Ahmed Abu Alreish is 93 years old and I joined him to harvest olives from his land. I returned home with a bottle of olive oil which carries some of Ahmed’s stories about Palestine. That night, I assembled my siblings under the olive tree beneath my window, and I poured everything I heard from Ahmed into their ears.
“If Unilever is so interested in virtue-signaling, why not announce a boycott of countries like China, Russia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, or especially Iran,” asked Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt.
The U.S. Prison, Labor and Academic Delegation to Palestine (2016) joins with organizations and individuals around the world to express its strongest solidarity with the six Palestinian human rights organizations that were falsely designated “terrorist institutions” by the Israeli government.
As the current disastrous phase of Anglo-American colonialism sinks even deeper into chaos and anarchy, causing untold suffering in the Arab and Muslim worlds and elsewhere, thoughtful reflection and careful analysis become more urgently needed. Heeding Edward Said’s call, Haider Eid uses literature to “de-orientalize the orient” in Gaza.
Emad Moussa calls on Palestinians and their allies to avoid dealing with the accusations of antisemitism in a defensive fashion; for it distracts from the moral objectives of the Palestine problem. Rather, we must declare: It is bigotry not to recognize Palestinians as an independent entity and acknowledge their historical rights.
Yair Rosenberg has routinely described Palestinian leaders as terrorists and antisemites and characterized Palestinian resistance to occupation as stemming from ancient historical hatred of Jews. He is now ensconced at the Atlantic spreading his misunderstanding of the world into American opinion, for years to come.
Caging Childhood: Palestinian Children in Israel’s Military Detention System is a short documentary that tells the story of three Palestinian children who were detained by the Israeli military in the West Bank.
“As perceived by the children, economic conditions had the most influence on their ability to stay in school,” a new report from Al Mezan says.
Students, faculty, alumni, labor leaders, clergy, and community members rallied this week to protest President Lynn Mahoney’s undermining of San Francisco State University faculty and the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas studies program.