On 29 May, a bill aimed at designating the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) as a terrorist organisation passed a preliminary reading in Israel’s parliament, known as the Knesset, prior to three further readings. A second bill that would lead to the severing of all ties with the UN agency and stripping it of various immunities was also proposed, and passed a preliminary reading. These two bills would not only forbid UNRWA from operating in Israel entirely but would also criminalise the organisation, its activities, and its staff.
EU politics
Fintan O’Toole: The lie that poverty is a moral failing was buried a century ago. Now it’s back
We live again in a world of Victorian values risen from the graves in which Shaw and the other great anti-Victorians buried them. We live again in a world where the rich pleasure themselves with the […]
Geopolitics
Middle East Eye: Greta Thunberg arrested by UK police over support for ‘Palestine Action prisoners’
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EU politics
Spain in English: Prosecutor wants Catalan president barred for yellow ribbons
Two important points here: Spain is more fascist than we ever thought. Social Democrats are no more democratic than those they label “illiberal”. Like other failing political parties they too are resorting to militarised liberal […]
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