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Roundtable on Occupation Law: Part of the Conflict or the Solution? (Part IV: Asli Bali)
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[This is the fourth part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing the relevance of occupation law to the Palestinian-Israel conflict at this historical juncture. Participants include Darryl Li, Lisa Hajjar, Nimer Sultany, Asli Bali, Ahmed
Keep Reading »قانون الإحتلال وواقع الدولة الواحدة
نشر المقال على موقع جدلية باللغة الإنجليزية وترجمه إلى العربية يوسف حداد لعقود ٍ خلت، لعب القانون الدولي للإحتلال – وهو يتفرع من قوانين الحرب (أو ما يسمى بالقانون الدولي الإنساني) – دورا ً محوريا ً في صياغة الحوار حول إسرائيل/فلسطين. ووفقا ً لما هو معمول به في الضفة الغربية وقطاع غزة، فإن قانون الإحتلال يوفر مجموعة من المعايير التي تخدم في تحليل سياسات اسرائيل القمعية والعنصرية، إضافة إلى بعض الممارسات الفلسطينية. لعل الوثيقة الرسمية الأكثر إقتباسا ً في النقاشات حول إسرائيل/فلسطين هي معاهدة جنيف الرابعة التي يعتبرها الكثيرون إتفاقا ً مقدسا ً يكرس حدا ً أدنى من التعاطي الإنساني خلال الحروب. لكن مع إتضاح إستحالة التقسيم (ما يسمى بحل الدولتين) كسبيل ناجع ...
Keep Reading »Al-Jazeera Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat on PLO/PA Strategy at the UN
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The following interview aired live on Al Jazeera English's The Stream with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat on 20 September 2011. Erakat argues that if the PLO is serious about changing its strategy vis-a-vis Israel post-statehood bid, it should commit to shifting from bilateralism to multilateralism and look to its base for leadership. She counters the claim, advanced by co-guest Husam Zomlot, that the issue of the legitimacy of Palestinian representation is an "internal" issue that can be separated from the decision to pursue the statehood bid. Instead, Erakat argues that Palestinian leadership at the UN is purporting to speak on behalf of all ...
Keep Reading »AJE Interview Featuring Noura Erakat on Palestinian Statehood Bid
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[The following roundtable interview was conducted by Roxanne Horesh with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat and several other analysts. It was published on Al Jazeera English on 19 September 2011.] Debating the UN bid for Palestinian statehood Experts discuss what may happen with the Palestinian bid for UN statehood and what it means for all concerned. A delegation of Palestinian leaders has flown to New York for the opening of the UN General Assembly, beginning on September 20, to request UN membership for a Palestinian state. Senior members of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) have said they will go to the Security Council. The ...
Keep Reading »Resistance and Revolution as Lived Daily Experience: An Interview with Leila Khaled (Part 2)
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[This is Part 2 of a translated transcription of a series of interviews conducted by the author with Leila Khaled during the summer of 2007. Click here to read the Introduction to the interview, and here to read Part 1.] The 1940s through the 1960s were decades of intense social and political mobilization throughout the Arab world, ones in which strikes, protests, and marches were regular occurrences. They stand in sharp contrast to the post-1970s era, which was characterized by ever-decreasing mass political party affiliation, protest participation, and boycott action. Such a transformation was a product of intentional policies on the part of regimes—both ‘republican’ ...
Keep Reading »Social Origins of Israeli Unrest
Dafni Leef has been at both bookends of the recent protests in Israel. They started in mid-July, when Leef, a Tel Aviv filmmaker, was met with a hike in her rent that she could not afford to pay. Instead of moving to a new apartment, she moved to a tent on Rothschild Boulevard, the city's sleekest thoroughfare, and set up a Facebook event calling on her compatriots to join her. The spark of dissent hit tinder, and then the flames alit on a social landscape desiccated by decades of relentless neo-liberal adjustment. Seven weeks of fiery protest followed, reaching an apex on 3 September, as over 450,000 people–six percent of the “official” population–gathered in ...
Keep Reading »Going to the United Nations, Sanctions, and the Tick-Tock of the Palestinian Spring
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Now it is official: if the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) pursues recognition of the Palestinian people’s claim to statehood in the United Nations this month, financial sanctions will follow. Such a response can be expected not only from Israel, which channels around one billion dollars of Palestinian public revenue to the Palestinian Authority (PA) per annum, but also from major donors whose collective aid has averaged around 1.5 billion dollars in recent years. Unfortunately, we have been here before and the history of a century of settler colonialism tells us that the economic damage such a move will inflict is considerable. The resilience of a battered ...
