‘Finished with the bluffing’: Jewish National Fund goes public with its aid to settlers
Jonathan Cook
jonathan-cook.net / March 17, 2021
For decades, Jews around the world have cherished the Jewish National Fund’s supposedly “charitable” work buying and managing land in Israel. Generations of Jewish children have been encouraged to drop pennies into its iconic blue collection boxes.
The Fund is held in similar high...
Courting Israel with silence and impunity
Ramona Wadi
Middle East Monitor / March 18, 2021
Last year, the Palestinian Authority attempted, in the wrong way as usual, to get the international community to act upon Israel's colonial expansion by stating that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was availing himself of the last months of the...
The glass ceiling has been broken by the election of two women to the...
Adnan Abu Amer
Middle East Monitor / March 17, 2021
The results of the recent elections within Hamas in the Gaza Strip are significant because, for the first time since it was founded in 1987, two women have joined the movement's political bureau. This development has captured the attention...
Shin Bet accuses B’Tselem researcher of threatening Israeli army
Middle East Monitor / March 17, 2021
A field researcher for Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has been interrogated and warned by the Shin Bet internal security service that he is "making trouble and threatening the army". According to Haaretz, Nasser Nawaj'ah was detained at a military checkpoint...
Palestinian elections: The resurrection of Salam Fayyad
Joseph Massad
Middle East Eye / March 18, 2021
The former prime minister's candidacy highlights a power contest involving Israel, the West, and competing PA and Fatah figures.
Much jockeying for position is unfolding within the leadership of the Fatah movement in preparation for May’s planned Palestinian Authority (PA) elections. This...
Covid-19: West Bank hospitals inundated while Israel tosses surplus vaccines
Akram al-Waara
Middle East Eye / March 18, 2021
Palestinians describe scenes in hospitals reminiscent of 'war zones', calling out both Israel and the Palestinian Authority for inaction in the occupied territory.
When Issa Saafi rushed his ill...
The National obtains US official document for Palestinian ‘reset’
Joyce Karam
The National / March 17, 2021
Four-page US memo details Biden administration's approach to relations with the Palestinian Authority and jump-starting the peace process.
The US administration is looking to 'reset' relations with the Palestinians with...
UK Green MP stops motion against bogus anti-Semitism definition
Asa Winstanley
The Electronic Intifada / March 17, 2021
Video of this month’s Green conference shows MP Caroline Lucas calling for the party’s standing orders to be suspended, rather than voting on a motion against the flawed IHRA definition of anti-Semitism.
UK Member of Parliament Caroline Lucas intervened at a biannual conference to stop her...
Fees force Gaza students to leave college
Ola Mousa
The Electronic Intifada / March 16, 2021
Bahaa Naji felt that he had no choice but to leave college.
Until recently, his family ran a small restaurant in al-Shujaiyeh, a neighbourhood of Gaza City. Yet it has gone out of business amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Unable to pay tuition fees, Naji...
The political implications of the Israel-Pfizer vaccine deal
Ramona Wadi
Middle East Monitor / March 16, 2021
Israel's successful vaccination campaign and its subsequent positive spell in the international spotlight is a result of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's politicisation of medical matters in the run-up to this month's General Election. The January deal between Israel and Pfizer allowed...
