Jerry’s announcement generated among lawmakers in Israel and the United States. This week pro-Israel organizations really upped the ante.
Ben & Jerry’s announced it will stop selling ice cream in Israel’s illegal West Bank settlements and The Only Democracy in the Middle East™ (and a number of its supporters) responded by going ballistic.
As “more and more cases of the infectious Delta variant” are confirmed, the World Health Organization said Thursday it “fears that the fourth wave of COVID-19 is around the corner” for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, reversing the first major decrease in new cases that had occurred over the spring.
A recent poll confirms the trend that more and more American Jews are shifting their attitudes towards Israel.
While we are continuing to see the overall number of new coronavirus cases decline in the West Bank, the highly contagious delta variant is spreading throughout the Palestinian territory, causing health officials to pull the alarm and enact a four-day closure over the entire city of Jenin.
Texas becomes the first state to fully utilize the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism.
The delta variant has reached the West Bank. While previous mutations of the coronavirus have caused waves of concern, none have been this contagious or dangerous in terms of delaying national reopening plans.
More details have emerged on how a deal over vaccines broke down between the Palestinian Authority and Israel, and what Palestinians want from a new deal.