– 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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By Lucian Dieterman
The troubling aspect of this account is not the inconvenience it takes to search for a village that very clearly exists, but rather the fact that the “invisibility” of Khirbet Tana represents a microcosm of the much broader Israeli agenda of home demolitions in an attempt to further depopulate and destroy evidence of Palestine and Palestinians.
Internationally renowned Palestinian human rights defender Issa Amro talks about his work as the coordinator of Youth Against Settlements (YAS), a Hebron-based organization that documents human rights abuses and encourages the local families to resist nonviolently and remain steadfast in their homes despite severe freedom of movement restrictions and ongoing attacks by settlers and soldiers.
The story of the Nakba often focuses, rightly so, on the 750,000 Palestinian refugees who were exiled, as well as the destruction of their villages and loss of their lands. The Israeli legal system has played a pivotal role in this process, especially through the 1950 Absentees’ Property Law, which declared Palestinians outside areas of state control to be ‘absentees’ and expropriated their land. Less well-known is how the state of Israel confiscated the land of even those Palestinians who never left.
As the United Methodist Church prepares to vote on divestment from companies that profit from Israel’s military occupation in Palestine, Hillary Clinton has penned a letter condemning the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement.
Today marks the 68th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe): the Palestinians’ dispossession and the loss of their homeland. Yet while the Palestinians’ plight remains without redress, in the UK over the last few weeks we have witnessed a different, if related, debate, which has deflected attention to another issue; that of antisemitism in the Labour party.
The Jerusalem Fund’s Board of Directors and staff mourn the passing of H.E. Ambassador Clovis Maksoud, who passed away yesterday, May 15, 2016. “He was always a friend of The Jerusalem Fund and of Palestine,” said Dr. Subhi Ali, chairman of the Board of Directors, “and admired by all of us.”
Despite having lived in Israel for 22 years with no criminal record of any kind, Omar Barghouti (above) was this week denied the right to travel outside the country. As one of the pioneers of the increasingly powerful movement to impose boycotts, sanctions and divestment measures (BDS) on Israel, Barghouti, an articulate, English-speaking activist, has frequently traveled around the world advocating his position.
Nakba is the Arabic word for ‘catastrophe,’ signifying the immense dislocation that unfolded during 1947-49 after the United Nations’ decision to partition Palestine into two states—Jewish and Arab—and the subsequent expulsion of between 750,000 and one million Palestinians from historic Palestine by Zionist paramilitary forces (about a third of them were expelled before the war started with neighboring Arab states)
Dr. Fouad Moughrabi examines the problems facing Palestinian education under occupation and prospects for the future. He discusses his work with the Qattan Center for Educational Research and Development to implement educational reform for K-12, outlining the strategic thinking and analysis that shaped it and the problems associated with building successful institutions under difficult circumstances.
Through educational events, humanitarian support, and cultural preservation, the Jerusalem Fund is helping build the movement for Palestinian liberation.
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