Archive

March 2021

Browsing
BDS protest in France (Photo: BDSFrance.org/Wikimedia Commons)

The immediate and urgent task is to move international solidarity for Palestine beyond the grassroots and implement the S section of the BDS call — sanctions against apartheid Israel until it complies with international law.

This week will mark the one year anniversary since the first cases of the coronavirus were reported in Palestine, and a state of emergency was declared in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, where Palestine’s COVID-19 outbreak began. One year later Palestine’s COVID-19 nightmare seems to only be getting worse. Cases are surging in the West Bank, causing health officials to declare a third wave of the virus, as many hospitals across the territory reach maximum capacity.

An ICC investigation of Israel’s actions against the Palestinians is an instance of long, long overdue justice, of leveling the playing field to some degree. Why? Because while Israel is by no means the world’s worst malefactor, it is definitely the world’s most lavishly indulged one.

David Halbfinger (Photo: New York Times)

The New York Times just ran an article in which an Israeli documentary filmmaker asserts that “Evangelicals are the only significant power outside Israel that is openly supporting the settlements. No one else does.” This is simply not true, and reporter David Halbfinger was a witness to it in the powers of Trump aides David Friedman and Jared Kushner.

Vegans for BDS, a group of Palestinian and North American vegans and environmentalists, stand in solidarity with the indigenous Palestinian people, recognizing that the Israeli military occupation of Palestine harms the land, people, and animals there every day.

Laith Abu Zeyad

Since September 2019, the Israeli government has banned Laith Abu Zeyad from traveling outside the West Bank based on secret evidence they will not share with him. Due to this ban he was not able to travel with his mother for medical treatment in Jerusalem, or be with her when she passed away. Writing in Mondoweiss, Abu Zeyad reflects on having this ban and secret evidence indefinitely hanging over him – a prisoner in his own land, he dreams of freedom.