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Palestinians hold banners during a protest against the decision of the German parliament against the boycott movement BDS outside Germany's Representative Office in Gaza City,on May 23, 2019. Germany's parliament condemned boycotts against as anti-Semitic on May 17, 2019, warning that its actions were reminiscent of the Nazis' campaign against Jews. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour/APA Images)

More than 100 Palestinian and Arab academics challenge the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which they say “has been increasingly instrumentalized by the Israeli government and its supporters in an effort to delegitimize the Palestinian cause and silence defenders of Palestinian rights.”

Palestinian farmers pick olives during a harvest season in the West Bank city of Salfit near the Ariel settlement on October 10, 2018. (Photo: Shadi Jarar’ah/APAImages)

Rada Daniell reports from an IWPS trip to Palestine during the last olive harvest, “Every year there is another line of catalog-style settlement buildings spilled over the hills, another patch of land cleared out.” International volunteers help Palestinians under occupation harvest olives, then go home to break a de facto information embargo on the reality in Palestine.