Month: October 2020

The Lancet took down a letter noting that “poverty, military occupation, discrimination and institutionalized oppression” turned the Covid-19 outbreak in Gaza into “a preventable biosocial injustice rooted in decades of Israeli oppression” three days after publication: The Lancet Censors Gaza Health Letter After Pro-Israel Pressure (Electronic Intifada) A survey of articles published about Palestinians in…

“While some conservatives warn that a “soft-totalitarianism” of progressive intolerance is growing in the U.S., when it comes to Israel-Palestine, full-blown authoritarian coercion, like the blacklisting carried out by Canary Mission, is already well entrenched”: The Real Cancel Culture: Pro-Israel Blacklists (The Intercept) “Twenty scholars—including eight women” bring “collective analytical sensibility combined with academic rigour”…

Israeli murdered an unarmed autistic man and made 442 people homeless during the pandemic, demolishing “389 … homes and other structures in the West Bank, the majority for lacking building permits that Israeli authorities make virtually impossible to obtain”: Israel’s Systematic Repression of Palestinians Continues During Pandemic (Human Rights Watch) Over one “thousand academics and…