Israeli and Palestinian economies battered by war


by BBC News

BBC News— Six months of conflict have also taken a heavy economic toll.

The Nation—The Bipartisan War on Pro-Palestinian Activism. Chris Lehmann A House bill asks the Treasury to revoke the nonprofit status of suspected “terrorist supporting organizations.” Advocates are already singling out Muslim and Palestinian groups.

Stanford Daily—Palestinian and Israeli leaders call for respectful dialogue. Former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad, and Tel Aviv University Professor Alon Tal engaged in a productive dialogue on the Israel-Gaza war during a Democracy and Disagreement lecture. Both speakers advised student activists to engage in respectful and intentional debate.

Al-Monitor—The Israelis helping Palestinians hit by settler attacks. In a desert region of the occupied West Bank, Israeli activist Eyal Shani has fitted a tiny camera on his T-shirt to collect evidence of settler violence against Palestinian sheep farmers.Campaigners like Shani have been trying to protect Palestinians from Jewish settlers in the rugged Masafer Yatta area south of Hebron, in the southern West Bank, but they say it has become increasingly difficult with attacks soaring following the outbreak of war in Gaza.