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![[حيفا، حديقة البهائيين في حيفا محاطة بأشجار السرو. المصدر ويكيبديا]](/content_images/3/sm_Haifa_Shrine_and_Port.jpg "[حيفا، حديقة البهائيين في حيفا محاطة بأشجار السرو. المصدر ويكيبديا]")
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 في كوخ يطقطق المطرعلى صفيحه فينزل على مسامعي كرمي حجارة من السماء. أبي قال إنهم يحيطون بحيفا وآمن لنا أن ننام في البيارات، إلى أن تهدأ الأمور ونعود إلى بيتنا في ...
Keep Reading »Boycotting the Equality Forum: Statement by Professor Katherine Franke (Director of Columbia Law School Center for Gender & Sexuality)
![[Image from pacbi.org]](/content_images/3/sm_Image-BDS-Symbols.jpg "[Image from pacbi.org]")
[Below is the text and video of the statement issued by Katherine Franke in relation to her endorsement of the academic boycott of Israel. Franke is the Director of the Columbia Law School Center for Gender and Sexuality.] Remarks to the Equality Forum World Summit 2012 Panel on Legal Issues, 4 May 2012 Hi, I’m Katherine Franke from Columbia Law School, and I’m sorry I can’t join you today in person at the Equality Forum’s panel on legal issues, I want to thank you for indulging my presence by video. As you no doubt know, the Equality Forum has chosen Israel as it’s featured nation this year, and for that reason I thought this was a good opportunity to talk a little ...
Keep Reading »Desmond Tutu: Justice Requires Action to Stop Subjugation of Palestinians
[The following op-ed was written by Archbishop-Emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa, Desmond Tutu and published in the Tampa Bay Times on 1 May 2012.] A quarter-century ago I barnstormed around the United States encouraging Americans, particularly students, to press for divestment from South Africa. Today, regrettably, the time has come for similar action to force an end to Israel's long-standing occupation of Palestinian territory and refusal to extend equal rights to Palestinian citizens who suffer from some 35 discriminatory laws. I have reached this conclusion slowly and painfully. I am aware that many of our Jewish brothers and sisters who were so instrumental ...
Keep Reading »No Boycotts Here: Veolia's Booming Business from OPT to KSA
![[Image from leedspalestineblog.org.uk]](/content_images/3/sm_leedspalestineblog.org.uk.png "[Image from leedspalestineblog.org.uk]")
Veolia, a publicly owned French company that provides environmental services in the fields of water, waste management, energy and transportation, has long been the target of one of the most successful Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns for its violation of Palestinian human rights. In the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), Veolia has facilitated the Israeli occupation by building and operating a tram-line which links Jerusalem with illegal settlements in the West Bank, by dumping waste from Israel and illegal settlements on Palestinian land at the Tovlan landfill, and by providing wastewater treatment to several illegal settlement, including Modi’in ...
Keep Reading »مأساة نبيّة؛ أو، تفاصيل فشل عودة البنت الضائعة
![[الفنانة الفلسطينية أنيسة أشقر خلال عرض في حيفا. تصوير دان مدورسكي]](/content_images/3/sm_1.AnisaAshqar.jpg "[الفنانة الفلسطينية أنيسة أشقر خلال عرض في حيفا. تصوير دان مدورسكي]")
إنّ تتبّع مسارات الأعمال الفنّـيّة ومواقع عرضها في فضاء اجتماعيّ ما، قد يدلّنا الكثير عمّا يجري في عمليّة انتاج تداول واستهلاك هذه الأعمال في هذا الفضاء. بهذا لا يمكننا أن نفهم الحركة الحداثيّة المتأخّرة التي تحتّم، أحيانًا، انتقال جزء من أعمال الفنّ من حائط المتحف، إلى أنواع فضاء اجتماعيّة أخرى جديدة، دون أن نبحث في ما يحصل في المجتمع العينيّ. وعندما نستطيع أن نحدّد الفضاء الجديد بأنّه الفضاء المعيشيّ العامّ، مثل الشارع أو المقهى أو الدوّار وما شابهها، فإنّ العلاقة الأساسيّة بين المؤسّسة الرسميّة المكعبة البيضاء النظيفة، والحياة اليوميّة المُعاشة تصبح هي لبّ المقولة في هذه الأعمال الفنّـيّة الأدائيّة. من نافل القول أنّ الفنّ يحمل الاجتماعيّ فنّـيًّا، ويقاس بما هو كذلك ...
