Barghouti and Qidwa give Abbas ultimatum for accepting electoral list
Middle East Monitor / March 2, 2021
Senior Fatah leaders Marwan Barghouti and Nasser al-Qidwa have given Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas until 5 March to accept their electoral list, Lebanon's Al-Akbar reported on Monday. Abbas is also the head of the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Fatah movement.
Barghouti...
Labour faces legal challenge over recruitment of former Israeli spy
Ian Cobain
Middle East Eye / March 2, 2021
British Palestinian party member says ex-military intelligence officer's 'social listening' role raises questions about data security.
The UK Labour Party is facing a legal challenge over its decision to recruit an Israeli former military intelligence officer as one of its social media...
Biden administration ‘enthusiastically embraces’ IHRA antisemitism definition: Report
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / March 2, 2021
Secretary of State sends letter to American Zionist Movement in support of controversial definition.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the Biden administration "enthusiastically embraces" the International Holocaust Remembrance Association's (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, the Jewish Insider reported late on Monday.
In a letter sent...
UN experts call on Israel to stop repeated demolition of rural Palestinian community
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / March 2, 2021
Special rapporteurs stress that Israel's justification that village lies within military firing zone does not meet requirements of international law.
UN human rights experts have called on Israel to immediately end its efforts to demolish a Palestinian village in the northern...
The Israeli military shot my cousin—and the US bears part of the blame
Ryah Aqel & Mohammed El-Kurd
The Nation / March 2, 2021
While Congress refuses to pass a living wage, it continues to supply Israel with copious amounts of military aid, which the country then uses to harm my family.
January 1, 2021. My aunt Rasmiya Mohammad, 75, began her year...
Israel’s Dan David Prize and vaccine apartheid
Samah Sabawi & Nick Riemer
Al-Jazeera / March 2, 2021
Accepting an Israeli award for contributions to public health amid Israel’s vaccine apartheid is immoral.
When we circulated an open letter calling on Australian Professor Alison Bashford to reconsider accepting Israel’s Dan David Prize, we expected there would be overwhelming support for...
Palestinian Authority under fire for VIP vaccines
Al-Jazeera / March 3, 2021
Palestinian human rights and civil society groups say the PA’s COVID vaccination programme lacks transparency.
The Palestinian Authority has confirmed that it diverted some COVID-19 vaccination doses meant for medical workers to VIPs, as critics have claimed, but said this involved a small fraction...
A war is being waged against academic freedom in Britain
Malia Bouattia
Al-Jazeera / February 28, 2021
The accusations of anti-Semitism against David Miller aim to silence pro-Palestinian voices on university campuses.
Over the past few weeks, David Miller, a professor of political sociology at Bristol University in the United Kingdom, has been the subject of a vicious smear campaign,...
Israeli spyware firm NSO Group faces renewed US scrutiny
Stephanie Kirchgaessner
The Guardian / March 1, 2021
Department of Justice said to have asked WhatsApp for details of alleged targeting of clients in 2019.
NSO Group appears to be facing renewed scrutiny by the US Department of Justice months after leading technology companies said the spyware maker was “powerful and...
Gaza’s civil defence teams call for end to Israel’s siege
Mohammed Asad
Middle East Monitor / March 1, 2021
The call came during a vehicle rally and press conference held to mark World Civil Defence Day.
The General Directorate of Civil Defence in Gaza today called on the international community to exert pressure on the Israeli occupation to force it...
