Oscar Jarzmik @Oscar_Jarzmik

For increasing numbers of Palestinians in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has long since ceased to advance their political and national...

In his 2008 book Mediterranean Crossings, cultural theorist Iain Chambers portrayed the historical “Mediterranean” as a fluid, extraterritorial space of...

Those familiar with the history of the Syrian Ba‘ath party have long recognized that for the Syrian regime, the popular uprising that began in the spring of...

In May 2018, the Israeli Supreme Court gave military authorities the green light to expel 180 Palestinian-Bedouin residents from Khan al-Ahmar-Abu al-Helu and...

On July 19, the Israeli Knesset passed the now infamous Jewish nation-state bill into law. The bill is Israel’s newest Basic Law, which means that it has...

Canadian citizens are scrambling to make sense of a sudden diplomatic crisis between Canada and Saudi Arabia. On August 5, the Saudi foreign ministry announced...

After years of public and parliamentary debate, on July 19, the Israeli Knesset passed the controversial Jewish Nation State bill into law by a 62-55 vote. The...

Birzeit is a public university based just north of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The institution, which is the second-largest university in the...

Over the past several months, a number of Knesset bills have been introduced to protect the image and morale of the Israeli military. In April 2018, following...

Khalida Jarrar, a prominent Palestinian lawyer, human rights advocate, and an elected member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), has been under...

On April 17, 2018, Israeli colonial authorities in the West Bank issued Military Order No. 1797, regarding the removal of new buildings and construction in the...

Mediterranean European nations made international headlines again last week when both Italy and Malta refused to allow vessels carrying African and Asian...

Canadian media outlets have been fixated on the U.S. government's mistreatment of migrants and refugees. With refugee admissions into the United States...

Canada's 2015 federal election brought the Liberal Party led by Justin Trudeau to power. The strong re-emergence of the Liberal Party was made possible by...

The Palestinian-Bedouin hamlet of Khan al Ahmar-Abu al Helu is located just east of Jerusalem between the Israeli colonies of Ma‘ale Adumim and Kfar Adumim...

On May 12, parliamentary elections were held in Iraq for the fourth time since the 2003 American-led invasion of the country. It was the first such election...

May 15, 2018 marked seventy years since the Palestinian Nakba (“catastrophe”), when over 700,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes in...

In April 16, 2018, Israeli Defense Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, claimed on Twitter that the Elia Association for Youth in East Jerusalem is a terrorist...

The U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003 drastically changed the configuration of power in the Middle East. Since then, Iran, in particular, has...

Since the beginning of the Syrian uprising in 2011, well over a million refugees have fled their homes to neighboring Lebanon in search of safety. By 2015, the...

Thousands of Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) mobilized on Tuesday, April 17, to mark Palestinian Prisoner’s Day. According to...

The Palestinian “Great Return March” is in its second week, and blood continues to run. On Friday March 30, 2018, to commemorate Land Day, the first mass...

The wave of protest movements that broke out in the Middle East in 2011 helped mobilize all sectors of society to varying degrees across the region. While...

Palestinian Bedouins are arguably the most disadvantaged, vulnerable, and marginalized social group in Israeli society. According to figures from the National...

There are some 500 Palestinians currently being held under administrative detention in Israeli prisons throughout the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt)....

Last week, the Israeli daily Haaretz published a profile by journalist Nir Hasson on Ramadan Dabash, a Palestinian resident from the town of Sur Baher who is...

The Israeli government has targeted Palestinian history in Israel/Palestine since the Jewish state's creation in 1948. Even Palestinian cemeteries have not...

Since 2010, the Tamimi family have been targeted by Israeli authorities for its role in organizing protests against the Israeli settler-colonial project in...

Eastern Ghouta, a district of 393,000 residents located ten miles northeast of Damascus, has been under siege by Syrian regime forces and their allies since...

From February 16-18, the center-left New Democratic Party of Canada (NDP) will host its national convention in Ottawa, Ontario. The purpose of the gathering,...

