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The pandemic has been and continues to be hard on people worldwide. It’s caused many deaths, some countries hit harder than others. It’s led to the collapse of economies, the loss of jobs.
Peoples’ normal social lives are disrupted. In so many countries people are told to stay home because of the pandemic.
Everywhere, governments and the public are totally absorbed in their own situation, and especially the US, with their own political problems.
Israel has taken advantage of this and gone on a demolition spree. More Palestinians were made homeless in 2020 than in any other year, with the exception of 2016, since the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA, began keeping records in 2009.
Winson Wong
SCMP
Nuseir Yassin, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, has come under fire in recent years for his popular Facebook page Nas Daily.
Critics accuse him of whitewashing Israel’s crimes by falsely equating a colonial occupier with its victims and playing native informant while “reifying Zionism’s most toxic fantasies,” as Palestinian American commentator Steven Salaita has put it.
Not least, Yassin opposes BDS – the global boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign – led by Palestinians to help their struggle for liberation.
Yassin and his Israeli American partner recently moved to the United Arab Emirates where they are working to boost the country’s image after its normalization deal with Israel.