BBC World Service, The Palestinian tapes, part 1 "Mo’min Swaitat unearthed a vast trove of forgotten Palestinian music. Not only did it hold long-lost recordings of his own Bedouin family, but also a mysterious yellow cassette of protest songs set to an electro-disco beat. Mo’min became ...
"Genetic ancestry tests such as 23andMe attempt to place individuals into neatly-defined country groups. But people from Palestine are finding their heritage erased."
Important comments on the impact of social media, from Husam Zomlot:
The decades long dominant narrative framed & fed by Israel is being challenged, thanks to Palestinian & world youth who bypassed the wall of mainstream media via social media & alternative platforms. ...
Social media responses to the Palestine situation which have caught my attention are posted below. You can also find related posts on my Twitter feed @garybunt] which is elsewhere on this page. Any sensible suggestions within the parameters of this blog are welcomed:
Scroll down for the latest news; the focus is on social media and internet related issues within this catastrophic sequence of events associated with al-Aqsa, Sheikh Jarrah, Palestine and Gaza. I am re-purposing tweets and other content, in an attempt to develop a time line. Please be patient as the page loads - there's (unfortunately) a lot of content:
"Images of Israel and Gaza are now legal to distribute. But Google is still running outdated images on Maps, potentially hindering open source conflict researchers."
"Israel’s bombing of Gaza has killed 213 people and Hamas rockets into Israel have killed 13. The latest violence between Israel and Palestine came after weeks of police aggression towards Palestinians in East Jerusalem. We embed with protesters in Sheikh ...
"A Palestinian DJ is facing a court hearing in the coming weeks, after being accused of breaking rules around performing near a holy shrine in the West Bank last year."
"Israel has the highest rate of Covid-19 vaccination per person in the world while the Palestinian territories have barely started to roll out vaccines."