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New Texts Out Now: Joel Beinin, Mixing, Separation, and Violence in Urban Spaces and the Rural Frontier in Palestine
Joel Beinin, “Mixing, Separation, and Violence in Urban Spaces and the Rural Frontier in Palestine.” Arab Studies Journal Vol. XXI No. 1 (Spring 2013). Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this article? Joel Beinin (JB): It grew out of a conference on late Ottoman Palestine at the University of Lausanne. I was invited to make a link between the democratic possibilities opened by the 1908 Young Turk Revolution and the state of affairs one hundred years later. We tend to think we have made a lot of progress since then. With respect to the question of co-existence of the ethno-national and religious communities in Palestine, it seems the opposite has occurred. J: What ...
Keep Reading »The Palestinian Economy in East Jerusalem: Enduring Annexation, Isolation, and Disintegration
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[The following report was issued by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on 9 May 2013.] The Palestinian Economy in East Jerusalem: Enduring Annexation, Isolation, and Disintegration Executive Summary With the onset of occupation in 1967, Israeli authorities began to pursue a policy of physical, political, and economic segregation of East Jerusalem from the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT), which continues apace today. Segregation strategies gained momentum during the last decade through measures that have altered the physical and demographic realities of the city and its predominantly Palestinian ...
Keep Reading »Statement by Palestinian Youth Movement on Refugee Camps in Syria
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[The following statement was issued by the Palestinian Youth Movement on 6 May 2013.] The Camps Are Above the Siege In general, the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria, and particularly Yarmouk camp, formed as the capital of the diaspora, are among the largest groups of Palestinian refugees and have been the starting point for many resistance operations, fueling the Palestinian revolution in its various stages and sacrificing many lives for Palestine. The last demonstration of resistance to their just cause was shown with their bodies alone during the commemorations of al Nakba and al Naksa at the border of the occupied Golan heights between Syria and Palestine, ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Monthly Edition (April 2013)
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[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] Sara Roy on Dispossessing Palestine ...
Keep Reading »هل يعيد التاريخ الاقتصادي الفلسطيني نفسه؟
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من الأفضل البقاء بعيداً عن هؤلاء الذين يحملون خرطوم الحريق والحفاظ على الأنف نظيفا ومراقبة هؤلاء بالملابس المدنية ولا تحتاج إلى خبير الأرصاد لمعرفة الاتجاه التي تهب لها الرياح (بوب ديلان ) ليس من السهل حتى للمراقبين "المتطلعين" الوصول إلى المعلومة المؤكدة أو الموقف الثابت بشأن السياسات الفلسطينية لاقتصادية والمالية والتجارية، حتى في خضم الجدل العام الدائر منذ حين في الصحف والورش وأروقة السلطة، الذي يتصاعد بتحدي، ثم يخمد بتواطئي وهذا منذ عام على الأقل. كما أن التأكد من دقة المعلومات المتوفرة هي أساس لا يمكن الاستغناء عنه ، لأي تحليل مفيد لما يدور فعلا، وبالتالي الخروج باستنتاجات واضحة. إن عملية متابعة ...
Keep Reading »Sara Roy on Dispossessing Palestine (Video)
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The following lecture was recorded on 6 April 2013 at "Justice and Only Justice," the 2013 Friends of Sabeel Conference--Los Angeles/Orange County. In the video, Dr. Sara Roy, who is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Middle East Studies at Harvard University, discusses the ongoing dismemberment of the Palestinian nation and the paradigm shift that must occur to address this issue in "Dispossessing Palestine."
Keep Reading »Press Release from Love in the Time of Apartheid Campaign on Extension of Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law
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[The following press release was published by the Love in the Time of Apartheid campaign on 23 April 2013.] The Israeli apartheid regime, which calls itself a “democracy”, has extended the racist Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order) for the thirteenth time in 11 years, disregarding the suffering of tens of thousands of Palestinian families On 14 April 2013 the occupation and apartheid government of the State of Israel extended the racist Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order) for the eleventh year in a row. Today, Monday 22 April 2013, the Israeli parliament ratified the extension of the law for the thirteenth time since 2003. The ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (April 24)
![[The entrance to Camp 1 in Guantanamo Bay's Camp Delta. Photo by Kathleen T. Rhem.]](/content_images/3/sm_big_Camp_Delta,_Guantanamo_Bay,_Cuba.jpg "[The entrance to Camp 1 in Guantanamo Bay's Camp Delta. Photo by Kathleen T. Rhem.]")
