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O.I.L. Media Roundup (17 June)
![[Village of Battir. Image by Idobi. From Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_Batir-1.JPG "[Village of Battir. Image by Idobi. From Wikimedia Commons.]")
[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 "NSA Collecting Phone Record of Millions of Verizon Customers Daily," Glenn Greenwald Greenwald details a secret court order wherein the NSA obtained the communications records of all domestic call data. "Palestine Drops Bid to Register New UNESCO Heritage Site," Ammar Owaineh, ...
Keep Reading »Linah Alsaafin on Social Media and Palestine
![[Image of Linah Alsaafin.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2013-06-07at10.07.31AM.png "[Image of Linah Alsaafin.]")
[This post is part of an ongoing Profile of a Contemporary Conduit series on Jadaliyya that seeks to highlight distinct voices primarily in and from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.] Jadaliyya (J): What do you think are the most gratifying aspects of Tweeting, and Twitter? Linah Alsaafin (LAS): Twitter is a great aspect of citizen journalism. It brings worlds closer, in the sense that people living in different countries can easily interact with each other. One highlight is that mainstream media outlets now consider certain Twitter sources as reputable, such as Robert Mackey from the New York Times blog, The Lede, who uses Storify to recount events, ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Monthly Edition (May 2013)
![[Graffiti in Lyon, France commemorating the Nakba, 2009. Image by Thierry Ehrman.]](/content_images/3/sm_3199069034_531c9508ba_o.jpg "[Graffiti in Lyon, France commemorating the Nakba, 2009. Image by Thierry Ehrman.]")
[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 with your bio and a release form to post@jadaliyya.com [click "Submissions" on the main page for more information] مقابلة مع القيادي في حركة الجهاد الإسلامي ...
Keep Reading »Alone: Palestinian Children in the Israel Military Detention System (Video)
![[Alone: Palestinian Children in the Israeli Military Detention System. Image from screen shot of below video.]](/content_images/3/sm_Palestinianchildrendetentionscreenshot.png "[Alone: Palestinian Children in the Israeli Military Detention System. Image from screen shot of below video.]")
The following video was produced by Defense of the Children International (DCI). It depicts Israel's methods and practices of detaining Palestinian children. Quotes from the Video "Since 1967, Palestinians from the West Bank have lived under Israeli Military law. This Law is different from the civil law applied to Israelies living in the same territory." "7,500 Palestinian children are estimated to have been detained, interrogated and imprisoned within this military system since the year 2000."
Keep Reading »Right of Return Conference at Boston University: Realizing Return In Practice
![[Image of Noura Erakat at Right of Return Conference at Boston University. Crop of Screencap from Video Below.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2013-05-27at3.36.25AM.png "[Image of Noura Erakat at Right of Return Conference at Boston University. Crop of Screencap from Video Below.]")
On 6-7 April 2013, activists, scholars, and community members converged at Boston University to participate in the Right of Return Conference at Boston University. The last Right of Return Conference took place in Boston more than a decade ago, and featured the late Edward Said as its keynote speaker. This Conference is especially critical at this juncture as the Oslo Peace Accords turns twenty, and in the direct aftermath of President Barack Obama's first visit to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory in his two-year term. The Oslo Accords sought to establish two ethno-nationally homogenous states as a remedy to ...
Keep Reading »يافا والموسيقى و"فوائد" النكبة
تنشر هذه المادة ضمن إتفاقية شراكة وتعاون بين ”جدلية“ و“معازف“ معازف: عند حدوث النكبة كان عمرك ١١ سنة، وكنت - بفضل علاقات والدك مع الموسيقيّين - معرّضاً للمشهد الموسيقيّ في فلسطين ذاك الوقت. هل يمكنك أن تصف لنا المشهد الموسيقي في فلسطين قبل النكبة؟ الياس سحاب: ولدت في مدينة يافا بأواخر العام 1937، أي قبل ولادة "دولة إسرائيل" بأحد عشر عاماً، لأمٍّ فلسطينيّة إنجيليّة وأب لبناني ماروني كان قد ولد في بيروت في العام 1907، لكنه قضى عمره حتى نكبة 1948 في يافا. حتى توفي في بيروت في أواخر العام 1991 وهو ما يزال يتحدث باللجهة الفلسطينيّة اليافيّة داخل بيته وخارجه. عشت في يافا مع شقيقي سليم (قائد أوركسترا بدار الأوبرا بالقاهرة حالياً)، وفكتور (دكتور في ...
Keep Reading »Letter Concerning San José State University Response to Attacks Against Professor Persis Karim After Conference on Teaching the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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[The following letter was issued by the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA).] 16 May 2013 Dr. Mohammad Qayoumi President San José State University Office of the President Tower Hall 207, One Washington Square San Jose, CA 95192 Dear President Qayoumi: We are writing on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) and its Committee on Academic Freedom to express concern about the response of San José State University to the ongoing controversy surrounding the April 19, 2013 workshop for high school teachers and community college faculty on teaching the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ...
