During their time in The White House the Trump administration helped negotiate a number of arms deals between Israel and other authoritarian governments, while cutting the Palestinians out of the process completely. This is sometimes hilariously referred to as a “peace plan”, but people usually roll with something less Orwellian and call it “The Abraham Accords.”
Reactionary Arab regimes are normalizing with apartheid Israel as international civil society, intellectuals, and artists honor the Palestinian call for BDS.
A Canadian-based company with an advisory board headed by a former Canadian PM and full of former spies is marketing Israeli surveillance technology to dictatorial Arab regimes.
While there is wide support for the political demands of the BDS movement throughout Palestine, the possibility of a boycott of Israeli goods is still debated. Here, Amal Nazzal refutes five of the arguments against boycott.
Delegations to Palestine have always been be a way to witness the ways Palestinians suffer under Zionism, but some trips disguised as “progressive” awareness-raising opportunities only normalize apartheid.
A message from Palestinians in Jerusalem to our Jewish neighbors: We don’t need your cake, we need our rights.
It’s clear that the Biden administration isn’t going to roll back a lot of Trump era policies in Israel/Palestine.
A bipartisan group of Senators introduced a bill last week to advance the normalization of ties between Israel and Arab governments. The bill builds on the Trump administration’s cynical business deals with Arab governments to further their interests at the expense of the Palestinian people. It is highly doubtful the Biden administration will oppose it.