PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

By Martin Indyk There’s a very simple reason my team has been trying to blame Israel primarily for the recent breakdown of negotiations with the Palestinians: we can’t expect guilt to attach to Arabs, who are nonwhite and therefore not ...

Jerusalem, May 15 – An exhaustive search of retail outlets in Jerusalem’s city center has revealed that there exists one that is not a hoity-toity cafe, researchers from the Hebrew University announced today. Researchers scoured a 400-meter radius of the ...

New York, May 15 – In the wake of a global survey measuring the prevalence of antisemitism in various countries and regions, the Anti-Defamation League faces a deluge of nitwits questioning the report’s conclusion based on an erroneous understanding of ...

Berkeley, California, May 14 – Advocates of the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions movement against Israel expressed frustration today that their lobbying efforts targeting major cultural figures have yet to elicit a commitment from the world’s most famous composer not to appear ...

Tel Aviv, May 13 – After a comprehensive review, the Israel Defense Force has identified several areas in which it can do more to avoid violating the rights of Palestinian demonstrators, PreOccupied Territory has learned, including the use of NERF™ projectiles ...

Bamako, Mali, May 12 – With virgin brides at a premium in this bustling region, many Muslim men realized that the abduction by Islamic militants of 276 schoolgirls in Nigeria presented a rare opportunity to obtain a pristine new bride, ...

Mecca, Saudi Arabia, May 11 – In this birthplace of Islam, worshipers celebrate the Religion of Peace by coming together as one Umma, or nation, dedicated to submission to God, imposing that submission by the sword if necessary. Of the ...

Jerusalem, May 10 – Lawmakers opposed to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s latest legislation proposal are challenging the notion that a Jewish country, born of millennia of Jewish longing for a homeland, and embodying the dreams and prophecies of countless Jews ...

By Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch It’s time to lay all the cards out on the table: our organization fights tirelessly for the rights of all humans, regardless of national origin, religious belief, sexual orientation, and myriad other ...

Jerusalem, May 8 – Israel’s Ministry of the Environment announced today that to avoid expensive and time-consuming cleanup costs from throngs of visitors, the Nature and Parks Authority would transform most of the country’s green spaces outright into garbage dumps. ...