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New Texts Out Now: Rachel Beckles Willson, Orientalism and Musical Mission: Palestine and the West
Rachel Beckles Willson, Orientalism and Musical Mission: Palestine and the West. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Rachel Beckles Willson (RBW): In 2004, I was puzzled by the way that the English press—specifically newspapers that are usually rather critical, The Guardian and The Observer—responded to some western classical music initiatives in Ramallah led by the celebrated conductor Daniel Barenboim. It all seemed to be wildly admiring, while also reproducing imperialistic discourses about Arabs and Europe (the former in need of the latter’s civilizing missions). This was all the more ...
Keep Reading »The Turkel Report: A Preliminary Analysis
![[A child carring a sign that reads 'massacre on high-seas' stands on the beach-front in Ashdod. Photo by Edo Medicks used under a Creative Commons license.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2013-03-06at6.33.27AM.png "[A child carring a sign that reads 'massacre on high-seas' stands on the beach-front in Ashdod. Photo by Edo Medicks used under a Creative Commons license.]")
The Turkel Report, which includes important evidence and recommendations, may become a dead letter if the international community does not act to ensure that it contributes the pursuance of accountability vis-a-vis Israeli violations of international law and to justice for victims. On 6 February 2013, the Israeli government-appointed Turkel Committee published the second part of its report. The report examines whether Israeli investigations of claims of war crimes and breaches of international law conform to international law standards. The Committee affirms that it does. However, it also details no less than eighteen recommendations to improve Israel’s investigation ...
Keep Reading »غريب حيفاوي: الفلسطيني لاجئاً في ذاته
شاءت ابتسام عازم أن تجعل روايتها «غــــريب حيفاوي» (دار الجمل) أشبه بتداخــــل بورتريهات: بورتريه داخل بورتريه داخل بورتريه، لتنتهي جميعها بمركز ثقل واحد أو نواة ثقيلة ومكثفة قوامها التاريخ والذاكرة والمكان، الذي يجعل منه التغيير الديموغرافي فسحةً رحبة للالتباس. في هذا العمل-السيرة، يعاد ترتيب الأحداث السياسية لفلسطين، منذ نكبة عام 1948، وحتى لحظةٍ ما، غير محددة من الألفية الثالثة، ولا تعرض مباشرة على القارئ، وإنما يتمّ إرجاعها إلى اللغة اليومية لإنسان الحاضر، أو إسقاط أثرها على كينونة إنسانية تفتش عن فسحة ضئيلة للوجود. تجري أحداث هذا العمل الروائي القصير (أقل من 100 صفحة) في فلسطين، وتحديداً القدس الغربية ورام الله وتل أبيب. وبين هذه الأمكنة الثلاثة، يخضع التاريخ ...
Keep Reading »What was at Stake at Brooklyn College?
![[Image of Michael Bloomberg. by MTAPhotos.]](/content_images/3/sm_8435665563_055a3c6b50_b.jpg "[Image of Michael Bloomberg. by MTAPhotos.]")
It was an odd spectacle: Michael Bloomberg, the New York City mayor responsible for a quite a bit of repression against New York activists, was also the one chiding New York politicos for their threats to cut funding for the city’s public colleges. As he quipped, “If you want to go to a university where the government decides what kind of subjects are fit for discussion, I suggest you apply to a school in North Korea.” Brooklyn College’s hosting of activist Omar Barghouti from the Boycott National Council and Berkeley professor Judith Butler was the cause of the ruckus. The two are regulars on the pro-Palestine lecture circuit. But Brooklyn College’s Political Science ...
Keep Reading »Herstory Repeats Itself
There is always a beginning. I reflect my ancestry and hope to do it justice by continuing to survive creatively. The complexity of our post-modern lives has both limited and made limitless our capabilities to reference our past. While many of us are blessed with mobility and migration, we are similarly plagued with displacement, political corruption and social status-quos. We flock to museums and gawk over our inherited histories, spiritually disconnected from the artifacts of the deceased. We consume official narratives at every angle, whether it be through our history textbooks, television sets, radios, computer or mobile screens. But we rarely take the time to heal ...
