Permission To Narrate

Inside a Palestinian refugee camp just outside Bethlehem, an arts centre is encouraging young people to express themselves through photography. Here they share their images and the experiences that inspired them.

We are outraged that our Maryland Senator has established such an abysmal track record of working directly with the pro-Israel lobby to help orchestrate the ongoing destruction of Palestinian culture, infrastructure, and lives. But beyond his own unwavering political support for so much injustice and suffering, now he wants US citizens to shut up about it too?

Palestinians are 12 million in number, and stuck in institutional paralysis. The nearly 25-year-old Oslo Peace Process successfully, and sadly, facilitated Israel’s strategic desire to utilize the age-old divide and conquer strategy to reduce Palestinians to disparate fragments, each with their own challenge to merely survive. It’s time to reset that reality and view the Palestinians for what they are, physically fragmented, politically divided, but a whole people nonetheless, from Ramallah to Santiago.

“In the past few years, we have witnessed an increase in fascist behaviour from right-wing groups, and they have taken the mayoral position,” Abu Saleh told Middle East Eye.

In its story about a renewed investigation into the murder of Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali, this is how the New York Times describes the British occupation and then the Nakba:

“He fled his home in the British Mandate of Palestine at the age of 10 during the war that accompanied the creation of Israel.”

One little sentence that continues so many lies.

Amid the attempts to restore peace negotiations just last week, Netanyahu alleged that stopping settlement activity would not help bring peace, despite the issue being a core demand of Palestinians.

Even though no country recognizes Israel’s claim to sovereignty over Jerusalem, the Federation of European Biochemical Societies conference website prominently advertises its location as “Jerusalem, Israel.”

“Gaza is experiencing a humanitarian emergency, but when bombs are not falling, the international community pays little attention. Without immediate humanitarian aid and concerted political and diplomatic efforts to end the blockade, the result will be the same: avoidable loss of life and the further collapse of a health sector which is already struggling to provide the barest minimum of care.”

In 2012, the UN warned that Gaza could become uninhabitable by 2020.