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Juliano Mer Khamis
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Jadaliyya is tremendously saddened to report the murder of Juliano Mer Khamis earlier today. Juliano, 52, who was the Artistic Director of The Jenin Freedom Theater and the co-director of the award-winning documentary Arna’s Children, was shot by unknown assailants in Jenin as he was leaving the theater. We offer our deepest condolences to his family, his friends, and all who worked with him and loved him. Juliano was born in Nazareth in 1958. He was the son of Saliba Khamis, a Palestinian citizen of Israel who was at one time the secretary of the Israeli Communist Party, and Arna Mer Khamis, a Jewish Israeli who spent her youth in the Palmach but became an ...
Keep Reading »The Failure to Establish Democracy in Palestine: From the British Mandate to the Present Times
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In the wake of the Arab revolutions gripping North Africa and the Middle East, it would be worth reminding ourselves of some of the factors that have frustrated the Palestinians from establishing a democratic government in Palestine. To a greater extent than in other Arab countries, the struggle for democratic government in Palestine has always been constrained by the Israel-Palestine conflict. In 2006, Hamas won the legislative elections whilst many of its candidates were languishing in Israeli prisons. Instead of embracing the results the EU and the US swiftly reacted with sanctions and Israel imposed a blockade on the Gaza Strip. This response ...
Keep Reading »الشعب قرر الإضراب وهذا ما سيكون" عن يوم الأرض" [On Land Day: The People Have Decided to Strike and so it Shall be]
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كانت تلك هي المرة الأولى التي أرى فيها هذا الكم الهائل من قوات الجيش والشرطة تنتشر في أغلب أحياء بلدة الطيبة التي كبرت بها، والتي تقع حوالي اربعين كيلومتراً شمال يافا. لا أدري كم عاماً كان قد تركني في حينه، ربما ثمانية أو تسعة. واعتقدت، وكان الصباح في آخره، بأن الحرب قد قامت. فسألت أمي عما إذا كان الجنود ينتشرون في البلدة لأن حرب ال 67 قد عادت من جديد، تلك الحرب التي كان أبي يحدثني عنها كثيراً لأنه يعيها ويعرف تفاصيلها التي حفرت في ذاكرته أكثر من تفاصيل النكبة التي ولد قبلها بأعوام ثلاثة. ضحكت أمي وقالت إنهم مجرد جنود سيغادرون عند الصباح التالي ويتركوننا في حالنا إلى أن يأتي العام القادم. أعوام قليلة تلت ذلك العام، وكنت فيها من بين الطلاب الذين خرجوا للتظاهر ...
Keep Reading »Narrating the Past, Confronting the Present
The Kingdom of Women: Ein El Hilweh. Directed by Dahna Abourahme. Lebanon, 2010 Could I do today what I was able to do then, questions Nadia, one of the women in Dahna Abourahme’s latest documentary film The Kingdom of Women: Ein El Hilweh. Based on stories of the women of Ein El Hilweh, a Palestinian refugee camp in South Lebanon, between 1982-4 during the Israeli invasion and the imprisonment of the majority of the male population (those between the ages of 14-60), the film is also a reflection on the act of narration itself. The weaving of the women’s voices with tangible objects — letters from their husbands written from inside Israeli prisons, rich embroidery ...
Keep Reading »Elia Suleiman's Time
The Time that Remains [Al-Zaman Al-Baqi]. Written and directed by Elia Suleiman. UK/Italy/Belgium/France, 2009. An early scene in The Time that Remains [Al-Zaman Al-Baqi], Elia Suleiman’s latest film, reveals a great deal. The scene begins with a shot of the harried-looking mayor of Nazareth banging open a door at the end of a long hallway. We have some sense of why he is so harried: we have just watched the car that was driving him to the meeting being repeatedly menaced by a low-flying propeller plane. The airplane sequence has a recognizably Suleimanian feel, racing along somewhere between physical comedy and horror: at one point, the white flag of surrender being ...
Keep Reading »Gaza: The Next Israeli-Palestinian War?