Keep Reading »Palestinian Citizens of Israel: Defying the Ongoing Nakba
![[Crop of image from cover of al-Majdal issue.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2013-02-27at10.40.59AM.png "[Crop of image from cover of al-Majdal issue.]")
BADIL: Resource Center for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights announces its release of the latest al-Majdal, Palestinian Citizens in Israel: Defying the Ongoing Nakba. The 51st installment of BADIL’s quarterly, al-Majdal, highlights an underrepresented portion of the Palestinian population that faces a multi-tiered institutional and social discrimination comprising a policy of forcible displacement. The curatorial intent of the magazine is to bridge gaps of understanding on a crucial Palestinian condition. Amjad Alqasis critiques the fragmentation of the Palestinian body politic and envisions a unifying terminology. Dana DePietro representing the Mossawa Center ...
Keep Reading »The Disappearing Frontiers of US Homeland Security: Mapping the Transit of Security across the US and Israel
![[Memebers of an Israeli police SWAT team perform during a training exercise organized by the Anti-Defamation League as part of a exchange program between Israel and US security officials in Holon, Israel on 10 September 2008. A delegation of over a dozen chiefs of police from major cities in the United States observed the training exercise by the Israeli SWAT team. Image by Bernat Armangue via Associated Press.]](/content_images/3/sm_AP08091005774.jpg "[Memebers of an Israeli police SWAT team perform during a training exercise organized by the Anti-Defamation League as part of a exchange program between Israel and US security officials in Holon, Israel on 10 September 2008. A delegation of over a dozen chiefs of police from major cities in the United States observed the training exercise by the Israeli SWAT team. Image by Bernat Armangue via Associated Press.]")
In the wake of the 1995 Israeli bombing of the UN refugee camp at Qana in Lebanon, a videotape of the massacre was distributed across global media. The African American poet June Jordan, who had participated in US-based Palestine solidarity movements and would visit Lebanon in 1996, thought that the video would be a turning point in global opinion of Israel. Writing in the Progressive magazine, Jordan linked the Qana bombing to military and police violence she had witnessed in urban Black communities in the United States. “Here was the Rodney King video of the Middle East. At least, here was incontrovertible evidence of Israeli lies and Israeli savagery that no one could ...
Keep Reading »SJP National Voices Support for University of California Organizers
![[SJP logo. Image from Wikimedia Commons]](/content_images/3/sm_StudentsforJusticeinPalestinelogo.jpg "[SJP logo. Image from Wikimedia Commons]")
[The following statement was issued by Students for Justice in Palestine on 5 February 2013.] Nearly fifty years ago, students at the University of California fought to win the right to free speech on their campuses. It is deplorable that today, pro-Palestinian students must find themselves fighting once again for their basic rights. As the Ad Hoc Steering Committee for the National Students for Justice in Palestine Conference, we write to express our solidarity with organizers and academics at California public universities advocating for Palestinian rights, and decry the troubling pattern of institutional intimidation and silencing of Palestine solidarity work taken ...
Keep Reading »Statement from Global Palestinian Right to Return Coalition
![[Israel's West Bank Separation Barrier. Image by gnuckx via Flickr]](/content_images/3/sm_SeparationBarrierWeb.jpg "[Israel's West Bank Separation Barrier. Image by gnuckx via Flickr]")
[The following statement was issued by the Global Palestinian Right to Return Coalition on 5 February 2013.] To the children of our heroic Palestinian people, To those who safeguard the unity of our people, our representation, and our cause, As the Palestinian people await the meeting of various sectors of Palestinian leadership on the eighth of February in Cairo, and as we anticipate further development of steps towards turning the page on painful Palestinian divisions, the Global Palestinian Right to Return Coalition welcomes these meetings and initiatives and hopes that they will preserve the political and geographic unity of our people. We hope these steps will ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (February 12)
![[Senator Jay Rockefeller questions John Brennan during the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s nomination hearing for Brennan. Image from SenRockefeller Flickr.]](/content_images/3/sm_8454778096_c80b1c5e32_c.jpg "[Senator Jay Rockefeller questions John Brennan during the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s nomination hearing for Brennan. Image from SenRockefeller Flickr.]")
