The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS), a local NGO which advocates for the rights of the Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails, said today that the Israeli authorities are currently incarcerating 35 female Palestinian prisoners, 11 […]
(Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas Between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial. Somdeep Sen. Cornell University Press, New York. 2020) A book that has a very narrowly defined title often fails to look at the larger context, either […]
Dozens of Palestinians from the village of Al-Jiftlik, north of the occupied West Bank city of Jericho in the Jordan Valley region, today organized a sit-in to protest the Israeli authorities’ cutting off electricity in […]
Mourid Barghouti is a renowned Palestinian poet who passed away on Sunday, February 14, at the age of 76, in the Jordanian capital Amman. Born in the Palestinian village of Deir Ghassanah, near Ramallah, in […]
One of the original founders of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, Ibrahim Al-Yazouri, passed away on Thursday, February 11, at the age of 80, after a long illness. Some media sources in Palestine reported […]
The late historian Howard Zinn once said that sometimes there are not two sides to a question. In A People’s History of the United States (2003), Zinn writes that one reason that “atrocities are still […]
In a speech entitled “Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free” (1971), Fannie Lou Hamer told the National Women’s Political Caucus that black and white women had to work together in order to achieve freedom for all. […]
Israeli forces Friday afternoon suppressed a protest in the town of Kafr Qaddum, near the West Bank city of Qalqiliya, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Israeli forces violently dispersed Palestinians, who were protesting […]
Ismail Matar is known in southern Gaza as the ‘Painter of the Refugee Camp’. And there is a good reason for that. A refugee himself, Matar, 22, paints mostly on the walls of the Khan […]
In “Beyond Vietnam” (1967), his speech delivered at the Riverside Church in New York, Martin Luther King opened by quoting from Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam. “A time comes when silence is betrayal,” King […]
Hundreds of Palestinians, including members of a coalition of Arab parties known as the Joint List, held protests in northern Nazareth province as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited a vaccination center, Anadolu reports. Several […]
A Palestinian prisoner who has been in Israeli prisons for 18 years was released yesterday from Ofer prison near Ramallah. Hassan Fatafta, an activist in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was arrested […]
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 […]
December 8 came and went as if it was an ordinary day. For Palestinian political groups, it was another anniversary to be commemorated, however hastily. It was on this day, thirty-three years ago, that the […]
Authorities in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, have refused to authorize an anti-normalization demonstration that was scheduled to take place yesterday outside parliament, local sources have said. Six Moroccan associations issued a joint statement condemning the […]
A Room of One’s Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in September 1929. Here she argues that a woman requires a room of her own and money if she is to […]
Editor’s Note: Today, Tuesday, December 8, marks the 33rd anniversary of the First Palestinian Intifada. On this day, in 1987, the uprising broke out throughout occupied Palestine, generating massive solidarity for the Palestinian people across […]
Israeli soldiers shot and injured four Palestinians during a raid this morning of Qalandiya refugee camp, north of Jerusalem. Three of them are in critical condition and were immediately admitted to surgery at Ramallah hospital, […]
Noam Chomsky is right when he says that, in the US, sports creates the necessary “fantasy world” required to shield people from understanding, organizing, and attempting to “influence the real world”. Referring to sports commentary […]
Ramzy Baroud discusses the complexities of Palestinian identity in today’s world with Misbah Khan from Identity International, in Episode 1 of “Palestinian: Beyond Conflict”. Ramzy Baroud is a US-Palestinian journalist, author and internationally syndicated columnist, […]
Mays Abu Ghosh, a 23-year-old Palestinian student from the refugee camp of Qalandiya, is finally free. She was released from the Damon Israeli prison after spending 15 months under harsh physical and psychological conditions. The […]
Published on March 9, 1889, “Wynken, Blynken, and Nod” is a children’s poem composed by American writer Eugene Field. The title suggests a child’s blinking eyes and nodding head, meant perhaps by suggestion to lull […]
Once again, Europe’s top diplomats expressed their ‘deep concern’ regarding Israel’s ongoing illegal settlement expansion, again evoking the maxim that Israeli actions “threaten the viability of the two-state solution”. This position was communicated by EU […]
Israeli authorities on Thursday released Palestinian prisoner Maher al-Akhras, who had been on a hunger strike for 104 days. Al-Akhras was immediately escorted to the Najah hospital in Nablus, north of occupied West Bank, Quds […]
Palestine: a carpet of cadavers, a swamp of blood, a garden of ashen smoke. Olive green of missiles, iron fists of tanks, the blue-black of high caliber guns – Can a place be mangled by […]
Leaders from the two main Palestinian movements Hamas and Fatah left the Gaza Strip yesterday to join mutual meetings for delegations of their movements in Cairo, Anadolu reported. An official source told Anadolu that the […]
On the eve of the US elections, tensions are very high. Concerns range from right-wing violence at the polls to the fear of a contested election in which the conservative Supreme Court might be the […]
Mohammad Ibrahim Ali al-Deirawi was born on January 30, 1978 in Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. His family is originally from Bir Al-Saba’, an ethnically cleansed Palestinian town located in the southern Naqab […]
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 […]
Winner at the Sundance Film Festival for Best Directing, Garrett Bradley’s “Time” focuses on an intimate love story to convey an indictment of the prison-industrial complex. Bradley’s film follows a Black couple who at a […]
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