The Interim Agreement on the West Bank and Gaza Strip (1995) between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) partitioned the West Bank into three...

January 29, 2017, marked one year since the mass shooting at a Quebec City mosque that left six Muslim men dead and nineteen injured. The alleged gunman,...

A severe winter storm has gripped several parts of Lebanon over the past several weeks, including eastern Lebanon, which is currently home to hundreds of...

On Monday, January 15, sixteen-year-old Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi again appeared in front of an Israeli military court at Ofer prison in the occupied...

Last month, Israeli authorities in the West Bank detained sixteen-year-old Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi after a video of her slapping and shoving a...

The last month of 2017 was a significant one for Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt). On December 6, U.S. President Donald Trump...

Since Justin Trudeau was elected Prime Minister of Canada in 2015, a major foreign policy goal of his Liberal government has been to gain a seat at the United...

On Tuesday morning, December 19, Israeli officers arrested and detained sixteen-year-old Palestinian activist, Ahed Tamimi, during a pre-dawn, military raid...

On Sunday, December 10, 2017, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman urged a national boycott of Palestinian-owned businesses in the northern region of...

Arabic literature has long been marginalized in the English-speaking literary landscape, with interest coming mainly from a small group of regional...

On June 27, 1967, the Israeli Knesset passed several pieces of legislation that annexed occupied Jerusalem, as well as twenty-eight West Bank villages...

Last week, Israeli officials informed residents of the Palestinian village of al-Walaja that the Ein Yael military checkpoint, which sits on expropriated...

During a ceremony marking fifty years of settler-colonialism in the Jordan Valley (West Bank) in October, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated...

A number of high-profile studies were released over the past several years interrogating the relationship between past and present racial discrimination in the...

November 2, 2017 will mark 100 years since the infamous Balfour Declaration. The declaration was issued by the British government during World War I,...

In January 2016, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal issued a landmark ruling stating that the Federal Government of Canada had discriminated against...

Hebron (al-Khalil) is the second largest Palestinian city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. It is also where Israel’s apartheid practices are perhaps most...

Over the past decade, a number of high-profile legal settlements  have been reached between Canada's federal and provincial governments and Indigenous...

Since the beginning of the Syrian popular uprising-turned-civil war, well over 5 million Syrians have fled the country in search of safety. According to the...

On September 21, 2017, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addressed the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. To the surprise of...

Yesh Din-Volunteers for Human Rights is an independent, Israeli non-profit organization that has been documenting systematic human rights violations in the...

Hebron-based, Palestinian human rights activist Issa Amro last appeared in an Israeli military courtroom in July 2017, when his long-delayed trial was again...

Legislative restrictions controlling public access to information have always existed in Israel. Like other nation states, Israel has a vested interest in...

The 1947-1949 War for Palestine resulted in the mass displacement of the Palestinian people, and paved the way for the creation of the Jewish state of Israel....

A new kindergarten was set to open next month in the Palestinian-Bedouin village of Jabal al-Baba, located 2.5 miles east of Jerusalem in the E1 corridor of...

Those concerned about press freedom in Israel/Palestine have had a lot to contend with over the past several weeks. Israel’s communications minister recently...

In January 2017, the Palestinian-Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran briefly captured national headlines after Israeli police officers shot and killed local...

Last week, images were posted on social media showing what appeared to be Canadian-made armored vehicles being used by Saudi forces against civilians in the...

After a deadly shooting on al-Haram al-Sharif in East Jerusalem on July 14, 2017, Israeli occupation forces unilaterally imposed new security measures...

Palestinian waqf (endowment) officials responsible for running the day-to-day affairs at al-Haram al-Sharif (noble sanctuary) in East Jerusalem have continued...

There have been so many politically motivated arrests of Palestinian activists and politicians over the past month it can be difficult to keep up with...

In the spring of 2016, news surfaced of a rather bizarre proposal made by Israeli minister of intelligence and transportation, Yisrael Katz (Likud). Katz...

The Palestinian-Bedouins of al-‘Araqib in the Negev desert (southern Israel) are rebuilding their village after its demolition for the sixth time this year....

