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Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, at the White House, on January 21, 2021. (Photo by Mandel Ngan, AFP via Getty Images)

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s denunciation of disparities in medical access in the U.S. will sound hollow if he accepts the Dan David Prize from Israel, a country that is denying people under its illegal military occupation access to life-saving vaccines while bribing allies with the extra doses.

Anthony Fauci has been awarded a $1 million Israeli prize to be given in May. Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council doubts he would have been an apologist for South African apartheid. “We urge you to decline the prize and to respect the call for a cultural boycott of Israeli institutions. This call was issued by Palestinians who are most affected by Israeli policy.”

Workers unload boxes of the Russian-made COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, donated from the United Arab Emirates at the Rafah crossing with Egypt on February 21, 2021. (Photo: Ashraf Amra/APA Images)

Palestinians will kick off their national vaccination campaign Sunday, offering long-awaited jabs to the general public for the first time following the arrival of does from the GAVI Alliance and COVAX, a vaccine-sharing program. Allison Deger unpacks the supply chain that brings the essential vaccines across the globe, and through Israeli checkpoints, into the arms of Palestinians.