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[Below is the latest from the International Crisis Group (ICG) on the Gaza Strip. For full ICG report, click here.] Gaza: The Next Israeli-Palestinian War? I. Overview Will the next Middle East conflagration involve Israelis and Palestinians? After the serious escalation of the past week in which eight Gazans, including children, were killed in a single day, and the 23 March 2011 bombing in Jerusalem, that took the life of one and wounded dozens, there is real reason to worry. The sharp deterioration on this front is not directly related, nor is it in any way similar to the events that have engulfed the Middle East and North Africa. ...
Keep Reading »It's Official: In 2006, The Lebanese Government Was Hoping Israel Would Disarm Hezbollah For them
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So now we know. In 2006, as Israel was bombing Lebanese highways, power supplies, the airport, and oil reservoirs, the Lebanese Prime Minister was hoping that Israel would finish “the job” quickly and successfully. Now we know. As over a quarter of the population was displaced from their homes under the threat of missiles, tank fire and artillery, the then commander of the army and now president of Lebanon, was letting the Israeli government know that the Lebanese army would stand down. As 10,000 homes were destroyed and over 1,300 Lebanese citizens (1/3 of them children) were killed, the Lebanese government's main concern was that that this very real and very brutal ...
Keep Reading »What is a Sari Nusseibeh For?
Sari Nusseibeh, What is a Palestinian State Worth? Cambridge, MA: Harvard Belknap Press, 2011. Among Palestinians there may well be a more fundamental underlying cultural or religious disposition to believe in the reality of death so strongly as to view life as being on a par with death, or even of far less value. (189) Late-style Benny Morris? Thomas Friedman? That would be Sari Nusseibeh, President of Al-Quds University in Jerusalem and professor of philosophy. It comes in what purports to be, inter alia, a work of political philosophy, published under the aegis of Harvard University Press, and replete with the usual reductions of Gandhi and invocations of the powers ...
Keep Reading »Palestinian Queers Respond to NY LGBT Center's Decision to Cancel "Party to End Apartheid"
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alQaws and Aswat Statement to the LGBT Center in NY Dear Glennda Testone, We, Palestinian queer activists from alQaws for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society and Aswat Palestinian Gay Women, are writing to you to express our shock and dismay at your recent decision to cancel the "Party to End Apartheid" event and ban activists working for human rights in Israel/Palestine from the LGBT Center. We have recently concluded a first of its kind tour to the US, where we shared our personal, social and political struggle as Palestinian Queers living in Israel and Palestine with diverse audiences and activists in 6 cities, including New York ...
Keep Reading »Bad Faith at the Book Festival
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“Everywhere you look the boycott debate is in the news,” Joseph Dana notes in a recent article on his blog. The most prominent example involves British novelist Ian McEwan, who rejected calls to boycott the 2011 Jerusalem Book Festival after being awarded the Jerusalem Prize. Instead, McEwan, in his acceptance speech last week, offered some words of criticism for Israeli policies, including settlements and the siege of Gaza, while simultaneously paying tribute to “the precious tradition of a democracy of ideas in Israel”; he also attended the weekly Sheikh Jarrah protest against settlement building in East Jerusalem. As Dana notes, Italian writer Umberto Eco also ...
Keep Reading »"A Space Exodus": A Truly Palestinian Film
Larissa Sansour, A Space Exodus. Video (5' 29"). 2009. “Jerusalem, we have problem,” a woman’s voice says, as female fingers run over the controls of a space ship. “No . . . We are back on track,” she then mutters, breathing heavily; the only response from Jerusalem is a deafening silence. In a white spacesuit bearing her name, a Palestinian flag, and embroidery that looks like traditional tatrizz, the woman lands on the moon and plants a Palestinian flag. “A small step for a Palestinian, a giant ...
Keep Reading »What Emergency? The ADL, Academic Freedom, Lawfare, and Palestine
On the evening of March 24, the board of directors of University of California – Hastings College of the Law held an emergency meeting that lasted until midnight. The putative emergency was a two-day conference titled “Litigating Palestine” scheduled to start at 3 pm the following day. What resulted was the following statement: BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Directors…in its EMERGENCY CLOSED SESSION that it is in agreement that the College should take all steps necessary to remove the UC Hastings ...