Keep Reading »Association for Asian American Studies Resolution to Support the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions
[The following resolution was issued by the General Membership of the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) on 20 April 2013. Below the text of the resolution is a letter issued by the President of the AAAS on 3 May 2013 explaining his support for the resolution.] Resolution to Support the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions Issued by the General Membership of the AAAS Whereas the Association for Asian American Studies is an organization dedicated to the preservation and support of academic freedom and of the right to education for students and scholars in the U.S. and globally; and Whereas Arab (West Asian) and Muslim American ...
Keep Reading »Jadaliyya's Occupation, Intervention, and Law Page Resonates
![[Smoke rises after an Israel air strike in Gaza Strip December 28, 2008. Image by Amir Farshad Ebrahimi.]](/content_images/3/sm_3159000205_e0dd7e9262_o.jpg "[Smoke rises after an Israel air strike in Gaza Strip December 28, 2008. Image by Amir Farshad Ebrahimi.]")
Since launching in July 2010, the Occupation, Intervention, and Law (O.I.L) page has made rich contributions to the field of studies examining the Middle East, armed conflict, law, and human rights. O.I.L has sought to explore the relationship between, and the debates within, the fields of armed conflict, politics, and international law. These debates include developments in international law; the implications of intervention; the legitimacy, or lack thereof, of resistance; the political economy of conflict; war profiteering; and the humanitarian dimension of war and peace, associated movements, and related forces. In less than three years, we have published 497 ...
Keep Reading »الليبرالية الفلسطينية أمام القضاء الإسرائيلي
![[المحكمة الإسرائيلية العليا. الصورة كم كوقع إوسترالينز فور باليستاين]](/content_images/3/sm_supremecourt.jpg "[المحكمة الإسرائيلية العليا. الصورة كم كوقع إوسترالينز فور باليستاين]")
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” بالعبرية)، يتحاوران في جملة من القضايا التي تشغلهما. عليه، فلا يمّل الإسرائيليون من جرنا من آذاننا للإنصات إليهم ومحاورتهم بانفتاح. في هذه المعادلة يطمح الإسرائيلي إلى ...
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 »مقطع من رواية أطفال الندى
[مقطع من رواية "اطفال الندى" للكاتب محمد الأسعد عن دار الفيل القدس، 2013. اضغط هنا للمقابلة مع الكاتب] "حين كان الأطفالُ يعطشون كنّا نجمع الندى بأكفّنا من أوراقِ الشجر ونسقيهم". وحين اختلفت الطرقُ وتشعّبتْ في الظلمةِ بين الصخور والشجرِ الكثيف، قال والدي: "اتبعوني فأنا أعرف الطريق". لقد ضلّ الكثيرون طريقهم واصطدموا بكمائن يهودية متربصة عند آبار المياه، ومنعطفات الطرق المعروفة. أما والدي فقد اختارَ طريقاً وعراً بين الشجر متجنباً كل الطرق المعروفة. وهكذا انفصلنا عن بقية أهل أمّ الزينات في الطريق إلى الدالية شمالا. ويبدو أن هذا الإنفصال سيسود الرواية كلها، فهنا تتوقف أمّي لتعلن عن خلافات بينها وبين نسوة من العائلة، وينصح والدي الذي تجوّل ...
Keep Reading »Debunking the Myth of the Zionist Left
Tikva Honig-Parnass, False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2011. Aharon Cohen, a senior member of MAPAM, the Israeli United Workers Party, observed in 1948 that “a state based on national enmity and the rule of one people over another will certainly breed chauvinism and reaction in its internal life.” Cohen understood that the relationship between Arabs—Palestinian and non-Palestinian alike—and Israelis would profoundly shape the new state. ...
Keep Reading »Students Against Israeli Apartheid Walk Out from Olmert's Speech
On 4 June, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert visited Washington DC’s Woodrow Wilson Center to offer a so-called “moderate” perspective on Middle East affairs and the Palestinian-Israeli impasse. A DC-area coalition of Palestinian justice activists, led by George Mason University Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA), were there to challenge Olmert and interrupt the Wilson Center’s complicity with the ongoing normalization of Israeli occupation, settler colonialism, and apartheid. Making clear ...
Keep Reading »Fourth National BDS Conference (8 June, Bethlehem University)
Fourth National BDS Conference (Palestinian Boycotts, Sanctions, Divestment National Committee [BNC]) Saturday, 8 June 2013 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Bethlehem University In light of the latest spectacular growth of the BDS movement around the world in the academic, cultural and economic domains, this conference aims to enhance and expand Palestinian civil society’s active implementation of BDS as an effective and popular strategy of resistance that is deeply rooted in the heritage of ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (5 June)
[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 "Israel to Build New Outposts In Jerusalem," Al Jazeera English AJE details Israel's plans to build more than 1,000 settler homes in ...
