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Noura Erakat and Rashid Khalidi on US-Israeli Relations: Interview with MSNBC's Chris Hayes
![[Left to right: Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat and J Street Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami on Up With Chris Hayes. Image from screen shot if below video]](/content_images/3/sm_rash.png "[Left to right: Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat and J Street Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami on Up With Chris Hayes. Image from screen shot if below video]")
This week US President Barack Obama made his first Middle East visit of his second term in office. It was also his first trip to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) since coming into office in 2008. The purpose of the trip was to warm chilled relations with Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, as well as to reiterate the US position towards Iran's nuclear power ambitions. In many ways, the trip signaled Obama's retreat from the region rather than the first step in an intensified approach to it. Obama's "Listening Tour" sought to strengthen his political leverage in the United States by appeasing a domestic constituency, and especially an ...
Keep Reading »The Forgotten Protagonists: The Invasion and the Historian
![[Iraqis waiting in line for food handouts in northwestern town of Biaj, 1 October 2009. Image from Fotopedia/DVIDSHUB.]](/content_images/3/sm_OLDMAN.jpg "[Iraqis waiting in line for food handouts in northwestern town of Biaj, 1 October 2009. Image from Fotopedia/DVIDSHUB.]")
During the past week Americans, Europeans, and Middle Easterners were reminded of Iraq. A stream of photos, articles, essays, and analyses has tried to make sense of the situation in Iraq during the last decade. One group, however, does not need to be reminded of the gravity of the situation—the many Iraqis, men and women alike, whose lives have been irreversibly changed during the last decades. In this piece, I want to reflect on the kinds of themes historians have been writing about in the present, and those we ought to write about in the future. In the last ten years, we seemed to have learned much more about Iraqi history; probably more than any of us has ever ...
Keep Reading »ترجمة الحرب: التغيير وغياب الفاعل
![[قصف بغداد في التاسع عشر من آذار، ٢٠٠٣]](/content_images/3/sm_bombingbaghdad.jpg "[قصف بغداد في التاسع عشر من آذار، ٢٠٠٣]")
تمر هذه الأيام الذكرى العاشرة للغزو الأمريكي للعراق واحتلاله عام ٢٠٠٣، أو ما يحلو لبعض المثقفين العراقيين أن يسمّوه "التغيير." وهذه المفردة تستحق الوقوف عندها؛ دلالاتها والخطاب السياسي الذي تعكسه وتعيد انتاجه، بغض النظر عن نوايا من يستخدمها. فليس اختيار هذه المفردة، بالذات، محض اختصار، فـ"الحرب" أو "الغزو" تفيان بالغرض. فما الذي تضيفه هذه المفردة التي قد تبدو بريئة للوهلة الأولى، لكنها ليست كذلك البتة؟ وربما علينا أن نحوّر السؤال المطروح، لنقول: ما الذي تضببه أو تمحوه؟ وما الذي لا تقوله؟ قد يقول قائل إن المقصود بالمصطلح هو، ببساطة، ما حدث بعد الغزو، وأثناء الاحتلال، والإشارة إلى النظام السياسي الذي تم تركيبه في العراق بإشراف الاحتلال، والذي ...
Keep Reading »Mapping Muslims: NYPD Spying and Its Impact on American Muslims
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[The following press release and report were issued by the Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition (MACLC), and its partner organizations the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsability (CLEAR) project of CUNY School of Law, and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF).] New Report Launch: NYPD and Its Impact on American Muslims On March 11, 2013, members of the American Muslim community will release findings from a ground-breaking new report, Mapping Muslims: NYPD Spying and its Impact on American Muslims at 1 Police Plaza, and deliver the report New York City Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Ray Kelly and Deputy Commissioner ...
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 »Event: Proxy and Invisible Detention in the US Counterinsurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan (12 March 2013, Rutgers University)
Proxy and Invisible Detention in the US Counterinsurgencies in Iraq & Afghanistan 12 March 2013, 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University presents "Proxy and Invisible Detention in the US Counterinsurgencies in Iraq & Afghanistan," a talk by Dr. Laleh Khalili, Reader in Politics of the Middle East SOAS, University of London. This talk examines the use of proxies by the United States in the War on Terror and traces their historical roots. In the US case, extraordinary rendition had been used as early as the 1970s in the US War on ...
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 Washington Post report on the Free Syrian Army's procurement of weaponry donated from outside Syria, as opposed to purchased on the black market. The donation is highly ...
