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Lettre ouverte à M. le Président de la République française
L’historien israélien Shlomo Sand interpelle Emmanuel Macron sur son discours, tenu en présence de Benjamin Netanyahou, pour la commémoration de la rafle du Vel’ d’Hiv : « L’ancien étudiant en philosophie, l’assistant de Paul Ricœur a-t-il si peu lu de livres d’histoire, au point d’ignorer que nombre de juifs, ou de descendants de filiation juive se sont toujours opposés au sionisme sans, pour autant, être antisémites ? »
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.
My Family in Gaza Tells Me: We Can’t Breathe
They’ve given up trying to sleep in the suffocating heat, but that’s not all Gazans are giving up hope for: “The war is coming. I’m beginning to believe I’m going to die before I even experience living. »
Testimonies From the Censored Deir Yassin Massacre: ‘They Piled Bodies and Burned Them’
A young fellow tied to a tree and set on fire. A woman and an old man shot in back. Girls lined up against a wall and shot with a submachine gun. The testimonies collected by filmmaker Neta Shoshani about the massacre in Deir Yassin are difficult to process even 70 years after the fact.
European parliamentarians demand freedom for Khalida Jarrar, Khitam Saafin, Palestinian prisoners
On 5 July in Strasbourg, Members of European Parliament and Spanish parliamentarians of Izquierda Unida (the United Left and the Communist Party of Spain) came together to stand in solidarity….
Israel furious as UNESCO rebuffs its claim to Hebron
Israel has reacted with rage after the United Nations cultural organization UNESCO passed two resolutions recognizing Hebron’s Old City and the Ibrahimi mosque, in the occupied West Bank, as endangered….
Defend Academic Freedom at San Francisco State
Dear President Wong and CSU Board of Trustees: We undersigned want to express opposition to the ongoing defamation, intimidation, and assaults against the academic freedom of SFSU faculty members by….
130 Diaspora Jews stand between the Israeli army and a Palestinian cave village
The Palestinian village of Sarura was destroyed in 1997 and its residents have not returned for fear of settler violence. Dozens of Jewish volunteers from the U.S., Canada and Australia have joined Palestinian activists in renovating it
Free Khalida Jarrar and Khitam Saafin Now
In the early morning hours of Sunday 2 July 2017, armed Israeli occupation soldiers raided the home of Palestinian parliamentarian Khalida Jarrar, a prominent leftist leader, feminist, and human rights….