U.S. President Donald Trump is sending his special envoy to Israel/Palestine this week in order to “advance U.S. efforts to reach an Israeli-Palestinian...

The United Nations Reliefs and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is one of the world’s largest and most enduring international...

June 5, 2017 marks fifty years since the 1967 war, which led to the Israeli conquest of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, in addition...

Israeli Education Minister, Naftali Bennett, and Jerusalem Affairs Minister, Ze’ev Elkin, submitted a five-year plan to the Israeli cabinet over the weekend...

On Saturday May 20, Israeli forces raided and dismantled a protest camp in Sarura, located in the south Hebron hills in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The...

In recent weeks, Israeli ministers reintroduced and approved an updated version of the nation-state bill. The bill cleared its first parliamentary hurdle...

As the Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike enters its fourth week, the national committee supporting the strikers is calling for an escalation in civil...

On Tuesday April 25, 2017, the UN held a pledging event in Geneva, Switzerland for the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. The UN Secretary General, António...

After receiving a fair amount of media coverage in Canada last year, the Heart to Heart summer camp program is organizing for 2017. Heart to Heart is a...

The Palestinian Committee for Prisoner’s Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, and the Palestinian Bureau of Statistics released a joint...

On April 9, 2017, The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) commemorated the 69th anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre. Hanan Ashrawi, a member of...

March 30, 2017, marked forty-one years since the first Land Day protests were organized by Palestinian citizens of Israel, or ‘48 Palestinians. The...

Over the past eighteen years, Palestinian citizens of Israel have gathered to walk in the March of Return. For these Palestinians, the march has become the...

The Arab Studies Society’s Mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Department was established in 1983 by Faisal al-Husseini, a leading Palestinian...

During the July 2016 Gay Pride parade in Toronto, Black Lives Matter Toronto (BLMTO), which was featured as the “honored” group that year, staged a sit-in...

In February 2016, the Parliament of Canada voted to formally condemn the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) movement against the State of Israel by a...

On February 23 2017, Yitzhak Herzog, chairman of the Israeli Labor Party, published a 10-point peace program in the Israeli daily, Haaretz. Herzog’s program...

Islamophobia has been on the rise across Canada over the past decade. According to Statistics Canada, while the total number of hate crimes have dropped...

Since the “financial crisis” of 2008, a range of protest tactics, including blockades, boycotts, marches, strikes, and sit-ins, have once again become a...

In April 2017, the Canadian government will announce the winner of a design competition for a long-planned Memorial to the Victims of Communism. Once chosen,...

During the 1947-1949 war for Palestine (al-Nakba), Zionist military forces managed to expel the vast majority of Palestinians (roughly 28,000) who lived in...

On January 22 2017, the Israeli Security Cabinet agreed to postpone a discussion and government vote on the long anticipated “annexation bill.” The...

The High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens in Israel, which is an extra-parliamentary body representing Palestinian citizens, called for a nation-wide...

On December 28, 2016, U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, delivered a candid speech that was widely described as a “last-chance effort” by the Obama...

In April 2015, The Guardian published a powerful piece by novelist Teju Cole on the less visible forms of state violence that have characterized Israel's...

During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump vowed to move the U.S. Embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to occupied Jerusalem. In recent weeks, advisors to the...

After months of particularly intense bombing campaigns and siege, the remaining pockets of rebel-held territory in East Aleppo are falling to the Syrian regime...

In Canada, reactions to the results of the 2016 U.S. presidential elections were varied, ranging from fear and shock to jubilation. But, it was a sense of...

On December 1, Progressive Conservative MPP (Member of Provincial Parliament) Gila Martow introduced Private Member’s Motion 36 to the Ontario legislature,...

The Israeli outpost of Amona has captured media attention in recent weeks. In December 2014, the settlers of Amona, which was established in 1995 on private...

On November 14, Palestinian Members of the Israeli Knesset (MK) Taleb Abu Arar and Ahmad Tibi took to the podium to recite the adhan (Muslim call to worship)....