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– by Alexander Jones – To celebrate the launch of our tours in Hebrew to the Ajami neighbourhood in the south of Jaffa, we’re reviewing the immensely popular 2009 film of the same name. The film tells the interconnected tales of a dozen or so Ajami residents who all battle the various social challenges which […]
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– 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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Welcome to the third in a series of film reviews which will highlight some of the most interesting issues facing our region. Watching movies and reading books about somewhere you visited is a great way to reminisce and avoid forgetting the places you went, the things you saw and the people you met. It’s also […]
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– by Alex Jones – 1. Anna Loulou (Jaffa) What a tragedy! After nearly a decade of service to those who believe in peaceful acceptance of the other, Anna Loulou management recently announced they will be forced to close due to issues around noise and crowd management. The boisterous groups who drink and smoke outside […]
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– by Fred Schlomka – Holocaust Memorial Day, 12th April 2018 Michael Schlomka Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. My father, Michael Schlomka was an early survivor, and escaped from Nazi Germany in 1934, eventually making his way to mandate Palestine. – May his memory be a blessing – He had been tortured and abused by […]
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– by Sam Bahour – 29th October, 2016Originally published at ePalestine. If your Palestinian neighbors and friends seem slightly on edge today, please excuse them. October 29th brings back horrific memories to Palestinians everywhere, young and old. It was 60 years ago today that a scene of cold-blooded murder fell upon the hill-top Palestinian village […]
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– by Fred Schlomka I received a phone call at 7am this morning from the USA, from a Jewish family seeking a tour of the West Bank. Uppermost in their minds was the notion that this should be a ‘balanced tour’. I asked what they meant by ‘balance’ and received a vague answer about giving […]
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By Fred Schlomka –First published in Mondoweiss – The term ‘Occupation’ has become almost a cliché in describing Israel’s presence in the territories conquered in 1967. Within Israeli society, the word is little used anymore ( Hebrew: כיבוש). Many maps published in Israeli school textbooks no longer show the ‘Green Line’, but through various graphical techniques, […]
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by Marc Goldberg –At the end of the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth the Jews of Europe found themselves standing on a precipice. Persecution, both state sanctioned and otherwise, was making life intolerable. Simultaneously advances in technology, most notably in transport and mass communications ensured that there were escape routes available such as […]
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By Miri – Shay Agnon, one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction, was born as Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czazkes. He adopted his surname from his first published novel “Agunot”, meaning “the Chained” and referring to Jewish women, who were abandoned by their legal husbands and left without a writ of divorce. Those […]
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By Miri – Until the end of the 1960s Palestinian space in Israel was pretty much neglected by the government and left to the processes of urban disintegration. With the realisation of the high value of real estate, coupled with a growing interest of national-religious settlers to reinstate the Jewish character of the “mixed cities” […]
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By Miri – The past few years have seen the ascent of the most right wing governments in Israel’s history. While there seems to be a widespread sense of political apathy and electoral participation in Israel is declining in general, critics often suggest that the relative powerlessness of the Palestinian community in Israel stems from […]
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