The immediate and urgent task is to move international solidarity for Palestine beyond the grassroots and implement the S section of the BDS call — sanctions against apartheid Israel until it complies with international law.
The Palestinian people need elections that will bring them closer to self-determination. Haidar Eid writes that the current election plan only promotes further fragmentation, and the interests of Israel.
Haider Eid writes that in many ways the Palestinian Left has never recovered from the fall of the Soviet Union. He says an new Palestinian program of emancipation and liberation is needed, one grounded in grassroots politics that would be ready to move beyond the two-state solution.
On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Haidar Eid writes that the only way to honor those who have been lost since the 1948 Nakba is to make sure that their descendants live in a just society where all citizens are equal.
Elections in the U.S. can have massive impacts across the world. So, what do the recent results mean for us in Gaza?
Forget the normalization efforts of Gulf state oligarchies. As the South African struggle against apartheid showed it is the power of ordinary people that matters.
Amid turmoil in Gaza from Israeli attacks and the spread of the coronavirus, Haider Eid shares a celebration of Palestinian life and resistance.
Palestinians find inspiration in the first anti-apartheid movement and other struggles against settler colonialism in their call for BDS and secular democracy in historic Palestine.
The Israeli government’s goal is clear: establish an apartheid regime through annexing parts of the West Bank, and liquidate the Palestinian cause all together. Haidar Eid discusses what Palestinian political strategy should be in this moment.
Mahmoud Abbas declared that the Palestinians are ending all agreements with Israel and the US. But a real break from the Oslo Accords would also include ending the fiction of the two-state solution.