‘A journey through the past’: lost music of the Palestinian uprising is restored
Mo’min Swaitat uncovered 10,000 tapes in the West Bank during lockdown, and digitised Riad Awwad’s intifada album
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Israel’s Designation of Six Palestinian NGOs as “Terrorist”: Costs and Consequences
Last Friday’s decision by Israel’s Ministry of Defense to designate six prominent Palestinian human rights organizations as “terrorist organizations” has sent shockwaves across Palestinian civil society and raised alarm bells….
Interview: Novelist and Political Commentator Ahdaf Soueif
Halfway into 2021 and my newsfeed is almost consistently grim. To my weary and untrained eye, everything seems to be rising. From pandemic death tolls to sea levels to right-wing….
Telling the Palestinian story – 50 Palestinian women let their art do the talking
Since its opening two years ago, the Palestine Museum US, in Woodbridge, Connecticut, just outside New Haven, has given ample space to women artists. The prominent artist Samia Halaby, for….
Nobel laureate George P. Smith speaks about BDS for Palestinian Rights
Prof. George P. Smith, 2018 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, spoke about BDS during his trip to Stockholm, Sweden, Dec 2018. Thank you, Prof. Smith, for your principled support! “People of….
Brian Eno, Roisin Murphy and more made an album at Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel in Palestine – hear it here first
Check out ‘Block 9 Creative Retreat Palestine’
Video: Roger Waters reads Darwish poem to protest ‘supremacy’ of Trump’s Jerusalem move
Donald Trump’s decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem continues to resonate. One response is a new video of a Mahmoud Darwish poem as read by Roger Waters, with….
Norman Finkelstein’s ‘Gaza’ is an exhaustive act of witness
GAZA
An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom
Norman Finkelstein
440 pp. University of California Press. $34.95.
Fauda: An Israeli Netflix Series that Makes Oppression Sexy
Well-made TV dramas are addictive and “Fauda” is no exception. Still, we would all do well to remember that it is part of Israel’s well-oiled public-relations machine, which knows how to transform Israeli brutality into sexy, heroic images.