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A Palestinian boy walks in a field of wild mustard flowers in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, on March 20, 2022. (Photo: Osama Baba/APA Images)

How dare anyone tell me
in these late years of my life
when I have seen everything and forgotten nothing
about the theft of an entire country
and the imprisonment of an entire people
that it is antisemitic
to believe in the rule of law

Noura Erakat seen in a screenshot from a Youtube video.

Noura Erakat writes in the book, “A Land With a People,” that the volume tackles power head-on, “charting the struggle against Zionism within the Jewish communities that Zionism purportedly serves. Its anti-Zionist Jewish stories are critical to decolonization.” Dr. Hatim Kanaaneh relates that the book traces some of his own history with the organization “Jewish Voice for Peace,” as he struggled to bring Palestinian narratives to a global audience.

Brian J. Brown, a Methodist minister who was banned in his native South Africa in 1977 for anti-apartheid work, writes that apartheid in Israel/Palestine is in many ways more brutal than it was in his country, including checkpoints and barriers and expulsions. His new book says that recognition of that apartheid and total opposition to it is mandatory for any person or church that claims to follow Christian teachings.

We are cosponsoring a talk by French author Sylvain Cypel on Tuesday February 15 at noon. “Will diaspora Jews gradually emancipate themselves from a thug nation that claims that it alone can speak in the name of Judaism?” he writes. “More and more American Jews are awakening to the idea that its political rightward drift is a calamity, and that the consequences for them could be disastrous. And that explains the anger of those among them who turn their back on Israel.”

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.