Keep Reading »US Drones Blow Up Any Hope of Close Ties with Yemenis
![[Some of the 26 children of Saleh Qaid Toayman, who was killed with one of his sons in an airstrike on Oct. 14, 2011. The family says the eldest son, Azzedine, has joined an al-Qaida-affiliated group to avenge the father's death. The group's black banner hangs in the family's home. The family says the militant group gives them a monthly stipend. Image by Kelly McEvers/NPR.]](/content_images/3/sm_yemen_drone3_wide-99b7563b972d4690efcad77614624f1f9f4b5645.jpg "[Some of the 26 children of Saleh Qaid Toayman, who was killed with one of his sons in an airstrike on Oct. 14, 2011. The family says the eldest son, Azzedine, has joined an al-Qaida-affiliated group to avenge the father's death. The group's black banner hangs in the family's home. The family says the militant group gives them a monthly stipend. Image by Kelly McEvers/NPR.]")
Late last year I escorted the US radio journalist Kelly McEvers to Abyan, a governorate in South Yemen. Government troops and local militias had been battling fighters from Ansar al-Sharia, an al-Qaeda affiliate, and had forced them from the area only two days earlier. There were reports that some had shaved their beards and stayed. If they had known an American reporter was around, they would have had a golden opportunity for a kidnapping. Before we boarded the plane in Beirut, I had told McEvers that I would assure her safety. As one of the rare Americans who understand Yemen well, she knew that I was saying I would do whatever it took to protect her, putting her ...
Keep Reading »SJP National Voices Support for University of California Organizers
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[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 »Bahrain As I Remember It
![[An image from a protest in Bahrain on 14 February 2013. Image provided by author.]](/content_images/3/sm_photo1.JPG "[An image from a protest in Bahrain on 14 February 2013. Image provided by author.]")
On that day, 14 February 2011, there was a sense that things would change. The energy of the crowd was electric and contagious. The frustration that had built up for years unfolded in the form of peaceful protests in Pearl Square—the revolutionary space that had housed hundreds of thousands of Bahrainis for months, and had been subsequently destroyed by authorities. On that day, 14 February 2011, history repeated itself in Bahrain, as the sources of power repressed the majority through the forceful dispersion of protests, extrajudicial killings, the use of imported tear gas, arbitrary arrests, and systematic torture. Despite the hollow gestures of "reform" ...
Keep Reading »Dear Bahrain... With Love
![[Visiting the grave of Martyr Sayed Jawad Sayed Hashim in Sitra. Image from Saeed Saif, March 2012]](/content_images/3/sm__ISA1238.jpg "[Visiting the grave of Martyr Sayed Jawad Sayed Hashim in Sitra. Image from Saeed Saif, March 2012]")
Valentine’s Day and the color red symbolize love. The world over, shops and streets are decked out with red decorations, red boxes, red wrapping paper, red cards, and red roses. In Bahrain, the color red also symbolizes love, just a different kind of love. Streets there are covered in red too, the red of the blood that has been shed over the past two years. The lost lives in the fight for freedom, justice, and democracy. Red roses on the graves of loved ones who were killed by regime forces. Valentine’s Day in Bahrain, it’s a different kind of love. 14 February 2011 was not about Valentine’s Day; it was about protesting the tenth anniversary of the National Action ...
Keep Reading »Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition
![[Image from opensocietyfoundations.org]](/content_images/3/sm_globalizingtortureweb.jpg "[Image from opensocietyfoundations.org]")
[The following report was issued by the Open Society Foundations on 5 February 2013.] Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition Executive Summary Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) commenced a secret detention program under which suspected terrorists were held in CIA prisons, also known as “black sites,” outside the United States, where they were subjected to “enhanced interrogation techniques” that involved torture and other abuse. At about the same time, the CIA gained expansive authority to engage in “extraordinary rendition,” defined here ...
Keep Reading »Open Letter from Members of the Protection Committee for Bedouin Communities in the Jerusalem Periphery to President Obama
[The following English version of an open letter to President Obama was issued by the Protection Committee for Bedouin Communities in the Jerusalem Periphery on 10 March 2013.] Dear Mr. President, In the name of the Protection Committee for Bedouin Communities in the Jerusalem Periphery we extend to you our warmest greetings. We write to welcome you to Palestine next week and also to seek your support as a matter of urgency due to the Government of Israeli's (GOI) announcement in December 2012 that it ...
Keep Reading »Rise Up: Iraq
The street that your question describes as “quiet” is actually silent only as a result of repression, especially after the protests of February 2011 when the authorities revealed their violence openly—using the army to clamp down on nonviolent protests and firing live ammunition at peaceful protestors. — Falah Alwan, 22 January 2013, The Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq. As the world marks ten years since the US invasion of Iraq, many will be thinking of that place again, ...
