Palestine slams sale of Israel settlement products in UAE
Middle East Monitor / January 11, 2021
the Palestinian Ministry of National Economy slammed the sale of Israeli settlement products in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), describing it as a legalisation of settlements and a circumvention of Palestinian people's rights.
In a statement issued yesterday, the ministry...
Palestinians expect jabs in March, accuse Israel of shirking duty
Al-Jazeera / January 2021
Palestinian Authority accuses Israel of ignoring the responsibility to ensure COVID-19 vaccines are available in occupied territory.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has said it expects to receive its first COVID-19 vaccine doses in March under a deal with British drug giant AstraZeneca, and...
Jonathan Kuttab’s one state vision
Robert Herbst
Mondoweiss / January 7, 2021
Beyond the two-state solution
by Jonathan Kuttab
100 pp., available as an ebook from Nonviolence International
It has been only four years since the UN Security Council voted 14-0 with one abstention to condemn Israeli settlement building as a “flagrant violation” of international law...
Colonization at work: Palestinian citizens and the 2021 Israeli elections
Reem Khamis-Dakwar
Mondoweiss / January 7, 2021
Reem Khamis-Dakwar says that within Israel's political system Palestinian citizens have the status of pets, "domesticated in the service of Zionist parties in the Knesset."
With the fourth Knesset election in four years scheduled for March 23, 2021, we are witnessing more and...
2021: Palestine’s chance of fighting back
Ramzy Baroud
CounterPunch / January 8, 2021
2020 will go down in history as the year that terminated the American-sponsored ‘peace process’. While 2021 will not reverse the monumental change in the US attitude and objectives in Palestine, Israel and the Middle East, the new year presents...
‘NY Times’ gushes over Israeli vaccination program – with bare mention of millions of...
James North
Mondoweiss / January 4, 2021
Once again, the Jerusalem bureau of the New York Times publishes pro-Israel propaganda instead of telling its readers the truth. This time, the dishonesty is about Israel’s coronavirus vaccination program.
Here’s Isabel Kershner’s headline over the weekend:
How Israel Became a World Leader in Vaccinating...
Is Israel practicing vaccine leadership or medical apartheid ?
Ariel Gold
CounterPunch / January 8, 2021
The media is abuzz these days with headlines such as “How Israel Became a World Leader in Vaccinating Against Covid-19.” While the U.S. has vaccinated only 1.67 percent of its population against COVID-19 so far, Israel has already given the vaccine to more than 16 percent...
Sixty Israeli high school students sign letter refusing their compulsory enlistment in the Israeli...
AURDIP / January 7, 2021
Association of Academics for the Respect of International Law in Palestine
“The Zionist policy of brutal violence towards and expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and lands began in 1948 and has not stopped since.”
The Full Letter
We are a group of Israeli...
Jonathan Pollard’s release shows that Israel is unrepentant about spying on its ‘allies’
Asa Winstanley
Middle East Monitor / January 9, 2021
On the evening of 18 November, 1985, Jay, an innocent-looking analyst, left his office at the US Naval Intelligence.
Jay was in his early thirties, looked slightly overweight, sported a very eighties moustache and wore thick glasses. Heading home...
Unknown armed assailants shoot, seriously wound former senior Arab politician in Israel
Middle East Monitor / January 9, 2021
In light of Israeli negligence of organised crime among Arab communities in Israel, on Thursday unknown armed assailants shot and seriously wounded Suleiman Aghbariah, former mayor of Umm al-Fahm, a major Arab city in central Israel.
Aghbariah was not only the...
