The struggle to save the al-Qassam cemetery in Haifa is one of the major issues that unites the Palestinian community. It is an effort to defend the community’s rights, and reconnect with its pre-Nakba past. The Palestinian community has succeeded so far to prevent its destruction. But now, facing new plans to build on the cemetery, the struggle is entering a new phase.

Prevented from traveling due to the coronavirus, Jewish Israelis flocked to Nazareth and Haifa this holiday season with many saying it was like “going abroad.” It is time for the Israeli public to face the fact that it is in the Middle East, and remove the barriers – both physical and mental – that keeps them from doing so.

‘NYT’s Israel bureau chief Patrick Kingsley demolishes the idea that Israel is “shrinking” the conflict in an article in which he visits several places in Israel where Palestinians once lived and were uprooted and shows the deep alienation that discrimination has fostered in ordinary Israelis.

Many Israeli government ministries have no services in Arabic. Most museums provide no information in Arabic; and the Palestinian Arab society in Israel has no museum or cinema that does programming in Arabic. While Israel’s international airport only lately provided signs in Arabic, after holding out for years.

Yoav Haifawi reports on how the “Strike for Unity,” the general strike that was observed throughout historic Palestine on May 18, unfolded in Haifa. He says it was a defiant display of unity across all sectors of the Palestinian community, even as ongoing governmental repression intensifies.

Yoav Haifawi continues his reporting from the uprising in Haifa, where the resistance is drawing from all sectors of the Palestinian community, as the Israeli government brings in the Shin Bet to help smash the protests.

Israeli police joined fascist mobs in attacking Palestinian neighborhoods, but this didn’t stop Palestinians in Haifa from joining the uprising taking place across Palestine. “These are historic moments and the people of Haifa are rising like never before,” Yoav Haifawi writes. “They are part of a united Palestinian struggle against their oppressors.”

Palestinian activists in Haifa are demanding the release of Muhannad Abu Ghosh who was taken into custody on Monday and is being denied access to an attorney.

Haneen Maikey, the director of alQaws, speaks to the Palestinian LGBTQ community who held a historic protest in Haifa on July 29, 2020. “Your persecution only fuels us to create larger, louder spaces for queer life in Palestine.”

From April 1st to May 14, 1948 — before Israel was declared, before the British left, and before any Arab soldier entered Palestine to save it — Zionist militias essentially conquered Palestine. Salman Abu Sitta says this critical period leading to Al Nakba has rarely been looked upon in this light, and shows how massacres that took place during this period were pivotal in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.