Solidarity with Palestine in Stadiums: When Sports and Politics Conjoin
Today, Palestinian sports unions and clubs are scattered across major Palestinian cities such as Jaffa, Gaza, Jerusalem, and Haifa.
Israel’s Mass Surveillance of Palestinians Is More Than an Obsession
During my conversations with Palestinian Nakba survivor Ahmad Alhaaj, who now resides in Gaza, he told me that the Zionist movement had recruited a Yemeni Jew named Ali to work as a spy and that he posed as a Palestinian imam leading the Muslims of the town of Al-Majdal (today’s Ashkol) in their prayers.
To Whom It May Concern: Turkey’s Counter-Spy Operations Send Messages
The Turkish-Israeli relations have deteriorated since the Davos Economic Summit in 2009 when then prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan interrupted Israel’s president Shimon Perez, criticizing Israel’s killing of Palestinian children on the beaches of Gaza.
Olive Harvest in Palestine: Could Oil Become Tears?
In the Gaza Strip, some people use the expression “The cross has materialized,” to declare the start of the olive harvest season.
Raids, Arrests and Death Threats: Israel’s Strategy of Silencing Human Rights Defenders
” Despite intense Israeli and western pressure, the last hurdle in the way of the investigation was removed last February, as the ICC has finally approved the Prosecutor’s request to open legal proceedings regarding war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories, including Gaza.
“I was Fired from the University of Bristol Despite Being Cleared of Anti-Semitism” – An Interview with David Miller
However, many of these groups have been created in the last eight or nine years, especially since 2014 when the Israeli 51-day attack on Gaza took place, where many more pro-Israel organizations were founded in this country than previously.
Israel’s No-State Solution in Palestine: How Should the Palestinians Respond?
The Palestinian people are still struggling to build their own state 73 years down the road, living today as a diaspora, in refugee camps in neighboring countries, or in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip with almost no rights.
Family Unification Law: How an Israeli Law Divides Palestinian Families
n June of this year, the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, failed to pass a law extending a ban on family unifications for Palestinian families, both those living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and those holding Israeli passports.
A Shared Struggle: How A Book Brought Palestinian and Irish Hunger Strikers Together
The Gaza Strip today is accurately characterized as an open-air prison, and curtailing freedom of movement through checkpoints, the Apartheid Wall, closed military zones, curfews, and other methods is a salient feature of life for Palestinians in the West Bank.
“I Escaped Israel’s Prisons Three Times” – An Interview with Hamza Younis
We entered the orange orchard and headed to Gaza.
Six Palestinian Prisoners Tunnel Out of Israeli Prison
Read: Why Irish and Palestinian Hunger Strikers Choose Self-SacrificePalestinians have received the news of the escape with celebrations - some are distributing sweets in the streets of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
The Morality of Violence in Settler-Colonial Contexts: From Algeria to Palestine
The Great March of Return in the Gaza Strip is another example of how Israel responded to Palestinian engagement in non-violent resistance, with Israeli snipers killing 214 Palestinian, and injuring 36,000 others, while many were intentionally shot in the knee to be maimed.
Biden Won’t Treat Saudi Arabia Like a “Pariah”
The Biden administration worked closely with Egypt amid the 11-day Gaza-Israel war of May 2021.
Will Turkey Delimitate Its Maritime Borders with Egypt and Palestine?
As the potential delimitation will be based on the coasts of the Gaza Strip, the political division inside the state of Palestine creates the issue of who the “legitimate legal authority” is to sign such an agreement with Turkey.
Watching Their Land Shrinking and Their Freedoms Restricted, Palestinians Take Initiative
The Oslo Accords have turned the West Bank and the Gaza Strip from occupied territories to disputed territories.
Israeli Jewish Zionist Patriotism from a Palestinian-Jewish Perspective
, born in Jerusalem before Israel’s creation, founded Physicians for Human Rights-Israel 33 years ago As someone who has worked tirelessly her entire life for human rights and equality in historic Palestine, I wanted to hear her views about the radicalization of Jewish Israeli youth, especially in light of the most recent Israeli aggression in Gaza and the West Bank and the mobs attacking Palestinians in mixed Israeli cities.
With Jerusalem, Hezbollah Is Now Playing Catch-up
The latest events in May in the West Bank and Gaza, however, signal that a resurgent Palestinian resistance along the lines of nationalism, is threatening the ability of external actors — including Tehran — to co-opt the cause for its own benefit as it has in the past, including via proxy actors.
We Cannot Use Victimhood to Justify Victimizing Others: An Interview with Alice Rothchild on Facing the Israeli Racism in Palestine
s the echoes of the global reaction to the recent human rights violations in Sheikh Jarrah and Gaza continue worldwide, Politics Today interviewed the renowned Jewish American author, physician, and human rights activist, Alice Rothchild, on how to interpret the transition from the oppressed to the oppressor and the challenges of defining, discussing and reporting the settler-colonialism in Palestine as well as the ways forward for meaningful peace advocacy and solidarity.
What Travel Restrictions Reveal about Palestinian Life under Israeli Occupation
Having moved to Gaza upon her marriage to my father, she had to change her address, which meant that she had to give up her West Bank ID.
Israeli Jewish Extremism and Radicalization in the 21st Century
Suicide bombings and missiles from Gaza were the vehicles that allowed Israel to justify itself as the victim.