Keep Reading »Does International Law Shelter States from Accountability?
Regrettably, states’ power to protect themselves and to ensure impunity has continued to grow in recent years. This paper discusses two recent examples of this political trend: the far-reaching reaction to Judge Baltasar Garzon’s legal decision not to apply the 1977 Spanish Amnesty Law to crimes against humanity committed during the Franco regime, and the recent International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on state immunity according to which a state is immune from jurisdiction before foreign national courts, even in cases involving civil responsibility for international crimes. It also briefly notes relevant legal developments in the European Court of Human Rights and ...
Keep Reading »Beautiful Water Day
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Nearly 70,000 Arab Bedouin citizens of Israel live in thirty-six unrecognized villages in the Naqab. The State of Israel deliberately limits access to water in these villages, as well as all other basic services, as a means of forcing the Bedouin to give up their just land claims and move to government-planned townships, the poorest in Israel. As the Bedouin community struggles to remain on their ancestral land, most villagers obtain water via improvised, plastic hose hook-ups or unhygienic metal containers, which transport the water from a single water point located far from their homes, causing health risks and daily hardships. The health ramifications ...
Keep Reading »So What If Iran Has The Bomb?
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Whether it is simply a product of political jockeying associated with the US presidential election season or a "real" concern of the institutional networks that constitute the US foreign policy establishment, there has been a marked increase in the rhetorical—and even the practical—mobilization around Iran's potential nuclear capabilities. Initially, such mobilizations centered on the question of whether and to what degree Iran would grant weapons inspectors access to its nuclear program. Lately, the discussion has shifted to a debate about which set of coercive measures can prevent Iran from acquiring weapon-grade nuclear technology. Importantly, this shift ...
Keep Reading »غزة والبديل الدموي
![[كاريكاتير للفنان الفلسطيني ناجي العلي]](/content_images/3/sm_NajiAlAliPalestinecartoon.jpg "[كاريكاتير للفنان الفلسطيني ناجي العلي]")
هل استعاض نتنياهو عن مشروعه الدموي في ايران بضرب غزة؟ هل الاحباط الذي واجهه في واشنطن بسبب تريث الادارة الامريكية وعدم موافقتها على توجيه ضربة عسكرية لايران الآن، دفعه الى اشعال جبهة غزة؟ ماذا يريدون من غزة اليوم؟ ولماذا افتعلوا هذه المعركة الآن؟ من الواضح ان اسرائيل تجد نفسها في حيرة امام التغيير الذي يجتاح العالم العربي. صديقها المصري تهاوى، كما ان بدائله، رغم محاولات المجلس العسكري المصري التلاعب بالسلطة، ليست واضحة او مضمونة. كما انها تواجه الحيرة على الجبهة الشمالية. فالنظام السوري، على الرغم من وحشية آلته القمعية يترنح، والاسرائيليون يعلمون ان اي بديل لن يضمن لهم هدوء جبهة الجولان مثلما ضمنتها العائلة الأسدية. فكان مشروعهم البديل هو الهجوم على ايران الذي يحقق ...
Keep Reading »The Hunger Strike Defeated the Secret Evidence: The Case of Khader Adnan
![[Protester marching in support of Khader Adnan in Ni'ilin, West Bank,17 February 2012. Image by Friends123]](/content_images/3/sm_khaderadnanarticleasd.jpg "[Protester marching in support of Khader Adnan in Ni'ilin, West Bank,17 February 2012. Image by Friends123]")
With a hunger strike lasting 66 days, Khader Adnan, a Palestinian baker from the village of Arabeh in the West Bank, successfully undermined the seemingly incontestable system of administrative detention in Israel and revealed the injustice of secret evidence. Administrative detention, a form of punishment in which a person can be detained on the basis of secret evidence and held in prison without charge, is based on three sources of law: Military Order No. 1591 Regarding Administrative Detention – 2007 that applies in the West Bank; the Emergency Powers (Detention) Law - 1979 that applies in Israel; and the Internment of Unlawful Combatants Law - 2002. Most ...
