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…

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How filmmaker Khosrow Sinai uncovered the hidden history of Polish refugees in Iran

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Aga Sablinska Iranian filmmaker Khosrow Sinai passed away in August from COVID-19, leaving behind an important and eye-opening document of Polish exodus during the Second World War. His…

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Victim of Zionist colonisation: Book Review

Sunday, June 28, 2020

Moshé Machover Rashid Khalidi ‘The hundred-years war on Palestine: a history of settler-colonial conquest and resistance’ Profile Books, 2020, pp336, £17.99 As part of their professional training, historians…

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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…

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Coronavirus in the Middle East: A perfect storm

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Marco Carnelos The impacts of coronavirus have been tremendous everywhere, but in the Middle East, the situation seems to be assuming the features of a perfect storm. In…

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My Beit Daras, My Nakba

Monday, May 18, 2020

Romana Rubeo My Beit Daras, My Nakba: Two Palestinian Intellectuals Reminiscing about Their Destroyed Village Dr. Ghada Ageel and Dr. Ramzy Baroud have more in common than their…

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How Economic Misery Helped Fuel the Syrian War: Book review

Friday, May 15, 2020

Louis Proyect Ever since the civil war began in Syria in early 2011, the left has largely ignored the social and economic circumstances that led to a conflict…

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The Coronavirus pandemic, ecological catastrophe and global capitalism: an interlocking phenomenon

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Mehdi Kia The Covid-19 pandemic has unravelled the close structural links between the climate crisis and the global capitalist mode of production.[1] See John Bellamy Foster and Brett…

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Two impossibilities: Neither a one-state or two-state solution is feasible

Thursday, November 28, 2019

Moshé Machover It is generally accepted – except by people who know better – that there are just two possible resolutions to the Israeli-Palestinian national/colonial conflict: either a…

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A Bold Reconceptualization of the Compulsory 1923 Greco-Turkish Exchange of Populations

Thursday, September 26, 2019

Elektra Kostopoulou. Humanism in Ruins: Entangled Legacies of the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange. by Aslı Iğsız. Stanford University Press 2018. At the start of 2019, almost eighty million people…

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Libya’s Incoming Strongman Haftar Will Send The Oil Out To Europe – And Keep Its Migrants In

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Vijay Prashad. The West and the Gulf Arabs have condemned Libya to the strongman. You can well imagine the tension when Libya’s beleaguered Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj met…

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How the Assad regime has exploited “evacuation deals” to redirect Isis against the rebels

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Omar Sabbour. In September 2018, when the Assad regime was preparing to launch its (now on-hold) offensive against rebel-held Idlib in northern Syria, a rather surprising report emerged in the…

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Is There a Plot to Depopulate Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon?

Sunday, December 23, 2018

Ramzy Baroud. An eerie video composed of a recorded audio prayer and a photo of one ‘Hajj Jamal Ghalaini’ occasionally pops up on Facebook. The voice is that…

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Climate Change and Its Staggering Refugee Crisis: Book Review

Sunday, November 4, 2018

Todd Miller. Research confirms that massive migration, into the millions, will be an inevitable consequence of global warming. Before 2005, when Oxford ecologist Norman Myers announced that there…

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The Real Reasons Behind Washington’s War on Palestinian Refugees

Sunday, October 14, 2018

Ramzy Baroud. The US government’s decision to slash funds provided to the United Nations agency that cares for Palestinian refugees, United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), is…

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Israeli Cruelty and Palestine’s Predicament

Monday, August 27, 2018

Vijay Prashad. Posted on Counterpunch August 27, 2018. Standing on the campus of Birzeit University in Ramallah (Palestine) one gets a full flavour of the beauty of Palestine…

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Gunshot Gaza: hospitals struggle to treat surge in firearms injuries

Monday, August 20, 2018

Jonathan Owen Published by BMJ August 10, 2018. New types of complex injuries in the Palestinian territory are leading to lifelong disabilities as prompt comprehensive care is beyond…

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Queens of Syria: Voices of the dispossessed

Monday, July 30, 2018

Tanushka Marah. Posted Middle East Eye July 24, 2018. Performed by 14 Syrian women who have fled their homeland, Queens of Syria is a theatrical adaptation of Euripides…

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The Syrian War in Five Sieges

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Patrick Cockburn. Posted on London Review of Books Vol 40, July 19, 2018. The road to Raqqa, once the de facto Syrian capital of Islamic State, looks surprisingly…

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From Gaza to Jerusalem to Iran: Shifts in the Middle East and the Place of Palestine

Sunday, July 15, 2018

Joel Beinin. Posted on MERIP July 12, 2018. The Palestinian Great March of Return, which began on March 30, 2018 and continued into June, was a popular mobilization…

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The Ever-Shrinking Space for Hazara Ethnic Group

Sunday, June 24, 2018

Rohullah Naderi. Posted on Counterpunch June 22, 2018. The hunger strike by Ms. Jalila Haider, a human rights attorney and founder of a nonprofit organization, “We the Human…

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Siege and resistance in Gaza: an interview with Toufic Haddad

Sunday, June 17, 2018

Posted on Red Flag June 4, 2018. For more than 10 weeks, Palestinians have gathered in protest every Friday at the Israeli-Gaza Strip buffer zone, located in the…

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Syria’s New Housing Law Will Displace Tens of Thousands of Refugees, But Even That Won’t Help the Regime Win the War

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Robert Fisk. Posted on CounterPunch June 4, 2018. When wars end, the winners redraw the maps. That’s what the British and French did to the Ottoman Empire after…

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The Two-State Solution: An Autopsy

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Henry Siegman. Published by London Review of Books Vol. 40 No. 10 · 24 May 2018 During the latest outbreak of violence in Gaza, Israeli security forces, using…

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Gazans Have Crossed the Fear Barrier

Thursday, May 24, 2018

Ramzy Baroud. Posted on ZCommunications May 23, 2018. 60 Palestinians were killed in Gaza on May 15, simply for protesting and demanding their Right of Return as guaranteed…

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The Two-State Solution: An Autopsy

Saturday, May 19, 2018

Henry Siegman. Published in London Review of Books volume 40 number 10. During the latest outbreak of violence in Gaza, Israeli security forces, using high-powered rifles and live…

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Israel and Gaza: Policy of Kill and Kill and Kill

Thursday, May 17, 2018

Saree Makdisi. Posted on Counterpunch May 16, 2018. Two spectacles unfolded in Palestine on Monday.  In Gaza, Israeli army snipers shot and killed 58 Palestinians—including six children—and injured…

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Israel repurposes Nakba myths to justify today’s massacre in Gaza

Thursday, May 17, 2018

Jonathan Cook. Posted on ZCommunications 15th May 2018. On Monday and Tuesday, Palestinians commemorate the anniversary of the Nakba, or catastrophe, their mass expulsion and dispossession 70 years…

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Spirit of the Orchard: A Palestinian Story

Monday, May 14, 2018

Ramzy Baroud. Posted on Toward Freedom May 10, 2018. Spanning decades and encompassing war, mass exodus, epic migrations and the search for individual and collective identity, The Last…

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Gaza’s “Great March of Return”: an international rallying call for peace and justice

Saturday, April 28, 2018

Stephen McCloskey. Posted on Open Democracy 26, April 2018. In 2015, a Guardian editorial said that “The right of assembly in a public place is truly one of…

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