Dr. Lina Qasem-Hassan on how the Israeli healthcare system discriminates against Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territory.
Veteran journalist Deiaa Haj Yahia explains the ongoing crisis of violent crime in Palestinian communities inside Israel.
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.
Ali Qleibo is fighting to protect his family’s land in Jerusalem from the Israeli occupation, and now the United States government.
It has been over 70 years since he was expelled as a boy, but Yacoub Ahmad Odeh is still determined to return to Lifta.
Amani Odeh shares about her life in Silwan, a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem where 1,500 residents are living under the threat of demolition to make way for Israeli settlers.
Lina Abu Akleh, niece of veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, talks to Mondoweiss about the family’s quest for justice for Shireen, who was killed by Israeli forces in Jenin on May 11, 2022.
Lina shares her memories of the tragic days of Shireen’s death, as well as what Shireen meant to her as an aunt, friend, and role model. Lina tells Mondoweiss that in order to honor Shireen’s legacy we should continue to talk about Palestine every single day. “Talking about Shireen is talking about Palestine,” she says.
Journalist and activist Basil al-Adraa explains how a recent decision by Israel’s High Court to green light the destruction of eight villages in his home of Masafer Yatta, an area of 20 Palestinian communities in the West Bank’s South Hebron Hills, gives judicial consent to the violence Israeli forces and settlers have practiced for decades.
Muna Shaheen on how Israel changed the face of nature in order to alienate Palestinians from their land and identity.
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.”