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Al Jazeera Management Orders Joseph Massad Article Pulled in an Act of Pro-Israel Censorship
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[The following report and analysis was published by Ali Abuminah of Electronic Intifada on 19 May 2013.] In an unprecedented act of political censorship Al Jazeera English has deleted an article by noted Columbia University Professor Joseph Massad after coming under intense criticism from Zionists in recent days. Massad told The Electronic Intifada that he had “received confirmation” from his editor at Al Jazeera English that “management pulled the article.” The Electronic Intifada was able to independently confirm that the article was pulled. The piece, “The Last of the Semites,” published on 14 May, was taken down from the main Al ...
Keep Reading »Buckling to Bigotry: The Newseum Dishonors Murdered Palestinian Journalists
![[Newseum Chief Executive Officer James C. Duff speaks during the Journalist Memorial Rededication of 88 journalists who died reporting the news in 2012, at the Newseum in Washington, May 13, 2013. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)]](/content_images/3/sm_AP254157428908.jpg "[Newseum Chief Executive Officer James C. Duff speaks during the Journalist Memorial Rededication of 88 journalists who died reporting the news in 2012, at the Newseum in Washington, May 13, 2013. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)]")
Just two days before Palestinians were to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, the names of two Palestinian cameramen targeted and killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza in November 2012 were dropped from a dedication ceremony held to honor “reporters, photographers and broadcasters who have died reporting the news” over the past year. The move followed an Israel lobby pressure campaign
Keep Reading »On the American Association of University Professors' Opposition to Academic Boycotts
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On 10 May 2013, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) issued a “Statement on Academic Boycotts” which states, not for the first time, its “opposition to academic boycotts as a matter of principle.” The statement was issued in response to two recent victories for the movement for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel: physicist Stephen Hawking’s recent announcement that he would not attend a major conference in Israel, and the Association for Asian American Studies’ (AAAS) adoption of a resolution at their national conference in April to endorse the academic boycott. As the momentum for the academic boycott of Israel builds globally, the AAUP seems ...
Keep Reading »An Ongoing Displacement: The Forced Exile of the Palestinians
![[Crop from below infograph by Visualizing Palestine]](/content_images/3/sm_vppalestinedit.jpg "[Crop from below infograph by Visualizing Palestine]")
15 May 2013 marks the sixty-fifth anniversary of the Nakba, when 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from the territory that became Israel. In 1948, Zionist forces ethnically cleansed more than fifty percent of the entire Palestinian population. In commemoration of the Nakba, and the displacement that continues today, Visualizing Palestine has released this new visual: "An Ongoing Displacement." The new visual quantitatively catalogues the multiple dimensions of Palestinian displacement and loss of land.
Keep Reading »النكبة، هنا، الآن
![[لوحة للفنانة الفلسطينية تمام الأكحل]](/content_images/3/sm_tamam4.jpg "[لوحة للفنانة الفلسطينية تمام الأكحل]")
النكبة، هنا، الآن في الذكرى الخامسة والستين للنكبة، ارتأينا أن نعيد قراءة معاني وتردّدات تلك الأشهر المعدودة بين شتاء 1947 وصيف 1948، التي شكّلت الحاضر الفلسطيني؛ بتقسيماته السياسية والجغرافية والديموغرافية والاجتماعية والطبقية. إن تمثيل وتمظهر القضية الفلسطينية في الوعي الفلسطيني والعربي والعالمي، هو أحد أهم الجوانب التي تستوجب التوقف عندها وتمعّنها. وما نقصده بالتمثيل هنا ليس معناه السياسي الضيق، وإنما المعنى الأوسع الذي يشمل إنتاج وإعادة إنتاج القضية الفلسطينية معرفياً وخطابياً في مجالات عدّة: في السياسية والبحث الأكاديمي والأدب والفن، كما في القانون وفي الواقع الفلسطيني المعاش. وبما أن تمثيل فلسطين والفلسطيني ومعاني هذا التمثيل، لا تقع بمعزل عن السياسة العامة التي ...
