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28 December 2008: The Abu Taima Family
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[The following is narrative two, within a series of twenty-three narratives to mark the third anniversary of "Operation Cast Lead." A new post will be released each day, marking the incident that happened on the same date three years ago. The narratives are developed by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.] “Living under occupation means that whatever hopes we have, it will fall apart one day. For example, you bring up your child and put all of your hopes in him or her, but then they come and kill your child and all your hopes are destroyed.” In the early morning of 28 December 2008 Mahmoud Abu Taima, his wife Manal, and their two oldest sons, Khalil ...
Keep Reading »27 December 2008: The Al Ashi Family
![[Khawla and Faris Al Ashi photographed next to the picture of their deceased father. Photo Credit: PCHR.]](/content_images/3/sm_AshiFamily.jpg "[Khawla and Faris Al Ashi photographed next to the picture of their deceased father. Photo Credit: PCHR.]")
[The following is the first narrative within a series of twenty-three narratives to mark the third anniversary of "Operation Cast Lead." A new post will be released each day, marking the incident that happened on the same date three years ago. The narratives are developed by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.] “For the upcoming anniversary of the war, me and other women who lost husbands in the attack plan to give gifts to orphans who lost their fathers during the war. The gifts will be inscribed with the words “On this day you are the beloved ones of your mother.” We want children to remember they still have their mothers and they will always ...
Keep Reading »"No Room for Palestinian Artist": An Interview with Larissa Sansour
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The following three photos are part of The Nation Estate project by Larissa Sansour. The Project "is a sci-fi photo series conceived in the wake of the Palestinian bid for nationhood at the UN. Three preliminary sketches have been developed especially for the Lacoste Elysée Prize 2011" (Sansour). Her instalation, proposed to the Musee de l'Elysee in Switzerland was censored by Lacoste, the funder of the exhibit for being "too pro Palestinian." "Set within a grim piece of hi-tech architecture, this narrative photo series envisions 'la joie de vivre' of a Palestinian state rising from the ashes of the peace process. In this dystopic ...
Keep Reading »نحن؛ ضمير غائب
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عن التطبيع الذهني الذي يفرضه الإستعمار في فلسطين في الذكرى الخمسين لغياب فرانتس فانون في العام 1948 احتل المستعمر الصهيوني أرض فلسطين وأقامَ عليها دولة "إسرائيل". تلك واقعة تاريخية. النتيجة المباشرة والحتمية لأي استعمار هي انقلاب موازين القوى السياسية والاجتماعية والاقتصادية بين المُستعمَر والمُستعمِر كما تشهد على ذلك الحالات الاستعمارية جمعاء. في فلسطين، اتخذ طابع هذا الإنقلاب شاكلة دولة بات المستعمَرون فيها مواطنين بفعل عوامل سياسية مختلفة. على الرغم من أنَّ هؤلاء "المواطنين" لم تخف عنهم طبيعة وواقع "دولتهم"، إلا أنَّ شيئاً ما في حقيقة علاقة القوة التي خلقها هذا الإستعمار قد تخلخل مع الوقت بحيث أن تسمية الواقع في وعي المستَعمر أخذت ...
Keep Reading »Gay Rights as Human Rights: Pinkwashing Homonationalism
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It is difficult to know whether to laugh or cry at the news that the United States has come out as the global defender of LGBTQ rights. This confusion is not only due to the United States' own record on gay rights, but perhaps more importantly, it is due to the United States' role as the premier imperial power in the world today. After all, while Secretary of State Clinton acknowledged that the United States has an imperfect record of defending and legislating gay rights domestically, she was curiously silent about how and why, exactly, the United States would monitor and regulate LGBTQ rights internationally. Would the American army, for example, start ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Rochelle Davis, Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced
Rochelle Davis, Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2011. [Co-winner of the 2011 Albert Hourani Book Award] Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Rochelle Davis: Over the course of a decade, I collected 120 village books written by Palestinians about the more than four hundred villages that were destroyed in the 1948 war. By documenting and analyzing the work of these local historians and preservationists, and their knowledge of a disappeared landscape and way of life, I provide readers with a sense of the past and suggest how people today think of and write their own history. A study of these village ...
Keep Reading »Honored to be a "Freedom Rider"
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I was honored to be a freedom rider and it was a team effort at its best (those who rode and the many who worked behind the scenes). Two other Palestinians were also arrested with us. They were there as a reporters/observers, not participants. All eight of us were eventually released pending potential trials. Fajr kindly gave us a ride to the edge of Beit Sahour from Ramallah (we were released at Qalandia checkpoint), where my wife met us with my car. She and I then gave Nadim and Badi' a ride to Hebron. I thus arrived home at 1:30 AM and the phones started ringing again at 7 AM. I am extremely tired and with a headache, but wanted to send you a brief report and ...
