A new wave of opposition to goods produced in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is gaining momentum across Europe, marking a shift from years of efforts focused primarily on labeling such products rather than banning them outright.

At the age of 100, Walid Khalidi, the Palestinian historian from occupied Jerusalem, died on March 8, 2026, after a long intellectual journey that helped rebuild Palestinian memory on rigorous academic foundations and challenged dominant Zionist narratives of the 1948 Nakba.

As Netanyahu moves to ban the United Arab List (Ra’am), which traces its roots to the southern branch of the Islamic Movement in 1948 Occupied Palestine, party leader Mansour Abbas has announced a split from the Islamic Movement.

Over two years of relentless Israeli bombardment and mass killings in Gaza, only a handful of protests and small vigils have been held by ’48 Palestinians, mostly emerging in the later stages of the aggression.

Hikmat al-Hijri, the head of the Druze religious authority in Syria’s Sweida province, has begun openly expressing his intention to isolate the region and keep any emerging entity beyond the control of the central government.