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التقاليد والآلة المناهضة للسياسة: "جرائم الشرف" تغوي فرقة الدام
إننا نكتب هذه المقالة كمشجّعات (خائبات الأمل) لفرقة الهيب هوب الفلسطينية الدام في وقت يذكرنا فيه الهجوم العنيف على غزة بالواقع القاسي للحياة والموت الذي يعيشه الفلسطينيون كل يوم، نساء ورجالاً. وهبت الدام عبر أغان مثل "مين إرهابي؟" و"إنولدت هون"، صوتاً سياسياً مثيراً لجيل جديد من الفلسطينيين الذين خرجوا عن صمتهم إزاء عنصرية دولة إسرائيل. لقد تحدّت الفرقة عنف الدولة الذي دمّر حيوات الفلسطينيين ومجتمعاتهم، سواء كان ذلك في جيتوهات المدن الإسرائيلية أو في المناطق المحتلة، المخنوقة والواقعة تحت القصف منذ العام 1967. لقد كانت هذه الموسيقى سياسية، حادة وغاضبة، ووليدة التجربة. وعلى ضوء مواقف الدام السياسية المحنكة وغير المساوِمة، من المفاجئ ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Monthly Edition on Jadaliyya (December 2012)
![[Israeli Rockets hitting Rafah, Palestine. Image by Gigi Ibrahim.]](/content_images/3/sm_8205588314_f7d537ab03_c.jpg "[Israeli Rockets hitting Rafah, Palestine. Image by Gigi Ibrahim.]")
[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] Ongoing Ethnic Cleansing: Israeli Settlers ...
Keep Reading »Israel's Worldwide Role in Repression
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[Researched, written, and edited by members of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, this twenty-eight-page exposé focuses on the role of Israel’s government, military, and related corporations and organizations in a global industry of violence and repression. The states most involved with this industry profit from perpetual war and occupation across the globe while maintaining vastly unequal societies of their own. Click here to learn more about this booklet and an associated project to build global testimony towards popular tribunals.] Israel's Worldwide Role in Repression Introduction This pamphlet focuses on the role of Israel's government, ...
Keep Reading »Joint Statement Condemning IOF Raid on the Offices of Palestinian NGOs in Ramallah
![[Addameer logo. Image from addameer.org]](/content_images/3/sm_addameerlogoweb.jpg "[Addameer logo. Image from addameer.org]")
[The following statement was issued by the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council on 12 December 2012.] The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) strongly condemns yesterday morning’s raid by Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) on the office of a number of Palestinian non-governmental organizations in Ramallah. At about 3am this morning, IOF raided the offices of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, the Palestinian NGO Network and the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committee. Addameer is a member of the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council. During these raids, the offices of all three organizations were ransacked, and ...
Keep Reading »Eyes on Israeli Military Court: A Collection of Impressions
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[The following report was issued by Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association on 4 June 2012.] Eyes on Israeli Military Court: A Collection of Impressions Introduction This booklet encompasses a series of reflections on the experience of Addameer volunteers and associates who visited the Israeli military courts situated in the occupied Palestinian territory from 2009 to 2011. The contributors were asked to write about what they saw and how they felt during their time at the court, where they witnessed hearings for Palestinians accused of stone-throwing, involvement in demonstrations and other political activities ...
Keep Reading »DAM Responds: On Tradition and the Anti-Politics of the Machine
We were happy to find on the pages of Jadaliyya supporters and friends who understand our work and respect what we have been doing as artists and members of our community for many years. We also feel an urgency to respond to the analysis that Lila Abu-Lughod and Maya Mikdashi offered of our work. We take the issue and the critique seriously. Normally we don’t feel the urge to reply to a review but we felt that this specific review crossed a few lines, especially with its title! Tradition and the Anti-Politics Machine: DAM Seduced by the “Honor Crime.” The title, like the article’s content, implies that DAM (and Jackie and the other artists who created the song ...
Keep Reading »Extreme Makeover? (I): Israel's Politics of Land and Faith in East Jerusalem
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[The following report was issued by International Crisis Group on 20 December 2012.] Extreme Makeover? (I): Israel's Politics of Land and Faith in East Jerusalem Executive Summary Jerusalem no longer is the city it was in 2000, when Israelis and Palestinians first negotiated its fate. In the interval, much has changed, complicating the task of unscrambling the Jerusalem egg based on the formula presented by President Clinton in December of that year: what is Jewish would be Israeli; what is Arab would be Palestinian; and a special regime would govern sites holy to the three monotheistic religions. It has become commonplace in some quarters to decree ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Amahl Bishara, Back Stories: US News Production and Palestinian Politics
Amahl A. Bishara, Back Stories: US News Production and Palestinian Politics. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Amahl Bishara (AB): Back Stories is an ethnography of the production of US news during the second Palestinian Intifada. I started this project in New York City around the beginning of the uprising. I would wake up every morning, and my first step would be to reach for the news. But obviously the news represented only a narrow slice of Palestinian ideas about and experiences of national struggle. I wanted to explore the multiple, complex factors that make it difficult for diverse Palestinian perspectives ...
