With Mamdani's rise in NYC comes a tonal shift on Israel and the Middle East

New York City, if the polls are right, is at another signpost in its mayoral politics history. It was 30 years ago — on Oct. 23, 1995 — that Mayor Rudy Giuliani had Yasser Arafat, the visiting president of the Palestinian National Authority and a...

Trump says ‘Israel not going to do anything with the West Bank’ as US fumes over annexation vote

US President Donald Trump on Thursday declared “Israel is not going to do anything with the West Bank,” as officials from his administration leveled harsh criticism against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government after lawmakers advanced...

Trump nominee for Kuwait ambassador, grilled at confirmation hearing, loses support over Israel views

Anti-Israel encampment at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, USA in May 2024. Photo: Robyn Stevens via Reuters Connect The American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the largest and oldest US organization for defending...

UN Expert Says All Nations With Ties to Israel 'Responsible in Some Measure' for Gaza Genocide

A report by one of the United Nations’ leading experts on Israel-Palestine describes the more than two years of genocide in Gaza as a “collective crime,” for which all nations with financial, diplomatic, and military ties with Israel are culpable....

'It would lose all of its support': Donald Trump warns Israel over annexing West Bank

United States President Donald Trump has issued a stark warning to Israel over annexing the West Bank in an interview, as visiting secretary of state Marco Rubio voiced confidence that a US-backed ceasefire in Gaza would hold. Trump's remarks made...

Vance rejects any West Bank annexation as Rubio heads to Israel

US Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that Israel would not move to annex the occupied West Bank, after Washington warned that such a step could jeopardise a fragile US-brokered truce in Gaza. Israeli lawmakers on Wednesday advanced two bills...

Occupied Palestinian territory: Israel has no sovereignty: OIC

ISLAMABAD: The Muslim World has said that Israel has no sovereignty over the occupied Palestinian territory. Fifteen Muslim Countries including Pakistan, members of the Arab League and the OIC have unanimously rejected the approval of Israeli...

Pakistan hails ICJ advisory opinion on Israel’s obligations in occupied Palestinian territory

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday welcomed the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), issued on 22 October 2025, on the “Obligations of Israel in Relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other...

UN Commissioner: ICJ ruling confirms Israel’s obligation to protect Palestinian rights

UN Commissioner: ICJ ruling confirms Israel’s obligation to protect Palestinian rights New York – Saba: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said on Thursday that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling confirms...

Vance: Trump’s Policy Is That Israel Will Not Annex the West Bank

U.S. Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that Israel will not annex the West Bank and that the Knesset vote regarding annexation was a symbolic move.اضافة اعلان Vance added that President Donald Trump’s policy remains that Israel should not...

Gaza deal should encourage Israel to choose dialogue over weapons — Russian envoy

UNITED NATIONS, October 23. /TASS/. The Gaza ceasefire deal should make Israel see that dialogue with neighbors and a rejection of the use of force can help ensure the security of the Jewish state better than advanced weapons, Russian Permanent...

Palm Beach County is once again expanding its financial ties with Israel

Palm Beach County is expanding its financial ties with Israel once again. County commissioners voted six to zero Oct. 21 to temporarily raise the cap on investments in Israeli government-backed bonds from 15 to 18 percent of the county’s...

‘Obligations of Israel’: Pakistan welcomes ICJ Advisory Opinion

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan welcomes the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the “obligations of Israel in relation to the presence and activities of the United Nations, other international organizations and third states in and...

Palestinian Prisoners’ Club: Ben-Gvir’s Calls to Kill Prisoners Reflect Israel’s Official Policy

The Director-General of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, Amjad al-Najjar, said that the explicit calls by Israel’s extremist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to kill and torture Palestinian prisoners are not mere statements but rather a...

Jewish newspaper shut out of Portland city councilors’ press conference on Israel

The editor of Portland’s only Jewish news outlet says he was blocked from a virtual press conference last week with four city councilors about “Israel’s illegal occupation, apartheid, or genocidal violence against Palestinians.” Rockne Roll,...

UN: Israel is obligated to respect and protect human rights in Palestine

Gaza – Saba: Commenting on yesterday's International Court of Justice ruling, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Thursday that Israel is obligated to respect, protect, and fulfill the human rights of...

UN Report: 60 Countries complicit in enabling Israel’s Gaza massacre

Washington – Saba: A recent United Nations report revealed that more than 60 countries are implicated in what the report describes as a "collective crime that enabled Israel to carry out a massacre against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip," through...

Pakistan slams Israel’s annexation over parts of Occupied West Bank

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan strongly condemned Israel’s attempt to extend its so-called “sovereignty” over parts of the Occupied West Bank, including illegal Israeli settlements, through a draft law introduced in the legislature of the occupying power....

Trump brushes off efforts by some Israel lawmakers to annex West Bank

President Donald Trump. File. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday (October 23, 2025) dismissed an effort by some Israeli lawmakers to annex the West Bank, saying Israel is “not going to do anything with the West Bank.” A...

AFP renews call on Israel to investigate attack on journalists

Agence France-Presse renewed its call on Thursday on Israel to conduct a full investigation into an attack in 2023 that killed a Reuters journalist in Lebanon and wounded several others, two of them from AFP. On October 13, 2023, an attack killed...