Palestinian Territory, Occupied

News | 2012-04-23 11:14:00

Some Israeli lobbyists claim that the "apartheid link" between the old South Africa and present-day Israel is born of "ignorance" (April 13). Their...

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails to go on hunger strike

NewsStaff Reporter | 2012-04-16 13:33:00

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are expected to embark on hunger strikes this week to draw attention to imprisonment without...

Israel plans to block 'flytilla' of pro-Palestinian activists

WorldStaff Reporter | 2012-04-14 17:39:00

Israel is expected to deny entry to hundreds of international pro-Palestinian activists due to arrive at Tel Aviv airport on Sunday en route to the...

Apartheid link is born of ignorance

AnalysisBenjamin Pogrund: COMMENT | 2012-04-13 20:06:00

The two of us, an Israeli and a Palestinian, went to South Africa last month to speak about the Middle East. For understandable reasons of history...

Jerusalem engulfed as pilgrims mark Good Friday, Passover

NewsStaff Reporter | 2012-04-06 11:01:00

Christians and Jews in the Holy Land are set to begin marking their most important festivals as Good Friday and Jewish holiday of Passover...

Hardliners in West Bank standoff

AfricaHarriet Sherwood | 2012-04-05 09:04:00

Israel's right-wing prime minister has intervened to prevent the eviction of hardline Jewish settlers from a house in the tense West Bank city of...

Israel and Palestine to meet over peace process

NewsStaff Reporter | 2012-04-04 16:24:00

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with Palestinian premier Salam Fayyad in coming weeks, Israeli and Palestinian officials said...

US lawmakers release $88.6m in aid to Palestinians

NewsSusan Cornwell | 2012-03-25 07:33:00

US lawmakers on Friday released $88.6-million in development aid for the Palestinians that they had held up since last summer, a move that should...

Gaza, Israel truce begins to show progress

NewsNidal Al-Mughrabi | 2012-03-13 11:27:00

An Egyptian-brokered truce between Israel and militant groups in the Gaza Strip began to take hold on Tuesday after four days of violence in which...

Boy killed by air strikes as Gaza conflict reignites

NewsStaff Reporter | 2012-03-12 10:39:00

A 12-year-old boy was killed in Gaza on Sunday amid a spiralling round of militant rocket attacks and Israeli air strikes over the weekend that...

The Inconvenient Truth II

Film | 2012-03-09 00:00:00

A Jewish girl I know, after her final year of school in South Africa, went with her classmates to Israel for an extensive cultural encounter. At...

Israeli reaction to boycott call 'a victory'

NewsFatima Asmal-Motala | 2012-02-24 02:38:00

Pro-Palestinian activists in South Africa believe that the dispatching of Israeli envoys to "defend the state" during Israeli Apartheid Week shows...

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