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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
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[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 »Why Students in Solidarity with Palestine Should Not Join The Olive Tree Initiative
![[Logo of the Olive Tree Initiative.]](/content_images/3/sm_olivetreeinitiative.jpg "[Logo of the Olive Tree Initiative.]")
The Olive Tree Initiative (OTI) calls itself a “conflict analysis” project. Started in 2007 at the University of California Irvine, it is now present at multiple UC campuses. OTI is often referred to as a “dialogue project,” and its mission statement reads as follows: The mission of the Olive Tree Initiative (OTI) is to promote conflict analysis and resolution through Experiential Education by providing students and community with the education, training, and experiences needed to better negotiate and solve conflicts. This might sound like an admirable venture at first. However, OTI’s “standards and ethics” indicate that the organization is adamant about ...
Keep Reading »"May in the Summer": 2013 Sundance Review
![[Dalia (Alia Shawkat) and May (Cherien Dabis) in “May in the Summer.” Photo Credit: Brian Rigney Hubbard]](/content_images/3/sm_MITS_Still10.LR.jpg "[Dalia (Alia Shawkat) and May (Cherien Dabis) in “May in the Summer.” Photo Credit: Brian Rigney Hubbard]")
Written and directed by Cherien Dabis, May in the Summer -- which opened the 2013 U.S. Dramatic Competition of the Sundance Film Festival -- is a disarmingly humorous, sharply observed and deeply affecting story about a Palestinian-American writer, May, who returns to her childhood home in Jordan in preparation for her summertime wedding. Distinct from the well worn immigrant narratives familiar to American independent film, May in the Summer charts terrain rarely explored on screen: the emotional impact of building a life across multiple geographies -- especially when the promise of return to one's homeland continues unfulfilled. [May (Cherien Dabis) and Yasmine ...
Keep Reading »Permission to Caption
![[“Yasmine and Fatima”, C-Print, 2003. By Alessandra Sanguinetti.]](/content_images/3/sm_Sanguinetti_YasmineAndFatima_small.jpg "[“Yasmine and Fatima”, C-Print, 2003. By Alessandra Sanguinetti.]")
Ever since the start of the first Intifada in 1987, the West Bank and Gaza have become the center not only of Palestinian politics but also of international coverage of the Palestinians. On the ground, these processes of media production are collaborative and dialogical. Working with visiting journalists, photographers, and other media makers, Palestinians translate, set up interviews, and navigate checkpoints. They not only interpret Arabic; they also interpret facial expressions, city streets, and landscapes. But once the visiting media makers go home and material is edited, published, and circulated, Palestinians can be cut out of the conversation. The media produced ...
Keep Reading »International Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
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[The following press release and report were issued by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on 31 January 2013.] The International Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory today published its findings on the implications Israeli settlements have upon the human rights of the Palestinian people. The report states that a multitude of the human rights of the Palestinians are violated in various forms and ways due to the existence of the settlements. These violations are all interrelated, forming part of an overall pattern of breaches that are characterised principally by the denial of ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (30 January)
![[Malian troops stand guard outside Kati Barracks in Bamako, the headquarters of coup leader Amadou Sanogo. Image by Magharebia. From Wikimedia Commons]](/content_images/3/sm_Les_allies_dal-Qaida_detruisent_un_tombeau_sacre_a_Tombouctou_(8142142738).jpg "[Malian troops stand guard outside Kati Barracks in Bamako, the headquarters of coup leader Amadou Sanogo. Image by Magharebia. From Wikimedia Commons]")
[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 "UN Expert Investigates US Drone Attacks, Targeted Killings that Involve Civilian Casualties," Associated Press The AP reports on the special investigation by Ben Emmerson, the UN rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights, into the legality of drone warfare and targeted killings as used by the ...
Keep Reading »Palestinian Refugees in Jordan and the Revocation of Citizenship: An Interview with Anis F. Kassim
![[Palestinian Refugees, 1948. Public Domain. From Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_refugeesschmelz.jpg "[Palestinian Refugees, 1948. Public Domain. From Wikimedia Commons.]")