[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 "Hebron Clashes Follow Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh Funeral," BBC News Following the funeral of a Palestinian detainee who died in Israeli custody, Hebron has witnessed violence between Palestinians protestors and Israeli troops. "Guantanamo Hunger Strike Holds, Half Of Detainees Involved: ...
Keep Reading »Derrida and the Crisis of French Zionism
The life’s work of Jacques Derrida, often referred to by the name “deconstruction,” advanced a new way of reading. Emphasizing the deferral of meaning and the production of irreducible differences within the major concepts of European thought, Derrida’s thought was enormously controversial, particularly for its political implications. The complexity of deconstruction resists biographical interpretation, while Derrida’s life experiences undoubtedly affected its insights. He occasionally spoke of his unusual youth as a Jewish boy in French colonial Algeria, and linked this outsider status to the concern with difference, uncovered as essential to apparent identity, ...
Keep Reading »A Who's Who of Fighters in Gaza
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[The following report was issued by IRIN , a service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, on 15 April 2013.] This month, tensions have escalated in Gaza following the first Israeli air strikes since a ceasefire was signed in November 2012. Despite the November ceasefire, which ended eight days of sustained conflict, the past month has seen both rocket fire aimed at Israel by Gazan armed groups and incursions by Israeli tanks into Gazan territory. Gaza, which has been under a naval and land blockade since 2007, saw these restrictions loosened after the ceasefire. But in recent weeks, in what was called a response to the rocket fire, ...
Keep Reading »Seeing How the Natives Live: On the Pitfalls and Potential of Alternative Tourism
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People tuned into news from Palestine are often surprised to hear that one of the occupied West Bank’s main industries is tourism. Tourism has provided livelihoods for people in many cities in historic Palestine for centuries; there was even a tour guide’s guild in early Ottoman Jerusalem. Palestine has long been a destination for religious pilgrims, and particularly Christian tourists have continued making pilgrimages, constituting the vast majority of the tourists entering Israel and the West Bank every year. Despite the prominence of pilgrimage tours, recent decades have seen a rise in other forms of tourism to the West Bank. While alternative forms attract smaller ...
Keep Reading »Statement from Sami Issawi: Palestinian Prisoner On Hunger Strike for Over 240 Days
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[The following statement was issued in late March by Samer Issawi. It was posted on his Facebook page by his lawyer Fawwaz Shloudy and translated into English by Shahd Abusalam.] Regarding the Israeli Occupation offer to deport me to Gaza, I affirm that Gaza is undeniable part of my homeland and its people are my people. However, I will visit Gaza whenever I want or I feel like it as it is within my homeland of Palestine, which I have the right to wander through whenever I like, from the very north to the very south. I strongly refuse to be deported to Gaza, as this practice will just bring back bitter flashbacks from the expulsion process which our Palestinian people ...
Keep Reading »The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza
Eyal Weizman, The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza. New York: Verso, 2011. [This review was originally published in the most recent issue of Arab Studies Journal. For more information on the issue, or to subscribe to ASJ, click here.] In that historical moment after the September 11 terrorist attacks, American politicians and pundits launched a debate about whether torture should be employed to combat terror. Those who endorsed the use of torture, and even some ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (May 9)
[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 Obama Hints at US Military Action at Syria as Administration Readies Lethal Aid Options, Associated Press Barack Obama has indicated his ...
Keep Reading »Expanding the Legal Paradigm for Palestine: An International Law Conference at Birzeit University
The settlement project in the West Bank is not just a collection of rickety caravans installed on Palestinian farmland that can be dismantled upon the signing of a peace agreement. Costing seventeen billion USD and populated by more than half a million Israelis, this enterprise has become a huge colonialist and real estate enterprise. It sprawls across twelve million square meters of roads, homes, and factories on some of the most important Palestinian geographic and agricultural land. This ...
Keep Reading »Always with the Oppressed: A Farewell to Akiva Orr 1931-2013, Humanist, Radical, Heretic
In February 2013 I participated with a small group of Israelis and Arabs in bidding farewell to Akiva Orr. I could not help recalling our first meeting nearly forty five-years earlier and my mind went back to the genealogy of individuals and events stretched across geography and time that had originally led me to his door in London, soon after my return from my first visit to Israel...and to Palestine. Though many of them never knew each other directly, in my mind, the thread linking them together (as ...
