Hatim abu Mayyala, 13, was hospitalized after being shot in the back of the head with a rubber-coated bullet by Israeli forces on Saturday in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem. His father said Israeli forces wanted to detain the child after clashes in the occupied neighborhood.
Israeli forces have demolished every home in the Bedouin village of Khirbet Taha in the northern West Bank district of Nablus during three separate demolitions since the start of the year. The village’s only school was also destroyed, leaving children to study in a dilapidated 100-year-old mosque — the only structure left standing in the village.
It might have been a moment that jolted Israelis to their senses. But instead, Jonathan Cook says the video of an Israeli soldier shooting dead a young Palestinian man as he lay wounded and barely able to move has only intensified the tribal war dance of the Israeli public.
“They’re lost. No change will come from within,” former Hebrew school teacher Tzvia Thier says of Israeli Jews. The only hope to transform the racist nationalism of Israeli society is the international BDS campaign to bring real economic hurt to Israelis.
In Palestine, as in the rest of the Arab world, many are turning to religion in response to the failure of the various liberation and nationalist or socialist projects. Some practice a religious-inspired political quietism or wait for an apocalyptic solution for the existing impasse.
Birzeit and San Francisco State University’s team up for 7th Annual Conference of “Struggles for Freedom” at the university in the West Bank
Jen Marlowe’s play “There Is a Field” centers on the case of Aseel Asleh, a 17-year-old Palestinian youth killed in the second intifada in Oct. 2000. Marlowe did extensive research to write the play, which focuses Asleh’s family.
In the Village Voice, Jesse Alexander Myerson says Bernie Sanders is in an anti-Zionist Jewish tradition, but that Zionism’s militant nationalism became “the most salient and powerful political philosophy for American Jews” in the last 2 generations.
Twelve-year-old Ramzi Abu Ajamia has been in hiding for the past seven nights, the boy’s father, Nasir Abu Ajamia said from their family home in Bethlehem’s Dheisha refugee camp. The father fears for his son’s life.
“Why my existence they so fear/they wish I leave and disappear?” A poem by Gaza writer Fidaa Abuassi on the dislocation of exile and colonization