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Palestine. The overcoming of state nationalism
20 April 2022, by Roger Heacock

In a critical and committed book, several researchers, most of them Palestinians, question the desire to create a state, which has been at the heart of Palestinian political strategy for a century. By questioning this state nationalism and the renunciations it has provoked, they open up new (...)
Is This Israel’s South Africa Moment?
17 February 2022, by Omar Barghouti, Stephanie Fox

As Amnesty International issues a landmark report on Israeli apartheid, it’s time for Americans to demand accountability, not complicity, from their government.
Muna El-Kurd and Mohammed El-Kurd
17 September 2021, by Sanya Mansoor

Through online posts and media appearances, sibling activists [Mohammed and Muna El-Kurd->https://time.com/6050422/pro-palestinian-support provided the world with a window into living under occupation in East Jerusalem this spring—helping to prompt an international shift in rhetoric in regard (...)
Hamas breaks out of its Gaza cage
2 June 2021, by Amjad Iraqi

The Islamist movement surprised Israel and the international community when it intervened on the back of a popular uprising in Jerusalem. But some Palestinians remain wary of cooptation, says analyst Tareq Baconi.
Israeli Settler Colonial Quandaries after Operation Guardian of the Walls
27 May 2021, by Richard Falk

Now is the time to learn from the past, and prepare for the future. The next few weeks will show the world whether the failure of the IDF’s Operation Guardian of the Walls becomes a tipping point in the Palestinian struggle for basis rights.
Jerusalem: When Society Rises Against Colonial Catastrophe
28 April 2021, by Assafir Al-Arabi, Majd Kayyal

Al-Quds* has been at the receiving end of the most intense and fastest colonial encroachment ever seen in Palestine, its people left to their own devices, stripped of any support, backing, or a vision to put up against the Zionist enterprise.
On B’Tselem’s Apartheid
15 February 2021, by As-Safir Al-Arabi, Majd Kayyal

The change of position of the Israeli organisation "B’Tselem", which now refers to the regime in the areas under Israeli control as "apartheid", has triggered many debates on the reasons for this change of position and its reception at the international level. They are in fact explained by the influence of Israeli, American and European political interests on the work and motivations of human rights institutions.
YouTube’s Violation of Palestinian Digital Rights
8 January 2021, by Al-Shabaka, Amal Nazaal

Palestinians are increasingly reporting that their digital rights are being violated by social media platforms, including YouTube. Amal Nazzal examines YouTube’s problematic policies, and offers recommendations for protecting the digital rights of Palestinian activists, journalists, and human rights defenders.
Palestinian rights and the IHRA definition of antisemitism
18 December 2020, by Agence Média Palestine

A group of 122 Palestinian and Arab academics, journalists and intellectuals express their concerns about the definition of antisemitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), and the way this definition has been applied, interpreted and deployed in several countries of Europe and North America.
Palestine: Resuming the offensive
15 October 2020, by Mustafa Barghouti

The occupation government continues to intensify its exactions in a number of areas. This shows the importance of the leaked statement by US diplomats to their international counterparts regarding the non-compliance with UN Resolutions 242 and 338 and other international resolutions.
The Right to Inheritance and to Return, Keys to Peace in Palestine
25 August 2020, by Ilan Pappe, Orient XXI, Tamar Yaron, Uri Davis

The “peace process” which culminated in the Oslo Accords in 1993 has failed to ignore two key issues: the nature of the State of Israel and that of the right of return of the Palestinians expelled in 1948. However, in 2005, a United Nations special rapporteur, Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, defined “Principles” on the return of the housing of deportees or displaced. Precise and detailed, they deserve to be re-read in the light of the international community’s continuing passivity on Palestinian rights.
The Deal of the Century: Tango between Document and Reality
3 March 2020, by Assafir Al-Arabi, Majd Kayyal

The American "Peace Plan" for Palestine seeks to transform the accumulated changes on the ground into a new temporal turning point from which it would be difficult to return. It attempts, in fact, to impose a new platform on the whole Palestinian question - what Trump calls the "basis for (...)
Indivisible justice: Why supporters of Palestine must stand with other oppressed communities
11 June 2019, by Agence Média Palestine, Middle East Eye, Nada Elia

Intersectional struggles and solidarity hinge on the understanding that we are enmeshed in a global web, that justice is indivisible, and that if we do not stand together across arbitrary borders of nation-state, religion, ethnicity and sexuality, then we are part of the problem.