Keep Reading »الفردوس الذي اجتاحه الأشرار وتنازل عنه السماسرة
![[صورة فوتغرافية لمدنية طبريا في فلسطين قبل النكبة]](/content_images/3/sm_tabariya.jpg "[صورة فوتغرافية لمدنية طبريا في فلسطين قبل النكبة]")
[”الفردوس الذي اجتاحه الأشرار وتنازل عنه السماسرة“، هو أحد العناوين التسعة التي توزعت في كتاب “أنيس صايغ عن أنيس صايغ” للكاتب أنيس صايغ – عن دار رياض الريّس (بيروت، 2006). تقدم "جدلية" هنا مقطفات من هذا الكتاب الذي يعد مادة ثرية لا عن الحياة الاجتماعية والسياسية في فلسطين قبل النكبة فحسب، بل أيضاً عن مدنها وحياتها المدنية التي كثيراً ما يتم المرور بها مرور الكرام. في هذا المقطع يتحدث عن الحياة في مدينته طبريا التي ولد وعاش بها قبل النكبة عام 1931. ] تتناقض شهرة طبريا مع مقومات شهرة مدينة ما ومع معايير الأهمية التي تتحكم في تقييم موقع سكاني معين. فلا تعداد السكان حالياً أو عبر التاريخ ولا المساحة ولا الصناعة ولا الزراعة أهلت طبريا لأن تتبوأ ...
Keep Reading »النكبة الفلسطينيّة ليست غزوة أحد
![[أحد ملصقات حركة حماس]](/content_images/3/sm_aqssa.jpg "[أحد ملصقات حركة حماس]")
لم تثمر دعوات الإخوان المسلمون ورسائلهم إلى رؤساء الحكومة المصريّة المتعاقبين والتي دعت إلى مخاطبة «الحليفة بريطانيا» ومطالبتها بضمان استقلال وكرامة فلسطين؛ البلد العربيّ المسلم، كما ولم تسفر العلاقة الحميمة التي جمعت حسن البنا (1906-1949)؛ مؤسس الجماعة، بمفتي عموم فلسطين أمين الحسيني (1895- 1974) عن أيّة تحركات عملانيّة على نطاق واسع؛ إذ كان واضحًا أنّ النشاط الدعويّ، وحملات الدعم النفسي والمالي وحلقات التوعية التي نفذها الإخوان في أرجاء مصر الملكيّة إبّان إضراب الستة أشهر، وقبيل النكبة، إنما جاءت على هامش الهمّ الأساسي للجماعة التي كانت آنذاك في طور تحوّلها من جماعة دعويّة، إلى كيان مخفيّ يسعى، بشكل أو بآخر، للامساك بزمام الأمور. أمّا في فلسطين، فكانت مجلّة ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Joel Beinin, Mixing, Separation, and Violence in Urban Spaces and the Rural Frontier in Palestine
Joel Beinin, “Mixing, Separation, and Violence in Urban Spaces and the Rural Frontier in Palestine.” Arab Studies Journal Vol. XXI No. 1 (Spring 2013). Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this article? Joel Beinin (JB): It grew out of a conference on late Ottoman Palestine at the University of Lausanne. I was invited to make a link between the democratic possibilities opened by the 1908 Young Turk Revolution and the state of affairs one hundred years later. We tend to think we have made a lot of progress since then. With respect to the question of co-existence of the ethno-national and religious communities in Palestine, it seems the opposite has occurred. J: What ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (May 9)
![[Feb. 9, 2012. A Syrian woman stands among the rubble of her house, destroyed by a Syrian Army mortar, in al-Qsair. Image by Freeedom House.]](/content_images/3/sm_6955483453_cd1825888c_z.jpg "[Feb. 9, 2012. A Syrian woman stands among the rubble of her house, destroyed by a Syrian Army mortar, in al-Qsair. Image by Freeedom House.]")
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup to OIL@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every other week.] News Obama Hints at US Military Action at Syria as Administration Readies Lethal Aid Options, Associated Press Barack Obama has indicated his administration will consider US military action in Syria should substantial evidence suggesting the Assad regime has used chemical weapons emerge. Gazan Killed After Israeli Is ...
Keep Reading »Expanding the Legal Paradigm for Palestine: An International Law Conference at Birzeit University
![[A view of the separation wall in the West Bank, Palestine. Image by Wall in Palestine (Flickr)]](/content_images/3/sm_4326628016_fb3ed36a42.jpg "[A view of the separation wall in the West Bank, Palestine. Image by Wall in Palestine (Flickr)]")
The settlement project in the West Bank is not just a collection of rickety caravans installed on Palestinian farmland that can be dismantled upon the signing of a peace agreement. Costing seventeen billion USD and populated by more than half a million Israelis, this enterprise has become a huge colonialist and real estate enterprise. It sprawls across twelve million square meters of roads, homes, and factories on some of the most important Palestinian geographic and agricultural land. This construction includes 32,000 apartments, 23,000 private homes, and an additional 868 public facilities to satiate the Israeli settlers’ social and economic needs. A simple look ...
