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  • The Nakba and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine

    The Nakba and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine

    “The legal recognition of the 1948 Nakbah as an act of ethnic cleansing would pave the way for some form of restitutive justice.”

    To commemorate Nakba Day, we present an excerpt from Ilan Pappe’s book Ten Myths About Israel. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the radical Israeli historian examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel, including the myth that the Palestinians voluntarily left their homeland in 1948.

  • Gaza: an ongoing catastrophe

    Gaza: an ongoing catastrophe

    For more than a decade Gaza has been subject to a crippling economic siege. In this piece, Jamie Stern-Weiner writes about the ongoing catastrophe.

    Emergency demonstrations in solidarity with the people of Gaza have been called in London (Downing Street, 5.30pm) and across the UK for today, 15 May.

  • Mahmoud Darwish: Mural

    Mahmoud Darwish: Mural

    "Tell me the name of your wound and I’ll tell you the road/where we’ll lose ourselves twice!"

    Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish was one of the greatest writers of the past half-century. In this extract from his long poem Mural, Darwish draws on themes of loss and longing for this beautiful meditation on exile.

  • Trump's Nakba

    Trump's Nakba

    The US embassy move and Israel's ongoing slaughter of Palestinians is a strike against the heart of Palestinian resistance.

  • Video: Judith Butler on BDS and Antisemitism

    Video: Judith Butler on BDS and Antisemitism

    Judith Butler addresses the charges of antisemitism leveled at supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, and the related anti-boycott acts currently before both the US House and Senate.

  • Murder of Naji al-Ali to be Reinvestigated

    Murder of Naji al-Ali to be Reinvestigated

    Naji Salim al-Ali was Palestine’s preeminent political cartoonist. In more than 40,000 cartoons, al-Ali provided sharply critical commentaries on Palestinian and Arab politics. Naji al-Ali was shot by unknown assailants in London on July 22, 1987 and died 5 weeks later. No one was convicted of the murder, but as the BBC reports, the murder is now being reinvestigated.

  • Monument to the victims of the Vel D'Hiv round-up, Paris. via Wikimedia Commons.

    Making no concessions to the Palestinian people’s rights

    Written upon the initiative of Media Palestine, this collective piece was produced in reaction to Emmanuel Macron’s commemoration of the Vel d’Hiv round-up and first published in Mediapart. The authors denounce the position taken by the French president: "Macron is here following in the footsteps of all those who want to criminalise the struggles fighting for justice in Palestine and for Palestinians’ rights."