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The new coronavirus has reached Gaza, and it is terrifying to imagine the potential outcome of a mass spread of COVID-19 in the besieged Strip. This is true not only because of how deadly the virus can be in the absence of a vaccine, but also because of the specific conditions in Gaza.

To the British public.
The fact which is often ignored in the debate about anti-Semitism in the UK is that many Jews in the UK and throughout Europe oppose the policies of Israel, and strongly reject the claims of that state to represent them.

The following speech was given by Michèle Sibony at the manifestation contre l’islamophobie (Demonstration against Islamophobia) in Paris, 10 November 2019.

By Orly Noy. Published on Middle East Eye website, on April 3, 2019.

A vote for Balad would allow us to be partners for change in the deepest possible sense.

Electioneering in Israel has entered the home stretch, with party propaganda – and public discourse in general – degenerating into a mixture of slogans, mudslinging and distortions, even more glaring than usual.

Amid this turmoil, Jews of conscience are trying to decide how to cast their vote. For those who do not identify as Zionist, the main possibilities are the two Arab parties into which the Joint Arab List has split: Hadash-Taal and Raam-Balad.

By Gideon Levy and Alex Levac. Published in Haaretz on August 30, 2019.

Settlers have taken over dozens of springs in the West Bank, all of them on private Palestinian land, and are keeping the owners away. Rina Shnerb, a Jewish teen, was murdered last week at one of them.

Much like white South Africans, Jewish Israelis will never voluntarily give up their privileged position as settlers

By Asa Winstanley

July 26, 2019

By Union of Agricultural Work Committees. Palestine 11/06/2019.

Since the beginning of the year, settler attacks on Palestinians and their property, particularly farmers, have been on the rise. While Palestinians were preparing for Eid al-Fitr holiday on the fifth of June, a group of settlers disrupted their celebrations by burning down 300 dunums of agricultural land in the village of Jalud, south of the city of Nablus, destroying 1000 olive trees that are 65 years old!

1 03 2019

Original published in the French daily newspaper Libération, 28 February 2019

https://www.liberation.fr/debats/2019/02/28/l-antisionisme-est-une-opinion-pas-un-crime_1712216

28 February 2019

For the 400 signatories of this text, anti-Zionism is a legitimate opinion in opposition to Israel’s colonising logic. The fact that it may serve as an alibi for anti-semites does not justify it being banned.

February 19, 2019
By National Coordination of the UJFP

We are Jews, heirs of a long time when the great majority of Jews believed that their emancipation as an oppressed minority passed through the emancipation of all humanity.

We are anti-Zionists because we reject the separation of the Jews from the rest of humanity.

A warning from farmers association from Khuza’a and Abasan

Rural Association For Agricultural Development (RAAD) and French Jewish Union for Peace (UJFP)

Stubbornness of Gazan farmers, keeping with cultivating their fields, should it be under bullets, is one of the vivid form of Palestinian resistance. French solidarity movement understands it clearly, as shown by the success of the two water-tower campaigns coordinated by UJFP, meant to allow watering Khuza’a and Abasan fields located nearby the separation fence.

– POSTED ON 17 MAI 2018

Over 60 Palestinians were killed, including seven children and around 2000 demonstrators were injured on Monday, May 14th, as Israeli snipers fired live ammunition at protesters commemorating the 70th anniversary this week of the Nakba and protesting against the opening of the US embassy in East Jerusalem.