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Violence Without Context – a War Update

– by Yahav Zohar – May 2021 Israel-Palestine is in the news again, there are bombs and rockets lighting up the sky, turning homes to rubble and dramatically toppling towers. Heads turn in our direction and people want to know what’s going on. “Israel is bombing us” say Gazans. “Hamas shot rockets first” say Israelis. […]

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Interview with Icelandic Eurovision band Hatari

2018’s winner Netta Barzilai frequently claims that neither she nor Eurovision is political. Haifa-born, Berlin-based musician Rasha Nahas says that Palestinian artists do not have this privilege. In truth, there is no escaping the politics and Icelandic Eurovision entrants Hatari discuss this and their time on tour in Hebron in this interesting interview.

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What is Eurovision and why is it so important this year?

– by Alexander Jones –  On May 12, 2018, Israel’s Netta Barzilai won the Eurovision Song Conquest with her song ‘Toy’. Tradition holds that the winning country will host the competition the following year, so 2019’s edition will take place next week in Tel Aviv. Non-Europeans are usually puzzled by what the contest is all […]

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Comparable conflicts?

– by Alexander Jones –  Two weeks ago, the Green Olive Collective welcomed a crew from Apple Daily newspaper – one of Hong Kong’s largest and most well-known broadsheets. They were on a two-and-a-half-week trip throughout the region conducting interviews and filming in Israel, Palestine and Jordan. Over two days Green Olive showed journalist Phoebe […]

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