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Israel has been hailed as having the world’s most vaccinated
population, but Palestinians are not included. Human Rights Watch
and others have called on Israeli authorities to provide COVID-19
vaccines to the more than 4.5 million Palestinians in the occupied
West Bank and Gaza Strip. “Israel is a racist state,” responds Congressmember Rashida Talib of Michigan, who is Palestinian
American and one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress and
says her Palestinian grandmother was denied access to a vaccine. “I
hope my colleagues, I hope our country, sees what the Palestinians
have been trying to tell us for a very long time. … You can see it
with the distribution of the vaccine.”

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It is so critically important that we call it out. Our country
continues to enable that country and enable Netanyahu, who continues
to spew anti-Arab rhetoric that allows violence towards Palestinians
to continue in a way that is so inhumane and doesn’t follow
international human rights. And so, I think it’s very important. If
anything, I hope my colleagues, I hope our country, sees what the
Palestinians have been trying to tell us for a very long time, that
Israel has no intention of ever being caring or allow equality or
freedom for them as their neighbors.

And you can see it with the distribution of vaccine. You also saw it
with the testing and tracing. My family told me they didn’t have
access to testing. They would get some side effects, and they would
use the small little house that they had and quarantine the family
member. They had no access at all for any preventive measures, any
medication. And again, that continues on. And we allow, again,
enabling Israel to continue to do that. They have the power to
distribute that vaccine to the Palestinian people, their own
neighbors, again, feet away from where they live, many of which,
again, could expose them and their family. And it doesn’t — if
anything, it just reiterates what the Palestinian people and even
human rights groups have been telling us, is that this is an
apartheid state.

https://www.democracynow.org/2021/1/19/rashida_tlaib_palestine_covid _19_pandemic

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