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Searching for the Arab Spring in Ramallah
![[Skyline of Ramallah. Image from Wikipedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_800px-2010-08_Ramallah_43.jpg "[Skyline of Ramallah. Image from Wikipedia Commons.]")
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 »Palestine Diaries
![[Wall art in Ramallah. Photograph by Nikhil Pal Singh.]](/content_images/3/sm_singh4.jpg "[Wall art in Ramallah. Photograph by Nikhil Pal Singh.]")
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 un-discernible trace, or sign. Then I was allowed in, rather more easily than I had imagined. The road to Ramallah is characteristic of the geography of apartheid. It feels as if ...
Keep Reading »New Raw Deal for Israelis, Old Raw Deal for Palestinians: Labor Zionism and the Israeli Summer
![[Israel Housing Protests Tel Aviv, 27 August 2011. Image by meowArt.com.]](/content_images/3/sm_Screenshot2012-02-12at5.46.15PM.jpg "[Israel Housing Protests Tel Aviv, 27 August 2011. Image by meowArt.com.]")
The vision document produced by the organizers of last year’s “Israeli Summer” demonstrations laments how, “for a number of decades, the various governments of Israel have opted for an economic policy of privatization that leaves the free market without reins.” It called for “ending privatization; increasing rent stipends to those who are entitled to aid; lowering the number of pupils per class; and increasing doctors, hospital beds and equipment in the health system”—all characteristic of the Labor Zionist collectivist state. Indeed, the demonstrations were deeply embedded with nostalgia for Labor Zionist idealism and dissatisfaction with the outcomes of neoliberal ...
Keep Reading »The Academic Boycott on Campus: Breaking New Ground, Gaining Momentum
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[The following statement was issued by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) on 3 February 2012.] In an open letter dated 21 October 2011, Palestinian students wrote to their counterparts across the world, “We hope you put Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) at the forefront of your campaigns and join together for Israeli Apartheid Week: the pinnacle of action across universities worldwide.” [1] The 8th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) constitutes a direct response to this call, at a crucial moment when youth are taking to the streets to combat dictatorships and an international economic crisis marked by ...
Keep Reading »Remapping Palestine and the Politics of Injury
Till Roeskens, Videomappings: Aida, Palestine. Palestine/France, 2009.
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Spring is not here yet. It was a cold and bloody week. Reach out and pluck all the flowers you see—real and imagined—and make a wreath for those who died! And for those who will...for words, and what they stand for. * Rheim Alkadhi's "Pictures from a Camera." * Diyala Najjar translates an excerpt from Ibtisam Azem's The Sleep Thief: Gharib Hifawi. * Gaelle Raphael translates poems from Suzanne Alaywan's The Gazelle's Throw. * Part II of Firas Massouh's translation of Al-Zahawi's "Revolt in Hell." All previous culture posts can be accessed here. Read and forward our Call for Posts. Tell us what you ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Magid Shihade, Not Just a Soccer Game: Colonialism and Conflict Among Palestinians in Israel
Magid Shihade, Not Just a Soccer Game: Colonialism and Conflict Among Palestinians in Israel. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Magid Shihade (MS): One reason was personal. The book begins with a case study of a soccer game between two Palestinian villages: Kafr Yassif, with a dominantly Christian population, and Julis, which is a Druze village. The game ended with a fight between the fans of the two teams and resulted in the killing of two people, one from each village. This took place while the Israeli police, who were present at the game, stood idly by. Three days later, a group of people from Julis launched a ...
Keep Reading »The Israeli Supreme Court's Decision in the Citizenship Law Case HCJ 466/07, MK Zahava Galon v. The Attorney General, et al.
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Raneen, a thirty-six-year-old Palestinian citizen of Israel, is married to thirty-nine-year-old Hatem, a Palestinian from the West Bank. They have been living together in the north of Israel since getting married in 1999, and have three children. They lead a normal family life, with one glaring exception: Hatem has only a temporary residency permit that allows him to stay in Israel for one year. The Interior Ministry has total discretion over whether or not to issue and renew his permit. When Hatem’s current permit expires, he may not be granted another. In such a case, he may be forced to separate from his family. This is the harsh reality created by Israel’s ...
Keep Reading »In Colonial Shoes: Notes on the Material Afterlife in Post-Oslo Palestine
![[Burning garbage in Nablus. Photo by Maria Zerihoun]](/content_images/3/sm_garbageinjenin.jpg "[Burning garbage in Nablus. Photo by Maria Zerihoun]")
A strange and unexpected kind of waste fell across my path as I set out to research what I had neatly packaged for myself as “the politics of waste management in the West Bank.” It was late 2009 when an American friend introduced me to it on one of my first days in Jenin. “Oh, you are interested in trash? You’ll love this place, it is full of it!” And we were off. What struck me most when we finally made our way through an orgy of fresh fruits and vegetables, sold-off stands and carts in Jenin’s hisba market, was the scene of what my friend called the toilet bowl graveyard: rows and rows of porcelain bowls, no seats, out on the open concrete. Most were white, a couple ...
