The right to educate
The 2016-2017 academic year has just started in occupied Palestine, and with it come the hopes and dreams of young students, but also the daily challenges of walking to school….
Category: Columns
Fred Moten’s Statement in Support of a Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions
I’ve been learning something recently as the rhetorical energy surrounding the idea and actuality of an academic and cultural boycott of Israel—which is the least those of us who are….
Palestinian civil society condemns Turkey’s rapprochement with Israel
Occupied Palestine, 31 August 2016 – While strongly supporting the aspirations of the people of Turkey to restore and enhance democracy and respect for human rights and international law, the….
The Malevolence of Occupation
Boycott is, as many proudly recall, an Irish invention. The first boycott targeted a notorious land agent, the eponymous Captain Charles Boycott, for attempting to evict tenants. Inspired by the….
‘Why do you have Arabic in this notebook?’: 17-year-old American student strip searched and interrogated in Ben Gurion airport
I am a 17-year-old American girl. I grew up in a small town in Massachusetts. My mother is from the U.S. and my father is a U.S. citizen born in….
Israel’s war on open discourse: State censorship now reaches into international news sources and social media
Since the beginning of this year, Israel’s attempts to control what people can read and write within the country and in occupied Palestinian territories have increased, reaching into new areas….
A French, a Palestinian, and a black woman all wade into a pool
Simone Manuel’s gold medal win in the Rio Olympics is no minor feat, and not just in the athletic sense. As Manuel herself acknowledges, her achievement is a slap in….
Light in the Kafkaesque sanctuary of Israel’s Supreme Court
It’s enough for our judges to know why a journalist is detained without trial.
Israel’s desalination miracle, Santa Claus and other fairy tales
The ‘making the desert bloom’ myth has long masked Israel’s occupation and degradation of Palestinian natural resources
Palestinians Salute the Movement for Black Lives Emphasizing Common Struggle against Racial Oppression
Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) responds to Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) policy platform: “We pledge to firmly and consistently stand in solidarity with our black sisters and brothers in the United States and around the world by supporting the demands and policy proposals in this platform.”