By: John Quigley / Contributing Writer After prior rounds of hostilities between Gaza and Israel, the United Nations Human Rights Council has set up inquiry commissions to look into violations of humanitarian law. This time it is going one step further. By Resolution S-30/1 (27 May 2021) titled Ensuring respect for international human rights law … Continued
By: Ruqyah Sweidan/Arab America Contributing Writer For generations, Palestinians have struggled in obtaining full, unequivocal recognition of their identity. The scarring events of 1948 have forever changed the course of the name Palestine on any paper. Subsequent conflicts resulted in the partition of the land. Palestinians thus ended up scattered throughout Israel, Jerusalem, the West … Continued
By: Khelil Bouarrouj/Arab America Contributing Writer One of the burdens of modern Palestinian life is the denial of the right to a sedentary life. Ever since the Nakba, Palestinian life has been interminably in motion from one expulsion to another, one crisis to another, one tragedy to another. But it is not just the people … Continued
By: Sophia Segal/Arab America Contributing Writer The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been an issue for many decades. Israel is the world’s only Jewish state. Palestinians are the Arabs that hail from the land that Israel now controls, although some refer to the land as Palestine. The Palestinians want to establish the state of Palestine on the … Continued
The mobile theatre puts on a performance at a kindergarten in Gaza (Photo courtesy of Palestine Theatre Entertainment Team) By: Ibrahim Abdelhadi Source: The Middle East Eye Inside the Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the Nuseirat area of Gaza, 11-year-old Mohammed Abu Arab, who suffers from leukemia, is sitting in his chair anxiously awaiting for … Continued
By KARIN LAUB Associated Press As a boy, Palestinian Abdullah Abu Massoud fled the war over the birth of Israel in 1948 and sought refuge in the nearby Gaza Strip. As an adult, Abu Massoud was displaced again when Israeli forces captured Gaza, along with the West Bank and east Jerusalem, in 1967. He escaped … Continued
By Deron Snyder The Washington Times A Seattle Seahawks defensive end, No. 72, was surrounded by a small gathering at Busboys & Poets on 14th Street last week. His size made him stand out in the theater room, a few minutes before the doors opened and 200 folks piled in for “Silenced No More: Michael Bennett on … Continued
BY JACK MOORE NEWSWEEK Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to approve the country’s first outpost in the West Bank for two decades on Thursday, an Israeli official confirmed to Newsweek, threatening to deal an early blow to relations with President Donald Trump’s administration. The Israeli leader hinted at the approval of the new … Continued
By Ruth Eglash The Washington Post If being an apartheid state means committing inhumane acts, systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over another, then Israel is guilty, a United Nations panel has determined in a new report. The findings from an Arab-led group were not cleared or fully backed by U.N. leadership and … Continued
By Allison Kaplan Sommer Haaretz Richard Gere says his decision to travel to Jerusalem last week for the Israeli premiere of his new film, ‘Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer,’ wasn’t easy. Perched on a bench in the courtyard of the Jerusalem Cinematheque, a sweeping view of Jerusalem behind … Continued
By Zaha Hassan CNN Anyone interested in a just and durable resolution to the Palestine-Israel conflict should be disturbed watching the Donald Trump transition unfold. As Israel’s military occupation over Palestinian land is set to mark 50 years in 2017, the President-elect has nominated David Friedman, a right-wing sponsor of Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise, to serve … Continued
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