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The Andalus Test: Reflections on the Attempt to Publish Arabic Literature in Hebrew
Should a visitor from another planet happen to arrive here and look around at the reality between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea without the usual lenses of distortion, she would see that in Israel/Palestine—the land stretching from the river to the sea which has been under one rule for over forty ... Read More »
New Texts Out Now: Past Is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine
Omar Jabary Salamanca, Mezna Qato, Kareem Rabie, and Sobhi Samour, editors. Past Is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine. Special Issue of settler colonial studies 2.1 (2012). Jadaliyya (J): What made you put together this special issue? Editors (E): This open-access (and therefore freely accessible) special ... Read More »
Palestinian Hunger Strikers: Fighting Ingrained Duplicity
On his seventy-third day of hunger strike, Thaer Halahleh was vomiting blood and bleeding from his lips and gums, while his body weighs in at 121 pounds—a fraction of its pre-hunger strike size. The thirty-three-year-old Palestinian follows the still-palpable footsteps of Adnan Khader and Hana Shalabi, whose hunger ... Read More »
The DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival: Showcasing Subjectivity
In September 2011, a group of young Arab women, myself included, conspired to organize a DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival (DC-PFAF). Inspired by the gigantic models established in Toronto, Chicago, London, Houston, Ann Arbor, and Boston, we decided to emulate this model in Washington, DC. We believed it ... Read More »
United Methodists Recommend Sanctions & Boycotts; Reject Divestment
The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation was honored to witness and support an historic vote by the world United Methodist Church (UMC)’s 2012 General Conference (GC), the highest decision-making body of the church, to adopt a resolution: Urging the U.S. government to “end all military aid to the ... Read More »
O.I.L. Media Roundup (May 7)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup to OIL@jadaliyya.com ... Read More »
Love Bomb: How Deep Is Israel's Love for Iran?
If you follow the news in the Middle East, you have probably come across the online sensation known as the “Israel-Loves-Iran” campaign. The campaign, launched by Israeli graphic designer Ronny Edry and his wife Michal Tamir, emerges amidst rising tensions between Iran and the West over the country’s nuclear program, ... Read More »
DC Students Walk Out on Michael Oren
On 30 April, 2012, Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren gave a speech at George Washington University’s Elliott School for International Affairs. Michael Oren served in the IDF during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, served again as the IDF spokesman during Israel’s brutal assault on Lebanon in ... Read More »
Increase of Inhumane Punishment by IPS for Thousands of Palestinians Classified as “Security Prisoners” in 2011
4,275 security prisoners are Palestinians from the OPT… fourteen security prisoners are Jewish. According to data that the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) provided to Adalah in a letter on 28 February 2012, there were 19,561 prisoners in detention facilities managed by the IPS, 4,631 of them were ... Read More »
Why the EU Must Intervene to Stop the Prawer Plan: A Conversation with Dr. Thabet Abu Rass
In early April 2012, Dr. Thabet Abu Rass, the Director of Adalah’s Naqab Office, conducted an advocacy mission to Brussels co-hosted by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), of which Adalah is a long-standing, active member. The purpose of the mission was to call attention to the government-approved ... Read More »
The Last Liberty--An Interview with Anat Litvin
Salah Mohsen of Adalah interviews Anat Litvin, the director of the Prisoners’ and Detainees’ Department of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, on the hunger strike of Palestinian political prisoners. (Haifa and Tel Aviv, 22 April 2012) Salah: Last week, Palestinian political prisoners being held in Israeli jails ... Read More »
O.I.L. Media Roundup (April 23)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup to OIL@jadaliyya.com ... Read More »
No Boycotts Here: Veolia's Booming Business from OPT to KSA
Veolia, a publicly owned French company that provides environmental services in the fields of water, waste management, energy and transportation, has long been the target of one of the most successful Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns for its violation of Palestinian human rights. In the Occupied ... Read More »
Video: Palestine & Law Panel on "The State Question"
[The following was published by the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University] The Center for Palestine Studies has developed a new project on Palestine and Law, which consists of a series of panels with some of the world's leading legal scholars on Palestine. The aim of the series is to promote innovative ... Read More »
Debating Palestine: Representation, Resistance, and Liberation
Palestinians are debating multiple inter-connected questions, including the question of representation, what strategy or strategies to adopt for liberation, the nature of the future state, and our relationship with the Arab revolutions, among others. Some of these questions are being debated in Al-Shabaka policy ... Read More »
O.I.L. Media Roundup (April 10)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup to OIL@jadaliyya.com ... Read More »
Reading Fanon in Palestine/Israel
The fiftieth anniversary of the death of revolutionary, writer and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon was commemorated this past December. In late February, the not-so-revolutionary judge Asher Grunis was elected President of the Israeli Supreme Court. The fanfare that accompanied Grunis’ inauguration was an opportunity ... Read More »
Press Release: Stop Home Demolitions and the Displacement and Dispossession of the Arab Bedouin in the Naqab on Land Day 2012
[The following press release was issued by Adalah--The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel on 27 March 2012.] 30 March 2012 is the thirty-sixth Land Day. The first Land Day began as a general strike in 1976 to protest Israel's policy of confiscating Arab land, and ended with the killing of six ... Read More »
Does International Law Shelter States from Accountability?
