On April 17, The New York Times ran an op-ed by Marwan Barghouti, the Fatah leader jailed in Israel, and described him as “a Palestinian leader and parliamentarian” but failing to mention that he is also a convicted murdered who as the commander of Fatah’s Tanzim paramilitary offshooti was behind the murders of Israelis. In his op-ed, Barghouti states that he was first arrested at age 15, then again at age 18, and he alleges physical abuse by Israeli interrogators.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on May 3 in Washington DC, a Palestinian official confirmed.
Trinity College Dublin is known for its strong ties to the Jewish state and its struggle against the BDS movement, but has agreed to host the conference on campus grounds nonetheless.
Despite calls by Jewish groups and politicians to the Dutch authorities to prohibit an annual conference ‘’Palestinians in Europe’’ organized in Rotterdam by a the Palestinian Return Centre (PRC), regarded by German intelligence sources as a support group of Hamas in Europe, the city Mayor and Justice Minister refused to block the event.
Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum and Remembrance Center in Jerusalem has invited White House spokesman Sean Spicer to visit the center’s website and learn about the Nazi extermination camps after he made controversial remarks on Hitler at a press briefing.
French presidential front-runner Emmanuel Macron declared that a unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state by France ‘’won't serve anyone's interests and would lead to regional instability.''
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly supported US President Donald Trump in his decision to carry out strikes against Syrian forces following the use of chemical weapons.
While reiterating their strong condemnation of the deadly chemical attack Syria, European Union leaders cautiously endorsed US President Donald Trump’s missile strikes on Syrian government forces.
''There are 32 humanitarian crises around the world, but the EU chooses to disproportionately focus only on what is done in Area C of the West Bank, which are most definitely not suffering a humanitarian crisis,” the Israeli foreign ministry’s Diector for Europe, Avivit Bar-Ilan, told a European diplomat who was summoned to the ministry.
