Local Palestinian community members and anti-racist allies are calling for a mobilization on Saturday, November 5th to shut down the Jewish National Fund’s 2022 national conference in Boston.

Welcome to the first in our new series, the West Bank Dispatch. This newsletter will cover the main developments you need to know about Palestinian resistance to Israeli settler-colonialism in the occupied West Bank. Each week we’ll bring you key developments, analysis from our Palestine news team, and insight into what Palestinians living under Israeli apartheid in the West Bank are reading and talking about.

Apartheid is not on the ballot in Israel, only which party will become the standard-bearer.

The Israeli political system is set up to perpetuate apartheid, not end it. The results of this week’s election won’t change this.

For Palestinian farmers, protecting the land is more important than cultivating it when it is always under threat of colonial confiscation.

I met Yair Lapid when I was an adolescent Zionist. I now recognize that Zionism has only served to uphold the basic tenets of antisemitism — that Jews do not belong in the world.

Widely regarded as the most blessed time of the year, Palestinian families in Gaza wait all year for the olive harvest season.

It is not Palestinians who seem most concerned about a major right-wing victory in Israeli elections next week, it is Israel’s liberal supporters in the United States. 

This week Israeli President Isaac Herzog was welcomed to The White House. The meeting with Biden comes just a week before Israelis head to the polls and less than a two weeks before the U.S. midterms.

A controversy at the University of Washington over donor efforts to stifle scholarly work critical of Israel raises serious questions about the role of money and academia.