Israeli settlement expansion is not only illegal, it is also destroying Palestine’s environment through the urbanization of the West Bank.
Unemployment is a nightmare for all university graduates in Gaza. Studying so hard and being so ambitious, I never imagined myself one day without work, Ghada Hania writes. Yet after graduation, I searched a lot for jobs, and tried to volunteer at institutions to get experience. But all my efforts were in vain. I mumbled to myself, “Never can I accept such a spectacular failure anymore.” I decided in that moment to follow my passions.
News that Amnesty International will issue a report tomorrow declaring Israel an apartheid state has caused panic and outrage among Israel lobbyists. Jonathan Greenblatt of ADL says that Amnesty “must accept responsibility” for attacks on Jews that will ensue from the report casting aspersions on Israel. While David Harris of the American Jewish Committee shrills, “Israel has nothing to do with apartheid and apartheid has nothing to do with Israel.”
It is an established fact that Israel is an apartheid state. The questions then are – how to dismantle it and what comes next?
“We don’t need their acknowledgment,” says Salah Abu Salah, a survivor of the Al-Tantura massacre. “The land will testify one day and tell what happened.”
A recent US military visit to the illegal Jewish settlement in occupied Hebron shows that the Biden administration is legitimizing the occupation and accepting the one-state reality that is Israel/Palestine. Palestinians were not included in the visit, and the army host was settler Noam Arnon — who has called Jewish terrorists “heroes” — and whose settler cohort are not interested in peaceful coexistence but in military domination of the occupied Palestinians.
In November 2021, Salman Abu Sitta returned to the Gaza Strip after five decades of forced absence. What he found surprised and inspired him.
The opposition to censorship and desire for young people to learn accurate history only extends so far. Predictably, the ADL draws the line at Israel.
3,400 Gazans received their national Palestinian ID cards for the first time following a rare approval from the Israeli government, which controls the Palestinian population registry in the occupied territory, and has put a freeze on issuing IDs for over a decade.
After the synagogue attack in Texas, Yair Rosenberg and other “Never Again” journalists rushed in to explain that antisemitism is a belief in Jewish control that permeates America and transcends history. According to the hasbara culture these authorities propagate, it is always the 1930’s. And isn’t that convenient for Israel and its lobby: Never Again journalists seek to make it taboo to mention Israel’s political power in the U.S.