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In the past week, Israel has killed over 1000 people in Lebanon and injured thousands more. Israeli bombs have destroyed entire city blocks in Beirut and a fifth of..

Our humanity aside, we are fed up with the myopic view of supporters of Palestine in harping about Israel’s defensive strategy. Had it not been for the attacks of October 7th, the 27,3750 days of Israeli occupation, dispossession, ethnic cleansing, home demolitions, illegal/racist settleme..

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss the violence and destruction in Israel and Palestine.

23 February 2016, Diyarbakır

I am in Suriçi district with Lale Mansur, Zeynep Tanbay, Ferhat Tunç, Ayşegül Devecioğlu, Bahri Belen, and Dilek Gökçin, who came from Istanbul today. We are meeting Sibel Yiğitalp, the HDP (People’s Democratic Party) Diyarbakır deputy who is on constant..

Writing on the relationship between acts of terror and the mystification of liberalism in 1947, Maurice Merleau-Ponty wrote that, “cunning, violence, propaganda, and realpolitik” appeared “in the guise of liberal principles” and were “the ..

On 7 June, the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) won 13.1 percent of the vote in national parliamentary elections and was widely seen as having denied the ruling Justice and Development (AKP) party the parliamentary majority it was seeking. For the first time, a pro-Kurdish party had s..

A suicide attack killed at least thirty young revolutionaries in Suruç in Urfa, the Turkish city near the Syrian border, on 20 July 2015. The attack on the Amara Culture Center, where at least three hundred young people affiliated with the Federation of Socialist Youth Association (SGDF) were st..

[The following press released was issued on 31 October 2014 by the University of Toronto Graduate Students` Union.]

On Monday, October 27t..

At the moment of writing these lines, the BBC reports one hundred deaths thus far in Gaza in the recent Israeli onslaught. As we have seen these scenes before, the invocation of repetition comes naturally. “Once again” is a commonly used word when it comes to death and suffering u..

Gaza has been described as the world`s largest open air prison. Israel`s blockade of the Gaza Strip has had catastrophic results for average Palestinians living there. AJ+`s Dena Takruri looks at the unforgiving realities they face everyday.

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Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani gives an interview to Al-Jazeera English on the continued Israeli military assault on the Gaza Strip and the prospects for a cease-fire.

One either rejects the killing of non-combatants on principle or takes a more tribal approach to such matters. In the case of Israel and the Palestinians, the global outpouring of grief and condemnation over the killing of three Israeli youths in the occupied West Bank constitutes the moral equi..

Protesters were attacked on their march to the presidential palace by unknown groups of men.

A protest on Saturday in Cairo against a controversial law regulating demonstrations was dispersed after groups of people threw rocks and glass bottles at the protesters.

Police forces subseq..

[In recent months there has been a noticeable spike in vandalism and violence by Jewish settlers in the occupied territories, extending to Palestinian communities within Israel as well. Jadaliyya asked Salah Mohsen of the human rights organization Adalah to help explain the phenomen..

[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week`s roundup..

Images of dead bodies laid out on floors wrapped in white cloth, with no sign of blood or injury circulated across social and news media last week to signal another horrific stage of the Syrian war. As of 24 August,

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry released a statement this past Thursday that was entirely without precedent, and yet it received practically no media attention amidst the political turmoil the country is currently experiencing. According to the statement, “Beyond overlooking the violent and danger..

We were on the edge of Tahrir Square on Wednesday 3 July when the army made its announcement. The square burst into jubilation. A member of our team checked his smartphone. He shouted over the din of drumbeats and squealing vuvuzelas: “Morsi`s gone. They`ve appointed the head of the constitution..

[The following statement was issued by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) on 15 July 2013.]

Wave of Attacks on Copts and Churches

EIPR: Authorities must take ..

[The following report was submitted by Alkarama, in cooperation with Hood, to the Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Co..

[The following letter was issued by the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA).]

16 May..

[The following letter was issued by the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA).]

8 May 2013

Prime Minister..

[The following statement was issued by the Bahrain Press Association on 13 March 2013.]

Bahrain Press Association ("BPA"), the London-based association concerned with defending and addressing issu..

[The following report was issued by Human Rights Watch on 28 November 2012.]

(Beirut) – A new federal decree on cybercrimes in the