Actress Scarlett Johansson has resigned her position as an Oxfam ambassador after she received criticism for her advert for SodaStream, which operates a factory in a controversial settlement in the West Bank.
In my part of the world, Ariel Sharon was known as the “Butcher of Beirut.” Even though his bloody legacy began to be built decades before he led the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 – through years of killing Palestinians in British-controlled Palestine prior to the Arab-Israeli War of 1948 – he will still be primarily remembered for the responsibility he bore for Beirut’s Sabra and Shatila Massacre in the Palestinian refugee camp of the same name.
Traces of the radioactive substance polonium-210 have been found on some personal belongings of former Palestinian president Yasser Arafat, fuelling claims he was poisoned in 2004.
The shift of power in Egypt over the past few months has led not just to border closures for those wanting to cross into the country from Gaza, but also to a sharp reduction in the transport of basic goods, as well as fishing rights, further isolating residents of the Occupied Palestinian Territory
As Israel looks to pay students to covertly post pro-Israel social media messages, should Israel be more concerned with actions or perception by people around the word?