While the world’s attention is now focused on the genocide in Gaza, Farah Nabulsi’s film “The Teacher” offers a powerful story of resistance and resilience in the occupied West Bank.
Today, most Muslims would be surprised to learn that Palestine was once a central part of the Hajj journey for Muslims around the Middle East and Asia. After the Nakba and Israel’s occupation of Palestine, the Hajj pilgrimage was changed forever.
Ghassan Kanafani’s ‘The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine’ examines the mass uprisings against Zionism and for independence from British colonialism. A new English translation of the book offer news insights into the pivotal text.
The documentary film “The Encampments” shares the inspiring story of how students brought Columbia University to a standstill, and the issue of Palestine to millions around the world.
They tell me to evacuate my home, my land.
As if my home has legs;
As if the olive tree, that for decades rooted deep,
Will up and follow;
As if the echoes of my mother’s lullabies
Will pack their bags and draft with us to the exile.
The editors of “Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings” talk to Mondoweiss about what the Palestinian icon’s writings can teach us about resistance to genocide in Gaza today.
The objective of the new film “October 8” is not to impart information but to cause panic— a panic the filmmakers hope will lead viewers to support the violent crackdowns on student Palestine activists that we are seeing across the U.S. right now.
Palestinian refugee camps are known for producing resistance fighters and footballers. But Israel’s ongoing onslaught in Gaza and the West Bank is erasing every aspect of Palestinian life, including sports.
Liz Rose Shulman’s new book, Good Jewish Girl: A Jerusalem Love Story Gone Bad, provides a close-up view of one American Jew’s “perverse initiation into Zionism” and why these indoctrination efforts fail.
Renowned Palestinian writer Refaat Alareer was Reem Hamadaqa’s professor and close mentor. She writes of his posthumous book If I Must Die, “Alareer’s poems embody the essence of resistance, grief, steadfastness—sumud—and storytelling as survival.”