Keep Reading »Two Poems by Rashid Hussein
March 30th is Yam al-Ard (Land Day). It marks the general strike and marches organized in Palestinian towns in Israel on that day in 1976 to protest the Israeli government’s expropriation of thousands of dunams of land for “security and settlement purposes.” Six Palestinians were killed in the confrontations. The day and its events marked a turning point in national mobilization and the relationship between Palestinian citizens and the Israeli state. It became an annual day of commemoration for ...
Keep Reading »Live Twitter Feed Event: The Goldstone Report and International Law Debate at Stanford
As tensions between Israel and Hamas build in the wake of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza this week that killed eight and renewed rocket fire, the Goldstone Report, the landmark investigation into war crimes during Operation Cast Lead in 2008-09, remains the subject of significant discussion and controversy. Although the report documents extensive crimes against humanity committed by both Israel and Hamas, the international community continues to debate how best to act on these significant findings. On ...
Keep Reading »Constructing the Prototypical Terrorist in America: Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian
On Feburary 13, 2011, hundreds of people descended on the Yorba Linda Community Center in Orange County, California to protest a charity event organized by the Islamic Circle of North America Relief USA (ICNA). ICNA aimed to raise funds for a women’s shelter and to fight homelessness and hunger. Protest organizers included ACT! for America, Rabbi David Eliezrie of Chabad, blogger Pam Geller, and the North Orange County Conservative Coalition. Although protesters at Yorba Linda were told to bring ...
Keep Reading »Panel Video: How Now BDS? Media, Politics and Queer Activism
[Earlier, Jadaliyya Reports re-published critical statements (see here and here) in responses to the NY LGBT Center's decision to cancel the "Party to End Apartheid." Below is a brief description and the video of a panel ("How Now BDS?") organized by Adalah-NY as part of Israel Aparthied Week, wherien Judith Butler and John Greyson also address the NY LGBT Center's decision.] Video: How Now BDS? Media, Politics and Queer Activism A conversation with John Greyson and Judith ...
Keep Reading »After Tunisia and Egypt: Palestinian Neoliberalism at the Cross-roads
A spectre is haunting the Middle East – the spectre of popular revolts against autocratic governments. Listening to the loud chants from demonstrators in Algiers to Sana’a asserting their political and economic demands, it is clear that exorcising this spectre needs more than just political regime change: they are demanding the change of the system that has produced poverty, unemployment and vast income disparities. These phenomena did not occur spontaneously or as a natural stage of development. Rather, ...
Keep Reading »Mahmoud Darwish: Standing Before the Ruins of Al-Birweh
March 13th is Mahmoud Darwish’s birthday. He departed on August 9th, 2008, but he is seventy today and his poems are t/here for us. Jadaliyya celebrates his presence by publishing this translation. Standing Before the Ruins of Al-Birweh Like birds, I tread lightly on the earth’s skin so as not to wake the dead I shut the door to my emotions to become my other I don’t feel that I am a stone sighing as it longs for a cloud Thus I tread as if I am a tourist and a correspondent for ...
Keep Reading »E-Mail From Judith Butler to the NY LGBT Center Adressing the Cancellation of a BDS Event Due to Charges of Anti-Semitism
[To: Glennda@gaycenter.org] [From: Judith Butler] [Subject: censorship at the NY LGBT Center] Dear Glennda Testone, I am writing to communicate my outrage and sorrow that our movement has come to this point where it refuses to house an organization that is fighting for social justice. I was appalled to see the very ignorant and hateful messages that supported your center's decision to ban Siegebusters from holding an event on the topic of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. ...
Keep Reading »Tahrir Tel-Aviv
February 11, 2011 It is 8:00 a.m. on a dark Seattle Friday morning. As my recent wake-up ritual has mandated in the last two weeks, I reach out for my laptop before leaving bed or fueling with the first cup of coffee. I need to see the latest news and status updates on/from Egypt. Six windows of online newspapers, Al-Jazeera live (in Arabic and English), Facebook, Skype and chat pages pop up simultaneously on my blue notebook screen. Al-Jazeera live is broadcasting the thrilling echoes of millions from ...
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