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 »Statement on Hunger Strike of Khader Adnan by Palestinian Human Rights Organizations
[The following statement was issued by the Palestinian Council of Human Rights Organizations on 15 February 2011.] To: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights CC: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Khader Adnan at Risk of Death on 60th Day of Hunger Strike Urgent Call for Action 15 February 2012 As Palestinian organizations dedicated to the protection and promotion of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), we reiterate our most grave concern about the ...
Keep Reading »مفتاح منطقة القلب
كانت فكرة حمقاء... استيقظت اليوم بعد نوم عسير قصير وقررت أن رائحة معجون الحلاقة قد تعينني على ما علق في النفس من قبح أخبار المجزرة. حمقاء أقول... ارتعدتُ مما تنطوي عليه العملية من ضرورة مواجهة عار العجز وجهاً لوجه . هناك حيث القلب، دماء وأشلاء في كل الجهات تفيض من شاشة كمبيوتري الصقيلة الأنيقة على ما بقي من احترام الذات. أقف أمام المرآة ولا أرى أحداً. "حسنٌ إذن... تحسس ذقنك واحلق سريعاً". أفرك الرغوة وأضرب الضربة الأولى... أُجرَح ويسيل دم... أنظر إلى المرآة فأرى نصف وجه دامٍ ...
Keep Reading »Palestinian Intellectuals to Syrian Regime: Not in Our Name!
[The following statement was issued in Arabic by Palestinian intellectuals offering their solidarity with the Syrian people and applying for members to the newly established Syrian Writers Union. It was translated into English and published as such by/on Wadiqratiya. See also the Palestinian rights organization Adalah’s condemnation of the Syrian regime.] It is our honor, as Palestinian writers and signatories to this statement, to request as a group to be inducted into the Syrian ...
Keep Reading »The Golden Handcuffs of Gay Rights: How Pinkwashing Distorts Both LGBTIQ and Anti-Occupation Activism
Israeli democracy, through its promotion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights, offers golden handcuffs—a beautiful gift that comes with control—to Israeli queers. At a lecture in Tel Aviv at the Women’s Peace Coalition, I heard the strain in the voices of queer Israeli activists who are chafing under Israel’s progressive gay rights record. One activist stated, “Apparently, we have won all our rights. It is as if we should be grateful and keep silent about the injustices of the ...
Keep Reading »Beyond Sterile Negotiations: Looking for Leadership with a Strategy
In Search of a Collapsed Palestinian Leadership Palestinian leadership briefly returned to the weathered tables of diplomatic niceties to negotiate a path to negotiations. The return signaled an alarming regression from the confrontational stance the leadership made in September 2011, when it took its case to the United Nations (UN). Then, notably buoyed by President Mahmoud Abbas’s liberation message to the global community, Palestinians thought it possible that the leadership would remove its ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Ben White, Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination, and Democracy
Ben White, Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy. London: Pluto Press and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Ben White (BW): I wanted to write something that would accessibly describe the policies of segregation and discrimination that Palestinian citizens in Israel have experienced since 1948. Many people—even those who are engaged with Palestine/Israel to some extent—are unaware of the ways in which the Palestinian minority ...
Keep Reading »Adalah on Jadaliyya!
Adalah has been at the forefront of promoting and defending the rights of Palestinians in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) for over fifteen years. Its work includes challenging discriminatory and racist laws against Palestinian citizens of Israel, advocating for basic services and against home demolitions and evictions in the unrecognized Arab Bedouin villages in the Naqab (Negev), and pursuing accountability for victims of Israeli military operations in the OPT. Adalah’s lawyers ...
Keep Reading »Law and Family (Non-)Unification in Israel: A Conversation Between Samera Esmer, Taiseer Khatib, and Hassan Jabareen
On 11 January, the Israeli Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the 2003 Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law. This law effectively prohibits Palestinian residents of the 1967 Occupied Territories, who are married to Palestinian citizens of Israel or to residents of East Jerusalem, from entering into Israel for the purpose of family unification. This law was amended in 2007, further prohibiting the entry of spouses who are citizens of Syria, Lebanon, Iran, and Iraq. To explain the concrete ...
Keep Reading »Uproar at PENN over a BDS Conference
A Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions (BDS) conference is set to take place next week at the University of Pennsylvania (PENN). As one would expect, the fact that the conference is taking place has created a furor. The President of the University, Amy Gutmann, released an anodyne statement disavowing any connection with the conference. She released no such statement, however, last year when the faculty and students were incensed about a talk to be delivered on campus by Eric Cantor on the theme of income ...
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