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مغزى التصاريح الإسرائيليّة
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في الوقت الذي تزداد فيه الحكومة الإسرائيليّة تطرفًا وتعنتًا إلى حد إفشال كل الجهود والمبادرات الرامية إلى استئناف المفاوضات وإحياء ما يسمى "عمليّة السلام"، وشن حملة متواصلة من وزير الخارجيّة الإسرائيلي ليبرمان ضد الرئيس "أبو مازن" مطالبًا باستبداله، لأنه يشن حملة ديبلوماسيّة وقانونيّة ضد إسرائيل، ويهدف إلى التوجه إلى الأمم المتحدة فيما يعتبر إرهابًا ضد إسرائيل. وفي الوقت الذي تسابق فيه إسرائيل الزمن وتكثف من تطبيق مخططاتها العدوانيّة والتوسعيّة والاستيطانيّة والعنصريّة، والتي بلغت مستوى غير مسبوق بإطلاق يد المستوطنين لنشر الخراب والتدمير والاعتداءات المتواصلة والمتصاعدة ضد المواطنين الفلسطينيين وممتلكاتهم ومزروعاتهم. في هذا الوقت بالذات؛ أصدرت سلطات ...
Keep Reading »Ghassan Kanafani: The Symbol of the Palestinian Tragedy
![[Ghassan Kanafani (1936-1972). Photo from as-safir.com]](/content_images/3/sm_Kanafani.jpg "[Ghassan Kanafani (1936-1972). Photo from as-safir.com]")
As I recall, the year was 1966. We ran to the Nasr Cinema hall in Gaza City to attend a literary seminar held during a conference for the Union of Palestinian Writers. A surprise would unfold whose beauty far surpassed the conference which came together to elect an executive committee and then adjourned. The conference MC announced that they had invited the young writer Ghassan Kanafani. A thin, handsome young man went to the podium to speak in a language that combined dream with reality in an ambiance that was more akin to a dream. He told us about "beautiful" poetry that he received from "the other side" which had become mysterious. Our press ...
Keep Reading »Cinematic Occupation
Kamal Aljafari, Port of Memory. France/Germany/UAE/Palestine, 2009. In the state of siege, time becomes place Fossilized in its eternity In the state of siege, place becomes time Lagging behind its yesterday and its tomorrow —Mahmoud Darwish, “State of Siege” Kamal Aljafari’s film Port of Memory (2009) opens with a long tracking shot of a grand, decaying house at twilight. The camera lingers on the skin of this structure that bears traces of other times and previous inhabitations. The footage feels like a memorial for a building that may not live much longer: we see a floorboard of what was once a balcony, recesses where there were stairs, and the remnants of ...
Keep Reading »وقوع الغريب على نفسه
يحتل سؤال الهوية الشائك مساحة كبيرة في رواية 'سارق النوم: غريب حيفاوي' (دار الجمل) للكاتبة الفلسطينية المقيمة في برلين، ابتسام عازم. وتتبلور إشكاليات الهوية في العنوان الفرعي 'غريب حيفاوي'، والذي يطابق اسم الشخصية الرئيسية التي تسرد أحداث الرواية، والذي يحمل دلالات وأبعاداً رمزية يتردد صداها في زوايا النص وتفاصيله. فبينما تحيلنا مفردة 'حيفاوي' إلى ارتباط راسخ بالمكان والأرض والجغرافيا، فإن الأسم الأول، 'غريب، يذكرنا باغتراب الفرد ونفيه داخل الوطن الذي يعيش فيه على الهامش، لأن المتن تحتله دولة قامت وتقوم على أنقاض غريب وأهله. وهكذا نجد غريب يبحث مطولاً عن معاني اسم 'فلسطين' وتاريخها ونجده مهووساً بالأراشيف، وبالتاريخ كسجل وبالأحداث التي تلقي بظلالها على البشر وحيواتهم. ...
