Suad Amiry’s new novel takes us into the intimate lives of its Palestinian protagonists before 1948, offering a fresh take on the Nakba’s tumultuous events and the decades that followed it.
Palestinians in Jaffa face a similar fate to their brethren in Sheikh Jarrah as the Israeli government is attempting to displace them in what residents allege is ethnic cleansing through real estate.
Palestinians in Jaffa, Jerusalem, and across Israel are challenging discriminatory Israeli education policies.
Abed Abu-Shehadeh, a Palestinian political activist from Jaffa, describes the traumatic events of May 2021 in Jaffa, their impact on Palestinian citizens of Israel and his new film “Testimonies – May 2021.”
When my grandfather died, the pain of his exile died with him too. But his hope that his grandchildren would return one day to his beloved Jaffa remain alive today.
The story of Raad Khazem’s recent attack killing three Israelis in Tel Aviv is the story of Palestinians living under occupation.
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.
Over the past three decades, Israel’s main effort to “Judaize” the “mixed cities” inside Israel has been waged through a war of attrition. This has included moving religious settlers into Palestinian communities, as well as using tourism and archeological preservation to take over land. The coexistence model in Israel’s “mixed cities” was always an illusion, and one that the recent protests finally served to smash.
A CBC Radio report covers Palestinians escaping the West Bank to visit the beach in Jaffa as a cheery coexistence story rather than a result of the Israeli occupation.
Dareen Tatour talks to Palestinians living in the West Bank who had a once in a lifetime opportunity — to visit the sea in Jaffa.