Keep Reading »Walls [Gone to Palestine: 8]
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We went to visit our friend who was participating in the summer program for foreigners at Aida camp in Bethlehem. We were surprised that it took only ten minutes from the center of Jerusalem to get to the checkpoint at Rachel’s Tomb. There we started to take pictures. We walked through the spotless new terminal and thought of our tax dollars. On the Bethlehem side, we took pictures of a huge sign that the Israeli Board of Tourism had put up on the wall. It said “Go in Peace” in Hebrew, English and Arabic. The taxi drivers wanted to give us tours of the Church of Nativity and Shepherds’ Field, and would not take no for an answer. Finally they relented and told us how ...
Keep Reading »Cannes ya ma Cannes Ramallah [Gone to Palestine: 7]
We’d been invited to the Franco-German cultural center to see a film by a leftist Israeli filmmaker. The advance notice had said that “this was perhaps the most important film on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict ever made.” It was endorsed by a couple well-known intellectuals from abroad, and all its screenings at the Jerusalem Film Festival were sold out well in advance. I’d never seen his first film, which apparently was a autobiographical work that was “sort of interesting.” My friends said the director was a good guy, even if his films weren’t so great. “In any case, this was his first attempt at making a feature film. It’s based on a book of fiction he published.” ...
Keep Reading »Palestinian Options at the United Nations
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What could be called the September “Wende” is fast approaching, and interpretations put forward by Palestinian officials abound as to what it will be possible and impossible to attain then at the United Nations (UN). This has engendered a certain confusion in Palestinian, Arab and international public opinion, as it is not clear which of these interpretations stem from apriori political considerations, which are based on an adequate understanding of UN procedures, and which are grounded on expectations of how member states will vote, or even on external pressures. In this article I intend to present the options that could be considered by the Palestinian leadership as it ...
Keep Reading »Guy S. Goodwin-Gill Legal Opinion on Palestinian Statehood Bid
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[The following legal opinion on the Palestine statehood bid was issued by Guy S. Goodwin-Gill on August 10, 2011.] Opinion Re The Palestine Liberation Organization, the future State of Palestine, and the question of popular representation By Guy S. Goodwin-Gill Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford--Barrister Introduction I been asked for my opinion on certain issues relating to popular representation (that is, the representation of the views of the Palestinian people) which may arise incidentally to the current proposal to seek recognition of the State of Palestine and observer status for the State in the United Nations. This ...
Keep Reading »On the Current Conjuncture in Israel
Many progressives around the world have been wondering out loud about what exactly has been going on here for the last month. Who are the unprecedented crowds taking to the streets in the name of "the people" (ha'am), demanding "social justice" (tzedek hevrati), and what exactly do they want? Is there any connection to the ongoing occupation and oppression of the Palestinians? And if not, can the protests be at all justified? In order to achieve true "social justice" – that is, to defeat exploitation in all its forms – it is necessary to defeat the particular kinds of exploitation inherent in the situation, even if these appear as something ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Occupation Law: Part of the Conflict or the Solution? (Part VI: Darryl Li)
[This is the final part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing the relevance of occupation law to the Palestinian-Israel conflict at this historical juncture. Participants include Darryl Li, Lisa Hajjar, Nimer Sultany, Asli Bali, Ahmed Barclay, and Dena Qaddumi. A description of the roundtable can be found here.] A reckoning is upon us – not simply a tallying of votes over the campaign for Palestinian membership in the United Nations, ...
Keep Reading »Obama's Palestine Problem, and Ours
It is shocking, but not surprising, that in the US, the primary way of understanding and analyzing the debate at the United Nations over Palestinian statehood is in terms of its effect upon American politics. More specifically, the main focus in the US media has been on how the Obama administration would handle the “crisis” at the UN, inevitably described as one aspect of the supposed "roiling tensions in the region." Very little thought is being devoted to the question of whether the move by ...
Keep Reading »Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani on Palestinian Statehood
With the United Nations set to debate Palestinian statehood on 20 September, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani, a Middle East-based expert on Palestine and Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies, discusses the background to and implications of this development. He will be in the U.S. 15 September through 10 October for media appearances and public events. Concerning the UN bid, Rabbani stated: Two decades of negotiations have achieved nothing except the ...