Keep Reading »Campaign Against the Prawer Plan: Learn and Take Action
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In September 2011, the Israeli government approved the Prawer Plan for mass expulsion of the Arab Bedouin community in the Naqab (Negev) desert. If fully implemented, this plan will result in the forced displacement of up to seventy thousand Arab Bedouin citizens of Israel and the destruction of thirty-five “unrecognized” villages. Despite the Arab Bedouin community's complete rejection of the plan and strong disapproval from the international community and human rights groups, the Prawer Plan is happening now. More than a thousand homes were demolished in 2011 and in August a special police force is slated to officially begin implementing the plan, and ...
Keep Reading »UN Committee Against Torture Releases List of Issues for Israel
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[The following press release was issued by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel on 18 July 2012 in response to the UN Committee Against Torture's publication of a list of issues to be addressed by Israel. An Israeli response to these issues must be submitted by December 2013.] 37 of 59 Questions Regarding Israel’s Compliance with the Convention Against Torture Relate to Issues Raised in NGO Report In June 2012, the United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) posed 59 questions to Israel regarding its compliance with the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Israel ratified this ...
Keep Reading »"The Jews of Our Time?": Israel's Deportation of the South Sudanese
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Planeloads of South Sudanese refugees from Israel have been landing in South Sudan’s capital of Juba over the past few weeks. Many of them had been living in the poor neighborhoods of Hatikva and Shapira in southern Tel Aviv, working in such jobs as hotel chambermaids or waiters. Israel has justified the deportations with the explanation that because South Sudan seceded from Sudan in July 2011, the refugees can now return to their home country without fear. Their calls deliberately disregard ongoing violence between Sudan and South Sudan as well as aggression between rival South Sudanese groups. The Interior Ministry announced that the South Sudanese would ...
Keep Reading »BDS at 7: Celebrating, Reflecting, and Further Mainstreaming
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[The following statement was issued by the Palestinian BDS National Committee on 9 July 2012.] Occupied Palestine, 9 July 2012 – Seven years after the Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel was launched, the global BDS campaign has become stronger, more widespread, more effective and certainly more diverse than ever—a true cause for celebration by all those groups and conscientious citizens of the world who contributed to this success. However, Israel’s intensifying violations of international law and basic Palestinian rights, the direct threat Israel poses to the freedom of peoples across the region, and the ...
Keep Reading »Open Letter from Anti-Normalization Groups at the AUB Opposing 2012 Commencement Speaker
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[The following open letter was organized by "anti-nomalization groups" at the American University of Beirut (AUB). It was originally published on the Sawt al-Niswa website on 21 June 2012. Click here to read the letter from the AUB Office of the President in response to this and other similar statements opposing the commencement speaker.] Can AUB find only those Complicit with Zionism to Honor? An Open Letter from anti-normalization groups at the AUB In the lead-up to last year’s AUB graduation, over one hundred of the university’s faculty members voiced their principled opposition to the bestowal of an honorary doctorate upon a former World Bank president ...
Keep Reading »Symbols of Nakba, Visions of Return: Al Majdal Special Issue on the Nakba and Resistance
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For peoples engaged in struggle, the potency of symbolism is undeniable. In the Palestinian case, the symbols of struggle cover the world throughout which we have been dispersed, and exhibit the depth of a century-old quest for freedom. Among the most potent of these symbols is the kufiyyeh, a headdress associated with the 1936-1939 Rebellion against British occupation and Zionist colonization. Large metal keys have become emblazoned in the Palestinian collective memory, because refugees carried the keys to their homes to which they were sure they would return. Other symbols include Naji al-Ali’s Handhala, a caricature character with the spiky hair of a hedgehog bearing ...
Keep Reading »The Andalus Test: Reflections on the Attempt to Publish Arabic Literature in Hebrew
Should a visitor from another planet happen to arrive here and look around at the reality between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea without the usual lenses of distortion, she would see that in Israel/Palestine—the land stretching from the river to the sea which has been under one rule for over forty years—almost half the population is Palestinian Arab and Arabic is their mother tongue, as well as that of nearly half of the Israeli Jewish population. Should our guest distinguish—as does the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, as well as the Israeli academy and media—between Israeli citizens and occupied Palestinian subjects, she would find that within the ...