Keep Reading »Back to Work: OWS and the Arab Spring
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I have been trying, and failing, to write about the Occupy movement—more specifically, about Occupy Wall Street, and even more specifically, about the connections between OWS and the popular uprisings that have come to be known by the convenient (although no longer remotely accurate) name of “the Arab Spring”—for weeks now. One of the many feelings that hit me yesterday morning when I woke to the news of the police raid on Liberty Square (nee Zuccotti Park) was a dismal sense of failure. I had thought that there would be more time; but now, maybe, it was all over. I was at Zuccotti Park last evening, and I’m happy to report that no one there is talking about failure, ...
Keep Reading »Doctoring the Evidence, Abandoning the Victim: The Involvement of Medical Professionals in Torture and Ill-Treatment in Israel
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[The following is the latest from the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) and Physicians for Human Rights - Israel (PHR) on medical professionals' involvement in mistreatment in Israel.] Medical Professionals and Torture? When we think of doctors, it is often the Hippocratic Oath and its mythical status that comes to mind. We believe that doctors help the sick, standing beside them in times of troubles at any hour of the day or night, remaining loyal to those under their care, and so on. In general, doctors are seen as professionals who can be trusted to do the utmost to bring health to their patients – good people working day and night so that ...
Keep Reading »Eye-Witness Account of Israel's Capture of Freedom Waves Flotilla
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[The following personal account of what transpired on the "Freedom Waves" flotilla to Gaza was written by Lina Attalah, a friend of Jadaliyya and Al-Masry Al-Youm English's managing editor. I was originally published in Al-Masr Al-Youm English. Lina and the rest of the passengers, a group of twenty-seven activists and journalists, were captured on Friday, 4 Ocotber 2011, in international waters by Israeli security forces. On Saturday, she returned to her home in Egypt.] Inside the Tahrir boat to Gaza Friday morning, as everyone sat opposite computer screens, updating the world about our trip, David Heap, one of the boat's organizers, made a grand entrance to ...
Keep Reading »Democracy Now! Interview with Phyllis Bennis on UNESCO Vote and US Withdrawal of Funding
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This is an interview conducted with Phyllis Bennis on Tuesday, 1 November, in regards to the recent vote by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to admit Palestine as a full member, and the subsequent decision by the US government to withdraw its $60 million of annual funding (22% of UNESCO's budget). The interview addresses both the signficance of the vote and the logic behind the US response. It also highlights an important exchange during the press conference held at the Department of State, where the US response was announced and an AP reporter pressured and challenged the spokesperson to articulate the logic behind the withdrawal of ...
Keep Reading »The Levant [Gone to Palestine: 10]
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On the way back from Kafr Qasim, we turned off the highway in Ran’ana where, we were told we’d find the best Moroccan food in the country. We went into the first gas station we saw when we came into the town, and the Iraqi attendant there told us where our restaurant was. It’d been weeks since we’d had anything but local food, and as delicious as that could be, we were getting sick of the humous and tomatoes and thyme and parsley and eggplant and rice and flat bread. What we craved was bitter lemons, dried fruits, hot red pepper paste and couscous—anything that diverged from the seasonal norms of the Eastern Mediterranean. We crossed our fingers and went into the place ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh and Isis Nusair, Displaced at Home
Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh and Isis Nusair, editors, Displaced at Home: Ethnicity and Gender among Palestinians in Israel. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh and Isis Nusair: The idea for the collection began at an informal gathering of five friends, all doctoral students or recent graduates and all Palestinians from “inside.” We had gathered for lunch during the 2005 Middle East Studies Association meeting to catch up on each ...
Keep Reading »The Invention of the Palestinian
“Remember, there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire … I think that we've had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs, and who were historically part of the Arab community. And they had a chance to go many places, and for a variety of political reasons we have sustained this war against Israel now since the 1940s, and it's tragic.” (Newt Gingrich, 7 December 2011) “The Palestinian is not a profession or a slogan. He, in the first place, is a human ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman, The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans
Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman, The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans: Addressing Pedagogical Strategies. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman: The book started off as something quite different than what I intended. I began my research in the summer of 2005 with the intention of examining how Palestinian and Israeli youth produce cultural and political change together as "equal" partners for "peace." Obviously, at ...