Keep Reading »مي وملح في إضراب الأسرى
لعله إذ يقول: (كما لم اعلق على مظاهرتكم وتجمعكم، فلتتركوني اسمع "عبري" كما أريد!) ، رداً على تلك الصبية التي طلبت منه على الاقل أن يحترم المظاهرة المناصرة لإضراب الأسرى في سجون الصهاينة، بما أنه لن يشارك، وذلك أثناء مروره بسيارته التي تصدح منها ألحان وأغان عبرية، في أحد أحياء مدينة القدس التي تشهد إعتصامات داعمة لإضراب الأسرى الجائع للحرية، لم يدرك بعد أنه يعد تمثلاً جلياً لأحد إثنين من "أجهزة الدولة" كما عرَّفهم لويس التوسير، إذ صنفهم ذلك الأخير إلى "أجهزة قمعية" والتي هي عتاد أنظمة السلطة في ممارسة التحكم والهيمنة المادية على المكان والأفراد بواسطة العنف والقمع والقوة المادية الصلبة من خلال أجهزة الشرطة والجيش وقانون العقوبات، أما ...
Keep Reading »The Politics of Killing Women in Colonized Contexts
![[A demonstration against killing women in Ramleh and Lydda, 11 June 2012. From NRG Maariv. Image by Amir Meiri.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2012-12-17at8.17.00AM.png "[A demonstration against killing women in Ramleh and Lydda, 11 June 2012. From NRG Maariv. Image by Amir Meiri.]")
As therapists, activists, and scholars who have worked with abused women, and conducted social anthropological studies on the killing of women in Palestinian society, we decided to respond to the article by Lila Abu-Lughod and Maya Mikdashi, “Tradition and the Anti-Politics Machine: DAM Seduced by the ‘Honor Crime.’” They reiterate—as our own interventions, activism, and studies have found—that the killing of women cannot be divorced from the realm of the political. However, in reading the reactions and comments, such as those that ask for the view within Palestine, we felt compelled to share with readers our analyses and activist work, and to speak up. We have ...
Keep Reading »Adalah Q&A on Representation/Participation of Palestinian Citizens of Israel in Knesset Elections
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[The following resource on the participation of Palestinian-Israelis in the upcoming Israeli parliamentary elections was issued by Adalah on 11 December 2012.] Election Q&A: The 2013 Israeli Elections and Arab Parliamentarians When and for what purpose are the elections being held in Israel? Parliamentary elections will be held in Israel on 22 January 2013. They will determine the composition of the 19th Knesset, Israel’s unicameral (single-house) parliament that has a total of 120 seats. Who will vote? Israeli citizens aged eighteen and over have the right to vote. According to recent trends, Arab citizens are less likely to vote than Jewish ...
Keep Reading »Letter Urging Musician Joy Harjo to Cancel Performance in Israel
![[Poet and musician Joy Harjo. Image from change.org]](/content_images/3/sm_harjoweb.jpg "[Poet and musician Joy Harjo. Image from change.org]")
[The following letter was issued by the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel to Native American poet and musician Joy Harjo. Harjo performed at Tel Aviv University on Monday 10 December, despite efforts, such as this letter, to convince her otherwise.] It's time to take a principled stance in support of Palestinian human rights being violated by the Israeli state's colonial occupation and apartheid regime. Palestinian civil society has called for the international academic and cultural boycott of Israel. This is an institutional boycott responding to the call to join the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. To: Joy ...
Keep Reading »European Footballers Declare Support for Palestine
[The following statement was published on footballer Frederic Oumar Kanoute's webiste on 29 November 2012.] We, as European football players, express our solidarity with the people of Gaza who are living under siege and denied basic human dignity and freedom. The latest Israeli bombardment of Gaza, resulting in the death of over a hundred civilians, was yet another stain on the world's conscience. We are informed that on 10 November 2012 the Israeli army bombed a sports stadium in Gaza, ...
Keep Reading »An Open Letter of Response to CRIF (Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France)
An Open Letter of Response to CRIF (Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France): I am shocked and saddened that your organization would label me as an anti-Semite and self-hating Jew. It is utterly defamatory, and such allegations are entirely based on distortions of what I believe and what I have done. To confuse my criticisms of Israel with self-hatred of myself as a Jew or with hatred of Jews is a calumny. I have long been a critic of American foreign policy but that ...
Keep Reading »المواطنة و"دولة فلسطين" الجديدة
في محاولته الثانية للحصول على اعتراف الأمم المتحدة بفلسطين كدولة، طلب رئيس السلطة الوطنية الفلسطينية، محمود عباس، في التاسع والعشرين من تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر)، 2012 من الجمعية العامة أن تقبل طلب منح فلسطين صفة دولة مراقب غير عضو، وقد وافقت أغلبية ساحقة من الدول الأعضاء بلغ عددها 138 دولة على الطلب. في الوقت الحاضر، فإن تأثير هذا التصويت يعد رمزياً إلى حد كبير، ولكنه يعني بالفعل أن "فلسطين" هي الأراضي الفلسطينية التي احتلتها إسرائيل عام 1967. والآن، وعوضاً عن معنى الشعب الذي تبرزه كلمة ...
