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‘The Land of Sad Oranges’: Gaza Farmers Harvest Their Crops (PHOTOS)

November 22, 2022

Palestinian farmers in Gaza began the process of harvesting their crops in the besieged Gaza Strip. The Palestine Chronicle recently reported on the harvest of strawberries. Yesterday, Palestine Chronicle correspondent Mahmoud Ajjour joined farmers as […]

The ‘Principal Threat’: Time to Talk about the Palestinian Class Struggle

November 14, 2022

On Monday, October 31, Palestinians in the town of Al-Eizariya, east of Occupied East Jerusalem, observed a general strike. The strike was declared to be part of the community’s mourning of 49-year-old Barakat Moussa Odeh, […]

On Your Own (Lewahdak): Song for Besieged Gaza

August 27, 2022

This song has been released at a cultural event in Gaza titled ‘A World of Our Own: Besiege Your Siege’, celebrating Palestinian culture and emphasizing its organic relation with resistance. Palestinian cultural figures were present […]

A Tale of Two Killings: On the ‘Bone Deep’ Ties Between Israel and the United States

July 19, 2022

“While it is of its time, specific to the political and economic circumstances of Kanafani’s era,” writes Steven Salaita in the introduction to Ghassan Kanafani’s On Zionist Literature (2022), “it speaks to ongoing forms of […]

‘Watani’: A Kanafanian Song in the Time of National Crisis (VIDEO)

July 13, 2022

Bodies fall, but not the idea. (Ghassan Kanafani) The 50th anniversary of the assassination of Ghassan Kanafani coincides with the passing of 15 years of the Fatah-Hamas rift, instigated by the Bush administration in 2007 […]

50 Years After His Assassination, Ghassan Kanafani Lives (VIDEO)

July 8, 2022

On this day, 50 years ago, Palestinian militant intellectual Ghassan Kanafani, 36, was assassinated by the Israeli Mossad, who planted a bomb in his car in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.  Kanafani was a leader of […]

From Turtle Island to Palestine: ‘The Catastrophe’ is Ongoing

July 5, 2022

In the run-up to the elections, Joe Biden declared that what unites the United States and Israel goes beyond the exchange of weapons, though that is a major part of his agenda. It is instead […]

Palestinians ‘Are Not Animals in a Zoo’: On Kanafani and the Need to Redefine the Role of the ‘Victim Intellectual’

June 29, 2022

(To the memory of Ghassan Kanafani, an iconic Palestinian leader and engaged intellectual who was assassinated by the Israeli Mossad on July 8, 1972) Years before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, US media […]

Re-reading Ghassan Kanafani in the 21st Century

February 1, 2020

(Kanafani, Ghassan . Men in the Sun. (Trans. Hilary Kilpatrick). London: Heinemann, 1978. —. All That’s Left to You. (Trans. May Jayyusi and Jeremy Reed). Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1990.) The necessity of reading […]

Sahar Khalifeh: The Lost Gospel of Palestinian Letters – Book Review

September 2, 2019

(Wild Thorns. Sahar Khalifeh. Interlink Books, New York, 1985) For decades Palestinian literature has shown promise of making the leap from cult to major religion. There have been three leading prophets: Ghassan Kanafani, Mahmoud Darwish, […]

United Church of Canada Should Come Clean on anti-Palestinian Accord

August 11, 2019

Toronto church Trinity-St. Paul’s shameful suppression of a Palestinian youth cultural event highlights anti-Palestinian rot festering in the United Church of Canada. It ought to also shine a light on a little discussed anti-Palestinian accord […]

United Church Suppresses Palestinian Youth Cultural Event

July 14, 2019

The Jewish Defence League and B’nai Brith are boasting that they convinced the Trinity-St. Paul Centre for Faith, Justice and the Arts to cancel a room booking “to celebrate the artistic and cultural contributions of Palestinians in the diaspora.” The Toronto United […]

Israel Removes Memorial Honoring Famed Palestinian Writer Ghassan Kanafani

December 22, 2018

Israel removed a memorial statue in the city of Acre this week dedicated to Palestinian intellectual and writer Ghassan Kanafani. The statue was set up in a cemetery by Palestinians in the northern Israeli city […]

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