Abraham Michaels, Sept 2026 – The Hamas-led assault of October 7, 2023 killed roughly 1,200 people in Israel and resulted in 251 hostages taken into Gaza. It has been described, almost universally, as an intelligence failure of historic proportions. But the accumulated public record — Israeli investigative journalism, the IDF’s and Shin Bet’s own probes, […]
Jocelyn Qassis – July 2026 “As Palestine celebrated a new generation of graduates, Nablus mourned four young Palestinians.” While thousands of Palestinian students waited to learn the results of years of hard work, families across Palestine were waiting for another announcement. The names of those they would never welcome home again. On the same day […]
Jocelyn Qassis _ July 2026 When most people think of tourism, they imagine leisurely strolls through ancient ruins, snapping photos of historical landmarks, and enjoying local cuisine. But in Palestine, tourism is fundamentally different. It is not merely an industry; it is a profound act of resistance. In a land where movement is restricted, where […]
Jocelyn Qassis _ July 2026 A Palestinian citizen stands in the city of Bethlehem before his land and home, inherited generation after generation, not to cultivate the soil or find shelter within its walls, but to watch with sorrow and regret as barbed wire and the machinery of dispossession consume them. In that moment, this […]
Jocelyn Qassis _ July 2026 Forced displacement and ethnic cleansing represent the most severe violations of international humanitarian law and constitute crimes against humanity under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Yet these terms, while legally precise, often fail to capture the human reality of displacement, the sudden loss of home, the trauma […]
Jocelyn Qassis _ June 2026 Culture as a Site of Struggle The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has never been solely about territory and military power. From its inception, it has been fundamentally a struggle over narrative, history, and identity. The establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 required not only the military conquest of Palestinian territory […]
Jocelyn Qassis – June 2026 The health system in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, particularly in the Gaza Strip, is experiencing an unprecedented catastrophic collapse, while Palestinians in the West Bank face increasing restrictions on access to basic healthcare. This crisis is not a result of natural circumstances or a temporary shortage, but rather a product […]
David Smith – June 2026 Today was my big day in Jerusalem. We visited the holy sites — in particular the Al Aqsa Mosque — which has been at the centre of many of the conflicts in Jerusalem and indeed in the whole region. I have never much wanted to visit the holy sites, but […]
David Smith I arrived in Jordan on the 17th. I have not been posting since then for fear of being turned back at the crossing from Jordan. However, it went uneventfully. I had prepared all manner of stories… including telling them that my grandfather was an English Jew named Friedman who moved to Canada and […]
Jocelyn Qassis – May 2026 Settlement Expansion and the Forced Displacement of Palestinians in the West BankHow Settler Colonial Policies Are Reshaping Geography, Demography, and Palestinian Existence Israeli settlement expansion in the Occupied West Bank has evolved into one of the clearest manifestations of systematic territorial annexation in the modern era. What was once presented […]
Jocelyn Qassis – May 2026 Escalating Conflict as Political Cover The widening conflict across the Middle East has created a dangerous political environment in which violations against Palestinians are increasingly unfolding under weakened international scrutiny. What initially appeared as parallel regional crises has evolved into a broader geopolitical landscape that disperses global attention, fragments diplomatic […]
