Accepting an Israeli award for contributions to public health amid Israel’s vaccine apartheid is immoral.
![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets the 4,000,000th person who had been vaccinated in Israel on February 16, 2021 [Alex Kolomoisky/Pool via Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021-02-16T153927Z_1270693272_RC2RTL9UKC9J_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-ISRAEL.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Accepting an Israeli award for contributions to public health amid Israel’s vaccine apartheid is immoral.
![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets the 4,000,000th person who had been vaccinated in Israel on February 16, 2021 [Alex Kolomoisky/Pool via Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021-02-16T153927Z_1270693272_RC2RTL9UKC9J_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-ISRAEL.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Palestinians may be encouraged to tell their ‘human story’ but they are seldom allowed to express their political views.
![Without Palestinian voices, the media will continue to willfully ignore the fact that the war on the Palestinians of Gaza actually began in 1947-48, writes Sabawi. [EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/2014818115544515580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Academic freedom is in jeopardy after an Israeli law firm threatens two professors with legal action.
!["Defending the rights of academics to express their views on controversial issues is a basic tenant of democracy", writes Samah Sabawi [EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/2013107125515973734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The “land swaps” rhetoric is designed to protect the large Israeli settlement blocks and their buffer zones.

Israel controls the Palestinian population registry and all important cards required to enter Gaza and the West Bank.
![The system of ID cards is used as a weapon to further cement the fragmentation of the Palestinian population as it confines the Palestinians to their geographic Israeli-controlled Bantustans [EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/20121021115925724734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)