Keep Reading »إعادة التفكير بإسرائيل – فلسطين
إعادة التفكير بإسرائيل – فلسطين فيما وراء موطن البانتو وفيما وراء المستوطنات بينما باشر الرئيس باراك أوباما رحلة الاستماع في الشرق الأوسط، فمن المرجح أنه شهد أثر عقدين من عملية أوسلو للسلام؛ عشرون عاماً وعشرات القمم وملايين الدولارات جميعها لم تقرّب الفلسطينيين والإسرائيليين من تأسيس سلام قابل للنجاح. لقد ارتبطت الاتفاقية التي رعتها الولايات المتحدة برُقْية تأسيس دولتين لشعبين تعيشان جنباً إلى جنب. في الواقع، فإن إسرائيل موجودة كدولة منذ 1948 وقد بقي الفلسطينيون فيها كنازحين داخليين، ...
Keep Reading »The Pitfalls of Democratic Elections in Palestine
In the post-colonial era, struggles for democracy have increasingly been seen and presented as necessary to fulfill the aborted promises of national liberation. Particularly since the end of the Cold War, electoral democracy has come to be viewed as the most effective mechanism to confront the usurpation of states, resources, and indeed independence by autocrats and narrow, self-selected elites. In a world where dictatorships of both the individual and party variety have generally approached governance ...
Keep Reading »خان الجزّار
خان الجزّار حيثما أطلَّ رأس الظاهر إلى الميناء حيثما أراح القوافلَ من العطش سيطلُّ بعد قليلٍ رأس الحارس الذي يأكل كُتب التاريخ وقرونها المملَّحة وذكريات العم جورج وصنارته الماهرة لا أحد ينتظر الآن ظمأها في خان الجزّار المملوك سقط عن سوره Keep Reading »
Land Day and the Politics of Representation
On 30 March 1976, after the Israeli government published a plan to expropriate Palestinian lands for state use, along with an order to impose a curfew on several Palestinian villages, the Palestinian community in Israel called for a general strike and protests throughout the country. Israeli police and military killed six protestors, injured hundreds, and arrested hundreds more. Palestinians now commemorate March 30th as Land Day. Many claim that the protests in 1976 reaffirmed the Palestinians in ...
Keep Reading »البنية التحتية للاستعمار الاستيطاني الإسرائيلي (الجزء الأول): وادي الأردن:
منذ تأسيسها، دأبت السلطات القضائية الإسرائيلية بفرعيها المدني والعسكري على التمييز بين الأشخاص بناء على الدِّين. فعلى امتداد إسرائيل في أراضي 48 والأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة التي تتضمن الضفة الغربية بما فيها القدس الشرقية وقطاع غزة تطبق إسرائيل مجموعة من القوانين على سكانها اليهود تختلف عن تلك المطبقة على غير اليهود. تستطيع الدولة تحمّل تلك الامتيازات الضخمة والواضحة للأشخاص اليهود حتى فيما هو أبعد من حدودها المعلنة (لهذا السبب تمت الإشارة إلى إسرائيل في أراضي 48) وذلك على حساب الصالح السياسي ...
Keep Reading »الاستشراق والبعثة الموسيقية: فلسطين والغرب
[تنشر هذه المادة ضمن إتفاقية شراكة وتعاون بين ”جدلية“ و“معازف“.] "الاستشراق والبعثة الموسيقية: فلسطين والغرب" لريتشيل بيكلس ويلسون. صادر عن: كامبريدج ونيويورك: دار نشر جامعة كامبريدج، 2013. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. جدلية (ج): ما الذي دفعك لتأليف هذا الكتاب؟ ريتشيل بيكلس ويلسون (ر.ب.و): في عام 2004، كنت محتارة من طريقة استجابة الصحافة الإنكليزية –خصوصاً الصحف التي عادة ما تكون نقديّة مثل الغارديان وَ ذا أوبزورفر- لبعض المبادرات الموسيقية الكلاسيكية ...
Keep Reading »ماذا عن ربيع فلسطين؟
لو ألقينا نظرة فاحصة على كل موجات الاحتجاج الشعبي التي نشبت في فلسطين بعد الربيع العربي، فسنجد أنّ كلمة السر التي تصلح لها جميعًا هي الاحتواء. سواء كانت موجهة ضد إسرائيل والمفاوضات، أو سياسيات سلام فيّاض الاقتصاديّة، أو واقع الانقسام الذي يقترب من التجذّر، كلّ المحاولات لإلقاء حجر في الماء الراكد انتهى بها المطاف إلى أن ضمرت وتجوّفت وذهبت أدراج الرياح. أثبتت المعادلات الأمنيّة التي أرستها اسرائيل سواء بطريقة مباشرة (الضفّة) أم غير مباشرة (غزّة) فعاليّتها وقدرتها على كبح جماح الشارع وقت الضرورة. ...
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