The brutality of denying water to Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills
For the past 15 years, I have witnessed how the Israeli army cuts Palestinian communities from accessing water in order to expel them and take their land.
Category: Columns
When the Shin Bet Chief Warned That Educated Arabs Are a ‘Problem’ for Israel
Extraordinary declassified documents reveal the reasons cited by Israel’s top security officials for repressing the country’s Arab minority
Dispelling Israeli myths about Palestinian prisoners
The Israeli media often claims Palestinian political prisoners are treated to ‘five-star’ treatment. In reality, they face some of the worst conditions in the West.
Zionism has no space for an Arab Jew like me
The State of Israel conditioned us to see the intersection of ‘Jewish’ and ‘Arab’ as impossible — even though my family held that identity for generations.
The Palestinian city that mimics its colonizers
The West Bank city of Rawabi illustrates how Palestinian capitalists are trying — and failing — to form a middle class by mirroring Israel’s neoliberal policies.
The Problem With Talking About Israeli Apartheid
We should be grateful that the title “apartheid,” to denote the Israeli regime between the river and the sea, is becoming more and more common and legitimate, even fashionable. But like every fashion, there is a problem here too. It is not with the definition itself, but with what is omitted from it.
Israeli Jews Call: “Stop Israel’s Apartheid!”
An Open Letter to the International Community
2021, the year of Israeli apartheid
More than 1000 academics, artists and intellectuals have signed a “Declaration on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid in Historic Palestine,” in a sign of the growing acceptance of the term in the west.
The Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity stands with Palestine: A call to action
On behalf of 400 medical, public health, and community leaders, the Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity is calling on Scientific American to immediately re-publish an article on Palestine solidarity that it removed, and to end its censorship of Palestinian voices.
‘It shows that BDS works’: Wafic Faour on how a group of Vermont activists got Ben & Jerry’s to move
‘There’s one direction we’re going in. We are struggling against an apartheid regime and we saw what happened in South Africa. If we continue working and educating the public and these leaders continue with their incoherent messaging, we will win.’