Permission To Narrate

– Edward Said

The late Palestinian scholar, Edward Said, remarked that Palestinians had been denied permission to narrate their history and speak of the day-to-day experiences of life in the margins. Here, we reclaim that permission to narrate our own stories.

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Summer Film Lecture: “Palestine Solidarity: The Film Critics’ Blind Spot” with Dr. Terri Ginsberg

August 9, 2021June 30, 2015 by Samirah Alkassim

June 30, 2015 The Jerusalem Fund Cultural Programs Washington, DC Film Scholar Terri Ginsberg discusses Palestine-solidarity filmmaking, focusing predominantly on To Live in Freedom, a 1974 documentary directed by Simon Louvish, and featuring Palestinian writer and intellectual Fouzi El-Asmar. She examines the relationship between Zionism, European colonialism, class stratification and racism in Palestine/Israel, and … Read more

“Inside the Fund” June 2015

January 22, 2016June 30, 2015 by Lucian Dieterman

Three U.S. Churches Are Now Debating Divestment From Companies Invested in the Israeli Occupation

February 15, 2016June 29, 2015 by Lian Najjar

Ryan Rodrick Beiler: The debates come just after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu compared BDS activism to the Holocaust.

The most racist Knesset in Israel’s history

February 15, 2016June 29, 2015 by Tom Lonner

Lawmakers seem to compete against each other to the racist nadir, as Netanyahu is practically egging them on; and with such weak-kneed opposition, that’s hardly a surprise.

Gaza rebuilding moving at ‘snail’s pace’

February 15, 2016June 29, 2015 by Lian Najjar

Gaza reconstruction is moving at a “snail’s pace” and at this rate, it would likely take 30 years to rebuild the extensive damage from last summer’s Israel-Hamas war, a senior U.N. official said.

We are imprisoned by Israel: A filmmaker not allowed to attend his U.S. premiere on the nightmare of life in the West Bank

February 15, 2016June 29, 2015 by Lian Najjar

Amer Shomali: Israeli officials barred me from going to my film’s premiere for “security” reasons. This is life under occupation.

“The question is just when”: Max Blumenthal on war in the Gaza Strip’s past — and its future

February 15, 2016June 29, 2015 by Tom Lonner

Elias Isquith: Author of “The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza” tells Salon what he saw in the rubble of a land under siege.

‘A way for me to honor them’: artist Jaime Scholnick on her Gaza images

February 15, 2016June 29, 2015 by Lian Najjar

Carolina Miranda: The exhibition’s title, “Gaza: Mowing the Lawn,” takes its name from a term that has been used by Israeli military strategists to describe the every-few-years bombings of Palestinian territories.

Thousands head to pray in Aqsa mosque for Ramadan

February 15, 2016June 29, 2015 by Lian Najjar

While Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are subject to strict limitations on movement into East Jerusalem, part of the occupied Palestinian territories, Israel has historically made gestures ahead of and during Ramadan, partially easing restrictions.

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