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سنان أنطون: العراق تعمق فيه تشويه التاريخ
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من يقرأ رواية سنان أنطون «وحدها شجرة الرمان»، سيعتقد أن الكاتب أمضى حياته في عالم الرواية. لا بل سيظن أيضاً أنه تجاوز السبعين من عمره. إذ كيف لشاب في الأربعينات أن يمتلك خبرة حياة متكاملة، كيف له أن يتصالح مع الموت، ويروي لنا أدق تفاصيله كعجوز تعب من الحياة واكتفى. إنها شجرة الرمان، وحباتها اليانعة، الحمراء، الشهية، شربت طوال سنوات الماء الذي ينهمر فوق أجساد الموتى ويسيل متخذاً طريقه إليها. إنه جودي الذي لم يتصالح مع مهنة أبيه رافضاً مساعدته بعملية التغسيل والتكفين ثم تجبره الحياة على الخوض في تلك المهنة المنهكة حد الإعياء. ينام جودي مستمتعاً بكوابيس الليل، يصحو منها على الأقل، بينما كابوس الحياة اليومية لا صحوة منه. إنه الموت بتفاصيله الحميمة التي نتجنب الحديث عنها. إنه ...
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 one aspect of Palestine or another, and each of us has grown distressed by the tendency to treat Palestine as a series of temporal and spatial set pieces. Second, we were ...
Keep Reading »سروة ونكبة...
![[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 »United Methodists Recommend Sanctions & Boycotts; Reject Divestment
![[A committee chairman speaks in favor of divestment. Image from video below.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2012-05-07at10.49.41AM.png "[A committee chairman speaks in favor of divestment. Image from video below.]")
The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation was honored to witness and support an historic vote by the world United Methodist Church (UMC)’s 2012 General Conference (GC), the highest decision-making body of the church, to adopt a resolution: Urging the U.S. government to “end all military aid to the region”; Calling on “all nations to prohibit… any financial support by individuals or organizations for the construction and maintenance of settlements”; and Calling on “all nations to prohibit… the import of products made by companies in Israeli settlements on Palestinian land.” At the same time, the US Campaign regrets that the GC ...
Keep Reading »DC Students Walk Out on Michael Oren
On 30 April, 2012, Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren gave a speech at George Washington University’s Elliott School for International Affairs. Michael Oren served in the IDF during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, served again as the IDF spokesman during Israel’s brutal assault on Lebanon in 2006, and was the media relations officer during the massacre of over 1,200 Palestinians in Gaza in 2008-2009. Now, as the Israeli ambassador to the United States, Oren continues to fill the role of whitewashing Israel’s war crimes and illegal occupation—be it in US news stations, churches, or universities. But the close relationship between Israel ...
Keep Reading »Increase of Inhumane Punishment by IPS for Thousands of Palestinians Classified as “Security Prisoners” in 2011
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4,275 security prisoners are Palestinians from the OPT… fourteen security prisoners are Jewish. According to data that the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) provided to Adalah in a letter on 28 February 2012, there were 19,561 prisoners in detention facilities managed by the IPS, 4,631 of them were classified as "security prisoners." 4,275 of the security prisoners were Palestinians who are living in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza, 340 are Palestinians citizens of Israeli, two were from the Golan Heights, and fourteen were Jewish security prisoners. From the Palestinian prisoners classified as security prisoners who are from the West Bank and ...
Keep Reading »Degrees of Incarceration
When I started shooting for what would become Degrees of Incarceration in 2003, I had no idea that it would entail anything more than a day’s work. I showed up with a camera because a dear friend and colleague asked if I had a day to document a youth play about prisons. I ended up spending the night (leaving Bethlehem by public transportation after 4pm was impractical, my new friends told me) and then regularly returning to the youth center that organized the play. As I got to know the activists who worked on the play, I heard about the night arrest raids that stunned the camp awake on a regular basis, about the youth detentions that took children from school, friends, ...
Keep Reading »Owner of Lacoste, Which Censored Palestinian Artist, is Major Donor to Israel, Zionist Causes
![[A Lacoste storefront. Image by Pavel Ševela. From Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_800px-Lacoste,_Vaňkovka,_Brno.jpg "[A Lacoste storefront. Image by Pavel Ševela. From Wikimedia Commons.]")
[The following was originally published by Electronic Intifada.] One of the largest shareholders of high-end French fashion firm Lacoste is a major donor to Israel and Zionist causes. Lacoste has been at the center of a scandal over the company’s insistence that Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour be forced out of the prestigious Lacoste Elysée Prize in Photography. The Musée de L’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, which administers the prize today took the extraordinary step of canceling the 2011 contest in protest at Lacoste’s insistence that Sansour be excluded. Lacoste has also announced that it will no longer sponsor the contest, which ...