Keep Reading »Reimagining Foreclosure as a World-Making Project
Foreclosed: Between Crisis and Possibility. Curated by Jennifer Burris, Sofía Olascoaga, Sadia Shirazi, and Gaia Tedone, Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellows of the Whitney Independent Study Program, 2010-2011. May 20 - June 11, 2011 The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York, NY One sticky summer afternoon, I walked into The Kitchen and encountered a distinctly alienating experience. A red rotary phone—sans rotary dial—rested on a reception desk and was set against a static backdrop of repetitious ...
Keep Reading »Real Solidarity Should Respect BDS Guidelines
[The following statement was issued by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott on Israel (PACBI) on September 2, 2011.] As the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement continues to gather speed, PACBI continues to receive an increasing number of inquiries from around the world. Many of these inquiries come from allies who are often asked to give talks or performances in Israel, or are invited to participate in activities or projects with boycottable Israeli ...
Keep Reading »Documentary Video Clip (DVC) Section: Clip from "Arabs and Terrorism"
We are hereby launching our DVC section, Documentary Video Clips, courtesy of Jadaliyya’s sister organization, Quilting Point (QP), which is also run by the Arab Studies Institute. Quilting Point is a Documentary/Film Production Collective that was established in 2003, and produced 4 research-based documentaries, About Baghdad (2004), What is said about . . . Arabs and Terrorism (2006), The Other Threat: Arab and Muslim Immigrants in Europe (2007), and Notes on the War (2007). The DVC series will ...
Keep Reading »Resistance and Revolution as Lived Daily Experience: An Interview with Leila Khaled (Intro)
The protests and uprisings that have taken hold across the Arab world have given new contours to processes of politicization, as well as the use of the term “revolution.” Before 2011, references to “the revolution” around the Arab World would conjure images of Gamal Abdul Nasser, Abdul-Karim Qassim, Mu’ammar al-Qaddafi, George Habash, and Yasser Arafat, among others. Put differently, “the revolution”—and all that the term entailed in terms of hopes, dreams, belonging, solidarities, and conflicts—had for ...
Keep Reading »Resistance and Revolution as Lived Daily Experience: An Interview with Leila Khaled (Part 1)
[This is Part 1 of a translated transcription of a series of interviews conducted by the author with Leila Khaled during the summer of 2007. Click here to read the Introduction to the interview.] As the question of the “statehood bid”—or rather UN membership—dominates discussions of Palestinian politics, Leila Khaled’s recollection of her experience of the nakba and its aftermath highlight how the deeply rooted questions of destitution, salvation, and return are central to the Question of ...
Keep Reading »On BDS Bashers and their Search for Fig Leaves (Includes Arabic Translation)
[The following statement was issued in both English and Arabic by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) on June 29, 2011.] On BDS Bashers and their Search for Fig Leaves In the context of applying the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement’s guidelines for the international academic and cultural boycott of Israel, PACBI sometimes faces scenarios where boycott bashers attempt to redeem their conscience, and with it some moral ground, by using token ...
Keep Reading »John Quigley Critique of Goodwin-Gill Legal Opinion on Palestine Statehood Bid
[The following critique by John Quigley was issued on August 28, 2011, in response to a legal opinion by Guy S. Goodwin-Gill on the Palestine statehood bid at the United Nations.] To: Interested parties From: John Quigley Re: Legal Opinion of Guy S. Goodwin-Gill on the representation issue Date: August 28, 2011 The Goodwin-Gill legal opinion provides no sound basis for not pursuing any of the initiatives ...
Keep Reading »A Note on the Palestinian Diplomatic Initiative at the United Nations (UN)
[The following statement was issued by a group of Palestinians on August 29, 2011.] A note on the Palestinian diplomatic initiative at the United Nations (UN) Your excellences, The chairman and members of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Leaders of Palestinian political parties and factions Leaders of Palestinian trade unions and NGOs Emphasizing the importance of the Palestinian diplomatic initiative at the UN, and in order for it to ...
Keep Reading »National Conference: Students for Justice in Palestine (New York, 14-16 October, 2011)
National Conference - Students for Justice in Palestine New York, 14-16 October, 2011 Dear Students, It is with great pleasure that we invite you to the 2011 National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) Conference at Columbia University in the City of New York from 14-16 October 2011. Over the past couple of months, a number of student activists from SJPs and other student groups focused on Palestine from around the country have been laying the foundations for a national SJP conference to be held ...
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