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Clovis Maksoud

Clovis Maksoud

Dec 17, 2013

Balloons painted with the phrase "Boycott to Israel" are seen during a Euroleague basketball game between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Barcelona in Barcelona February 5, 2009. The game was earlier disrupted by pro-Palestinian demonstrators. REUTERS/Gustau Nacarino (SPAIN) - RTXB9QH — Balloons are painted with the phrase "Boycott Israel" in Barcelona, Feb. 5, 2009. — REUTERS/Gustau Nacarino

Israeli right proposes taxing NGOs that back boycott

Ayelet Shaked

A worker carries boxes containing wine bottles for export at Shiloh Wineries, north of the West Bank city of Ramallah November 8, 2015. Few issues have caused more friction between Israel and the European Union than EU plans to impose labeling on goods produced in Jewish settlements on occupied land. And if Israel is right about the timing, the tensions could get worse." Shiloh Wineries, which exports half of the more than 100,000 bottles of wine it produces annually, built its business around its West Bank

Is BDS movement spreading across Europe?

Adnan Abu Amer

New Israeli education law angers Palestinians

Rasha Abou Jalal

Rasha Abou Jalal

In Gaza City, reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM: Israeli deputy and former speaker of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, Avraham Burg, gives a speech on "Europe, against anti-semitism for a Union of diversity" 19 February 2004 at EU headquarters in Brussels. The aim of the seminar is to present proposals on how to address anti-semitism to the incoming EU executive which will replace the current one 01 November 2004. AFP PHOTO / THIERRY MONASSE (Photo credit should read THIERRY MONASSE/AFP/Getty Images)

Former Knesset speaker declares Zionism over

Daoud Kuttab

In Amman, reporting on Palestinian politics