Tag Archives: Ramallah

Reports have emerged that Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, claimed Israel was using wild pigs against Palestinians in the West Bank.  Mr Abbas’s allegation was made during a speech at a conference in Ramallah on Friday night (November 21, 2014), according to the Jerusalem Post. “Every night they release wild pigs against us”, the president was quoted ...

A report at the Independent by Ben Lynfield focuses on Palestinian activists who are “scathing about the Pope’s plans to make the first visit by a pontiff to the tomb of Theodor Herzl” – the founder of Zionisism. Zionism is the political movement, Lynfield explains, “that established Israel and displaced the Palestinians.” Lynfield continues: Omar Barghouti, a Ramallah-based member of the Boycott, ...