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Middle East Monitor  /  March 22, 2021 Fatah is going to stand in the parliamentary elections on its own list, Anadolu reported the movement's Secretary Jibril al-Rajoub saying yesterday. "There will be no joint list with any other parties," he said only two days after Israel warned the movement's Chairman...

Middle East Monitor  /  March 22, 2021 A recent study has found that only four per cent of households in the Gaza Strip have access to safe water, compared with 39.5 per cent in the rest of Palestine. According to a study released by the Palestinian Central Bureau of...

David Cronin The Electronic Intifada  /  March 21, 2021 How does muzzling someone who tells uncomfortable truths about the present constitute learning from the past? That is a question which Johannes Bӧrmann ought to ask himself. He works on Holocaust education for the European Union. His commitment to learning is questionable. Bӧrmann has lately...

Orly Noy +972 Magazine  /  March 21, 2021 ____________________________________________________________ PODCAST: Does Kahanism expose what Israel tries to hide ? Henriette Chacar – January 17, 2020 https://www.972mag.com/kahanism-natasha-roth-rowland-podcast/ Kahanism reveals a larger, inconvenient truth about Israel’s very nature, says researcher Natasha Roth-Rowland ____________________________________________________________ Israelis may fear the racist Itamar Ben-Gvir could enter the Knesset next week, but...

Edo Konrad +972 Magazine  /  March 17, 2021 The growing visibility of queer Palestinians poses a challenge to Arab political parties that are exploiting homophobia ahead of the Israeli election, says attorney and activist Fady Khoury. The Palestinian LGBTQ community isn’t used to being at the heart of their society’s...

Mohammad Ayesh Middle East Monitor  /  March 17, 2021 The sudden return to the Gaza Strip of a large number of defectors from the Fatah movement cannot be a coincidence in these circumstances and at this time. It is impossible to be the result of "societal reconciliation" as is...

Adnan Abu Amer Al-Jazeera  /  March 21, 2021 Several foreign players are seeking to influence the outcome of the Palestinian elections. As Palestinians begin the countdown to their general legislative and presidential elections in May and July of this year, there seems to be growing interest among foreign actors in...

Maureen Clare Murphy The Electronic Intifada  /  March 19, 2021 A lack of moral authority has never stopped Israeli leaders from accusing others of the same. And so Israel’s president, Reuven Rivlin, has been deployed to Europe, where he is attempting to make the case that the International Criminal Court’s investigation of suspected...

Nora Barrows-Friedman The Electronic Intifada  /  March 19, 2021 Students and speakers at the 2018 National Students for Justice in Palestine conference faced litigation, smear campaigns and federal complaints. (National SJP) In a major victory for privacy and free speech on college campuses, a California judge has ruled against demands by an...

Alex Kane Jewish Currents  /  March 18, 2021  In a sign of Israel advocates’ growing anxiety over progressive opposition to Israeli policies, AIPAC’s Director of Strategic Initiatives, Jonathan Kessler, is leaving his job at the flagship Israeli-government-aligned lobby to start a new advocacy group that he hopes will appeal to...