Keep Reading »Video: Palestine & Law Panel on "The State Question"
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[The following was published by the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University] The Center for Palestine Studies has developed a new project on Palestine and Law, which consists of a series of panels with some of the world's leading legal scholars on Palestine. The aim of the series is to promote innovative academic thought on legal questions related to Palestine. The issues covered will include the state question; property issues; from possession to dispossession; the sphere of litigation; the legal status of the refugee; and regimes of imprisonment. The State Question, Panel II This panel of noted legal specialists examined the aftermath of the ...
Keep Reading »Carceral Politics in Palestine and Beyond: Gender, Vulnerability, Prison
![[Event Poster. Image from the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia Univeristy]](/content_images/3/sm_rsz_1carceral.jpg "[Event Poster. Image from the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia Univeristy]")
On Thursday, April 5 at 6PM the Center for Palestine Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University will host the event “Carceral Politics In Palestine and Beyond: Gender, Vulnerability, Prison,” featuring panelists Judith Butler, Angela Davis, Mai Masri, and Lena Meari. This topic has recently been put under the international spotlight by Palestinian detainees who have gone on hunger strike in order to expose the brutality of Israel's prison-detention complex, an important arm of its criminal military and civilian occupation of Palestine. At Jadaliyya we believe that events that highlight such important and critical topics should be ...
Keep Reading »"We are All Palestinian Prisoners": Exclusive Interview with Artist Hafez Omar (VIDEO)
Hafez Omar, the young Tulkarm-based artist and activist, is the man behind many of the images we have come to associate with online Palestinian and Arab revolutionary campaigns--from the hunger striker Khader Adnan's stencil with a lock for a mouth to the late Egyptian Azharite Sheikh Emad Effat killed by the military police in Cairo in December. His most recent design, that of a faceless, blindfolded Palestinian prisoner became a Facebook sensation as thousands adopted it and other variations of the ...
Keep Reading »عين على المخيم
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 ...
Keep Reading »فضيحة بوعلام صنصال تدغدغ الوجدان الاسرائيلي
يشارك الكاتب الجزائري الفرنكوفوني بوعلام صنصال في «مهرجان الأدباء العالمي» الذي تعقده مؤسسة «مشكانوت شأنانيم» في القدس بين 13 و18 أيار (مايو) الجاري. وسيظهر خلاله ضمن ندوة ثنائية تجمع بينه وبين الكاتب الإسرائيلي أ. ب. يهوشواع تعقد في 16 الجاري، وسيكون محورها حوار الثقافات. وعشية هذه الندوة سيشترك في لقاء مفتوح مع الجمهور الإسرائيلي يعقد في المعهد الفرنسي في تل أبيب. وأعرب مدير المؤسسة المنظمة لهذا المهرجان أوري درومي، والذي كان مديراً لدائرة الصحافة الحكومية، عن سروره البالغ لعدم خضوع صنصال للضغوط ...
Keep Reading »Boycotting the Equality Forum: Statement by Professor Katherine Franke (Director of Columbia Law School Center for Gender & Sexuality)
[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 ...
Keep Reading »On the Ground in Basra: An Interview with Hashmeya Muhsin al-Saadawi
Iraqi unions demonstrated yesterday on May Day 2012 at a difficult historical moment. Still operating without a labor law that sanctions their organizing, and under the consolidation of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s growing police/military powers, their movement faces an array of antagonistic forces. In this wide-ranging discussion with Ali Issa, Basra-based Hashmeya Muhsin al–Saadawi, president of the Electrical Utility Workers Union in Iraq, and the first woman vice-president of the General ...
Keep Reading »Why the EU Must Intervene to Stop the Prawer Plan: A Conversation with Dr. Thabet Abu Rass
In early April 2012, Dr. Thabet Abu Rass, the Director of Adalah’s Naqab Office, conducted an advocacy mission to Brussels co-hosted by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), of which Adalah is a long-standing, active member. The purpose of the mission was to call attention to the government-approved Prawer Plan, which threatens to forcibly dispossess and displace the Arab Bedouin community in the Naqab (Negev) from their homes and ancestral lands. In this text, Dr. Abu Rass explains the ...
Keep Reading »No Boycotts Here: Veolia's Booming Business from OPT to KSA
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 ...
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 »Debating Palestine: Representation, Resistance, and Liberation
Palestinians are debating multiple inter-connected questions, including the question of representation, what strategy or strategies to adopt for liberation, the nature of the future state, and our relationship with the Arab revolutions, among others. Some of these questions are being debated in Al-Shabaka policy briefs such as those by Noura Erakat, Jamil Hilal, Haidar Eid, and others. I would like to discuss them through a critical review of our own recent history. To begin with, no ...
Keep Reading »How the PA Enriched an Elite and Normalized Occupation
Khalil Nakhleh, Globalized Palestine: The National Sell-Out of a Homeland. Trenton, NJ: The Red Sea Press, Inc., 2011. Globalized Palestine: The National Sell-Out of a Homeland explores the rise of a new Palestinian elite that works together with international organizations against the will of the majority of its compatriots. The book’s author, Khalil Nakhleh, worked in the development sector as director of the Welfare Association (a Palestinian organization) for more than a decade, as well as a ...
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