Keep Reading »Searching for the Arab Spring in Ramallah
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A year has passed since Arab youth took to the streets demanding freedom and dignity, unleashing a long-awaited revolution. As authoritarian regimes fell in Tunisia and Libya, were shaken in Egypt, and are struggling fiercely in Yemen and Syria, I went searching for the Arab Spring in Ramallah, looking for the reverberations of the Arab uprisings on Palestine. Euphoria as much as apprehension accompanied me as I looked for the promise of a revolution devoid of any grand ideology, a revolution about freedom and rights, inclusive of everybody—Christians and Muslims, Islamists and liberals, young and old—if only for a short while. On 15 March 2011, just over a month after ...
Keep Reading »نداء الأسير خضـر عدنـان إلى العالم
![[أسرى فلسطينيون في السجون الإسرائيلية. المصدر وكالة ميلاد الإخبارية]](/content_images/3/sm_21_220175729.jpg "[أسرى فلسطينيون في السجون الإسرائيلية. المصدر وكالة ميلاد الإخبارية]")
نحوعمل تضامني دولي ينطلق في يوم الأسير الفلسطيني (17 نيسان/ أبريل) " أؤكد على أن إضرابي عن الطعام، ليس من أجل قضيتي كفرد، إنما من أجل قضية أبناء شعبي، ومئات الأسرى الإداريين المحرومين من أبسط حقوقهم". هكذا كتب الأسير خضر عدنان، في رسالة مناشدة أطلقها من على سرير مستشفى الرملة الإسرائيلي، في الحادي عشر من شباط/فبراير الجاري، وأضاف أنّ الجنود الإسرائيليين يسيئون معاملته، ويقيّدون أقدامه بالسلاسل الحديدية، ويشدّونها إلى قضبان السرير، وهو خائر القوى لا يقوى على الحِراك، في حين ينظر العالم إلى تدهور حالته الصحية، دون تحريك ساكن، كما قال. وتابع أن على المجتمع الدولي، والأمم المتحدة، الضغط على إسرائيل من أجل إلزامها باحترام حقوق الإنسان، والكف عن المعاملة ...
Keep Reading »Love Bomb: How Deep Is Israel's Love for Iran?
If you follow the news in the Middle East, you have probably come across the online sensation known as the “Israel-Loves-Iran” campaign. The campaign, launched by Israeli graphic designer Ronny Edry and his wife Michal Tamir, emerges amidst rising tensions between Iran and the West over the country’s nuclear program, as well as months of sabre-rattling between the leaders of Israel, the United States, and Iran. What started out as a campaign to upload colourful posters with the slogan “Iranians, we ...
Keep Reading »In Defense of UCLA Professor David Shorter and All Scholars Who Support the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
[The following open letter was issued by the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) on 1 May 2012.] In Defense of UCLA Professor David Shorter and All Scholars Who Support the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel In March 2012, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin and Leila Beckwith, the co-founders of an anti-Palestinian organization known as the “Amcha Initiative,” emailed a letter to California politicians and administrators of the University of California that accused ...
Keep Reading »US-Based Professors Respond to NYT Ad Accusing Professors and BDS Movement of Inciting Murder of Jewish Children
[The following letter to the editor was submitted on 28 April, 2012 to the New York Times in response to an advertisement paid for by the David Horowtiz Freedom Center that appeared in the Op Ed section of the 24 April, 2012 edition of the NYT. It was also reproduced here. The advertisement is posted below, after the list of signatories to the letter.] To the Editor: We are professors who teach in universities across this country. We are appalled at the advertisement by the David Horowitz ...
Keep Reading »Khalil al-Wazir: Paving the Way of Armed Struggle
It took Israeli intelligence over two decades and many assassination attempts before they managed to hunt down the PLO’s military mastermind Khalil al-Wazir. On the 24th anniversary of his death, Al-Akhbar recounts his story. When Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad) began his endeavor in the early 1950s, Israeli intelligence had no idea he existed. At the time, he was the twentysomething leader of the Palestinian al-Haq Brigade in Gaza. His family had been displaced from Ramleh in 1948. Back then, ...
