Israel/Palestine
The Limits of Ethnocracy: Racism, Zionism and The Future of Israel
Adam Simpson* | 18 Jun 2013
(Photo credit: Nasser Ishtayeh/AP/file) Last week, Yariv Levin, a Likud Party lawmaker, proposed a new Israeli Basic Law to the Knesset that would make “the right to realize national self-definition in the State of Israel… unique to the Jewish people.” Previous incarnations of the basic law imbued the state with a Jewish identity, but never before had this...The Voices of Palestinian Artists: From Palestine With Hope
Ruba Asfahani* | 30 May 2013
“Karma” from the Predators series by Jeffar Khaldi As a fanatical art lover, I have been eternally fascinated by Arab art both in relation to the artists and the market. It was a dream come true, then, when I had the opportunity while working at Artspace London to help produce an exhibition with two Palestinian artists whose careers I have long admired:...Khaled Meshaal & the Ascendance of Hamas
Muneeb Siddiqui* | 23 May 2013
Khaled Meshaal addresses a 2012 rally in Gaza City (Photo credit: Reuters) Last April, Khaled Meshaal was re-elected as party chief for afourth consecutive term by Hamas’s Shura (consultative) council. Meshaal has been at the helm of Hamas for nearly ten years. Since surviving an Israeli assassination attempt in 1997, he has risen through party ranks and become...Money & Resistance: How “Moderate” Arab States Sold Out the Palestinian Cause
Yazan al-Saadi* | 20 May 2013
Qatar’s Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (R) attends the opening of the Arab League summit in Doha on March 26, 2013. When it comes to confronting the Israeli government’s actions against the Palestinian people, a massive divide exists between Arab rulers and the general Arab public. Currently, nearly all Arab governments are willing to normalize relations...The Newseum Dishonors Murdered Palestinian Journalists
Nima Shirazi* | 15 May 2013
Jim Duff, Newseum chief executive officer, speaks at the Newseum Journalists Memorial rededication ceremony,May 13, 2013.(Photo Credit: Maria Bryk/Newseum) Just two days before Palestinians commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, the names of two Palestinian cameramen targeted and killed by Israeli air strikes in Gaza last November were dropped from...Divestment from Israel: A Personal Story
Rachel Roberts* | 13 Jun 2013
Palestinian supporters at a meeting in support of BDS (Source: The Carillon) When the Oberlin College Student Senate passed a resolution in early May 2013 to divest from six companies that profit directly from...Cultures of Violence: Woolwich, Jodi Arias & the Market Value of Atrocity
Amanda Rogers* | 28 May 2013
A young boy hangs a cross near flowers close to the scene where Drummer Lee Rigby of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers was killed, on May 24, 2013 in London, England. (Photo credit: Dan Kitwood) Always...Mortal Moments: A Conversation with Cartoonist Joe Sacco
Yazan al-Saadi* | 22 May 2013
Joe Sacco Joe Sacco is a rare breed in his dual fields of cartoons and journalism. Over three decades, he successfully married the two to such a degree that he has been dubbed a pioneer of a new school of journalism...The Nakba Continues: Israel’s Displacement of the Palestinians
Amjad Alqasis* | 16 May 2013
Palestinian refugees (British Mandate of Palestine – 1948). “Making their way from Galilee in October-November 1948″. (Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) Israeli practices and policies are a combination...Zyara: a Personal Journey of Discovery in Palestine, One Trip at a Time
Siham Nuseibeh* | 10 May 2013
(Photo credit: zyara.yolasite.com) Zyara is the Arabic word for “visit”. And that is exactly what the people behind the group, Zyara, do – the group organizes visits once or twice a year for no more than...
