Israel’s Education Minister announced a ban this week on human rights groups from entering Israeli public schools, a move seen by many as a response to a bombshell report from B’Tselem calling Israel an “apartheid state”. But it didn’t stop the organization from speaking to 12th grade students at the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa this past Sunday. “The Israeli government will have to contend with us until the apartheid regime ends,” B’Tselem director Hagai El-Ad tweeted.

New York Times obit for an Israeli spy, Isaac Shoshan, is a list of grievous acts of violence for Israel, mythologized, typically, by Israeli reporter Ronen Bergman. There is absolutely no discussion of Why Shoshan’s targets would be upset with Israel. And Bergman insists that Shoshan was not an Arab but pretended to be one, when he was from Syria and spoke Arabic, which means he was Arab.

Last week, Israel’s leading human rights group, B’Tselem, declared for the first time that Israel is an apartheid regime, a move that sent shock waves around the globe. But so far neither the New York Times or Washington Post have reported on it.

Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq is calling on the Pfizer pharmaceutical company to ensure that its COVID-19 vaccine is being used and distributed without discrimination, expressing concerns that Israel is using the company’s vaccine “to further entrench” injustices against Palestinians living under occupation.

Margaret Olin and David Shulman remember Ezra Nawi who died on January 9 at the age of 69. “During the eighteen years I knew him, he was usually under arrest, or on the verge of being arrested, or just released from jail,” Shulman writes. “Unknowingly, he embodied the Gandhian principle, or rather its negation: the best way to maintain an unjust system, Gandhi said, is to obey its laws.”

B’Tselem’s finding that Israel is an apartheid regime and Israel’s banning of the film “Jenin Jenin” sends Dr. Hatim Kanaaneh back to his wrenching visit to the scene of the Jenin massacre a month afterward in 2002.

In 1991, Israel was forced to provide gas masks to Palestinians during the Gulf War. Some are saying this is a precedent for distributing COVID-19 vaccines today.

Israel’s self-perception as forever-threatened is an unshakable psychological constant justifying attack on perceived enemies, Emad Moussa explains. Fear, anger, and vengeance are directed at what Israelis see as a Nazi replacement, anyone who presents a threat to the state of Israel. Iran replaced Iraq as Iraq replaced Egypt, and Palestinians – always.

Norman Finkelstein responds to B’Tselem’s designation of Israel as an “apartheid regime” saying that the aspect of Israeli rule that most manifests its Jewish supremacist character is the worthlessness it attaches to Palestinian life. And this is the most effective label– insisting on characterizing Israel as a Jewish supremacist state.

The extended family of Asmaa Tayeh, operations manager for We Are Not Numbers, is increasingly typical of residents there. Twenty-five members of the clan have tested positive for the virus, 15 have fallen ill and three have died.