In Gaza, suicides are a political message
- Amira Hass عميرة هاس עמירה הס
Violent, unnatural, premature death is unrelenting in the densely populated Strip. There are more than enough reasons
Are four suicides in one week in the Gaza Strip – bringing the total to 12 since the beginning of the year – a coincidence ...
Palestinians are building a village on their land. Armed settlers from an illegal outpost are sabotaging them
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
The view from the hilltop is spectacular. A valley in bloom, groves and verdant fields with a few buildings scattered among them, a chicken coop and a pigpen – all encompassed by what is otherwise arid, blanched earth. This is what making the ...
My father’s 13 years as a Palestinian political prisoner: lessons to be drawn
- Shahd Abusalama شهد ابوسلما
Shahd Abusalama recounts her father Ismail's experience in the Israeli prison system and calls for active solidarity with prisoners worldwide
This was the first picture shot of my father Ismael in 1983 in Nafha-Negev after 12 years in Israeli ...
“The two-state solution is a crime against the Palestinian people”: Khaled Barakat
- Samidoun صامدون
As Palestinian community and solidarity organizers launched mobilizations in over 100 cities and towns around the world to confront Israeli annexation plans and resist over 72 years of Zionist colonization in Palestine, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner ...
Yavne: A Jewish case for equality in Israel-Palestine
- Peter Beinart
WHAT MAKES SOMEONE A JEW—not just a Jew in name, but a Jew in good standing—today? In Haredi circles, being a real Jew means adhering to religious law. In leftist Jewish spaces, it means championing progressive causes. But these environments ...
Distress, humiliation, uncertainty: Israelis, do you now see what drives Palestinian resistance?
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
Slowly but surely the option of violent opposition is surfacing. The combination of economic distress, fear, humiliation, uncertainty and a lack of leadership are bringing voices to the fore in broadcast studios and on social media that have probably ...
Many will take credit, but this is the real reason Netanyahu delayed his annexation plan
- Anshel Pfeffer אנשיל פפר
To avoid his biggest nightmare, the Israeli prime minister has to show some restraint
Benjamin Netanyahu may be a Litvak*, but 17 months ago, facing a deadlocked election, he followed the advice of the Hasidic rabbi in the old story: He brought in a ...
Mahmoud Darwish, the national poet of the Palestinians, and the silencing of women's voices
- Rajaa Natour رجاء ناطور רג'אא נאטור
After the report that Mahmoud Darwish had a daughter out of wedlock, legions of men came out to defend the honor of the national poet, demonstrating to what extent the Palestinian narrative, molded by Darwish, is masculine
Mahmoud Darwish, by Ernest ...
Finkelstein: Israel will pretend that illegal annexation is a compromise
- Aaron Maté
Israeli PM Netanyahu will annex valuable West Bank land while pretending to be making a compromise, Norman Finkelstein says.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has set a date of July 1st to begin Israel’s annexation of major parts of the ...
No, Diaspora Jews won't divorce Israel over annexation
- Anshel Pfeffer אנשיל פפר
It's a pipe-dream to expect that annexation will trigger a wholesale disengagement of Jewish Diaspora communities from an Israel running towards formalizing its undemocratic occupation
Emad Hajjaj
Last Friday, Israel’s ambassador to the United ...
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