Khader Adnan died in prison on May 2, aged 45, after an 87-day hunger strike. He had been repeatedly held in administrative detention since 1999. Despite vilifying him as a terrorist, Israel never charged him with involvement in military activities.
Taking over the culture and media industry by the government goes hand in hand with efforts to limit the power of the courts. One cannot maintain a democracy for its citizens along with military dictatorship for its noncitizens, without consequences.
It’s time for the Jewish left to understand that by aligning its struggle with the Palestinians, it can be part of a majority against occupation and apartheid.
The West Bank's Area C represents every layer of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Annexation vs. self-determination, inequality, violence and, most recently, as the new front in the Israeli right's shameless reversal of the truth
If expelling people because they are different does indeed constitute “anti-semitism,” then the Nakba — in which roughly 750,000 Palestinians were either expelled from their homes by Israeli forces or fled constitutes a vast “antisemitic” atrocity.
Even when human solidarity in the West is justly expressed with Ukraine, we cannot overlook its racist context. Official empathy is nowhere to be found when violence is directed against non-Europeans, in general, towards Palestinians, in particular.
The first time I was called a “self-hating Jew” was almost 15 years ago by someone I considered a close friend. It stung and I felt confused. 15 years later I have never felt stronger in my stance as a self-loving anti-Zionist Jew.
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When Gaza's Chamber of Commerce said it would accept applicants for work permits to Israel, tens of thousands tried to push their way in. One photo of the scene reflects the devastation of the Palestinian economy.
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