Twelve years after his death, the works of Mahmoud Darwish are still being published
Middle East Monitor / August 10, 2020
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish died on 9 August 2008. He was known as the poet of love, the poet of resistance and the poet of Palestine.
Darwish was born in 1941 in the Palestinian village of Birwa which was located on the outskirts of Acre, Palestine....
Coping with the scorching sun
Ruwaida Amer
The Electronic Intifada / August 10, 2020
In Gaza, we call them the “blockade years.”
For the past 13 years, more than two million people in the Gaza Strip have suffered constant electricity cuts because of Israel’s suffocating siege that has drastically limited the supply of fuel and seen the...
Emboldened by promises of annexation, Israeli settler attacks soared in July
Yumna Patel
Mondoweiss / August 3, 2020
According to data gathered by Mondoweiss, there were at least 25 reported incidents of Israeli settler violence against Palestinians since the unofficial July 1st deadline to annex the West Bank passed.
It has been one month since Israel’s unofficial July 1st deadline to annex the...
Israelis do not support Palestinian equality
Asa Winstanley
Middle East Monitor / August 8, 2020
It is a common platitude amongst some of the weaker parts of the Palestine solidarity movement that “Israelis want peace” and do not support their government’s policies of oppression against the Palestinians and other Arabs peoples.
But the facts simply don’t bear this...
