Canada In 2018, author and political activist
Yves Engler criticized the
New Democratic Party (NDP) for its conduct in respect of the
Palestine Resolution that called for support of efforts to ban "settlement products from Canadian markets, and using other forms of diplomatic and economic pressure to end the [Israeli] occupation." Engler said it "demonstrated the need to directly confront anti-Palestinianism within the party." In 2020, the
University of Toronto allegedly blocked the hiring of Valentina Azarova as director of the International Human Rights Program (IHRP) due to her pro-Palestinian activism. Dania Majid, president of the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association (ACLA), described this as an example that "anti-Palestinian racism is alive and well" in Canada. In 2023, the principal of
Park West School in
Halifax, Nova Scotia, apologized after
Palestinian students were told they couldn't wear the
keffiyeh during the school's culture day. Palestinian and pro-Palestinian activists protested the banning of the keffiyeh as an act of anti-Palestinian racism in front of the Department of Education building in Halifax.
France In May 2021, the French interior minister
Gérald Darmanin requested that the police ban a pro-Palestinian protest in Paris. The Parisian journalist Sihame Assbague described the decision as an expression of "French colonial solidarity with the Israeli occupation forces."
Germany Palestinians in Germany have described a "crackdown and criminalisation" of Palestinians which has included police violence at protests, racial profiling, censorship, and violations of their human rights. In 2019, the
Bundestag declared the
BDS movement to be a form of
antisemitism. In response, the BDS movement condemned the motion as anti-Palestinian. The Palestinian B.D.S. National Committee issued a statement declaring the motion an "anti-Palestinian...McCarthyite and unconstitutional resolution passed by the German Parliament." British musician
Brian Eno has argued that pro-Palestinian artists are subjected to "censorship and inquisitorial
McCarthyism" due to the actions of the German government and anti-Palestinian groups. On 27 April 2023, ahead of the 75th anniversary of
Israel's independence, or for Palestinians the 75th anniversary of the
Nakba, prominent German politician and
president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen referred to Israel as a "vibrant democracy" in the Middle East that "
made the desert bloom" in remarks criticized by the
foreign ministry of the Palestinian Authority as a "
propagandist discourse" propagating an "anti-Palestinian racist trope" and a "
whitewashing" of
Israeli occupation. Germany's relationship with Palestine has been described as "complex". At present, Germany's political class exhibits a "zealous identification with Israel" that is "often explained in terms of the country's past". Alternative readings, however, view this trend as a "qualitatively new phenomenon in Germany largely unrelated to moral considerations pertaining to the Nazi era". Hannah C. Tzuberi argues that German manifestations of "
anti-antisemitism" (which has been described as "a defining marker of post-war German identity") can go beyond the identification of Germans with Jews, sometimes leading to the identification of German
gentiles as Jews, and the identification of Germany as Israel. A 2024 study examined the influence of the 2009 proclamation of a German "
reason of state" () regarding Israel, on the perception of Palestinians. The authors documented a removal of Palestine-related content from educational curricula, a narrowing of the range of opinions, and the criminalization of Palestinian voices. In 2020, scholars and artists began accusing Germany of a "witch hunt" against those who express pro-Palestinian solidarity. The European Legal Support Center (ELSC) has also accused Germany of human rights violations for laws which it says amount to suppression of pro-Palestinian activism, which it says particularly affects Jews and Palestinians. Artists for Palestine says Germany has censured a number of artists for expressing pro-Palestinian sentiment, include
Kamila Shamsie,
Kae Tempest,
Young Fathers,
Talib Kwelli,
Walid Raad and Nirit Sommerfeld. Settler violence also includes acts known as
price tag attacks that are in response to actions by the Israeli government, usually against Palestinian targets and occasionally against Israeli security forces in the West Bank. Palestinian police are forbidden from reacting to acts of violence by Israeli settlers, a fact which diminishes their credibility among Palestinians. Between January and November 2008, 515 criminal suits were opened by Israel against settlers for violence against Arabs or Israeli security forces; 502 of these involved "right wing radicals" while 13 involved "left wing anarchists". In 2008, the senior Israeli commander in the West Bank said that a hard core of a few hundred activists were involved in violence against the Palestinians and Israeli soldiers. Some prominent Jewish religious figures living in the occupied territories, as well as Israeli government officials, have condemned and expressed outrage over such behavior, while religious justifications for settler killings have also been given. Israeli media said the defense establishment began taking a harder line against unruly settlers starting in 2008. In 2012, an EU heads of mission report found that settler violence had more than tripled in the three years up to 2011.