Keep Reading »Always with the Oppressed: A Farewell to Akiva Orr 1931-2013, Humanist, Radical, Heretic
![[Akiva Orr (center) as a seaman in the 1950s. Courtesy of Akiva Orr Archive]](/content_images/3/sm_akivaschmelz1.jpg "[Akiva Orr (center) as a seaman in the 1950s. Courtesy of Akiva Orr Archive]")
In February 2013 I participated with a small group of Israelis and Arabs in bidding farewell to Akiva Orr. I could not help recalling our first meeting nearly forty five-years earlier and my mind went back to the genealogy of individuals and events stretched across geography and time that had originally led me to his door in London, soon after my return from my first visit to Israel...and to Palestine. Though many of them never knew each other directly, in my mind, the thread linking them together (as well as my meeting with Akiva Orr) was a shared stance within radical politics. It was one based on a stubborn attachment to a host of universal values and solidarities ...
Keep Reading »The Pitfalls of Democratic Elections in Palestine
![[Image of man voting in 2012 local Palestinian elections. Image by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung.]](/content_images/3/sm_8124802829_46e60820f1_o.jpg "[Image of man voting in 2012 local Palestinian elections. Image by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung.]")
In the post-colonial era, struggles for democracy have increasingly been seen and presented as necessary to fulfill the aborted promises of national liberation. Particularly since the end of the Cold War, electoral democracy has come to be viewed as the most effective mechanism to confront the usurpation of states, resources, and indeed independence by autocrats and narrow, self-selected elites. In a world where dictatorships of both the individual and party variety have generally approached governance as the challenge of subordinating institutions to their will, excluding the citizen from a meaningful role in decision-making, and keeping foreign sponsors satisfied in ...
Keep Reading »الليبرالية الفلسطينية أمام القضاء الإسرائيلي
لا لتلك "النكبة: الليبرالية الفلسطينية أمام القضاء الإسرائيلي. يعود معنى المساواة لغوياً إلى حتمية وجود طرفين مختلفين تتم المساواة بينهما، بمعنى جعلهما متعادلين. انطلاقاً من هذا المنطق تعمل إسرائيل منذ عقدين على الأقل على الدفع باتجاه التعادل في العلاقة بينها وبين "الآخر" الفلسطيني، وذلك عبر توسيع رقعة النقاش الدائر بين الفلسطيني والإسرائيلي الصهيوني حول كنه العلاقة التي تجمعهما. في هذا التعامل في القضايا التي تحدد هوية العلاقة، محاولة لتحديد معالم المعادلة كنقاش بين طرفي نزاع (“سخسوخ” ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Maya Mikdashi, What is Settler Colonialism? and Sherene Seikaly, Return to the Present
Maya Mikdashi, “What Is Settler Colonialism?” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 37:2 (2013) Sherene Seikaly, “Return to the Present,” Elisabeth Weber, editor, Living Together: Jacques Derrida’s Communities of Violence and Peace. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write these pieces? Maya Mikdashi (MM): I had visited my mother's family in Michigan and gone to the reservation for a holiday. Prior to this trip and to reading through ...
Keep Reading »The Palestinian Museum: An Agent Of Empowerment And Integration For Palestinians
On 11 April 2013, the Palestinian Museum celebrated its groundbreaking ceremony in Birzeit, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The museum, the largest in Palestine, will be dedicated to celebrating the history, culture and society of modern and contemporary Palestine. A flagship project of the Welfare Association, a leading not-for-profit that provides development and humanitarian assistance in Palestine since 1983, the Museum is set to open in 2014. In this interview, Omar Al-Qattan, the ...
Keep Reading »Nakba 2013: The Palestinian Youth Movement Commemorates 65 Years of Al Nakba (Introduction)
The fifteenth of May 2013 marks the sixty-fifth commemoration of the day the oppressive Zionist state came into being. It also marks sixty-five years from the beginning of our collective fragmentation and simultaneous resistance. This current period that we are living also marks a significant shift in our history not only as Palestinians, but as Arabs, colonized, and young people of today’s world. While there are strong sentiments of brokenness and rupture of Palestinian and Arab ...