The necessity to denounce and oppose all forms of racism, sexism, xenophobia, classism and more must inform the activism of POOPs (Progressive only in relation to Palestine), who need to understand that Palestine is not an exception, and that linking it to other struggles is not a dilution, but critical engagement. It must also address to the large percentage of liberals ho are afflicted with PEP. They are progressives except in relation for Palestine.
Anti-Zionism is a rejection of racism and imperialism, not just criticism of Israel
5 March 2019, by Eyad Kishawi, Liliana Cordova-Kaczerginski, Max Ajl

The Intercoll Working Group Palestine publishes two successive texts on the issue of the zionism question, which seems crucial to us to understand the situation in Palestine.

This second text, written by three anti-imperialist militants who act in different countries, immediately places zionism in the colonial and imperialist field.

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Jewish Voice for Peace’s Approach to Zionism
25 February 2019, by Jewish Voice for Peace

We are publishing two texts on the question of Zionism, which we believe is crucial for understanding the situation in Palestine.

This first contribution comes from Jewish Voices for Peace, a US-based association with thousands of members in this country, which has grown and evolved to the point of casting doubt on Israel among the Jewish population of this country traditionally loyal to Israel. The text explains how the association has evolved from a critique of Israeli politics alone to the critique of Zionism on which it is based.
BDS victories in 2018 reflect a growing movement
7 January 2019, by Nadia Elia

Most people date the global boycott campaign to end South African apartheid to the 1980s. What is frequently omitted is that, while it picked up most in the 1980s, the call for boycotts was not issued in the 1980s, but in 1959.

Today, we are witnessing a similar grassroots phenomenon in Palestine, as throughout the country, acts of resistance are bubbling up to the surface. However, we must note that one of the more encouraging aspects of these breakthroughs is that most were accomplished by local individuals, groups, and coalitions with no direct involvement from the “leaders” of the BDS movement, the steering collectives of various groups focused on BDS.

This is extremely significant on its own terms, but also illustrates that the many years of political discussion that were catalyzed by the 2005 Palestinian call for BDS against Israel are bearing fruit.
Gaza “laboratory” boosts profits of Israel’s war industry
27 November 2018, by Agence Média Palestine, Gabriel Schivone

Israel’s arms industry is twice the size of its US counterpart in exports per capita and employs a percentage of the national workforce double that of the US or France, two of the top global arms exporters. After exploring the vast surveillance regime along the US-Mexico border and finding Israeli systems installed at every turn, Gabriel Schivone returns in this article to the investigation conducted with writer Todd Miller on Israel as the largest homeland security industry in the world.
Future Scenarios for Israel-Palestine
11 July 2018, by Marcelo Svirsky, Ronnen Ben-Arie

Shared life of Jews and Arabs did exist in Historic Palestine prior to the Zionist settlement and to some extent maintained through the first decades of the 20th century...

How to conceptualise the activist work of those who refuse Zionism? In the meantime, this activist work need to be seen as a work of cultural preparation. At present, this is an important contribution to the process of decolonising Palestine.
My daughter, these are tears of struggle
5 February 2018, by Bassem Tamimi

This night too, like all the nights since dozens of soldiers raided our home in the middle of the night, my wife Nariman, my 16-year-old daughter Ahed and Aheds cousin Nur will spend behind bars. Although it is Aheds first arrest, she is no stranger to your prisons. So her own arrest was just a matter of time. An inevitable tragedy waiting to happen. In this situation, the greatest duty of me and my generation is to support her and to make way; to restrain ourselves and not to try to corrupt and imprison this young generation in the old culture and ideologies in which we grew up.
The Balfour Declaration’s many questions
1 December 2017, by Joseph Massad, The Electronic Intifada

The text of Joseph Massad evokes the emergence in 19th century Christian and imperial Europe of the "Eastern Question" (overflow of the East on the West and the "Jewish Question" ; persistence of the East in the West), whose resolution was sought through settler colonialism in what was called the "Question of Palestine".
Jerusalem: A Palestinian Spark Of Hope
11 September 2017, by Jamal Juma’

In this text Jamal Juma’ returns to the popular movement which opposed the controls the occupying power wanted to impose on the Palestinians to enter the Al Aqsa mosque. It highlights the prospects of this movement for Palestinian resistance, especially the presence of young people. While the Wall isolates 225,000 Palestinians from the city and Israel is doing everything to drive the Palestinians out of Jerusalem, the Palestinian Authority has been forced to announce a suspension of its cooperation with Israel on security and has given a signal strong for the emancipation of the Palestinians.

Jamal Juma ’is the coordinator of the STOP THE WALL campaign

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