Murderous humanitarianism
Richard Seymour on the Israeli attacks on the protests in Gaza and murderous humanitarianism.
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Resistance as Survival: Recalling May 15th, 1948
70 years since the Nakba and the founding act of the state of Israel, Lynne Segal reflects on survival, resistance and memory.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Trump's Nakba
The US embassy move and Israel's ongoing slaughter of Palestinians is a strike against the heart of Palestinian resistance.
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Karameh: The Palestinian Resistance’s 1968 Baptism of Fire
1968 saw the first military victory for armed Palestinian forces against the Israeli army.
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BDS: Undoing Colonial Amnesia
BDS is not only about permission to speak — it is about the colonial ontology of the world.
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Ilan Pappe's keynote address at 2017 Palestine Book Awards
Recipient of the Palestine Book Awards' 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award, Ilan Pappe discusses the development of Palestine Studies.
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The Balfour Declaration and its Consequences
Today marks the 100-year anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. Here we present an essay by Avi Shlaim that examines the declaration and its historiography.
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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.
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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.
