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Writer: Rima Najjar
‘Palestine is Gone!’: On the Nakba, Naksa, and Black Lives Matter
By Rima Najjar Lately, a particular memory/image of my grandmother Sitti Fattoum has been coming back to me vividly. She’d be sitting in a chair, maybe watching TV, or at the kitchen table drinking a […]
When Will Ayanna Pressley Realize that ‘The Pain’ She Feels Is the Identical Pain Palestinians Feel?
By Rima Najjar When Michelle Alexander, a distinguished African-American scholar, wrote her now-famous column in The New York Times, ‘Time to Break the Silence on Palestine’, her sympathetic words toward Palestinians received huge attention. Her […]
The Judaization of Al-Quds, Jerusalem - How it Works
By Rima Najjar The Judaization of Jerusalem. It used to work under cover of darkness, at least in the mainstream media, but now it’s out in the open with official recognition of Israeli sovereignty in […]
Stripped of their Rights: Understanding the Gaza Strip
By Rima Najjar Many wonder why Israel continues to persecute the Palestinians in Gaza with such brutal repression. The answer is simple; Palestinians in Gaza pose a demographic and, indeed, an existential threat to the […]
Defunding UNRWA: Trump’s Legal Sleight of Hand
By Rima Najjar Trump wants to dismantle the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and shift responsibility for Palestine refugees to the office of the UN High […]
The Zionist Idea Has Never Been More Terrifying Than It Is Today
By Rima Najjar On this seventy-first annual commemoration of Palestine’s Jewish-state Nakba, let’s resolve not to continue to oversimplify things. Whether you believe the American rabbi and historian Arthur Hertzberg’s assessment of the Zionist idea […]
What Now for the Palestinian People?
By Rima Najjar The West Bank is under threat of annexation by Israel now; the caged Palestinians in Gaza are clamoring, at a grassroots level, for the right to return to their homes and property […]
Fascism in Our Time: Christchurch Shooting vs. Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre
By Rima Najjar The Christchurch shooting and ensuing furor over white supremacy brought to mind a similar massacre of Muslims in a mosque in Palestine perpetrated by a Jewish supremacist several decades ago. Two recent […]
Israel’s Ongoing Judaization Efforts in Colonized Palestine Are a Crime
By Rima Najjar When people refer to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, they sometimes refer to it as an arena, not only of a geopolitical struggle between Zionist Jewish colonizers initially from Eastern Europe, on the one […]
Anti-Zionism Means Anti-Jewish-Nationalism in Palestine
By Rima Najjar Those who smear anti-Zionists by falsely accusing them of antisemitism understand very well that anti-Zionism means anti-Jewish-nationalism as expressed in the territory of historic Palestine, now subdivided into Israel, the West Bank […]