Keep Reading »Between Hamas and the PA: An Interview with Islamic Jihad’s Khalid al-Batsh
The following are excerpts from an interview conducted in Cairo on 11 July 2012 with Khalid al-Batsh, a senior official of Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Gaza chair of the “Freedom Committee,” established under the Fateh-Hamas reconciliation agreement of May 2011. The full interview covered a range of issues, including the impact of the “Arab Spring” on the Palestinians, the situations in Egypt and Syria, Islamic Jihad’s relations with Fateh and Hamas, and prospects for reform of the Palestinian ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (24 May)
[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 "US Admits Drones Killed Four Americans," Al Jazeera English Video report and text from Al Jazeera detailing a letter from ...
Keep Reading »مسخ الذاكرة
” بلاد العجائب - فنانون إسرائيلييون وفلسطينييون - الصراع السياسي في الفن“ هو عنوان المعرض الذي أقيم في العاصمة الألمانية برلين بين شهري كانون الثاني ونيسان الماضيين في صالات مختلفة، قبل أن ينتقل إلى البرلمان الأوربي في العاصمة البلجيكية بروكسل ومنه إلى مدن أوربية أخرى. يشارك في المعرض خمسة وثلاثون فناناً وفنانة إسرائيليين وفلسطينيين، من الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة عام 67 و 48 أضافة إلى مشاركة شاعر إسرائيلي وكاتب فلسطيني. صاحبت المعرض الدعاية وصخب أهل السياسة، من الألمان ...
Keep Reading »From al-Araqib to Susiya: Forced Displacement of Palestinians on Both Sides of the Green Line
On Nakba Day, 15 May 2013, Palestinians marked the passing of sixty-five years since the massive forced expulsion of Palestinians from their national homeland. The Nakba commemorations demand reflection not only on the “catastrophe” of the loss of life, land, and property in 1948, but also on Israeli policies that are still dispossessing Palestinians of their land today, sixty-five years later. In a new film (view below), Adalah captures the stories of two Palestinian villages, Al-Araqib and ...
Keep Reading »Al Jazeera Management Orders Joseph Massad Article Pulled in an Act of Pro-Israel Censorship
[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 ...
Keep Reading »ما هي النكبة؟
ما هي النكبة؟ تستدعي مفردة النكبة (أو الكارثة) إلى الذاكرة تأسيس دولة إسرائيل على أرض فلسطين عام 1948 عن طريق طرد أكثر من نصف سكان فلسطين التاريخية، وتدمير التراث الفلسطيني، والمؤسسات الاجتماعية والسياسية في الاراضي المحتلة. إن الاجابة الممكنة عن سؤال حول معنى النكبة في الزمن الحاضر يمكن أن نجدها في حوارات الذاكرة الجمعية الفلسطينية، خصوصاً تلك الموجودة في مخيمات اللاجئين الذين تم طردهم خارج حدود فلسطين التاريخية عام 1948. في حوارات الذاكرة الجمعية هذه، لا نجد النكبة كمؤشر واضح على الكارثة التي حاقت ...
Keep Reading »فلسطين: النكبة مستمرّة
في كل 15 أيار/ مايو من كل عام، يشج الخطيب على منصّة إحياء يوم النكبة رؤوسنا باقتباس من قيادات إسرائيلية مؤسِّسة تقول عنّا أن "الكبار سيموتون والصغار سينسون". نحتفي بأنفسنا ونصفّق ونحن نتذكّر نكبتنا، ونحن نفنّد هذه المقولة الصهيونيّة العابرة في هذه القرية المهجّرة أو تلك. هذا هو إنجازنا العظيم بعد 65 عاماً من الهزيمة: إننا نتذكّر. "تذكُّرُ النكبة" نقطةً إشكاليّة، أولاً لأن تفنيد الاقتباس الإسرائيلي يبدأ من نقطةٍ تُسَلِّمُ بمنطقه الاستعماري، بأن الشعوب تنسى مع الوقت. هكذا، ...
Keep Reading »كتب: أطفال الندى
["كتب" هي سلسلة على صفحات "جدلية" نستضيف فيها المؤلفين والمؤلفات في حوار حول أعمالهم الجديدة ونرفقه بمقطع من الكتاب بعد المقابلة] ["اطفال الندى" للكاتب محمد الأسعد عن دار الفيل، القدس، 2013.] جدلية: رواية “أطفال الندى” هي رواية عن النكبة، عن ذلك اليوم الذي تهجرت به عائلتك من قرية أم الزينات الواقعة على سفح جبل الكرمل، هل هي إذن سيرة ذاتية فردية؟ وما هي مدلولاتها في السيرة الفلسطينية؟ محمد الأسعد: لا أنظرُ إلى هذه الرواية على أنها "سيرة ذاتية ...
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