Middle East 4 ChangeAfter the Israeli Election
Saturday, December 10, 2022
Moshé Machover The results of the elections to the Israeli parliament held on November 1 are momentous and I think we are heading for a crisis that will…
A message from Palestinians to Iranian women and men
Saturday, November 19, 2022
From Palestinians To Iranians This is a Palestinian blog in support of the revolution of Iranian women and men. Monday, 14 November 2022 A Palestinian message to Iranian…
Poetry: Mahmoud Darwish’s tribute to Edward Said
Friday, January 21, 2022
I CANNOT quite say goodbye to Edward Said, because he remains so present among us and alive in the world. He was our conscience and our ambassador to…
THE ANGRY ARAB: Machinations in the Gulf
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
As`ad AbuKhalil Donald Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and now former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rushed to engineer various foreign policy initiatives in the very last stretch of…
Letter from Palestinian Woman Prisoner, Khalida Jarrar
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Khalida Jarrar is a feminist, human rights activist and a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council. She lives in Ramallah, but has been held by Israel in administrative…
Funding crisis threatens Palestinian refugee agency
Monday, November 30, 2020
Sharmila Devi UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East says that a $300 million shortfall is threatening health services. The UN Relief and…
The Prison Cell: poem by Mahmoud Darwish
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
It is possible…It is possible at least sometimes…It is possible especially nowTo ride a horseInside a prison cellAnd run away… It is possible for prison wallsTo disappear,For the…
The Likud Conspiracy: Israel in the throes of a major political crisis
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Ramzy Baroud Protests against Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, have raged on for weeks, turning violent sometimes. Israelis are furious at their government’s mediocre response to the coronavirus…
Book Review: The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media, and the Radical Imagination
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Greg Burris, The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media, and the Radical Imagination (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019).* *Book two in the Insubordinate Spaces series edited by George Lipsitz. Jadaliyya (J): What made you…
The Viral Emergency in Palestine
Saturday, April 25, 2020
S.C. Molavi and Eyal Weizman Over a dozen states, including Hungary, Ethiopia, Japan, Canada, and Botswana, have recently declared a “state of emergency” giving governments sweeping powers to…
Coronavirus: Global academia gets a taste of the Palestinian lockdown
Friday, April 17, 2020
Emile Badarin The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has obstructed the education of students globally. But this is hardly new to Palestinian students and academics, whose educational life…
Palestinians have only one option left: Stay and fight
Sunday, February 23, 2020
An elephant trap has for years now laid in the path of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s messianic plans to establish the state of Israel between the river…
Western “Anti-Imperialists” Silence Middle Eastern and North African Voices
Sunday, February 2, 2020
Daliah Lina “You stand with the terrorist troops. You are a jihadist.” This just covers a part of the public smearing I had to face the last couple…
Map for a future Palestine, Israel: Trump’s ‘deal of the century’
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday unveiled new details of his long-touted plan to address the Israel-Palestine conflict. The 181-page document contained conceptual maps showing how Israel and…
Gaza: We thought the house was empty
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Vijay Prashad On 13 November 2019, as part of its deadly attack on the people of Gaza, Israeli armed forces bombed a building in the Deir al-Balah neighbourhood…
How Israel’s Social Media Trolls Conquered Facebook
Friday, October 25, 2019
Ramzy Baroud On October 9, the social media platform, Facebook, deleted the page of the popular Palestinian news website, the Palestinian Information Center (PIC). This act, which was…
Netanyahu on Steroids: elections opens road to annexation of West Bank?
Friday, September 27, 2019
Ramzy Baroud Experience has taught Palestinians not to pay heed to Israeli elections. But to every rule there is an exception. Although it is still true that no…
A Lover From Palestine – Poem by Mahmoud Darwish
Friday, July 26, 2019
Your eyes are a thorn in my heart Inflicting pain, yet I cherish that thorn And shield it from the wind. I sheathe it in my flesh, I…
Required Reading: Noura Erakat on Palestine and Law
Friday, July 19, 2019
Richard Falk. Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. By Noura Erakat. Stanford University Press, 2019. I make no claim to approach this book with an…
Manifest Destinies: The tangled history of American and Israeli exceptionalism.
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Book Review: Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance. By Amy Kaplan Rashid Khalidi. The American publishing industry does not skimp when it comes to Israel….
Four Poems of Palestinian Resistance by Mahmoud Darwish
Thursday, May 30, 2019
Ariel Rodriguez. Sometimes, the best way to understand the complexity of a conflict is through art. Words can echo in people’s hearts as much as images can inspire…
Why the Zionist left died this week
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Edo Konrad. Tuesday’s election results were obvious to anyone paying attention. Although Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party and rival Benny Gantz’s Blue and White won the same…
Noam Chomsky: Confronting Ultranationalist, Reactionary Movements Across the Globe
Sunday, April 14, 2019
On Thursday night, hundreds of people packed into the Old South Church in Boston to hear the world-renowned dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky speak. He looked back at…
Elections in Israel: Ever further to the right
Sunday, March 31, 2019
Tony Greenstein. In most western countries, political parties compete in general elections over issues such as taxation, nationalisation/privatisation, poverty, etc. Those in most European countries, with the exception…
Gaza: Resistance Through Poetry
Saturday, March 30, 2019
Ramzy Baroud. “(At dawn) … I will resist … (Since) upon the wall there is still a white sheet … And my fingers are yet to (completely) dissolve.”…
Israel: Netenyahu in alliance with neo-Nazis
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Tony Greenstein. In 1984 rabbi Meir Kahane of the ultra-nationalist Kach party entered the Israeli parliament (knesset), having received over 25,000 votes. Kach stood on a programme which,…
Uniting Fatah, Not Palestinians: The Dubious Role of Mohammed Shtayyeh
Sunday, March 24, 2019
Ramzy Baroud. Political commentators sympathetic to the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Fatah Movement, in particular, fanned out as soon as the news was announced of Mohammad Shtayyeh’s…
Palestine: Public opinion poll
Friday, March 22, 2019
المركز الفلسطيني للبحوثالسياسية والمسحية Palestinian Center for POLICY and SURVEY RESEARCH Public Opinion Poll No (69). As Fatah and Hamas lose popular support and more than 60% demand…
Why Israel is quietly cosying up to Gulf monarchies
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Ian Black. The meeting publicly showcased the remarkable fact that Israel, as Netanyahu was so keen to advertise, is winning acceptance of a sort from the wealthiest countries…
Can We Imagine a Just Peace for Palestine?
Saturday, March 2, 2019
Richard Falk. While waiting without even a glimmer of hope for the Trump ‘deal of the century’ the Palestinian ordeal unfolds day by day. Many Israelis would like…