Keep Reading »عين على المخيم
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بلغ عدد اللاجئين المسجلين لدى الانوروا (وكالة الأمم المتحدة لإغاثة وتشغيل اللاجئين الفلسطينيين) نهاية عام 2011، حوالي 5.1 مليون لاجئ فلسطيني، يشكلون ما نسبته 45.6% من مجمل السكان الفلسطينيين في العالم، يتوزعون بواقع 59.1% في كل من الأردن وسوريا ولبنان، و17.1% في الضفة الغربية، و23.8% في قطاع غزة. يعيش حوالي 29.0% من اللاجئين الفلسطينيين في 58 مخيماً. وتمثل هذه التقديرات الحد الأدنى لعدد اللاجئين الفلسطينيين باعتبار وجود لاجئين غير مسجلين. هذه الصور التقطتها عدسة محمد مواسي في اذار/مارس من العام الجاري في مخيم برج البراجنة. تقوم ”جدلية“ بنشرها للفت الإنتباه والتذكير بمحنة اللاجئين في الذكرى الرابعة والستين للنكبة. أُنشئ مخيم برج البراجنة ...
Keep Reading »InCABI Statement on India-Israel Free Trade Agreement
[The following statement was issued by the Indian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel on 24 August 2012.] We, a group of academics, activists, and artists in India, came together in 2010 to campaign against yet another apartheid regime by extending support to the international campaign for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel. (Visit our website www.incacbi.in for more information.) In yet another instance of India turning a blind eye to Israel’s ...
Keep Reading »خمس كاميرات مكسورة
”نفذت التذاكر“ كتب على شباك بيع التذاكر في سينما ”فيلم فورم“ في نيويورك لأحد العروض الافتتاحية للفيلم الوثائقي الفلسطيني ”خمس كاميرات مكسورة“ بحضور المخرجين عماد برناط وجاي دفيدي. وحتى هؤلاء الذين اشتروا تذاكر مسبقة للعرض، وقفوا بالصف ليتمكنوا من الدخول قبل غيرهم ويختاروا المقاعد الأفضل، فالتذاكر غير مرقمة في القاعة التي تتسع لمئتي مقعد تقريباً. بدأ عماد برناط إبن مدينة بلعين التصوير عام 2005، ولم يكن يفكر آنذاك أن التصوير العائلي الذي بدأه في البيت سرعان ما سيتحول ليصبح توثيقاً لكل ما يحدث في بلعين، ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Khaled Furani, Silencing the Sea: Secular Rhythms in Palestinian Poetry
Khaled Furani, Silencing the Sea: Secular Rhythms in Palestinian Poetry. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Khaled Furani (KF): Growing up in thrall to Israeli policies aimed at diluting and obliterating the Palestine that was, I saw in Arabic poetry “what remains,” to quote from Hannah Arendt’s reminiscences of the Germany she once knew (reverberating in Ghassan Kanafani’s novella and Walid Khalidi’s compendium). In the Arab world, poetry has ...
Keep Reading »Bulgaria Bombing Catches Country Unprepared
It has been almost two weeks since the bombing in Burgas, Bulgaria, that killed five Israelis and one Bulgarian, and the investigation has still not yielded answers. Foreign security agents and experts flooded the country to help local authorities trace the organisers. One newspaper alleged that the Israeli secret services have completely taken over the investigation and are blocking out their Bulgarian counterparts, which is putting in question whether the Bulgarian public will ever know the truth about ...
Keep Reading »Responding to "The Atlantic" Smear on Mondoweiss
Armin Rosen's attack on Mondoweiss on the Atlantic website is about nothing more than policing the discourse on Israel. Rosen’s article on alleged anti-Semitism is a shoddy attempt at smearing Alex Kane, Mondoweiss and Peter Beinart. It was sparked by the fact that a mainstream publication, The Daily Beast(on Beinart’s Open Zion blog), had the audacity to publish two articles by Alex that speak in favor of the boycott, divestment and sanctions ...
