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Zionism
The Implosion Ahead: The Israeli Hand in ‘Palestine 48’ Criminal Gangs
By Ilan Pappe – The Palestine Chronicle The best way of ending the intensifying criminal activities among 48 Arab communities is directly linked to the overall decolonization and liberation of historical Palestine. Far away […]
Cultural Heist: Biblical Currency and Zion-washing of Palestinian National Dress
By Jamal Kanj Among the diverse forms of cultural representation, fashion stands out as a powerful medium and a prominent symbol of identity. Culture encompasses a dynamic and multifaceted array of unspoken social norms handed […]
Chronicling the Mandatory Rape of Palestine – A Book Review
By Jeremy Salt (Blake Alcott, The Rape of Palestine. A Mandate Chronology. 2 vols., Tredition.com.) A monumental amount of work has gone into the preparation of these two volumes, 1437 pages, excluding annexes, not just […]
Light the Road of Freedom: Women’s Voices From Gaza – Book Review
By Jim Miles Light the Road of Freedom – Women’s Voices From Gaza. Sahbaa Al-Barbari, Ed. Ghada Ageel & Barbara Bill. University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, 2021. This is the second volume in the series […]
One Democratic State: Palestine, Israel, or Palestine-Israel?
By Alain Alameddine Much like other colonial endeavors, Zionism has largely succeeded at making the colonization of Palestine about the colonizers rather than the colonized. Thanks to the evident failure of the two-state proposal […]
Balancing Act is over: Israeli Protests are Not about Democracy, but Ideology
By Ramzy Baroud Ideological shifts do not appear and disappear overnight. Regardless of the outcome of Israel’s protests, the ideological shifts in Israel are seismic and long-lasting. The late Israeli commentator, Uri Avnery, wrote, […]
Huwwara and Stella Maris: The Truth about Judicial Overhaul, Israeli Protests
By Jamil Khader Huwwara and Stella Maris are the truth of the judicial overhaul and the protests in the apartheid Jewish ethnocratic state The pogrom in Huwwara, near Nablus, and the attacks on the Stella […]
On Zionism and Ron DeSantis: Placing Both in Context
By Benay Blend Presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis has gained national attention for directing new African American history standards adopted in 2023 by the Florida Board of Education. Henry Giroux, who currently holds the McMaster University […]
Judea vs ‘Fantasy Israel: Ilan Pappe on the Collapse of Israeli Pillars, and the Opportunities for Palestine
By Ilan Pappe – The Palestine Chronicle The future liberated and de-Zionised Palestine may look now as a fantasy, but unlike Fantasy Israel, it has the best chance to galvanize locally, regionally and globally […]
Israel’s Largest Surface Cultural Heist: Palestinian Cuisine
By Jamal Kanj The Zionist movement envisioned Israel’s survival as being predicated on erasing the history of the rich heritage of Palestine’s culture and its people. In continuation of my previous article exploring the Israeli […]
Perseverance and Resistance: Story of Jenin is the Story of Palestine
By Jamal Kanj To Israel’s frustrations, the perseverance of the refugees in Jenin and all Palestinian refugee camps remains a testament to the failed 1948 Israeli assessment of the Palestinian people. There is a clear […]
‘Ode to Jenin’ and Other Poems
By Hassen Lorgat Ode to Jenin Jenin is crying, the youth are defying people are dying Zionism is killing fascism is rising Europe is denying Jenin is resisting Jenin, Oh Jenin… My Jenin Jenin […]
Palestinian Self-Determination Through the Lens of Lenin
By Mike Veronda Hazou We can understand some fundamental features of the Zionist settler-colonial project through Lenin’s teachings, specifically that Israel was founded and continues to exist on the basis of violating Palestinian self-determination. Vladimir […]
Repression, Resistance, and Return: On the Legacy of Ghassan Kanafani
By Benay Blend Kanafani’s ability to transform the suffering of the Palestinian people into resistance literature proved a serious threat to the Zionist state. Assassinated in Beirut on July 8, 1972, by Israeli agents, Ghassan […]
ILAN PAPPE on Gamal Abdul Nasser: Why We Must Revisit the June 1967 War
By Ilan Pappe – The Palestine Chronicle Nasser miscalculated Israel’s reaction. Though the Israeli government knew full well that Nasser did not intend to go to war, they used his brinkmanship as a pretense […]