Regrettably, states’ power to protect themselves and to ensure impunity has continued to grow in recent years. This paper discusses two recent examples of this political trend: the far-reaching reaction to Judge Baltasar Garzon’s legal decision not to apply the 1977 Spanish Amnesty Law to crimes against humanity ... Read More »
Press Release: Adalah, Bimkom, the RCUV and Arab Bedouin Living in the Naqab File Objection to Plans for Israeli Army "Intelligence City"
[The following press release was issued by Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel on 25 March 2012.] (Beer el-Sabe, Israel)--On 19 March 2012, six residents of unrecognized Arab Bedouin villages in the northern Naqab (Negev) filed an official objection (Hebrew) with the ... Read More »
On Kony2012: In Defense of the Armchair
It is quite possible that there remains nothing new to say about Kony2012. This thirty-minute video, narrated by Jason Russell, co-founder of the non-profit organization Invisible Children, aims to rally mass awareness and support for the campaign to capture Joseph Kony, leader of the Lords Resistance Army (LRA). But ... Read More »
Bahrain Center for Human Rights Report on Human Rights Violations Since the BICI Report
[The following press release was issued by Bahrain Centre for Human Rights on 26 March 2012.] BCHR publishes today its new report, Post BICI Report, presenting the key findings from the ongoing effort to document human rights violations occurring in the state of Bahrain since the publication of the ... Read More »
O.I.L. Media Roundup (March 25)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup ... Read More »
Qalandia: The Potential to Transform Palestinian Nonviolent Resistance
In the past year or so, the infamous Qalandia checkpoint located on the road between Jerusalem and Ramallah—indeed, separating ‘Jerusalem’ from ‘Ramallah’—has become a focal point of protest. I believe this has tremendous transformative potential to create the critical mass of nonviolent resistance necessary to end ... Read More »
After the Arab Spring in Palestine: Contesting the Neoliberal Narrative of Palestinian National Liberation
Over the past year, as Arab peoples in surrounding countries erupted in protest against dictators, security regimes, and failed social and economic policies, the Palestinian people living in their occupied homeland have remained quiescent. Neither have mass protests targeted the Palestinian “regime’s” policies ... Read More »
A Family Under Siege: The Khawajas in Bahrain
An important aspect of many of the popular movements of the Arab Spring has been the emergence of different generations of activists from the same families. Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and his daughters Zainab al-Khawaja and Maryam al-Khawaja epitomize such cross-familial activism. Abdulhadi is among the most renowned human ... Read More »
القضاة التونسيون بين السلطة والجمعية والنقابة
إذا ما أراد المراقب المتعمق في الشؤون القضائية اللبنانية، (والتي تنفرد فيها السلطة السياسية، أو من ينوب عنها في قصر العدل كمجلس القضاء الأعلى، بالكلام عن القضاء وعليه)، بالذهاب إلى تونس اليوم، سيصدم بحيوية المنافسة، واحتدام النقاش العام بين جمعية القضاة التونسيين ونقابتهم. حيث يرى المظاهرات والنقاشات والمؤتمرات ... Read More »
Occupy AIPAC Photo Essay
Sunday, March 4th was an action-packed day for Occupy AIPAC. From the early hours of the morning, protesters occupied the streets surrounding the convention center to greet conference attendees with signs, chants, artwork, song and dance, and in several instances, attempts to start a dialogue. Despite several hostile ... Read More »
Roundtable on Targeted Killing: Lawyering and Targeted Killing
[This is the third part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing targeted killings . Participants include Richard Falk, Nathan Freed Wessler, Pardiss Kabriaei, Leonard Small, and Lisa Hajjar. Click here for the introduction to the ... Read More »
Jadaliyya Roundtable on Targeted Killing: Introduction
[This is the first part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing targeted killings. Participants include Richard Falk, Nathan Freed Wessler, Pardiss Kabriaei, Leonard Small, and Lisa Hajjar.] On 5 March 2012, Attorney General Eric Holder delivered a speech in ... Read More »
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