Keep Reading »Beyond US Exceptionalism: Stephen Walt and America's "Core Values"
In a recent post entitled “What’s going on in Israel,” Stephen M. Walt effectively undermines the “claim that Israel has always been interested in a fair and just peace.” Walt, like many others, notes the persistence of this “pernicious narrative.” On Israeli policy, he concludes the following: What is going on, in short, is slow motion ethnic cleansing. Instead of driving out Palestinians out by force – as was done in 1948 and 1967 – the goal is simply to make life increasingly untenable over time, ...
Keep Reading »Academics Call on EU Commission to Exclude Israeli Companies from EU-Funded Research
[The following letter was issued by the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine to the EU Commisioner for Research, Innovation and Science on 10 July 2012. The letter was signed by 250 academics from over fourteen different countries, mainly in Europe but also inlcuding the United States and elsewhere. It urges the European Commission to take action to prevent Israeli arms companies and other companies involved in abuse of Palestinian human rights from participating in EU-funded research ...
Keep Reading »The Palestinian Authority, UNESCO, and the Illusion of Triumph
Over one weekend, two seemingly incongruous sets of images dominated the news from Palestine: one set displayed local tourism operators and Palestinian Authority (PA) officials in Bethlehem celebrating the designation of the Nativity Church as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The other set of images, coming from Ramallah, showed PA police and thugs beating protestors, who had taken to the streets in anger over a scheduled (but later cancelled) Ramallah meeting between Israel’s Vice Premier Shaul Mofaz and ...
Keep Reading »لهثات في وجه زمن لا يتركنا نستريح
تقول الأخبار إن الرفات الواحدة والتسعين كانت، لعشرات السنين، في ”مقبرة الأرقام“! هل لنا من زمن آخر لا نمر فيه على نشرات الأخبار كرقم من الأرقام؟ *** تلاحقني صورة العجوز الذي انحنى يقبل جمجمة ابنه أو ابنته… بصمت يبكي، هناك في وطن لا يرحمنا، ولا نرحمه. ما أقسى الصورة وما أتفه الكلمات. هل تخجل الرفات من دمعه؟ تعب الصراخ من الصراخ وارتعب البكاء فهرب، من إحمرار العيون وانتفاخها، إلى أن غطتها الجفون. ما أصعب أن نرى عجوزاً يبكي! تلاحقني صورة العجوز الذي انحنى يقبل جمجة ابنه أو ...
Keep Reading »Without Principle, There is Nothing: On the Undignified Politics of the American Task Force on Palestine
[The following statement was issued by the US Palestinian Community Network on 19 May 2012 in response to the event of and ensuing discussion around the participation ATFP's Ziad Asali in an Israeli "Independence Day" celebration.] Across the shatat and in the homeland, Palestinians marked the 64th anniversary of the Nakba of 1948 in a multitude of ways. We rallied, we held vigils, and we took a quiet moment to remember, reflect, and mourn. On this anniversary, we particularly honored ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Past Is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine
Omar Jabary Salamanca, Mezna Qato, Kareem Rabie, and Sobhi Samour, editors. Past Is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine. Special Issue of settler colonial studies 2.1 (2012). Jadaliyya (J): What made you put together this special issue? Editors (E): This open-access (and therefore freely accessible) special issue emerges out of a conference we organized in early March 2011, convened by the SOAS Palestine Society. The impetus for the conference came from two main directions. First, we all work on ...
Keep Reading »سروة ونكبة...
قصة قصيرة ليلة مقمرة، لا أقل ولا أكثر. وأشجار سرو، كانت تؤرقني كلما تأملتها. كانت تحيط بساحة المدرسة وتبدو لي تافهة مكتوفة الأيدي، غير قادرة على تحريك أغصانها بحرية. وكنت أعتقد ألا نفع منها، لا بثمر ولا بظل، إلا بسهولة رسمها في كراريسنا. أشجار سرو، تحوطني هذه الليلة ولكن ليس في ساحة المدرسة. تترنح ذات الشمال وذات اليمين، وكأنها تعاكس الريح. أما أنا فكنت بطيء النمو ونحيفاً مثلها وربما هذا ما جعلني أُكثر من تأملها وأنا لم أقطع سنواتي العشر بعد. كنا ننام أربعتنا، أنا وأختي ندى ووالداي، منذ ليال خمس ...
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