Keep Reading »Mainstream Taboo on Criticizing Israel Suffers Visible Cracks (Video)
For those of us in the United States who have been advocating for Palestinian rights for many years, our impact can seem dismal by looking only at the unshakable bias of US foreign policy on the issue. However, since real political change happens from the ground up, and the political establishment is often the last element to respond to social change, the impact of our activism can be more accurately measured by looking at how public discourse has changed over the last decade. A decade ago, sympathy for ...
Keep Reading »Announcing the Launch of the Arab American Studies Website
The Arab American Studies Association (AASA) would like to announce the launch of the website www.arabamericanstudies.org. We invite those interested in Arab American studies to visit the website and learn more about AASA. Founded in 2012, AASA is a non-profit, nonpolitical, multi-disciplinary organization dedicated to the study of the history, culture, literature, art, music, politics, religion, and other aspects of Arab American experience. The Association aims to advance the field ...
Keep Reading »Watching Jacob
In the late 1980s to mid-1990s, Eugène Delacroix's wall painting "Jacob Wrestling with the Angel" at San Sulpice in Paris became a symbolic and iconic painting for me, a prism that reflected East and West dynamics. This exploration turned to obsession. However, before I delved into this painting and many others by Delacroix, I was a student of Edward Said in my approach; a visual inquiry that paralleled Said’s literary one. Said’s Orientalism, The Question of Palestine and After the Last Sky ...
Keep Reading »Spider Web: The Making and Unmaking of Iran Sanctions
[The following report was issued by International Crisis Group on 25 February 2013.] Spider Web: The Making and Unmaking of Iran Sanctions Executive Summary With war a frightening prospect and fruitful negotiations a still-distant dream, sanctions have become the West’s instrument of choice vis-à-vis Iran. They are everywhere: in the financial arena, barring habitual commercial relations; in the oil sector, choking off Tehran’s principal source of currency; in the insurance sector, thwarting its ...
Keep Reading »The Disappearing Frontiers of US Homeland Security: Mapping the Transit of Security across the US and Israel
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 ...
Keep Reading »Palestine Awareness Week at UCLA (25-28 February, Los Angeles)
Palestine Awareness Week (PAW) at UCLA Please join Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at UCLA for a week of educational events and activities highlighting the Palestinian cause and discussing how UCLA students can support Palestinian rights. This week will feature both day and evening events, and speakers from both in and outside the UCLA community. The events are co-sponsored by the Afrikan Student Union, Muslim Students Association, Queer Alliance, Incarcerated Youth Tutorial Project (IYTP), ...
Keep Reading »The Onion to Sue Lebanon for Making Its Headlines Look Reasonable
It emerged today that the American satirical magazine The Onion is to sue Lebanon for unfair competition practices and for making its headlines look totally reasonable. The Onion is demanding millions of dollars in compensation, claiming that the small Mediterranean country has "ruined the business of writing satirical headlines." The magazine’s claim refers to a "sustained campaign of nonsensical but nevertheless real headlines" over a number of years, during which Lebanon, ...
Keep Reading »The Feb 15 Call for Global Protests for Democracy, Solidarity and Justice
[The following statement was issued by an international group of activists and scholars on 15 February 2013.] Ten years ago, millions of people around the world said "no" to war on February 15, 2003. Now, we say "yes" to peace; "yes" to demilitarizing, to having decent lives, including economic lives, determined by democratic principles. The invasion of Iraq still began after the 2003 protests, but the violence wreaked by Bush was still more limited than the U.S. ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Dina Rizk Khoury, Iraq in Wartime: Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance
Dina Rizk Khoury, Iraq in Wartime: Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Dina Rizk Khoury (DRK): The 2003 US invasion of Iraq was the chief impetus for writing this book. I had been about halfway through writing a book on the politics of reform and rebellion in Ottoman Baghdad when the build-up for the 2003 invasion began. Ottoman Baghdad receded very quickly from my focus. I was frustrated as a ...
Keep Reading »Ben Affleck's "Argo": A Movie about a Movie
Argo. Directed by Ben Affleck. USA, 2012. 1. Suspense and Espionage for a New Era As the awarding of the Oscars draws near, one is reminded of what is not being said. The kerfuffle around Zero Dark Thirty's representations of torture has been interesting, but no less than the docile reception among reviewers and awards voters regarding the far more competitive of the film's set in West Asia, Ben Affleck's Argo. At one level, Affleck has created a rousing espionage entertainment for our times. The ...
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