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In Umm al-Khair, the Occupation is Damning Us to Multigenerational Trauma

– by Awdah Hathaleen – 22/7/2024 This article was first published in +972 and we are grateful to share it here with the permission of the author. Awdah is an activist and community advocate from the village of Um al-Khair in Area C of the occupied West Bank. Here he discusses the long term effects of the unprecedented […]

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“Peace, Not NATO”: As Biden Hosts Leaders in D.C., German MP Decries NATO’s 75 Years of War & Hypocrisy

– from Democracy Now! – 11/7/2024 This article was originally published on Democracy Now! and is shared here in accordance with Creative Commons licensure. It is a transcript of a live interview with German lawmaker Sevim Dağdelen in advance of a three-day NATO summit in Washington, D.C. that President Biden is hosting with heads of government from NATO member […]

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Suez Canal to Jaffa Oranges: Jaffa Institute Founded

– by Martin Wein – 4/7/2024   June 13, 2024 was a “historic day” for the freedom of speech in the Holy Land. In Israel, Channel 13 received a new, presumably regime-loyal CEO, likely ending any critical TV coverage. This piece of news was important enough to be debated in a Haaretz editorial the week after. However, on the same […]

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This Is Not 1938: The Misuse and Afterlives of the Munich Agreement

– by Martin Wein – 23/6/2024   This is not 1938. It’s 2024. Since 1938, historical events have been called the 1938 equivalent, specifically in Israel. The year 1938 is usually a reference to the Munich Agreement, in which Western powers tried to “appease” Hitler and allowed for the breakup of Czechoslovakia, leading up to WWII. It is […]

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“Life Comes First”: Israeli Peace Activists Condemn War on Gaza, Demand Ceasefire

– from Democracy Now! – 20/6/2024 This article was originally published on Democracy Now! and is shared here in accordance with Creative Commons licensure. It is a transcript of a live report of an interview with Ami Dar, an Israeli social entrepreneur based in New York, who supports the exchange of hostages and prisoners and a permanent […]

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“War Is Not the Answer”: Meet the Israeli Peace Activist Whose Parents Were Killed Oct. 7

– from Democracy Now! – 18/6/2024 This article was originally published on Democracy Now! and is shared here in accordance with Creative Commons licensure. It is a transcript of a live report of an interview with Maoz Inon, a prominent Israeli activist whose parents were killed during the Hamas attack on October 7th. He discusses how the […]

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Surveillance and interference: Israel’s covert war on the ICC exposed

– By Yuval Abraham and Meron Rapoport   – 11/6/2024 This article was originally published by +972 and republished here with their permission. It discusses how op Israeli government and security officials have overseen a nine-year surveillance operation targeting the ICC and Palestinian rights groups to try to thwart a war crimes probe.

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How Israel twists antisemitism claims to project its own crimes onto Palestinians

– By Amos Goldberg and Alon Confino  – 9/6/2024 This article was originally published by +972 and republished here with their permission. It discusses how Israel and its supporters accuse Palestinians of exactly the crimes that Israeli officials are openly declaring and the Israeli army is perpetrating in real time. In the wake of the proliferation of pro-Palestine student encampments on American […]

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Pulitzer Winner Nathan Thrall on Gaza, Israel’s “System of Domination” and U.S. Complicity

– from Democracy Now! – 6/6/2024 This article was originally published on Democracy Now! and is shared here in accordance with Creative Commons licensure. It is a transcript of a live report of an interview with Nathan Thrall, a distinguished Jerusalem-based journalist who was recently awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his book, “A Day […]

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Meet Lily Greenberg Call, First Jewish Biden Appointee to Publicly Resign over Gaza

– from Democracy Now! – 2/6/2024 This article was originally published on Democracy Now! and is shared here in accordance with Creative Commons licensure. It is a transcript of a live report of an interview with Lily Greenberg Call, the first known Jewish appointee to resign from the Biden administration over the war in Gaza. She discusses […]

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The Writing Was On The Wall for Israel’s Torture of Prisoners

– by Janan Abdu  – 28/5/2024 This article was originally published by +972 and republished here with their permission. It discusses how horrific practices in sites like Sde Teiman can continue with impunity, in violation of international law and medical ethics. For months, revelations have emerged about the nightmarish transformation of Israel’s Sde Teiman army base, located […]

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How do we tell the story of the Nakba when the plot hasn’t ended?

– by Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani  – 19/5/2024 This article was originally published by +972 and republished here with their permission. It discusses literary representations of the Nakba and the way Elias Khoury’s new book encapsulates the symbiotic relationship between literature and the Nakba, exploring its nature as a continuum of calamities. In 2013, Elias Khoury, the renowned Lebanese […]

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