Keep Reading »حول استبعاد النكبة الفلسطينية من دراسات الصدمة
حول استبعاد النكبة الفلسطينية من “دراسات الصدمة“ (Trauma) في البداية سأقدم لكم سرداً للاجئة من سوريا (تم تسجيله 6 آذار/مارس 2013، في مخيم عين الحلوة في لبنان): كان عمري ست سنوات ونصف عندما غادرنا [فلسطين]. كنا في وادي سلامة قرب بنت جبيل، بين جبلين، نجلس تحت أشجار الزيتون. كان الناس يحصدون القمح. كانت أمي تغطيني بالقش. جاءت الطائرات الإسرائيلية وقصفت أشجار الزيتون والصبار. قصفوا كل شيء. قُتل عمي. إلى أين نستطيع الذهاب؟ نمنا على الطريق [وهي تبكي]. ...كان عمري ست سنوات ونصف. رمى الجنود اللبنانيون ...
Keep Reading »استمرارية بعد تمزق: الحضور الغائب لدير ياسين
استمرارية بعد تمزق: الحضور الغائب لدير ياسين في فيلم ”لم يُصنع“ (Unmade Film) ”لم تكن الأسلحة الصهيونية الموجهة إلينا مجرد عائق مادي. لقد كانت تذكيراً قاتلاً بأن مدينتنا لم تعد سوى ذكرى؛ حلم بأننا الآن قد عدنا إلى نقطة الصفر. فلتتمع بالمشهد إن كنت تستطيع ذلك وسط آلاف المشردين. إلا أنك قد تم اقتلاعك من الجذور. فكتبك وأفكارك ورؤاك: لم تعد سوى مؤشرات عبثية في عالم تتفوق فيه القوانين العبثية.“ جبرا إبراهيم جبرا قد تكون التفاهة (banality) أبرز ما ما يميز الجهود الاسرائيلية لتشكيل تاريخ ...
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Keep Reading »The Palestinian Economy in East Jerusalem: Enduring Annexation, Isolation, and Disintegration
[The following report was issued by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on 9 May 2013.] The Palestinian Economy in East Jerusalem: Enduring Annexation, Isolation, and Disintegration Executive Summary With the onset of occupation in 1967, Israeli authorities began to pursue a policy of physical, political, and economic segregation of East Jerusalem from the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT), which continues apace today. Segregation ...
Keep Reading »Statement by Palestinian Youth Movement on Refugee Camps in Syria
[The following statement was issued by the Palestinian Youth Movement on 6 May 2013.] The Camps Are Above the Siege In general, the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria, and particularly Yarmouk camp, formed as the capital of the diaspora, are among the largest groups of Palestinian refugees and have been the starting point for many resistance operations, fueling the Palestinian revolution in its various stages and sacrificing many lives for Palestine. The last demonstration of resistance to their ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Monthly Edition (April 2013)
[This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on the Occupations, Interventions,and Law (O.I.L.) Page. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide diverse depictions of O.I.L.-related topics. The pieces reflect the level of critical analysis and diversity that Jadaliyya strives for, but the views are solely the ones of their authors. If you are interested in contributing to Jadaliyya, send us your post ...
Keep Reading »Justice Is Universal: A Panel Discussion on Palestine, Comparative Frameworks, and Solidarity
Though some may find it easy to use terms like “apartheid,” understanding the material relationships that ground the comparison between Palestine and South Africa is a more difficult endeavor. Similarly, the ease with which activists link the struggles of indigenous peoples in the Americas to the Palestinian cause often belies the everyday details that make this relationship so powerful. With that in mind, Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of California Los Angeles organized a panel on ...
Keep Reading »Press Release from Love in the Time of Apartheid Campaign on Extension of Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law
[The following press release was published by the Love in the Time of Apartheid campaign on 23 April 2013.] The Israeli apartheid regime, which calls itself a “democracy”, has extended the racist Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order) for the thirteenth time in 11 years, disregarding the suffering of tens of thousands of Palestinian families On 14 April 2013 the occupation and apartheid government of the State of Israel extended the racist Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law ...
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