Israel blocks Omar Barghouti from travel for mom’s surgery
Israel is preventing Omar Barghouti from traveling to Jordan to be with his mother for cancer surgery. Barghouti believes that he is being punished for his leadership role in the….
Source: The Electronic Intifada
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Ibrahim Abu Thurayya: an icon of dignity and defiance
How should I mourn the death of somebody who – like so many others – has been killed simply for being Palestinian? Ibrahim Abu Thurayya was shot dead by Israel….
Michigan students pass call to probe Israel investments
The student government at the University of Michigan passed a resolution recommending the university’s governing body investigate its investments in Boeing, Hewlett Packard and United Technologies, companies that profit from….
The Balfour Declaration’s many questions
In their attempt to cleanse the newly invented Europe from everything that was un-Christian and therefore un-Western, Enlightened Europeans invented in the late 18th century what they called “the Eastern….
Trump puts Israel first with UNESCO withdrawal
Donald Trump’s “America First” foreign policy was on full display Thursday when the State Department announced that the United States is withdrawing from UNESCO over the United Nations cultural body’s….
Israeli anti-Zionist expelled from Labour amid anti-Semitism smear
A renowned Israeli anti-Zionist was expelled from Labour on Tuesday, as the party bureaucracy falsely accused him of anti-Semitism. Retired philosophy professor Moshé Machover told The Electronic Intifada that the….
Checking settlement exports “impossible,” EU admits
The European Union has admitted that it cannot monitor whether producers working from Israel’s settlements in the occupied West Bank are fraudulently taking advantage of trade privileges. Since 2000, the….
Students fight university sanctions after protesting Israeli soldiers
Students are fighting back against a series of sanctions imposed on them by the University of California, Irvine (UCI) as punishment for chanting and clapping during a campus event with….
Scientists urged to boycott Israel biochemistry conference
Palestinian, Israeli and international academics are urging colleagues to boycott the 2017 congress of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies in Jerusalem next month. “Some attendees will be unaware of….
Welcome: A letter from Mahmoud Darwish
The renowned Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish was the first writer that the Palestine Festival of Literature approached with a request to be a Founding Patron. He accepted. He was due to speak at PalFest’s inaugural event in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah in May 2008 but medical reasons prevented him from attending. He sent a letter instead. Darwish passed away three months later in August.
The English translation of his 2008 letter features as the opening piece of This Is Not a Border, a newly published collection of essays, diaries and poems marking a decade of PalFest. Darwish’s letter appears online here for the first time.