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In Brief: Israel seizes 30 crypto wallets allegedly used to fund Hamas

Posted 1 March, 2022 in Analysis, Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Cryptocurrency > Voytek Pavlik, CC0 1.0, via Wikimedia Commons Israel has seized 30 digital wallets allegedly used by Hamas to fundraise, according to the Israeli Defence Ministry. Defence minister Benny Gantz approved the seizure of the cryptocurrency wallets from 12 accounts, owned by an exchange company based in the Gaza Strip, which has since been declared a…

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In Brief: EU aid to the PA held up as officials discuss textbook reform

Posted 1 March, 2022 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Incitement, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Source: IMPACT-se. Millions of euros of EU aid to the Palestinian Authority are stuck in Brussels as the European Commission discussed whether to condition parts of the assistance on Palestinian school curriculum reform. The EU, the PA’s single largest donor, helps to pay the salaries of many PA civil servants. Between 2008 and 2020, Brussels spent around…

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LFI vice-chair urges FCDO to take seat on coexistence Fund board

Posted 9 February, 2022 in Coexistence, Incitement, Israel, Labour Party, News, Peace process
LFI vice-chair Cat McKinnell MP has today written to Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Secretary Liz Truss calling for the FCDO to approach the Biden administration to discuss the UK taking up one of the international seats on the board of the International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. This followed the news that the US Agency for International…

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In Brief: Hateful content remains in Palestinian curriculum, report finds

Posted 2 February, 2022 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Incitement, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Image: IMPACT-se Palestinian Authority textbooks have remained largely unchanged and still contain incitement to violence and hatred despite EU pledges to work with the PA to revise them, a study by IMPACT-se has found. Following an in-depth survey of the curriculum last year, the EU announced its intention to “work with the Palestinian Authority” to remove “antagonism…

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In Brief: Gulf states slam Palestinian groups for supporting Houthis

Posted 27 January, 2022 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Incitement, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Yemeni civil war map > Ali Zifan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Palestinian terror groups including Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad received sharp criticism from Gulf states over the weekend due to their condemnation of Saudi airstrikes in Yemen. Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain launched scathing attacks on the Palestinian groups for their alleged support…

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In Brief: Labor minister: Settler attacks are ‘organised actions of a terror group’

Posted 27 January, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics
Omer Barlev > Josius, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Footage from an incident on Friday in the Palestinian village of Burin showed a group of settlers, likely form the Givat Ronen illegal outpost, attacking left-wing activists and Palestinians, with six people injured. “This is the organised action of a terrorist organisation”, Barlev told the Kan public…

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In Brief: Fatah and Hamas play down ‘reconciliation’ talks in Algeria

Posted 19 January, 2022 in Analysis, Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
PA president Mahmoud Abbas. Image credit: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Representatives of six Palestinian factions – including Fatah, the party of Palestinian Authority president Abbas, and the Hamas terror group, which governs the Gaza Strip – are expected to hold talks in Algeria this week to discuss how to achieve “national reconciliation”. The factions…

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In Brief: Iran boasts of support for Palestinian terror groups

Posted 12 January, 2022 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Incitement, Iran, Palestinian Territories
Ayatollah Khamenei. Image Credit: Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0. Iranian media has marked the anniversary of the 2020 assassination of general Qasem Soleimani by revealing new details about Iran’s support for Palestinian terror groups. An article from the Tasnim News branch in Damascus, Syria, reveals how the Islamic Republic ran guns and technology to Palestinian groups under…

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Steps to a Two State Solution: Support the establishment of an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace and re-establish UK support for peace-building work 

Posted 14 December, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Four: Support the establishment of an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace and re-establish UK support for peace-building work Modelled on the highly successful International Fund for Ireland, an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace would allow the international community to lay the civic society foundations for…

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In Brief: Incitement linked to rise in Palestinian terror attacks

Posted 8 December, 2021 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Israeli flags being burnt in Gaza > Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A wave of terror attacks by Palestinians against Israelis in Jerusalem and the West Bank have been linked to an increase in incitement against Israel by Palestinian terror groups. Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and other Gaza-based groups have all called for…

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