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) figures state that the annual rate of settler attacks (2,100 attacks in 8 years) has almost quadrupled between 2006 and 2014. In 2021, there was yet another wave of settler violence which erupted after a 16-year-old settler died in a car chase with
Israeli police after having hurled rocks at Palestinians. So far it has resulted in 44 incidents in the span of a few weeks, injuring two Palestinian children. In the latter parts of 2021, there has been a marked increase in settler violence toward Palestinians, condemned at the United Nations Security Council. This violence increased further following the election of a far-right government in 2022 which proposed to expand Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories, as well as the
Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023.
Lebanon Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are treated as second-class residents. Palestinians in Lebanon are denied citizenship, restricted from certain jobs, excluded from formal education, and forced to live in refugee camps. Anti-Palestinianism was a common sentiment in a number of Lebanese factions during the
Lebanese Civil War; it was particularly prominent among
Lebanese Christians fighting for the right-wing
Lebanese Front against the
Palestine Liberation Organization and various left-wing factions. Instances attesting this phenomenon include the
Sabra and Shatila massacre, in which the
Lebanese Forces massacred hundreds or thousands of Palestinians (along with
Lebanese Shia Muslims) with support from the
Israel Defense Forces in the city of
Beirut.
United States American public opinion has tended in favor of Israel and against Palestinians for a number of years, although pro-Palestinian sentiment has increased in the United States during the 21st century. In 2021, according to
Gallup, only 25% of Americans sympathized more with Palestinians than with Israelis, with 58% sympathizing with Israel, and only 34% of Americans believed that the United States should place more pressure on Israel in regards to the Israel-Palestine conflict. However, 52% of Americans supported an independent Palestinian state. Democrats were more likely than Republicans to have pro-Palestinian sentiments. In her 1990 essay "Israel: Whose Country Is It Anyway?", the
Jewish-American writer
Andrea Dworkin wrote that American Jews are raised with anti-Palestinian sentiment, which she describes as "a deep and real prejudice against Palestinians that amounts to race-hate." In May 2021, the Tayba Islamic Center in the
Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn was vandalized with anti-Palestinian graffiti reading "Death 2 Palestine". The incident was investigated by the NYPD as a hate crime. Student leaders at the
University of Michigan issued a statement denouncing the anti-Palestinian sentiment they alleged had been allowed to "run rampant" on campus, stating that Palestinian students had been "profoundly marginalized through censorship and threats." In November 2021,
Palestine Legal filed a complaint with Washington, D.C.'s Office for Human Rights against
George Washington University, alleging that the university had discriminated against Palestinians in its offering of trauma services. On 9 November 2023, a former leader of the
University of Connecticut's pro-Palestine campus group, who had graduated in 2022, spoke out about threatening
voicemails she had received, as her number was still publicly listed on the group's website. One particular voicemail she received was from a number in
Oklahoma and contained
racial slurs, called her a terrorist, and said "I can't wait to see you dead". The school's
Muslim Student Association received an email mocking dead Palestinians, and the messages were reported to the
FBI, campus and state police. In the
first presidential debate between
Joe Biden and
Donald Trump in June 2024, the latter reportedly used the word "Palestinian" as a slur. ==Examples==