Keep Reading »Ongoing Ethnic Cleansing: Israeli Settlers to Take Over Another Palestinian Home
On Monday 31 December 2012, Israeli forces will evict the Shamasneh family from their home in Sheikh Jarrah. The family of ten, including six children, have lived in the home since 1963. Ayoub Shamasneh, the family elder, recently appealed to the international solidarity community to stand with them to resist their forced displacement. Sheikh Jarrah is a residential neighborhood in the north of the Old City of Occupied East Jerusalem and home to 2,800 Palestinians. Due to its strategic location ...
Keep Reading »Honoring Solidarity During Contentious Debates. . . A Letter to DAM From Lila Abu-Lughod and Maya Mikdashi
Dear Tamer, Suhel, and Mahmood, If We Could Go Back in Time… we would have made even clearer that our reaction came from our deep admiration for you and our appreciation of your political and social influence. We are, as we said, fans. Lila has sent your songs to countless people around the world and has made statements about the importance of your art publicly. As the daughter of an exile from Jaffa who lived and worked for Palestine his whole life, she is particularly thrilled with ...
Keep Reading »Extreme Makeover? (II): The Withering of Arab Jerusalem
[The following report was issued by International Crisis Group on 20 December 2012.] Extreme Makeover? (II): The Withering of Arab Jerusalem Executive Summary For many Arab East Jerusalemites, the battle for their city is all but lost. Settlements have hemmed in their neighbourhoods, which have become slums in the midst of an expanding Jewish presence; trade with the West Bank has been choked off by the Separation Barrier and checkpoints; organised political life has been virtually ...
Keep Reading »New Zealand Superannuation Fund Excludes Three Companies on Responsible Investment Grounds
[The following press release was issued by the New Zealand Superannuation Fund on 12 December 2012.] The New Zealand Superannuation Fund today announced that it had excluded three companies from its twenty billion dollar investment portfolio on responsible investment grounds. Africa Israel Investments and subsidary Danya Cebus: Africa Israel and its subsidiary Danya Cebus have been excluded because of their involvement in the construction of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian ...
Keep Reading »DAM Explores the Unmapped in Their New Album "Dabke on the Moon"
DAM’s latest album “Dabke on the Moon,” released in November 2012, details the lives of prisoners of the occupation. This refers to both prisoners literally detained in Israeli jail cells as well as the millions of Palestinians who move – relatively – more freely, but are still held prisoner in the tight clench of Israeli apartheid. “Dabke on the Moon” is a reflection on Palestine amidst revolutionary change in the region. It pushes the boundaries of traditional hip-hop with a myriad of ...
Keep Reading »A Faraway Neighbor
For those of us who have grown up Arab, Palestine is a constant presence. From childhood to adulthood, we hear about the Palestinian cause, from the news, from friends and family, from parents and grandparents, from school, from songs. Palestine is close to our hearts, while its reality is so far away. The land itself feels distant; despite its proximity, one can only dream of seeing it. If there is a small glimmer of light emerging from the Egyptian revolution, it is that the reality of ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (17 December)
[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 "European Court Backs CIA Rendition Victim," Al Jazeera English The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Macedonia to pay German ...
Keep Reading »الحركة المثلية في فلسطين ومقارعة الخطاب الإسرائيلي
هل تصدّقون وجود مثليين فلسطينيين ومثليات فلسطينيّات خارج الأفلام الأوروبيّة والإسرائيلية التي لا تكفّ عن مضغ القصة السطحية ذاتها حول فلسطيني مثلي الجنس يعشق مثلي إسرائيلي، فيهربان من غابة «الهوموفوبيا» (رهاب المثليين) العربيّة إلى مملكة التحرر في تل أبيب؟ مثابرة حثيثة يقودها مثليّون ومثليّات من فلسطين ضد الاستخدام الغربي والصهيوني لقضايا التحرر الجنسيّ والاجتماعي من أجل تكريس العداء للمجتمعات العربيّة باعتبارها مجتمعات قامعة، تصادر حقوق النساء كما تصادر التعددية الجنسيّة. توازت هذه المثابرة في أساسها مع ...
Keep Reading »Atatürk and My Grandfather
Where the young Palestinian Ismail Hroub was killed and buried after being recruited by the Ottoman army in the early twentieth century remains unknown. His brother, my paternal grandfather Khalil Hroub, would for the rest of his days remain saddened by the early loss of his brother. He had refused any money from the Ottoman administration, then based in Hebron, as compensation for this loss. Like many Palestinian families who lost young men in the Great War, and despite sheer poverty and need, my ...
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