For the last twenty years, the United Nations General Assembly has dedicated June 20 to mark World Refugee Day, as an opportunity to honor refugees, raise awareness, and mobilize support for their plight. This year, […]
Dear “israel”, How are you? Do I have to ask this question? I am sorry for I do not know how to start. Would you like me to ask another one? Dear “israel”, Do you […]
“It looks like the West Bank,” said Samia Assed, local Palestinian-American social activist. Assed was referring to a recent event in Albuquerque, New Mexico that ended in a killing. On Monday, June 15, members of […]
Since Israel announced its plan to annex swathes of the occupied West Bank, the EU has only hypothesized on what steps the bloc may take in response. The most prominent of these could be the […]
Palestine Chronicle editors interviewed Dr. Triestino Mariniello, Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, and a member of the legal team for Gaza victims at the International Criminal Court (ICC). The latest episode of Palestine […]
With only one round of voting, Canada lost its bid to secure a Security Council (UNSC) seat at the UN today. The result is what many domestic critics had hoped for, but in both foreign […]
Life in Gaza is slowly getting back to normal, well, as normal as possible considering the protracted Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip. Gaza authority, like other governments in the region and around the world, […]
The banning of deadly police practices by many American states and cities following the murder of an African American man, George Floyd, at the hands of Minneapolis police officers is, once more, shedding light on US-Israeli collaboration […]
Further proof that the Palestinian Authority will not attempt to safeguard what remains of Palestine, let alone insist on decolonization, is the plan submitted to the Middle East Quartet which does nothing other than confirm […]
In “Black-Outs, Black Lives Matter, and Black Power,” Erica Caines explains how “symbolic gestures of solidarity” have co-opted the power of the movement into “feel-good moments” for those who participate and shaming of those who […]
Those of us who have the misfortune of following their universities on social media were recently exposed to a new wave of hypocrisy when these institutions which are directly complicit in apartheid against the Palestinian […]
The Palestinian solidarity movement is unsettling Canada’s diplomatic apparatus. In the final week of their multi-year campaign for a seat on the United Nations Security Council, they’ve been forced to respond to a well-documented, strong […]
Israeli media outlets are trying to create a furor over a possible move by the Palestinian Authority to submit a resolution at the UN General Assembly condemning Israel’s annexation plan. “The solution to the conflict […]
It is easy to forget how explicitly racist British society was within living memory. I’m not talking about unconscious prejudice or social media tropes. I’m talking about openly celebrating racism in the public space, about […]
Palestinian refugees who fled Syria during the war held a protest, on Thursday, in front of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza City. The protesters demanded greater financial […]
From the ‘Palestinian Chair’, and other forms of torture methods used by the US army to the militarization of the American police and the massive ‘security apparatus’ used to spy on and monitor ordinary Americans, […]
In the near-two decades since the International Criminal Court was set up to try the worst violations of international human rights law, it has faced harsh criticism for its highly selective approach to the question […]
A plastic bullet struck the side of my chest, which was protected by my life jacket, and then fragmented into pieces. The commandos firing would eventually restrain, blindfold and kidnap me and hundreds of other […]
In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd there have been massive protests in major American cities. Their demands have ranged from reforming the police to dismantling the institution altogether. In Palestine, too, […]
A 32-year-old man with the mental age of an 8-year-old child was executed by Israeli soldiers on May 30, while crouching behind his teacher near his special needs school in the Old City of Jerusalem. […]
In her poem, “The Revolution Will Rhyme,” Buffalo Black Lives Matter activist Jillian Hanesworth writes about the movement for change we now see sweeping across the world. It will not be developed just to be displaced Its […]
USS Liberty being towed to Malta after being attack by Israel’s air and naval forces. Photo: US Navy. June 8, 1967, stands as yet another “date of infamy” in the annals of American history. And […]
Does the current wave of protests across America sparked by the brutal murder of George Floyd, present an existential threat to Israel? Astounding as it sounds, Israel’s propagandists and defenders have been shocked to suddenly […]
Joe Biden states that “the relationship between Israel and the United States” is not about security exchange, but rather about the “shared soul that unites our countries, generation upon generation.” His vision promotes the founding […]
An extraordinary life of resistance against colonizers of his homeland Palestine will be celebrated, though Shalah is no more. Al Manar TV reported on Saturday that the former leader of Palestine’s Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement […]
On May 29, just following the murder of George Floyd, the city of Minneapolis looked like a war zone. Heavily armored military vehicles rolled down the streets, police lined up in riot gear, and drones […]
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 cup of coffee, […]
For several years, the call for a one-state solution has been part of the alternatives to the two-state paradigm which forms the backdrop to international diplomacy on Palestine. “One state” is generally described as a […]
“I was born a Black woman and now I am become a Palestinian against the relentless laughter of evil there is less and less living room and where are my loved ones?”, wrote famed African […]
Academics and community leaders in Gaza gathered in front of the United Nations headquarters in Gaza City to commemorate Naksa Day, the Arab defeat in the 1967 war, and the subsequent Israeli occupation of what […]
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