Hindus have called on protesters to allow Jewish women to pray freely at Jerusalem’s venerated Western Wall using religious rituals as men. Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement today, said that women deserved equal and full participation and access in all religions. "We understand the age-old traditions very well as we are the oldest existing religion, but men only practices and customs n ...

Israelis and Palestinians differ widely in their outlook for a peaceful resolution of their longstanding conflict and in their views about the United States. But both want U.S. President Barack Obama to play a larger role in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center. The new report comes as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry plans another visit to the ...

OSLO: Another victory against Israel for the Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) as renowned international physicist Stephen Hawking has thrown his support behind an academic boycott of Israel and refused to attend an annual conference hosted by Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem. The move has been praised by activists across the globe, who said it will help bring even more attention to the movement ...

Another 8,000 families in the occupied Palestinian territory will get jobs and small business loans, the United Nations development agency today said, as part of a partnership implemented with the Palestinian Authority and funded through the Islamic Development Bank (IDB). “The $50 million will go towards the ongoing work of the Deprived Families Economic Empowerment Programme (DEEP), an initiative that has ...

SAN FRANCISCO: Google has officially changed "Palestinian Territories" to "Palestine" on its Google country homepage in what many activists see as a positive step toward the official global recognition of Palestine as a state. "We have fought so long and Google is a very important aspect of any discussion on the Internet that it is really a vital move toward changing perceptions of what Israel and Palestine ...

The Israeli authorities must immediately remove a new outpost set up yesterday by Israeli settlers in the Nablus district of the occupied West Bank, Amnesty International said today. The new outpost was set up following the killing of Evyatar Borovsky, a resident of the illegal Israeli settlement of Yitzhar, on Tuesday. Borovsky, a civilian who was carrying a gun at the time of the attack, was stabbed and k ...

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Two Palestinian children arrested in Hebron on 28thApril by the Israeli authorities are the latest in a series of arrests which have increased rapidly since February of 2013. Swedish human rights activist, Gustav Karlsson, is currently in immigration detention in Givon prison after objecting against the arrest of the two children. Gustav plans to resist deportation because he was arrested under false allega ...

Last year this month, I wrote a piece related to the racism inherent in Israel. At the time, I was freelancing with The Media Line (TNL), a news website that promoted itself as a beacon of free speech in the Middle East. However, after I published an article titled "Get over it, Israel is racist" I was immediately told to stop writing anything as they "dealt" with the issue at hand. Unfortunately they never ...

Israel’s new government must drop a proposed law that would lead to mass forced evictions of Bedouin people and instead pursue legislation to protect Bedouin housing rights, Amnesty International said, as the Ministerial Committee on Legislation is due to consider the proposal on Sunday. The draft “Law for Regularizing Bedouin Habitation in the Negev - 2012”, approved by the previous government, threatens a ...