Keep Reading »Judith Butler: Boycott Politics and Global Responsibility (Video)
The following is a video of a lecture given by Judith Butler, entitled "Boycott Politics and Global Responsability," wherein she discusses the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement in solidarity with the Palestinian people. The lecture was given at Tufts University and co-sponsored by the school's Antrhopology, Sociology, English, and Peace and Justice Studies departments. Butler is a professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley. The video is in two parts.
Keep Reading »شظايا ذاكرة: عن المكان في يوم الأرض
نعود إلى الأرض مرة كل عام في يومها. منذ عام 76 نعود وكأننا نواسي أنفسنا في هذا اليوم (1) بمظاهرات كي نتذكر أننا ما زلنا على هذه الأرض، التي يسحقنا العيش فيها رغم جمالها. تضيق بي فلسطين وتتسع في ذات الآن. تضيق عندما أرى عيشنا فيها، وتتسع عندما أرى كم هي غنية وجميلة، هذه البقعة الصغيرة. وهي ليست أجمل بقاع الأرض، ولا أغناها، لكنها البقعة الأجمل في عينيّ لأنني أحبها بكل قباحتها التي أراها كلما عصرني شعور بالذل، وكلما شعرت بالغربة داخل بلادنا التي تمكنت من البقاء فيها، ليس لشيء ولكن لأن الصدف شاءت أن ...
Keep Reading »The Problem of Privilege
“To believe in a democratic Jewish state today is to be caught between the jaws of a pincer,” writes Peter Beinart in his widely circulated and hotly debated op-ed. Indeed -- but it was ever thus. Today the pincer is not, as Beinart would have it, the incongruity of the “democratic Israel” inside the Green Line and the “undemocratic Israel” outside it. It is the discrepancy between the notions that Israel -- whether a Greater Israel encompassing West Bank settlements or the pre-1967 Israel for ...
Keep Reading »On Israeli Attacks and Gaza Ceasefires: Democracy Now! Interview with Ali Abunimeh
As Israel and Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip reportedly agree to a ceasefire after four days of cross-border violence, we speak with Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the online publication, “The Electronic Intifada.” Earlier today, an Egyptian official said both sides have pledged to end current attacks and implement "a comprehensive and mutual calm." Israel’s latest strikes on Gaza killed at least 25 Palestinians. At least 80 Palestinians were also wounded, most of them civilians. At least ...
Keep Reading »Occupy AIPAC Photo Essay
Sunday, March 4th was an action-packed day for Occupy AIPAC. From the early hours of the morning, protesters occupied the streets surrounding the convention center to greet conference attendees with signs, chants, artwork, song and dance, and in several instances, attempts to start a dialogue. Despite several hostile encounters with both AIPAC conference attendees and police officers, Occupy AIPAC seemed to only pick up momentum as the day progressed. In what was perhaps the most moving part of the day, ...
Keep Reading »Exploiting a Dynamic Law of Prolonged Occupation: The Israeli High Court of Justice and Israel's Quarries in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
On 26 December 2011, the Israeli High Court of Justice (HCJ) rendered its judgment in a case challenging Israel’s quarrying activities in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) filed by the Israeli human rights organization Yesh Din. The petitioners demanded that the activities be terminated since they violate Israel’s obligation to administer the OPT for the benefit of the local population. Israel started operating quarries in the OPT in the 1970s; today there are ten, eight of which are in operation. ...
Keep Reading »Saving Khader Adnan's Life Saves Our Own Soul
The world watches as tragedy unfolds beneath its gaze as Khader Asnan enters his sixty-third day as a hunger striker in an Israeli prison being held under an administrative detention order without trial, without charges, and without any indication of the evidence against him. From the outset of his brutal arrest by scores of soldiers, featuring blindfolding, cuffing, and physical roughness in the middle of the night, a gratuitous ritual enacted in the presence of his wife and young daughters, Khader ...
Keep Reading »Palestine Diaries
When I told the Israeli border official who interviewed me that I was going to Ramallah, she sneered and wrinkled her brow: “okay.” Why would anyone go there, she seemed to say. There was no mistaking her disapproval. Looking at my US passport, she wanted to know about my family tree: my father's name and my father's father's name. “Tirlok Singh,” I recalled hesitatingly. "I was a baby when he died," I added with a bit more conviction. For a moment, she scrutinized my visage for some ...
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