![In this December 3, 2020 file photo, Israeli border police officers and Palestinians clash during a protest against the expansion of Israeli Jewish settlements near the West Bank town of Salfit [File: Majdi Mohammed/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AP21116629118547.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Now, the international community needs to take action to end this decades-old system of oppression.
![Former President Donald Trump stands at Mount Rushmore National Memorial, near Keystone, South Dakota on July 3, 2020 [File: AP Photo/Alex Brandon]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/AP_21021784953522.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
The Biden administration needs to go beyond cancelling Trump’s commission to protect critical history education.
![Media declared Chagnon's description of the Yanomamo as living "in a state of chronic warfare" as being perhaps the "most contested" phrase "in the history of anthropology" [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/2013357302372580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Chagnon’s writings on the Yanomamo make broad and lurid claims that are dangerous misrepresentations.
!["The findings of various commissions circulate in the media for a while and the Israeli occupation goes on while more settlements are built," says Allen [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/20121129175242836734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
No missions and commissions that have reviewed and reported on conditions in Palestine have had any salutary effect.
Most Palestinians wonder what would actually change ‘on the ground’ if the UN grants Palestine statehood.