Public discourse about Arabic diglossia has been on the rise as of late, especially as a vindication of colonial praxis when it comes to Palestinian communities in Israel. What this discourse often ignores is the context of Arabic learners, and the need to decolonize Eurocentric frameworks in linguistic research.

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s “If only this mountain between us could be ground to dust” is the artists’ first exhibition in a major US museum, and the first Palestinian exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. “It is hard to put in words what we experienced while being there and how powerfully Palestinian voices were being amplified and empowered,” writes Malak Shalabi.

Several Palestinians were injured and 63-year-old Ghadeer Fuqaha Masalmeh was killed on Friday, as a wave of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians and their homes has swept across the occupied West Bank. Masalmeh is the third Palestinian to be killed in the West Bank over the past week. 2021 has seen a staggering rise in settler violence, with UN OCHA reporting at least 450 settler attacks against Palestinians and their property as of December 6th.

Any realistic discussion of Iran’s nuclear program ought to include the glaring fact that Israel has 90 nukes, according to experts. But our officials and media always leave Israel’s nukes out. Because acknowledging as much would trigger US laws against giving foreign aid to a country with unauthorized weapons.

Given that there were so many important BDS fights in 2021, here are some products you probably won’t be interested in this holiday season, and the activists you can thank for it.

Given that there were so many important BDS fights in 2021, here are some products you probably won’t be interested in this holiday season, and the activists you can thank for it.

Politicians might push policy, but the contours of what can be accomplished are determined by movements outside of Washington. Please help us cover US politics even more thoroughly in 2022 – so you can be even better armed to shape it.

Mohammad Sabaaneh’s new book of linocuts uses the conceit of a bird conversing with a prisoner to get out the word on Palestinian conditions. “You bring the pencil, and I will bring the stories,” the bird tells the writer.

The Black-Jewish Alliance was never what it has been made out to be. It wasn’t derailed by gullible African Americans being hoodwinked by Palestinian tales of woe, as Zionist organizations would have you believe, but because Zionism is fundamentally incompatible with the principles of equality and justice that are central to Black liberation politics.

A Council on American-Islamic Relations investigation of Islamophobe Steve Emerson’s infiltration of U.S. Muslim organizations finds that Emerson was sharing information on Muslims with Israeli government. “One of Emerson’s goals, we’re told, was protecting the Israeli govt by undermining Muslims engaged in political & human rights activism.”