Keep Reading »رسالة إلى المجتمعين في القاهرة: الوقت من دم والتاريخ لا يرحم
أبلغ رسالة يمكن إيصالها إلى المجتمعين اليوم في القاهرة أن الوقت من دم وحقوق وتقطيع أوصال واعتقال وإهانة وتعذيب وحرق الأشجار والمساجد وحصار وعدوان، خصوصًا على غزة، وتهويد للقدس وعزلها وإبعاد سكانها عنها وتوسيع جنوني للاستيطان، بحيث لن يقبل الشعب الفلسطيني من المجتمعين إضاعة المزيد من الوقت وتأجيل إنهاء الانقسام واستعادة الوحدة الوطنية لأي سبب، بما في ذلك انتظار مصير مبادرة اللجنة الرباعية الدولية، واللهث وراء سراب استئناف المفاوضات وإمكانية توصلها إلى حل متوازن أو انتظار مصير الربيع العربي، خصوصًا استكمال ...
Keep Reading »NEWTON Authors Rochelle Davis and Alan Mikhail Receive 2011 MESA Book Awards
We are very happy to report that two authors whose books were recently featured in New Texts Out Now (NEWTON) were recipients of prestigious awards at the 2011 Middle East Studies Association convention. Rochelle Davis, whose book Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced was featured in NEWTON last week, was one of two winners awarded the 2011 Albert Hourani Book Award. Alan Mikhail, whose book Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History was featured in NEWTON in ...
Keep Reading »Adventures in Candyland
This week, walking through Columbia University's campus, I noticed a piece of paper stuck to the metal railings around me. It was a flyer advertising Israel week at Columbia University, a popular yearly event meant to discuss issues related to Israel and foster support on campus for that state. This year, one of the events in particular caught my eye. The event was titled Mapping Israel's Borders, and the blurb read: “Do you want to learn more about the history of Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict? ...
Keep Reading »Two Poems by Rafeef Ziadah
Rafeef Ziadah is a Canadian-Palestinian spoken word artist and activist. Her debut CD Hadeel is dedicated to Palestinian youth, who still fly kites in the face of F16 bombers, who still remember the names if their villages in Palestine and still hear the sound of Hadeel (cooing of doves) over Gaza.
Keep Reading »Palestinian Freedom Riders to Ride Settler Buses to Jerusalem
[The following press release was issued by the Palestinian Freedom Riders campaign on 13 November 2011.] Freedom Riders Sunday, November 13, 2011 For Immediate Release Palestinian Freedom Riders to Ride Settler Buses to Jerusalem. Inspired by the Freedom Rides of the US Civil Rights Movement Palestinian activists will attempt to board segregated Israeli settler buses to occupied East Jerusalem [Ramallah] Groups of Palestinian Freedom Riders will attempt to board segregated settler buses heading to ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Wendy Pearlman, Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement
Wendy Pearlman, Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Wendy Pearlman: I became captivated by Palestinian history and politics when I studied at Birzeit University in the West Bank from January to June 2000. Thereafter, I returned to Palestine nearly every chance I got. Three months into the second Intifada, I conducted interviews with about two dozen Palestinians in the West Bank ...
Keep Reading »Israel's Exceptionalism: Normalizing the Abnormal
[The following statement was issued by the Palistinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) on 31 October 2011.] Israel’s Exceptionalism: Normalizing the Abnormal In the Palestinian and Arab struggle against Israeli colonization, occupation and apartheid, the “normalization” of Israel is a concept that has generated controversy because it is often misunderstood or because there are disagreements on its parameters. This is despite the near consensus among ...
Keep Reading »Boycott: Where To?
The Haifa-based Mada al-Carmel – Arab Center for Applied Social Research released its latest issue of the electronic quarterly Jadal entitled: Boycotting Israel: Between Theory and Practice. This issue provides a preliminary assessment and critical reflection on the question of boycotting Israel. So far, discussions on this subject have ranged between either an outright dismissal and knee-jerk rejection by pro-Israel groups, or an enthusiastic endorsement by pro-Palestine groups. Jadal aims to provide a ...
Keep Reading »Some of My Best Friends Are Zionists
In the spring of 2002 I helped run a campaign to gather the signatures of American Jews who took some sort of independent line on Israel. The initiative came from the physicist Alan Sokal, who had emailed me along with some other people and attached a draft text called “Peace in the Middle East: An Open Letter from American Jews to our Government.” The idea was to send the text out far and wide, collecting enough checks along with the signatures so as to take out an advertisement in the New ...
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