[Anis F. Kassim is an international law expert and practicing lawyer in Jordan. He was a member of the Palestinian legal defense team before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the 2004 landmark case on Israel’s separation wall, and that led to the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The following interview was originally published by BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights in their quarterly magazine al-Majdal.] Hazem Jamjoum: What legal status was afforded Palestinians who came under Jordanian control after the 1948 ...
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 ...
Keep Reading »Letter from Faculty Union at CUNY in Support of Brooklyn College Israel Forum
[The following letter was issued by the CUNY Faculty Union on 5 February 2013.] Congressman Jerrold Nadler Congresswoman Yvette Clarke Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez Congressman Hakeem Jeffries NY City Council Speaker Christine Quinn NY City Comptroller John Liu NY City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz NY State Senator Kevin Parker NY State Senator Daniel Squadron NY State Assemblywoman Rhoda Jacobs NY State Assemblyman Karim Camara NY ...
Keep Reading »With Our Ideas, We Take Our Portrait: Reflections on the Work of Alessandra Sanguinetti
In this collection of essays, three young Palestinian photographers and refugees respond to the work of Alessandra Sanguinetti, an Argentinian-American photographer who visited Palestine twice during the second Intifada. Mohammad Al-Azza, Yasmeen Saleem, and Areej Asad were children when Sanguinetti took some of her photographs in their community. Years later, they found these photographs personally and politically resonant. Sanguinetti documented the aftermath of military violence, but she also captured ...
Keep Reading »موسم السياحة 2013: فلسطين المحتلة، زوروها وافرحوا بها
ليس هناك ألطف من أن تكون جماعة ما مُستَعمِرة حضاريّة ومنفتحة. فحينما تتوافر شروط الحداثة بما تشمله من علائم الديموقراطية، والمدنية، والعولمة، والابتعاد السياسي والاجتماعي عن الدين والانفتاح على كافة أنواعه؛ يصير الاستعمار تفصيلاً هامشياً ومتقهقراً أمام كل هذا. يصبح همّ المجتمع أن يحيا التفاصيل اليومية متناسياً أعقاب الماضي، متذكراً خطواته الحاضرة الذاهبة إلى غدها لا غير. وليس أوفى على توثيق تلك الخطى من جرائد هذا الاستعمار، التي لا يقتصر عملها على توثيق وتدوين هذا الواقع، بل أيضاً على إنتاجه وإحالته لأمر ...
Keep Reading »Setting New Precedents: Israel Boycotts Human Rights Session
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique mechanism that intends to review the behavior of states without distinction. The UN General Assembly established it in 2006 as part of the functions of the Human Rights Council. It is a state-driven process to comprehensively assess a state's compliance with human rights law. The Human Rights Council is to hold three two-week sessions each year during which time they review the files of sixteen member states. Accordingly each state will undergo the review ...
Keep Reading »Medical Neglect in Israeli Prison Leads to Death of Ashraf Abu Dhra'
[The following statement was issued by Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association on 22 January 2013.] Addameer sends its condolences to the family of Ashraf Abu Dhra’, a recently released prisoner who passed away last night as a result of medical negligence in an Israeli Occupation prison. Ashraf, twenty-nine years old and from Beit 'Awwa in Hebron, was arrested on 16 May 2006 and sentenced to six and a half years in Ramleh prison. Ashraf had a long history of medical problems that predate ...
Keep Reading »BADIL Proudly Announces the Release of its Report on Palestinian National Identity
BADIL Proudly Announces the Release of its Research Project: One People United: A Deterritorialized Palestinian Identity -- BADIL Survey of Palestinian Youth on Identity and Social Ties-2012 The violent establishment of Israel in 1948 constituted a catastrophe, or Nakba, for Palestinian aspirations for self-determination. More significantly, the Nakba resulted in the mass forced displacement of the majority of the Palestinian people from their homeland, thereby undermining the social cohesion ...
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