Report: Palestinian GDP declines 12% in 2020
Middle East Monitor / December 21, 2020
Palestinian Gross Domestic Product (GDP) declined by 12 per cent in 2020 compared to 2019 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
In a joint statement, the Palestinian Monetary Authority and the Palestinian Bureau of Statistics said that most economic activities shrunk this...
Ghannouchi says Morocco’s normalisation with Israel violates Arab consensus
Middle East Monitor / December 21, 2020
The Speaker of the Parliament in Tunisia, and the head of Ennahda Movement, has pointed out that the normalisation agreement between Morocco and Israel is a violation of the Arab consensus. He insisted that Tunisia will not join the normalisation frenzy.
"Regarding...
Palestinians left waiting as Israel set to deploy COVID vaccine
Al-Jazeera / December 17, 2020
Israel reached an agreement with Pfizer to supply eight million doses of its vaccine – enough to cover nearly half its population.
Israel will begin rolling out a major coronavirus vaccination campaign next week after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached out personally to the...
UN experts alarmed by sixth Palestinian child killing by Israeli forces in 2020, call...
UN Human Rights – Office of the High Commissioner / December 17, 2020
GENEVA – UN human rights experts today called for an impartial and independent investigation into the killing of a 15-year-old boy by Israeli security forces at a West Bank protest this month, saying they were...
Former general who called for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians picked to head Israel’s...
Jonathan Cook
Mondoweiss / December 18, 2020
Benjamin Netanyahu's choice of Effi Eitam to lead Yad Vashem is another sign of how racist hyper-nationalism is the mainstream of Israeli politics.
For nearly 70 years Yad Vashem, the world-renowned Holocaust museum established in Jerusalem, has bolstered Israel’s claim to act as...
Panel on racism seeks to dispel notion that anti-Zionism is antisemitism
Mairav Zonszein
+972 Magazine / December 18, 2020
A discussion hosted by Jewish Voice for Peace attempts to link the fight against antisemitism with the greater struggle against all forms of oppression.
Jewish Voice for Peace held a panel Tuesday night entitled “Dismantling Antisemitism, Winning Justice,” featuring Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, scholar...