[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 "Pro-Palestine Speakers at Brooklyn College Attract Protests Outside", Vivian Yee The New York Times reports on a lecture by Judith Butler and Omar Barghouti at Brooklyn College on the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Movement, concurrent protests outside the lecture, and the larger controversy surrounding ...
Keep Reading »Email Exchange between Glenn Greenwald and Alan Dershowitz
[The following is an email exchange between writer Glenn Greenwald and Professor Alan Dershowitz. The context for the exchange was a public campaign by certain politicians to pressure the Political Science Department at Brooklyn College to rescind its sponsorship of an event discussing the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. The email exchange was originally posted here. For more information on the attempt to suppress the BDS event at Brooklyn College, click here and here.] GG to AD Professor Dershowitz - I'm writing a piece on the controversy over the BDS event at Brooklyn College. I have a few of questions: You yourself have ...
Keep Reading »National Students for Justice in Palestine Stands in Solidarity with Brooklyn College
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As the Ad Hoc Steering Committee for the National Students for Justice in Palestine, we write to express our solidarity with organizers and academics at Brooklyn College. The co-sponsorship by Brooklyn College’s political science department of an event organized by Students for Justice in Palestine about the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement has resulted in an onslaught of intimidation from a campaign led by Alan Dershowitz. At first, Dershowitz and a handful of city politicians demanded that the Brooklyn College political science department rescind its co-sponsorship (Glenn Greenwald wrote a comprehensive article, highlighting Dershowitz’s double ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Ilana Feldman, The Challenge of Categories: UNRWA and the Definition of a "Palestine Refugee"
Ilana Feldman, "The Challenge of Categories: UNRWA and the Definition of a 'Palestine Refugee.'" Journal of Refugee Studies 25.3 (2012). Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this article? Ilana Feldman (IF): There were two primary motivating forces for writing this article. First, it is part of a special issue in the Journal of Refugee Studies on “The Refugee in the Post-War World, 1945-1960,” that itself was a result of a conference of the same name. By participating in this issue, ...
Keep Reading »The Unequal Right to Water in Unrecognized Bedouin Villages
On February 20, the Israeli Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by residents of the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm El-Hiran in the Naqab (Negev), which holds 500 residents, demanding minimum access to drinking water. Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel filed the appeal on behalf of the village’s 500 residents. The residents of the village Umm El-Hiran arrived in 1956 when they were forced to move there by an Israeli military commander. Today, fifty-eight years later, ...
Keep Reading »Israel: Open Independent Investigation into the Suspicious Death following Interrogation of Palestinian Detainee Arafat Jaradat
The undersigned human rights organizations call on the Israeli Attorney General (AG) to open an independent and impartial investigation into the circumstances of the death of thirty year-old Palestinian detainee Arafat Jaradat in the Meggido Prison according to the Investigation into Circumstances of Death Law. The organizations also call on the international community to demand that the Israeli government respect the rights of Palestinian prisoners and protect their health and lives. Adalah, Physicians ...
Keep Reading »United Nations OHCHR Calls for Investigation into Death of Palestinian Prisoner Undergoing Israeli Interrogation
[The following press release was issued by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on 27 February 2013.] The United Nations Special Rapporteur for human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Richard Falk, today called for an international investigation on the death of Palestinian prisoner Arafat Jaradat while undergoing interrogation in an Israeli facility. “The death of a prisoner during interrogation is always a cause for concern, but in this case, when Israel has ...
Keep Reading »The Legal Framework of Second Class Citizenship
Since its establishment in 1948, Israel has lacked a formal constitution. In 1951, the first Knesset decided that it would enact a series of “Basic Laws” that would eventually become the future Israeli constitution. Nothing in the Basic Laws resembled a bill of rights until the Knesset enacted two very important laws: Basic Law - Human Dignity and Liberty, passed in 1992, and Basic Law - Freedom of Occupation, passed in 1994, were the basis of the so-called ”constitutional revolution” and were ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (February 26)
[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 "In Syria, New Influx of Weapons to Rebels Tilts the Battle Against Assad", Liz Sly, Karen DeYoung Sly and DeYoung of The ...
