Known for belatedly spouting known truths, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas was true to form in his address to the J Street conference recently, which revealed the extent of his collaboration with the international community over Palestine’s […]
(Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery. Mark Charles, and Soon-Chan Rah. InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, Illinois. 2019.) The Doctrine of Discovery, created in a series of Papal Bulls in the […]
In a recent report, the United Nations Mission in Mali, known as MINUSMA, concluded that, on January 3, French warplanes had struck a crowd attending a wedding in the remote village of Bounti, killing 22 […]
(The Lion and the Eagle – The Interaction of the British and American Empires 1783-1972. Kathleen Burk. Bloomsbury, London/New York, 2018) The 200-year historical span of Kathleen Burk’s “The Lion and the Eagle” shows the […]
On March 25, 2021, at 10 AM MDT, the Amsterdam Centre for Middle Eastern Studies will present an online Facebook event entitled Black Radical Politics, Palestine and Zionism with Prof. Rabab Abdulhadi, Director and Senior […]
Score a small, but symbolically significant, victory for pro-Palestinian and anti-racist forces. The Jewish National Fund of Canada has been forced to rebrand and distance itself from its Israeli parent organization. Under pressure from Independent […]
(Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour. Barbara Tuchmann. NYU Press, 1956; Preface, 1984; Random House, 2014) Part of history is reading historical documents, and it is in this […]
Short-term funding initiatives for Palestinians provided without addressing Israel’s colonialism and military occupation have been proven to be a recipe for long-term failure. They simply do not address the decades of deprivation imposed upon the […]
Zionist Colonialism Vs The Post-War Consensus. At just over the 52nd minute of the 1967 film thriller Funeral in Berlin’, a female character who’d been seducing British agent Harry Palmer (played by Michael Caine) confesses […]
(American Empire: A Global History. A. G. Hopkins. Princeton University Press. Princeton & Oxford, 2018.) Most recent works on the United States accept that it is an empire, perhaps not in the traditional landholding sense, […]
B’Tselem’s description of Israel as an apartheid state is valuable because B’Tselem, Israel’s leading human rights organization, is saying it. Otherwise, the reaction should of course it is. B’Tselem applies the word to all of […]
On January 11, the Israeli Lod District Court ruled against a Palestinian film-maker, Mohammad Bakri, ordering him to pay hefty compensation to an Israeli soldier who was accused, along with the Israeli military, of carrying […]
After returning to security coordination with Israel just days after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the US presidential election, the Palestinian Authority wasted no time in reassuring the international community that it was […]
“Anti-imperialist politics also have to speak to the conditions of people in the US,” writes Onyesonwu Chatoyer, “if you want to win people in the US to anti-imperialism.” A cadre with the All-African People’s Revolutionary […]
In a recent interview with Michael Arria, Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean discuss their book Palestine: A Socialist Introduction (2020). The collection argues that socialism should be viewed as an important element in the struggle […]
In November 2018 Nick Estes of The Red Nation—Albuquerque invited friends to a pot-luck and teach-in that was to be an alternative to the “genocidal” holiday of Thanksgiving. Modeled on the National Day of Mourning, […]
A Palestinian court yesterday held the first session to review a lawsuit filed against the British government over its crimes in Palestine during the British Mandate between 1917- 1948 and the Balfour Declaration which promised […]
The US-Israeli narrative on Palestine goes a step further than the designated humanitarian label which the international community imposed upon the Palestinian people. As US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman predicted that up to ten […]
(Wealth and Power: Global Transformation and Destruction 1492 to 2020 Part 1: Understanding Colonialism and the impoverishment of the world and the enrichment of Western Europe) This is a history blog… Unlike any history you […]
Oxford Dictionary defines “hypocrisy” as a “behavior that does not meet the moral standards or match the opinions that somebody claims to have.” Transposed to the concrete issue of Palestine within political discourse in Germany, […]
(Wealth and Power: Global Transformation and Destruction 1492 to 2020. Roger Van Zwanenberg.) The global relations of power were altered fundamentally after these 30 turbulent years. In 1914 Britain was the world’s leading industrial state. […]
French President, Emmanuel Macron, is in no position to pontificate to Lebanon about the need for political and economic reforms. Just as thousands of Lebanese took to the streets of Beirut demanding “revenge” against the […]
Like other countries prioritizing international consensus and diplomatic relations with Israel simultaneously, Australia is trying to square a colonial circle. Whilst not averse to promoting the two-state paradigm and expressing “concern” at the forthcoming annexation, […]
Israeli forces today uprooted some 100 palm trees in the village of Al-Jiftlik near Jericho, in the occupied Jordan Valleys, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Mayor of al-Jiftlik Ahmad Abu Ghanem told WAFA that […]
July 1 came and went and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made no formal statement regarding annexation. That left many journalists, politicians, activists, and others feeling abandoned to speculation. Declarations of support or opposition went […]
The visit by newly-elected Tunisian President Kais Saied to France on June 22 was intended to discuss bilateral relations, trade, etc. But it was also a missed opportunity, where Tunisia could have formally demanded an apology from […]
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 […]
Looking upward, the sky above Palestine has darkened, but whether portending a storm or nightfall is uncertain. If de jure annexation will go forward, then the sky is likely to emit thunder and lightning. When […]
On Nakba 2020, a video clip of a tour through depopulated Palestinian villages within Israel circulated on social media. Narrated by Najwan Simri (translation provided by Rima Najjar), it features encounters between owners of the […]
The international community has still not caught up with or refuses to acknowledge, Israel’s commitment to countering each purported victory for the Palestinians with yet more violations. These countermeasures implemented by Israel, notably to prevent […]
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