Home Zoek
english - zoekresultaten
Wanneer u niet blij bent met de resultaten, kunt u een nieuwe zoekopdracht geven
[Nakba denial] US House Speaker cancels historic Nakba Day event at Capitol building
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / May 10, 2023
Kevin McCarthy cancelled event that was scheduled to feature Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, and said he would instead celebrate 75 years of US-Israel relations.
United States House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has cancelled an event at the Capitol building that was supposed...
Why Israel’s violent Gaza strategy to divide Palestinian resistance will fail
Mohsen Abu Ramadan
Middle East Eye / May 10, 2023
Netanyahu's latest assault on Gaza is a well-worn strategy among Israeli politicians to manufacture unity during times of internal strife.
In the early morning hours on Tuesday, 9 May, Israeli occupation forces launched a brutal military attack on the Gaza Strip, killing...
Shireen Abu Akleh’s colleagues are still waiting for justice
Alice Speri
The Intercept / May 9, 2023
A year after Israel killed the Palestinian American journalist, an FBI probe remains pending, yet the U.S. has gone silent on her death.
At Al-Jazeera’s headquarters in the occupied West Bank, in a high-rise building by Ramallah’s central square,...
Why the Nakba remains an open wound for the Palestinians
Yasir Suleiman
Middle East Eye / May 8, 2023
While the trauma of Al-Nakba (the Catastrophe of 1948) can never be erased, understanding its lasting impact on Palestinians and joining them in their struggle can help ease their generational suffering.
In her book, Unclaimed Experience, trauma scholar Cathy Caruth provides a...
Teaching (post)colonial texts in Palestine
Haidar Eid
Mondoweiss / May 7, 2023
Complicated themes of exile, marginalization, death, and history recur throughout (post)colonial fiction. It is no surprise that Palestinian students in Gaza connect with them on a personal level.
This academic year I am teaching two Palestinian novels and a couple of short stories,...
‘Chilling effect’: Israel’s ongoing surveillance of Palestinians
Usaid Siddiqui
Al-Jazeera / May 7, 2023
Palestinian activists say Israel’s new facial recognition program – exposed by Amnesty International – helps to entrench the occupation further.
For activist Issa Amro, the latest revelations from human rights group Amnesty International about Israel’s ever-growing use of facial recognition technology against Palestinians...
‘Making the desert bloom’: Why Europe clings to the colonial mindset
Emile Badarin
Middle East Eye / May 5, 2023
Comments by Ursula von der Leyen have yet again exposed Europe's racialised structures of power, which question the very humanity of subjugated peoples.
For 75 years, Palestinians around the world have commemorated Al-Nakba (the Catastrophe), which refers to the ethnic cleansing and destruction of Palestinian...
West Bank Dispatch: six Palestinians killed in three days
Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau / May 4, 2023
Over three days, six Palestinians were killed by Israel in the West Bank and Gaza, including veteran Palestinian prisoner and hunger-striker Khader Adnan.
Key developments (May 1 – May 4)
A Palestinian youth was critically injured on Monday, May 1st, when Israeli...
Khader Adnan is free
Mariam Barghouti
Mondoweiss / May 4, 2023
The world lost Khader Adnan after 86 days of hunger strike, and Palestine lost an icon. Yet, in the words of activist Ashira Darwish, “Freedom means that he left the body that they destroyed.”
On May 2, Khader Adnan was found dead in his cell...
The PA protects Israel colonial expansion by promoting the two-state compromise
Ramona Wadi
Middle East Monitor / May 4, 2023
The Palestinian Authority is decades behind in its political approach. Israel is not "continuing" to destroy the two-state paradigm – it has already destroyed it. Ramallah has learnt its lines so well, however, that the international community can depend upon...