Keep Reading »من فكرتنا بنصور صورتنا
في هذه المجموعة من الكتابات، لثلاثة مصورين فلسطينيين لاجئين في مقتبل العمر، تعليقات على أعماالمصورة الأمريكية الأرجنتينية السندرا سنتغوينتي التي زارت فلسطين مرتين خلال الانتفاضة الثانية. محمد العزة وياسمين سالم وأريج أسعد، كانوا أطفالاً عندما التقطت المصورة السندرا هذه الصور. وقد وجدوا بعد سنوات طويلة أن لهذه الصور صدى سياسي وشخصي بالنسبة لهم. وثقت المصورة السندرا آثار العنف العسكري الإسرائيلي هناك، ولكنها التقطت أيضاً لحظات هادئة من التأمل. انجذب هؤلاء الكتاب لهذه الصور فكتبوا عن كونهم لاجئين يعيشون ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Na'eem Jeenah, Pretending Democracy: Israel, An Ethnocratic State
Na’eem Jeenah, editor, Pretending Democracy: Israel, An Ethnocratic State. Johannesburg: Afro-Middle East Centre, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What made you publish this book? Na’eem Jeenah (NJ): The book emerged out of a conference organized by the Afro-Middle East Centre and which was held in Pretoria, South Africa. The conference brought together important scholars who have being thinking and writing about the issue of the nature of the Israeli state, those who are affected by this, and also ways in which ...
Keep Reading »Judith Butler's Remarks to Brooklyn College on BDS
[The following remarks were given by Judith Butler at a recent boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) event held at Brooklyn College. The event was the subject of a major public campaign (via false accusations and threats to withdraw funding) to pressure the Department of Political Science at the college to withdraw their co-sponoshorship of the event. The remarks were first published on The Nation.] Usually one starts by saying that one is glad to be here, but I cannot say that it has been a pleasure ...
Keep Reading »Lawfare and Armed Conflict: Comparing Israeli and US Targeted Killing Policies and Challenges against Them
In this public lecture, I engage the concept of lawfare (an amalgamation of “law” and “warfare”) to compare Israeli and US twenty-first century armed conflicts. Specifically, I focus on both states’ targeted killing policies and the legal rationales that have been advanced to try to project their lawfulness, and legal challenges to these policies in order to tell a larger story about the relationship between contemporary practices of law and war. In order to tell this story, I expand the lawfare concept ...
Keep Reading »الفلسطينيون على جانبي الخط الأخضر في ظروف سياسية متغيّرة
بيان صحفي الفلسطينيون على جانبي الخط الأخضر في ظروف سياسية متغيّرة – إصدار جديد لمركز مدى الكرمل ومؤسسة مواطن صدر عن مركز مدى الكرمل، المركز العربي للدراسات الاجتماعيّة التطبيقيّة في حيفا، ومؤسّسة مواطن، المؤسسة الفلسطينية لدراسة الديمقراطية في رام الله، كتاب يوثق الورشة المشتركة للمؤسستين والتي عقدت في شهر آذار من 2011 ، تحت عنوان: "الفلسطينيون على جانبي الخط الأخضر في ظروف سياسية متغيّرة". أتت المبادرة لهذه الورشة من أجل التشاور حول الوضع الفلسطيني العام، خاصة على ضوء ...
Keep Reading »Fixing the Paris Protocol Twenty Years Later: Frequently Asked Questions for Diehard Reformers
"All along the watchtower, princes kept the view While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too. Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl." Bob Dylan, All Along the Watchtower As many articles like this will certainly remind us that this year, 2013, commemorates two decades since the signing of the Oslo Declaration of Principles between Israel and the PLO. The endurance of what was supposed to be a five-year interim ...
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