Since October 7, dissent inside Israel has been violently put down by the government under the leadership of Itamar Ben-Gvir. Yoav Haifawi reports on how repression is deepening inside the Israeli dictatorship.

The Palestinian village of Ma’alul was destroyed during the Nabka in 1948. Rawan Bisharat discusses her connection to the village and how she and other descendants are practicing their return to the land despite Israeli laws prohibiting it.

Palestinian students are forced to leave the mixed Israeli city of Nof Hagalil to attend school in nearby Nazareth. Why? Because local schools refuse to accommodate Arab students, which reflects the vision of local leaders — a town devoid of an Arab population whatsoever.

Taha Muhammad Ali, a beloved poet from Nazareth who died in 2011, was a master of the ‘Palestinian Absurd’ and is remembered for his searing poems that mused on happiness and its limitations.

It is impossible for an Israeli historian who doesn’t reject Zionism to understand Galilee resistance leader Tawfiq Zayyad, whose life shows, Mere Palestinian existence is undesirable in the eyes of the average Jewish Israeli, writes Hatim Kanaaneh.

Anan Ameri’s memoir “The Wandering Palestinian” is beautifully written in the tradition of Arab story telling. Its humorous and poignant chapters travel a reader to Beirut, Detroit, Washington, and Jerusalem, interweaving the forty-year personal narrative of a free spirited Arab woman who arrives in the USA in 1974, with the larger issues of migration, racism, sexism, and institution building.