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Even those of us who have long emphasized the importance of the Palestinian people’s voice, experience, and collective action in Palestinian history...
Even those of us who have long emphasized the importance of the Palestinian people’s voice, experience and collective action in
Israel failed in Gaza because the population of Gaza proved unbreakable. Such notions are often neglected in mainstream political discussions, which...
The headline in the Times of Israel says it all: “For the First Time, Israel Just Lost a War.” Regardless of the reasoning behind this statement,...
Following every Israeli war on Gaza, numerous narratives emerge. Some claim victory for one side and defeat for the other, while others—knowingly or...
A headline on The Times of Israel’s blog section said it all: “For the first time, Israel just lost a
A dramatic escape was cited by Israeli media as the reason that Yuval Vagdani, a soldier in the Israeli army, managed to escape justice in Brazil....
A dramatic escape was cited by Israeli media as the way that Yuval Vagdani, a soldier in the Israeli army, managed to
Suddenly, Yoav Gallant, Israel’s notorious Minister of Defense, disappeared into obscurity. The man who served in his country’s military for about...
None of those who communicated with me throughout the war have ever questioned their faith, and have often, if not always, begun their messages by...
Over the past 14 months, I have received hundreds of messages from family members throughout the Gaza Strip. The nature of the messages often...
The latest news from the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) so-called “Protecting the Homeland” operation in the Jenin refugee camp paints a grim...
While Israel's desperate attempt to control the global narrative on the Gaza genocide largely failed, the ethnic cleansing continues.
The story of the Israeli war on Gaza can be epitomized in the story of the Israeli war on Beit Lahia, a small Palestinian town in the northern part...
Following a ten-day siege, the Palestinian Authority began, on December 14, a violent raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank. The...
The Israeli war on Gaza is epitomized by the story of Beit Lahia, a small Palestinian town in the northern part of the Strip. When Israel launched...
Israel is getting ready to annex the occupied Palestinian West Bank. The annexation will be a major step backward on the road to Palestinian...
While such annexation will not change the legal status of the West Bank, it will have dire consequences for the millions of Palestinians living...
Israel is getting ready to annex the West Bank. The annexation will be a major step backward on the road to Palestinian freedom and will likely...
The world’s first live-streamed genocide in the Gaza Strip, and the growing spontaneous compassion, thus solidarity, with the Palestinian victims,...
The ongoing war and genocide in Gaza is unprecedented. Nothing that Israel and its supporters can say or do will avoid the historical...
And no amount of Israeli or U.S. government propaganda will change that.
The arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav...
One remains hopeful that the shifts of global powers will eventually save international law from the hypocrisy and opportunism of the west. But...
A major problem in American thinking relating to the Middle East is the utter rejection of the notion that Palestinian rights are fundamental, if...
The paradoxical phrase, ‘running away forward’ is one of the most apt descriptions that illustrates the state of Israeli affairs now. It seems that...
Though the U.N. was formed following the atrocities of WWII, now it stands largely useless in its inability to stop similar atrocities in...
However, because we know better than to expect anything better from Trump and the GOP, this is the perfect opportunity to translate votes into...
Arab and Muslim American voters did not remove Democrats from office, nor did they cost Kamala Harris the Oval Office. They merely sent a strong...
Israel's banning of UNRWA should represent an opportunity for those concerned about the standing of the U.N. to remind Israel that U.N. members who...
Oddly, it was Israeli historian Benny Morris who got it right, when he offered a candid prediction of the future of his country and its war with...
On October 28, the Israeli Knesset passed a second reading of two bills that effectively ban the United Nations agency for Palestinian Refugees...
The Israeli Knesset last week adopted two bills that will effectively ban the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, from carrying out any...
Under the slogan ‘Gaza is Ours, Forever’, a large number of Israeli extremists and right-wing politicians met in the settlement of Be’eri, near the...
Under the slogan “Gaza is Ours, Forever,” a large number of Israeli extremists and right-wing politicians met in the settlement of Be’eri, near the...
There is a difference between a country fighting a defensive war on multiple fronts and another fighting for colonial expansion, for regional...
Israeli officials keep repeating that Israel is fighting on multiple fronts. The truth is that Israel chooses to fight on multiple fronts. The two...
"Your lives will continue. With new events and new faces. They are the faces of your children, who will fill your homes with noise and laughter." ...
I kept calling her, over and over again, hoping that the line would crackle a bit, followed by a brief silence, and then her kind, motherly voice...
“Your lives will continue. With new events and new faces. They are the faces of your children who will fill your homes with noise and laughter.”...
Palestinians, despite the military occupation, the siege, and the numerous failures of their leadership, remain political actors, with powerful...
No one had expected that one year would be enough to recenter the Palestinian cause as the world’s most pressing issue, and that millions of people...
Despite the unbelievable pain and loss, there is now a powerful energy that is unifying Palestinians around their cause, and the Arabs and the...
We now know exactly what it looks like when dishonest reporting succeeds in justifying genocide.
The official Israeli army version of why it has targeted civilian areas during the intense and deadly bombardment of September 20 in south Lebanon...
The official Israeli army version of why it has targeted civilian areas during its intense and deadly bombardments in southern Lebanon is that the...
Two historical events regarding the Israeli occupation of Palestine have taken place on July 19 and September 18. The first was a most comprehensive...
These cruel objectives are delusional and will ultimately fail, but they are plain and clear for all the world to see.