
Saying that the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has outlived its mandate, a group of Republican members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee sent a letter last week to U.S....
Why Biden’s concessions to the Palestinians hurt, rather than help them
The Biden administration’s first Middle East decisions make clear what was always obvious about the new president’s intentions: the foreign-policy establishment is back in charge in Washington. That’s led to a flurry of moves...
NGOs petition US to reveal number of Palestinian refugees
The HonestReporting and UNRWA: Stop Teaching Hate advocacy groups launched a joint petition on Monday calling on the U.S. government to declassify a report detailing the true number of Palestinian refugees worldwide, nine years...
Still stuck in a time warp
Some of you will probably be familiar with a charming German movie called “Goodbye, Lenin,” the story of which concerns a woman in Communist-ruled East Germany who falls into a coma and wakes up...
The Palestinian ‘right of return’ is a political weapon
The War of Return has just hit the bookstalls. Its authors, ex-Knesset member Einat Wilf and journalist Adi Schwartz, are blitzing Zoom with presentations of the main arguments in the book, which is now available...
Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon reports its first case of coronavirus
A woman from Syria has become the first person in the sole Palestinian refugee camp in eastern Lebanon to test positive for the coronavirus, reported the Associated Press on Wednesday.
UNRWA, the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency, said that all...
Andrew Yang backtracks on whether Palestinian refugees should have right to return to Israel
Entrepreneur and Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang backtracked on Monday after telling The New York Times in a survey last week that Palestinian refugees and their descendants should have the right to return to Israel.
In response the...
UNRWA must evolve or dissolve, says senior agency official at end of General Assembly
“Direct pressure” by donors is the most likely way to induce the United Nations Relief and Works Agency to change, former UNRWA general counsel James Lindsay told JNS as the 74th session of the...
If elected, Buttigieg won’t move US embassy in Israel back to Tel Aviv
Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., and a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, said that if elected, he would not move the U.S. embassy in Israel back to Tel Aviv.
“What’s...