Former European leaders call for change in EU policy on Israel
Peter Beaumont: Europe must hold Israel to account for the way it maintains the occupation, says letter from former prime ministers and diplomats.
Israeli medics collude with the torture of Palestinians; indict them
Julie Webb-Pullman: Palestinian Arafat Jaradat was 30 years old when he died in his cell at Megiddo Prison on 23 February, 2013, after five days of torture by the Israeli authorities.
Summer Film Series: “Villa Touma” by Suha Arraf
Leaving the Catholic orphanage in Jerusalem where she was raised, eighteen-year-old Badia arrives at the home of her spinster aunts in Ramallah. Crossing the threshold, she finds a house, and three lives, frozen in time. The sisters are the last remnants of the bourgeois Christian minority that stayed on in the city after the war.
Summer Film Series: “1913: Seeds of Conflict” by and with Ben Loeterman
1913: Seeds of Conflict examines the divergent social forces growing in Palestine before the outbreak of World War I that caused the simultaneous rise in Jewish and Arab nationalism. Combining the perspectives of a wide range of Arab, Israeli and American scholars, the film includes information from documents previously unavailable from the Turkish Ottoman archives and largely untouched by historians.
The New Israeli Government: Consolidating Apartheid
As Israel forms its new coalition government, this fact sheet provides an overview of the parties and notable ministers in the new Israeli government and their views towards the Palestinians.
In 2015, memory of Nakba has inched closer to Israeli mainstream
Eitan Bronstein Aparicio and Eléonore Merza Bronstein: Two Nakba-themed events were organized by groups you’d least expect, suggesting that the legacy of the Palestinian catastrophe has ventured beyond Palestinian and leftist circles.
The Palestinian Nakba-t: Catastrophe-s
Randa Farah: In subsequent visits over the years, the camp’s physical and political environment seemed to deteriorate, with poverty and unfulfilled dreams of return hanging heavier than in earlier years and decades.
Vatican recognition of saints symbolic victory for Palestinians
The grounds of the Carmel Convent in Bethlehem, home to blue-shuttered stone buildings on a hilltop facing the Nativity Church, are adorned with the image of Mariam Bawardy, one of two Palestinian nuns canonized by Pope Francis in Rome on Sunday.
The Nakba – 67 Years On – in Poetry
By Palestine Center
On this day we commemorate the Nakba and remember all those who have suffered and continue to suffer the injustices perpetrated against the Palestinian people. We salute the many poets whose writings and sensibility communicate the Palestinians’ myriad experiences of loss and steadfastness.
