Gallup’s latest annual poll of US attitudes on Israel and Palestine shows Israel has a favorable image but there are signs that support for Palestine is beginning to increase. In 2020, the Palestinian Authority had a favorability rating of just 21%. That jumped to 30% this year.
California has become the first state in the country to adopt an ethnic studies curriculum for its high schools, but the history of Palestine has been scrubbed from the educational program following pressure from pro-Israel groups.
There are liberals and those on the right who think it’s okay to fight antisemitism by encouraging Islamophobia and certainly anti-Palestinianism. You don’t fight racism with racism. We need to decolonize our understanding of antisemitism as a matter of urgency. And that means ditching the IHRA definition of antisemitism.
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.
For decades the European Union has adopted a strategy of conflict management in Palestine, which has only served to prolong the status quo.
Canada says it supports the Palestinian right to self-determination, but refuses to recognize any Palestinian state.
With the one year anniversary of the pandemic in Palestine fast approaching, and minuscule numbers of the population getting vaccinated, the COVID-19 situation in Palestine remains bleak, and will likely continue to grow in the coming months.
The International Criminal Court’s decision on Friday confirming its jurisdiction over war crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory has made waves in Israel, Palestine, and abroad in recent days. In a video response released over the weekend, Benjamin Netanyahu called the Israeli crimes in questions “fake war crimes,” and accused the court of specifically targeting Israel.
Rights groups have accused Israel of discriminating against its Palestinian communities by failing to provide accurate information regarding COVID-19 and the vaccine in Arabic.