Nadia Hijab files a report on the One State for Palestine/Israel: A Country for All Its Citizens? conference in her article “The growing belief in a one-state solution.” Hijab was a presenter at the conference and does not consider herself…
We have already spilled enough pixels on this site talking about the incoming Israeli government. Netanyahu will be the Prime Minster, Avigdor Lieberman will be Foreign Minister, and Ehud Barak has weaseled his way into remaining Defense Minister. This is…
Thanks to reader Jim Harb for alerting us to this interesting imaginary map. It is one way of showing the fragmentation of the West under Israeli occupation – an archipelago of disconnected islands. It’s from the website Strange Maps, which…
We tend to focus on the most dramatic aspects of Israel’s efforts to force Palestinians out of Jerusalem and “judaize” the city, such as the massive home demolitions in Silwan or the plans for Israeli settlements in E-1. But the…
The second day of the One State for Palestine/Israel: A Country for All Its Citizens? conference had a much more ominous tone than Day 1. It focused on the long road to building a one state solution – from the…
Phil posted an interesting interview with non-Zionist Israeli MK Dov Khenin from the Hadash Party while I was attending the One State for Palestine/Israel: A Country for All Its Citizens? conference in Boston. He makes two different comments about the…
The following report was sent to us by a long time U.S.-based activist for a just peace in Israel/Palestine posting under the name Rie Graham. It is in response to a discussion between Naomi Klein and Rabbi Arthur Waskow on…
Day one at the “One State for Palestine/Israel: A Country for All Its Citizens?” conference is over and here are some early thoughts: One of the most striking things about the conference is simply the audience and energy. The energy…
By way of a friend, A Cursory View of Benny Morris’s forthcoming book, One State, Two States Morris argues against both a two-state and a one-state solution, and in favor (though he thinks it a remote possibility) of an Arab…