![Activists lift banners and placards during a demonstration against Israeli settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian Territories, in Jerusalem's Palestinian Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, on March 19, 2021 [Ahmad Gharabli/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/000_96C9NU.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The grassroots campaign united Palestinians in resistance and turned the world’s attention to Israel’s occupation.
![Palestinian protesters react as Israeli police fire skunk water during protests against the forced eviction of Palestinians from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem on May 5, 2021 [Reuters/Ammar Awad]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2021-05-05T195232Z_1933002559_RC2V9N9DBZEG_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-JERUSALEM-SHEIKH-JARRAH.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Israeli forces are using a ‘crowd control’ weapon with which they collectively punish Palestinians for protesting.
![According to a decree issued by President Mahmoud Abbas’s office, the Palestinian Authority (PA) will hold legislative elections on May 22 and a presidential vote on July 31. [Shannon Stapleton/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a82cef4bd4a440828e238b554c1ba478_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
There is much reason to believe the Palestinian elections scheduled for later this year will neither be free nor fair.
![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, left, are injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine live on TV at the Sheba Medical Center, the country's largest hospital, in Ramat Gan near the coastal city of Tel Aviv, on December 19, 2020 [Jack Guez/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/000_8XG6LW.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Israel is refusing to provide the vaccine to the millions of Palestinians it is forcefully ruling over.
![Palestinian demonstrators gather on a hilltop during a protest against Israeli settlements in the town of Beita in the occupied West Bank on March 2, 2020 [File: Reuteres/Mohamad Torokman]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/68a60fe1bc074fd08e14a3f43d1fd16a_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The international community and its weak condemnations will not help Palestinians. It is time for a new strategy.
![A Palestinians protest illegal Israeli settlements near the town of Beita in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on March 11, 2020 [Reuters/Mohamad Torokman]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/81cfad98fc074a9493fdfb62e6808291_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Israel is taking advantage of the COVID-19 crisis to take more Palestinian land, but the Palestinians will resist.
![The latest addition to the list of TV shows supporting Israel in its propaganda war against the Palestinians is Netflix's The Messiah, writes Hawari [Screen grab/Netflix]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/8c5021352d7c48dea051217ff3fadf7b_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Netflix’s The Messiah is the latest popular TV show supporting Israel in its propaganda war against the Palestinians.
![Israeli security forces pass by a shop selling decorations for the upcoming holy month of Ramadan as they patrol an alley in Jerusalem's Old City on July 8, 2013 [File: Reuters/Ammar Awad]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/44e157bac3044cb78b0ab162bda8da42_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Whatever the Bahrain workshop proposes is doomed to failure. Here is why.
![The UK's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn arrives to speak outside University of London, in London, UK December 3, 2019 [Lisi Niesner/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/9332d82283384b7d8f3420e4aa6be91e_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
It is high time for Britain to be held accountable for its colonial crimes in Palestine, and Corbyn can do just that.
![US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers a statement on the Trump administration's position on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, November 18, 2019 [Yara Nardi/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/1da4700fba8a4b20919e1274511f172f_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Palestinians were not shocked by the reversal of US policy on Israeli settlements and they know worse is yet to come.