Can Israel Stop the World from Saying ‘Apartheid’? Concealing the Suffering in Palestine

by Vijay Prashad, Globetrotter, February 2, 2022 On January 27, 2022, the Hebrew-language news site Walla published part of the text from a telegram sent by Amir Weissbrod—who is part of the Israeli Foreign Ministry—to Israeli embassies around the world. The telegram warned the Israeli diplomats that in the upcoming 49th regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council […]

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Once Again This Year, the UN General Assembly Repeatedly Voted Overwhelmingly to Criticize Israel. Why?

by Peter Larson, published on Mondoweiss, December 31, 2021 Again in 2021, the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly passed 14 resolutions aimed at criticizing Israel (and supporting the Palestinians). On every resolution, only a handful of countries (among them the USA, Canada and a sprinkle of small Pacific island nations) stood with Israel. Some others abstained. The assembly debates the […]

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People of Sheikh Jarrah confront Israeli settlers

published on Al Mayadeen English, Decmber 8, 2021 Israeli settlers stormed Wednesday the Sheik Jarrah neighborhood and assaulted its residents amid an IOF-imposed lockdown on the neighborhood, Al Mayadeen correspondent reported. The lockdown came to provide protection for the Israeli settlers, who carried out a provocative march in light of Wednesday’s alleged stabbing operation in occupied al-Quds. The residents of Sheikh Jarrah […]

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“We Don’t Want to Die of Thirst, But we Don’t Want to Betray: Normalization is a Big Betrayal.”

by Rima Najjar, published on Countercurrents, November 28, 2021 Yesterday, I participated in demonstrations in downtown Amman against the latest step taken by the Jordanian government to normalize relations with Israel through yet another U.S.-brokered deal, this one ostensibly as a response to climate change. The deal is for Jordan to receive 200 million cubic meters (7.06 billion cubic feet) […]

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After a ‘second Nakba,’ Palestinians return to Syria’s Yarmouk

by Wyatt Miller & Kobi Guillory, published on Fightback News, May 30, 2021 Damascus, Syria – Enormous piles of rubble and trash line the streets of the Yarmouk refugee camp in south-central Damascus in late May, 2021. Most structures bear reminders of the war: bullet holes, sandbags, the fading graffiti of various factions. Some buildings have collapsed entirely. Stray cats […]

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The Tree of Return Campaign

Al-Nakba 73rd Memorial Anniversary Plant A Tree of Return Campaign April 30, 2021 Dear Friends, In commemoration of the 73rd  anniversary of the ethnic cleansing “Al- Nakbah”, where more than 700,000 Palestinians were displaced and forced out of their homes and lands to become refugees in surrounding countries in addition to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Shaikh Hasan Foundation […]

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An Unlikely Dramatic Hero, Poet Taha Muhammad Ali

by Jonathan Cook, published on Mondoweiss, March 14, 2017 Taha Muhammad Ali is an unlikely dramatic hero. His arms shake with age and infirmity, his legs occasionally buckle, and he often appears lost on stage, as if adrift in a vast expanse of sadness. But for an hour the story of this Palestinian poet has a vice-like hold on our […]

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نحو اعادة المعنى للمسألة الفلسطينية

2021/3/4 جميل هلال مهمة هذا المقال توضيح أن اللغة السياسية الفلسطينية الدارجة راهنا بين القوى السياسية الفلسطينية تفتقد إلى فهم موحد للمسألة الفلسطينية (وبالتالي للقضية الوطنية الفلسطينية). بل يمكن رصد مفهومين أساسين (وهنا مفهوم ثالث سأتطرق له بإيجاز). وتتمثل مهمة هذا المقال في كشف الفرضيات التي يستند عليها كل من المفهومين، وتداعياتها على مواقف القوى السياسية والفكرية وفي تحديد مركبات […]

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What’s behind Zionist Cancel Culture? Turning ‘Racism’ Upside Down

December 15, 2020 Tim Anderson In recent times western left-liberalism has been criticised for its ‘cancel culture’, because of an obsession with language and individual identity politics. Yet reactionary cancel culture has been around much longer, with its McCarthyist purges. To this reactionary camp we should add ‘zionist cancel culture’ (ZCC), where those critical of the Israeli colony in Palestine […]

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On its 27th Anniversary: Defeat Oslo, Confront Normalization, Escalate the Boycott

From Samidoun 27 Years of Oslo Devastation For 27 years, the devastation wrought by Oslo has included the dismemberment of the Palestinian national liberation movement, its unions and its institutions; the degradation of Palestinian refugees in the camps and in diaspora and exile and repeated attempts to confiscate their voice and decision; the creation of a Palestinian Authority subjected to […]

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