Why the ‘Jewish state’ demand is a non-starter
By Yousef Munayyer
If Washington accepts new Israeli demands, it moves the goal posts further away from a middle ground for a just peace.
Middle East Blame Game Misreporting
By Yousef Munayyer
Two things are certain with U.S.-mediated Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. The first is that they will inevitably fail (I say inevitably because of long-standing foundational flaws precluding success) and the second is that when they do, the blame game will inevitably ensue. Well, we have arrived at blame game stage once again.
Both parties don’t trust each other, both parties don’t believe the talks will amount to anything and both parties do not want to be blamed for failure. But with nothing to show after months of talks and more trips by Secretary of State John Kerry than I can count, the question will be asked: who is to blame?
What the Jonathan Pollard deal tells us about the “Peace Process”
By Yousef Munayyer
If it seems to you that a deal to release Jonathan Pollard, an American convicted of espionage for Israel, to keep a moribund “peace process” above water is some sort of April Fools’, joke you are not alone. But this, sadly, is typical of Washington’s handling of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel’s Liberal Settler State
Dr. Shira Robinson traces how Jewish leaders struggled to advance their historic settler project while forced by new international human rights norms to share political power with the very people they sought to uproot.
With BDS, Human Rights Should Be Our Top Priority
Yousef Munayyer
The BDS movement began as a call by Palestinian civil society organizations in 2005. The reason this call was made is because Palestinian civil society witnessed the systematic failure of states and the state system to redress their legitimate grievances against Israel for violations of international law and human rights abuses.
Portraits of Denial and Desire
Portraits of Denial & Desire is a multidisciplinary project that attempts to make the images and narratives of Palestinian refugees indelible, and their personal experiences in exile unforgettable.
Netanyahu’s DC Flack Attack
By Yousef Munayyer
PA President Mahmoud Abbas is in Washington and you know what that means, it is time for Jackson Diehl, Netanyahu’s microphone at the Washington Post, to write another column complaining about Washington pressuring Netanyahu too much and Abbas too little.
Daytime Film: “Palestine in the South” / Palestina al Sur by Ana Maria Hurtado
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. EST The Jerusalem Fund After the fall of Saddam Hussein, thousands of Palestinian residents in Iraq became refugees in a no man’s land. The distant republic of Chile welcomed a group of them in La Calera, a small town where hundreds of Palestinians had already arrived a … Read more
Activating Palestine’s UNESCO Membership
Al-Shabaka Policy Members Nidal Sliman and Valentina Azarov review the value of UNESCO in the quest to fulfill Palestinian rights and to apply the relevant international law instruments to the case of Palestine.
