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Israel is perennially swept up in religious conflict – yet many of its citizens...

Ilan Ben Zion AP  /  October 5, 2023 MEVASSERET ZION, Israel – Israel is a nation perennially swept up in religious fervor and conflict. And yet, strikingly, a large portion of its population is secular, and even its insular ultra-Orthodox community loses a steady stream of members who tire of...

‘It will turn campus into an army base’: Tel Aviv University to host soldiers’...

Meron Rapoport +972 Magazine  /  October 4, 2023 A collaboration between the Israeli army and TAU has drawn backlash from faculty and Palestinian students decrying the militarization of academia. When students return to Tel Aviv University (TAU) next week for the start of the academic year, they will be joined...

Israel leaders finally react to escalation of anti-Christian attacks by Jewish settlers

Middle East Monitor  /  October 4, 2023 Israeli leaders have reacted to universal condemnation of the surge in anti-Christian hate crime carried out by Jewish settlers in Jerusalem and the Occupied West Bank. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, along with members of his far-right cabinet, who are accused of...

The war against Palestinians on campus keeps getting more absurd

Saree Makdisi The Nation  /  October 3, 2023 It’s become so predictable: Palestinians try to gather at a university and all hell breaks loose. The 2023 Palestine Writes Literature Festival took place as scheduled on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania late last month. The festival—which bills itself as “the only...

For Palestinians, social media influence comes with the threat of prison

Sophia Goodfriend +972 Magazine  /  October 2, 2023 The persecution of activists like Ramzi Abbassi illustrates Israel’s escalating attempts to stifle Palestinian expression online since May 2021. On the evening of April 2, 2023, Ramzi Abbassi, a prominent Palestinian journalist and social media influencer, drove back to his home in...

Memoirs of an Arab-Jew

Marc Martorell Junyent Informed Comment  /  October 2, 2023 Review of Avi Shlaim, Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew (London: Oneworld, 2023). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Avi Shlaim is an Israeli-British scholar who has authored six books on the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the role played in...

Refugees pick up pieces after Ain al-Hilweh fighting

Amena al-Ashkar The Electronic Intifada  /  October 2, 2023 After months of intermittent but deadly clashes and failed ceasefire agreements, mid-September saw yet another such truce agreed in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in Southern Lebanon. I hurried there on 16 September to take advantage of the calm between the...

The liberated space of Palestine Writes 

Nicki Kattoura Mondoweiss  /  September 28, 2023 The Palestine Writes Literature Festival was a liberated space for Palestinians to speak and dream freely. It was an unequivocal display of love for a land and her people, their history and their future. During the second Palestine Writes Festival this past weekend in...

At the Gaza fence, a protest wave revives hopes of Palestinian mobilization

Mohammed R. Mhawish +972 Magazine  /  September 29, 2023 Despite halting confrontations with Israeli forces, Palestinians appear to be testing the ground for a new popular front in the besieged strip. For the past month, hundreds of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been marching to...

Once again on the question of normalization with Israel

Azmi Bishara The New Arab  /  September 28, 2023 Arab normalization with Israel, motivated by narrow interests, sidelines the Palestinian cause, with moral decay, economic disappointment, and the reinforcement of Israel's settler-colonialism and apartheid its only outcome, writes Azmi Bishara For some reason, the term ‘normalization’ has been...