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Nora Barrows-Friedman The Electronic Intifada  /  February 27, 2021 More than 250 Australian and international scholars are calling on a prominent Australian historian to reconsider accepting the 2021 Dan David Prize in rejection of Israel’s colonial violence and apartheid. The $1 million prize is awarded by a foundation based at Tel Aviv...

Al-Jazeera  /  February 27, 2021 PA health ministry says intensive care units for COVID-19 patients have reached 95 percent occupancy in the West Bank. Schools in the occupied West Bank will shut down for 12 days in an effort to stop a sharp rise in coronavirus variant infections, Palestinian...

Hanna Adli Al-Jazeera  /  Februay 28, 2021 Multi-dimensional platform launched in 2019 documents Gaza’s historical buildings and heritage sites in English and Arabic. The Old City, Gaza Strip – With years of war, humanitarian crises and a continuing Israeli blockade, the Gaza Strip’s rich cultural heritage has largely gone unnoticed. But a...

Asa Winstanley Middle East Monitor  /  February 27, 2021 The propagandists are having an increasingly hard time explaining Israel's vaccine apartheid. Broadly speaking, there are about six million Israeli Jews and 6.5 million Palestinian Arabs (mostly Muslims and Christians) living in historic Palestine. This is the entire area between the Jordan...

Asa Winstanley The Electronic Intifada  /  February 26, 2021 Israeli diplomat Michael Freeman used two student societies as fronts in an attempt to dupe a British academic into “debating” him. Witnesses have told The Electronic Intifada his 2017 talk at the University of Kent was “propaganda” and “a well-orchestrated fraud.” Guarded...

Ali Abunimah The Electronic Intifada  /  February 26, 2021 Israeli state broadcaster Kan has just released this 1995 clip of Itamar Ben-Gvir, an extreme-right candidate in Israel’s upcoming elections who is backed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Ben-Gvir was dressed up for the Jewish holiday of Purim as Baruch Goldstein, the Jewish...

Middle East Monitor  /  February 27, 2021 The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Friday condemned Israeli violations against Islamic holy sites in the occupied cities of Jerusalem and Al-Khalil-Hebron, Anadolu Agency reported. In a statement issued by its Foreign Ministry, the PA announced: "Israel imposes measures and arbitrary restrictions to block...

MEMO  /  February 24, 2021 https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210224-engaging-the-world-the-making-of-hamass-foreign-policy/ Watch the online book launch for "Engaging the World: The Making of Hamas's Foreign Policy". Authored by Middle East Monitor's Dr Daud Abdullah, The Making of Hamas's Foreign Policy is the first comprehensive account of how the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, conducts its international relations,...

Al-Jazeera  /  February 27, 2021 UN says at least 70 people or so living in the Bedouin community, including 41 children, face displacement in Humsa al-Baqaia district. The United Nations and European members of the Security Council on Friday called on Israel to stop demolitions of Bedouin settlements in...

Noura Erakat, Mouin Rabbani & Angela Davis The Nation  /  February 26, 2021 A novel forensic analysis questions the Israeli narrative justifying the high-profile shooting and raises serious questions about the police’s conduct. On June 23, 2020, Ahmad Erekat, 26, was shot and killed by Israeli forces at the Container checkpoint in the central West...