Zionist Myths: Israeli Invention of National Symbols
By Jamal Kanj The absence of an authentic Israeli national memory made it crucial for political Zionism to construct a convoluted web of deception by appropriating national symbols. If a random group of highly educated […]
Zionist Myths and Israel’s ‘Fairytale’ History
By Jamal Kanj The phrase “fairytale” belongs to the founder of political Zionism, Theodore Herzl, when he used it to urge his fellow Zionists in 1897 to pursue their “dreams” in Palestine, stating “If you […]
‘Unacceptable and Unconscionable’: 400 CUNY Law Alumni Stand with Graduate Who Criticized Israel
Over 400 alumni of the City University of New York (CUNY) have signed a letter expressing their solidarity with Fatima Mohammed, a Yemeni graduate of CUNY School of Law who has been targeted by a […]
Two Sides, One Side, and Personal Revelation: On the Exclusion of the Palestinian Voice
By Benay Blend Without the inclusion of a “genuine and engaged” Palestinian perspective, Baroud explains, conversations will focus only on what benefits Zionist and US interests. On August 15, 2017, former President Donald Trump commented […]
Zionist Myths: Israeli Invention of Artificial Reality
By Jamal Kanj Seventy-five years following the Nakba, I stand as the son of two “invisible” Palestinian parents who were “spirited” from their homes to make “room” for European Khazar converts. Israel is most probably […]
From Turtle Island to Palestine: How Solidarity Activists are Rejecting Divide-and-Conquer Tactics
By Benay Blend When they are met by Palestinians and their supporters who speak their own language of liberation, Zionists revert to long-held tactics of divide and conquer. In December 2021, Palestine Chronicle editor and […]
Spotify, Apple Music Delete Mohammad Assaf’s Song ‘Ana Dammi Falastini’
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Spotify and Apple Music decided to remove the song ‘Ana Dammi Falastini’ (My Blood is Palestinian) by Palestinian artist Mohammed Assaf, citing allegations of antisemitism, Roya News reported on Sunday. […]
‘Palestine Must Be Obliterated’: ‘Times of Israel’ Publishes, Deletes Article Calling for Genocide
By Palestine Chronicle Staff An article appeared in the popular Israeli newspaper The Times of Israel on Thursday, openly calling for the genocide of the Palestinian people. Though the piece seems to have been […]
Unanswered Questions after ‘Balfour Project’ Cancels Event with Ghada Karmi and Lowkey
By Palestine Chronicle Staff A webinar hosting renowned Palestinian author and intellectual Ghada Karmi and famed British-Iraqi musician and broadcaster, Lowkey, was canceled on May 10 by the UK-based charity The Balfour Project. Karmi […]
Religious Zionism Reveals Zionism’s True Nature: A Historic Opportunity for One Democratic State?
By Naji El Khatib 75 years after the Nakba, Israeli society has shifted farther and farther to the far right. The fine line between the Zionist state as an apparatus and its settler society is […]
‘Would Crawl Back to Yaffa’: An Old Palestinian Woman and Her Four Rusty Keys (PHOTOS)
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Ibtihaj Dawlah, 89, is a Palestinian refugee living in the Al-Shati Refugee Camp in the besieged Gaza Strip. She still holds on to the rusty keys to her home, back […]
Bury Me in Ajjur: The Palestinian Refugees of the West Bank
By Fayha Shalash – Ramallah Khairiya Ahmed, 80, sits on the doorstep of her house in Al-Arroub camp, north of Hebron (Al-Khalil), in the occupied West Bank. She leans on her crutches and contemplates the […]
Western Silence Needs to be Confronted: Ilan Pappe on the Nakba, Gaza and Inclusive Solidarity
By Ilan Pappe – The Palestine Chronicle Once more the Gaza Strip is bombarded from the air, land, and sea, and, once more, Israeli inhumanity and cruelty are met with Western silence. We have […]
Al-Nakba 75: A Challenge to Defeat Colonizers of Palestine
By Iqbal Jassat As most of the world recoils in horror watching deliberately calculated Israeli brutality and cold-blooded killing of Palestinians, many who are outraged would be asking: when will Zionist-led pogroms end? After all, […]
Resistance Until Victory: On 75 Years of Al-Nakba
By Benay Blend In a podcast several days ago on YouTube former Senator from Minnesota Al Franken explained that Israel was the original Jewish homeland, but “of course, it wasn’t a perfect solution because the […]