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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNcRX7LvArg&feature=youtu.be   Located in Gaza's coastal town of Beit Lahia, a factory has succeeded in producing protective suits following China's standards. Inspired by the Chinese people's solidarity in COVID-19 fight, Hassan Olwan, owner of the factory, decided to make his own contribution.     Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

  https://www.btselem.org/press_release/20200326_israel_confiscates_clinic_tents_during_coronavirus_crisis?fbclid=IwAR3AgOvOmpuAecKwdSDIUoSWKMIkAj42Nk-LfzXYQy3SqMhL8SHZ-uFq3LE   This morning, Thursday, 26 March 2020, at around 7:30 am, officials from Israel's Civil Administration in the West Bank arrived with a military jeep escort, a bulldozer and two flatbed trucks with cranes at the Palestinian community of Khirbet Ibziq in the northern Jordan Valley. They confiscated poles and sheeting that were meant to form eight tents, two for a field clinic, and four for emergency housing for residents evacuated from their homes, and two as makeshift mosques. The force also confiscated a tin shack in place for more than two years, as well as a power generator and sacks of sand and cement. Four pallets of cinder blocks intended for the tent floors were taken away and four others demolished.   As the whole world battles an unprecedented and paralyzing healthcare crisis, Is

https://therealnews.com/stories/palestine-israel-occupied-segregated-pandemic-covid Israeli Journalist Gideon Levy says that as more and more communities face movement restrictions to slow the spread of the coronavirus, maybe they will get a taste of what Palestinians experience every day living under Israeli military occupation.   But for Palestinians, living under restrictions day to day hasn't made it easier to cope with the new, intensified measures to contain COVID-19. Instead, Palestinians are realizing that the combination of occupation and coronavirus is torturous.   The Gaza Strip's heavily controlled border offered some protection from the virus until recently.  But the first cases of Covid-19 have been diagnosed in the besieged Gaza Strip, and doctors warn of a humanitarian catastrophe in a small dense area lacking in medicine and health facilities… earing that workers traveling between the West Bank and Israel will accelerate the spread of the diseas

https://www.gofundme.com/f/facemasks-for-gaza?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet   [Yasmeen Mjalli of Durham, NC, initiated this project supplying COV-19 equipment for the Gaza Strip]   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://mondoweiss.net/2020/03/netanyahu-forever-as-gantz-abandons-his-opposition/ …It appeared that Gantz was going to remove Netanyahu just a week or so back. But then racism blocked any hope of doing so. Gantz's Blue and White (33 seats) had been dedicated, along with Avigdor Liberman's rightwing party (7 seats) and the remains of the Israeli left (7 seats) and the Palestinian Joint List (15 seats) to make a majority to knock out Netanyahu. The Palestinians would not be part of the resulting government, but then, that's how a Jewish state works… [T]he Joint List is the only address for the left in Israel. And it is rising to a role of leadership in crisis…   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://imemc.org/article/soldiers-abduct-four-palestinians-for-disinfecting-public-facilities-in-jerusalem/ Eyewitnesses said the soldiers abducted the Palestinians in the al-Ghazali Square, in Bab Al-Asbat (Lion's Gate), while they were disinfecting public facilities as a precaution amidst the spread of Coronavirus. They added that the soldiers took the four Palestinians to a Police station in the Hebron Gate area, in Jerusalem's Old City. Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://www.marketscreener.com/news/RELEASE-Khanna-Cohen-Eshoo-Lead-Letter-Urging-Administration-to-Oppose-the-Displacement-of-Palest--30170169/   Today, Reps. Khanna, Eshoo, and Cohen penned a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo with more than 60 Members of Congress urging the Trump administration to take immediate action to oppose the Israeli government's acceleration of home demolitions and displacement of Palestinian communities in the West Bank. Writing to Secretary Pompeo, the letter requests the State Department to examine Israeli compliance with the requirements applied by the Arms Export Control Act in order to ensure that U.S.-supplied equipment is not being used to destroy Palestinian homes. The signers note that the United States 'should work to prevent unlawful home demolitions and the forcible transfer of civilians everywhere in the world and prevent the use of U.S.-origin equipment in this destructi

https://mondoweiss.net/2020/02/muzzlewatch-signs-the-british-weaponization-of-antisemitism-is-coming-to-the-us/   …As of this writing, left labor in England has been decimated through the ginned up, explicitly false claims of antisemitism with no end to the aftershocks from this ...If you've been paying attention, there is a British Labour party "compliance unit for antisemitism" and it's exactly as bad as it sounds. Based on the deeply flawed IHRA definition of antisemitism, this inquisitorial system actually is more akin to a Stalinist purge show trial than the already sufficiently odious McCarthy hearings.  This self-flagellating cleaning of the ranks has resulted in a wholesale purge of Labour members, most recently, 25 people expelled in a single day. …[Abby] Martin was contracted to give a talk in media literacy at Georgia Southern University this February 28th.  When the actual contract was sent to her, she was surprised to see language man

https://www.972mag.com/joint-list-palestinian-citizens-elections/ \ The Joint List may not save this place, but it showed that it is the only real alternative to the racism and incitement of the Israeli right…Arab society is undergoing a process of reconciliation between its Palestinian identity and its Israeli citizenship … But saving and strengthening Palestinian society — and what is left of the Jewish left — is an important and far more feasible goal than bringing down the rule of the right…We cannot ignore the fact that 90 percent of Israel's Palestinian population supported the Joint List. A significant number of Palestinian citizens who previously voted for Jewish-Zionist parties voted for the List this time around. The List's support in Druze villages — which have historically voted for Zionist parties — doubled at the expense of Likud and Yisrael Beitenu. Arab mayors also expressed their total support, while those who choose to boycott Israeli elections

https://mikopeledpodcast.podbean.com/   In our debut episode, Miko Peled speaks with Bassem Tamimi in person from his village of Nabi Salih. Bassem Tamimi is a prominent Palestinian leader from the village of Nabi Saleh and one of the leaders of the popular resistance movement. Many outside of Palestine know him as the father of Ahed Tamimi, who was famously incarcerated by Israel after she slapped an IDF soldier. Miko and Bassem sat down after a community meeting to discuss the current state of Palestinian resistance and what a just future must contain for Palestinians.    Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member