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The Andalus Test: Reflections on the Attempt to Publish Arabic Literature in Hebrew
Should a visitor from another planet happen to arrive here and look around at the reality between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea without the usual lenses of distortion, she would see that in Israel/Palestine—the land stretching from the river to the sea which has been under one rule for over forty years—almost half the population is Palestinian Arab and Arabic is their mother tongue, as well as that of nearly half of the Israeli Jewish population. Should our guest distinguish—as does the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, as well as the Israeli academy and media—between Israeli citizens and occupied Palestinian subjects, she would find that within the ...
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 »Palestinian Hunger Strikers: Fighting Ingrained Duplicity
![[Palestinians hold photographs of their relatives jailed in Israel during a support rally for Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 5, 2012. Image by Majdi Mohammed/AP Photo.]](/content_images/3/sm_LadiesStriking.jpg "[Palestinians hold photographs of their relatives jailed in Israel during a support rally for Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 5, 2012. Image by Majdi Mohammed/AP Photo.]")
On his seventy-third day of hunger strike, Thaer Halahleh was vomiting blood and bleeding from his lips and gums, while his body weighs in at 121 pounds—a fraction of its pre-hunger strike size. The thirty-three-year-old Palestinian follows the still-palpable footsteps of Adnan Khader and Hana Shalabi, whose hunger strikes resulted in release. He also stands alongside Bilal Diab, who is also entering his seventy-third day of visceral protest. Together, they inspired nearly 2,500 Palestinian political prisoners to go on hunger strike in protest of Israel's policy of indefinite detention without charge or trial. Administrative detention has constituted a core of Israel's ...
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 »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 »Khalil al-Wazir: Paving the Way of Armed Struggle
![[Abu Jihad coordinates with fedayeen (Palestinian guerrilla fighters) during the siege of Beirut in 1982. Image from Ahram Archive.]](/content_images/3/sm_Khalil_Bdeir_Main_pic_1.jpg "[Abu Jihad coordinates with fedayeen (Palestinian guerrilla fighters) during the siege of Beirut in 1982. Image from Ahram Archive.]")
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, the security establishment in Israel did not believe that Palestinians were capable of organizing a resistance movement. Operations by the fedayeen (Palestinian guerrilla ...
Keep Reading »Something of Palestine Emerges
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2012 London Palestine Film Festival. 20 April – 3 May 2012. For more information and a complete schedule of films, click here. Each year, for the two weeks of the London Palestine Film Festival, there are a bunch of people whose social life for that fortnight becomes the festival. Others dip in and out, while still others see a Palestinian film or a film about Palestine perhaps for the first time. Each year the program is rich and eclectic, ranging from animations to documentaries to features, from conventional to experimental. Here I consider six films out of the more than fifty works to be screened at the 2012 festival. Each deserves its own review and singular ...
Keep Reading »Video: Palestine & Law Panel on "The State Question"
![[The Panelists. Photo by Maher Abdelqader.]](/content_images/3/sm_nouraecolumbia.JPG "[The Panelists. Photo by Maher Abdelqader.]")
[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 »Reading Fanon in Palestine/Israel
The fiftieth anniversary of the death of revolutionary, writer and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon was commemorated this past December. In late February, the not-so-revolutionary judge Asher Grunis was elected President of the Israeli Supreme Court. The fanfare that accompanied Grunis’ inauguration was an opportunity to extol Israeli democracy by playing out the ritualized Supreme Court induction ceremony. Yet, there was a disquieting stink about the celebration. Mum among the lot of Hatikva-singing judges was Justice Salim Jubran, the Arab. His refusal to join the chorus likely stemmed from not identifying with the lyrics, "as long as in the heart, within, a ...
Keep Reading »Press Release: Stop Home Demolitions and the Displacement and Dispossession of the Arab Bedouin in the Naqab on Land Day 2012
![[Land Day in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. Photo by the International Solidarity Movement, Palestine.]](/content_images/3/sm_3407468773_5f8ae2a1fb_z.jpg "[Land Day in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. Photo by the International Solidarity Movement, Palestine.]")
[The following press release was issued by Adalah--The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel on 27 March 2012.] 30 March 2012 is the thirty-sixth Land Day. The first Land Day began as a general strike in 1976 to protest Israel's policy of confiscating Arab land, and ended with the killing of six Palestinians from Sakhnin and Arrabeh by Israeli security forces. Israel continues to displace and dispossess Palestinian citizens of their land, with the government-initiated Prawer Plan Law (Law for the Regulation of Bedouin Settlement in the Negev 2012) being the most recent iteration of government policy. On Land Day 2012, Adalah calls on Israel to cancel the ...
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 ...
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 »Roundtable on Iran Crisis, Part 1: War on Iran in 2012?
President Barak Obama’s triumphal proclamation of a US military victory in Iraq upon the December 2011 withdrawal of all US armed forces from that country made it possible for the unelected makers of American national security policy to focus attention on Iran, a nation high up on any list of US enemies since 1979. Indeed, from November 2011 until March 2012, the rhetoric of senior political leaders in both the United States and Israel about Iran’s alleged efforts to develop a nuclear weapon fueled a ...
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 ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Gilbert Achcar, Eichmann in Cairo: The Eichmann Affair in Nasser's Egypt
Gilbert Achcar, “Eichmann in Cairo: The Eichmann Affair in Nasser's Egypt.” Arab Studies Journal Vol. XX No. 1 (Spring 2012). Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this article? Gilbert Achcar (GA): The story of this article resembles that of my book The Arabs and the Holocaust, of which it can be seen as a sequel. In both cases, the initial impulse of writing was not the evolution of my ongoing research, but a fortuitous circumstance. The prelude to the book was a request made to me a few years ago to ...
Keep Reading »مأساة نبيّة؛ أو، تفاصيل فشل عودة البنت الضائعة
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 ...
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 »Carceral Politics in Palestine and Beyond: Gender, Vulnerability, Prison
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 ...
Keep Reading »Press Release: Adalah, Bimkom, the RCUV and Arab Bedouin Living in the Naqab File Objection to Plans for Israeli Army "Intelligence City"
[The following press release was issued by Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel on 25 March 2012.] (Beer el-Sabe, Israel)--On 19 March 2012, six residents of unrecognized Arab Bedouin villages in the northern Naqab (Negev) filed an official objection (Hebrew) with the Southern District Planning and Building Committee in Beer el-Sabe (Beer Sheva) to government plans to build "Intelligence City". The Israeli army plans to consolidate ...
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