Artist Amr Mounib, Gallery Al-Quds appear in Al-Ahram Newspaper
“Spring Flowers… and Mary Mounib’s grandson”
BDS: Context and Challenges
This panel seeks to examine the current context of and challenges faced by the BDS movement with analysis provided by Omar Shakir from the Center for Constitutional Rights and Rahul Saksena from Palestine Legal.
Conversation with Hanan Ashrawi: Reflections on Palestinian Politics and Society
Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, Member of the PLO Executive Committee and Palestinian Legislative Council, discusses the current conditions in Palestine. She explores several topics, such as U.S. policy in the region and Palestinian-Israeli relations, and reflects on her own experiences as a Palestinian political leader and policymaker.
Presentation with Reverend Dr. Mitri Raheb on Palestinian Youth in the Occupied Territories
Reverend Dr. Mitri Raheb discusses the situation of Palestinian youth in the Occupied Territories, following a screening of two films recently produced by students of the Dar al-Kalima University College of Bethlehem, Palestine.
Israel’s Dangerous New Transfer Tactic in Jerusalem
Israel is adept at creating new Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons, taking advantage of every opportunity to do so and exploiting temporary crises to promote permanent measures. Today, it is using the recent violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) to introduce a dangerous new twist to its long-standing residency revocation policy to force Palestinians out of East Jerusalem
Hillary Clinton attacks dead Palestinians in battle against Bernie Sanders
With the presidential race heating up ahead of the New York primary, Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has joined right-wing proponents of Israeli violence in attacking Bernie Sanders for his criticism of Israel’s 2014 military assault on Gaza.
Segregation of Palestinians and Jews in maternity wards becomes an issue in Israel
Last week a controversy broke out in Israel over the segregation of Palestinian and Jewish mothers in Israeli hospitals. ‘Israel Radio… reported on Tuesday that various hospitals around the country have been separating Jewish and Arab women in the maternity ward.’
“This situation is not temporary, it is the future” – Interview with Israeli historian Ilan Pappe
In interview with Emran Feroz, Israeli historian and Exeter University professor Ilan Pappe criticises the unilateral policy favoured by the Netanyahu government, which is committed to retaining control of historical Palestine in its entirety and approves of the restoration of authoritarian Arab regimes.
Israel’s war on the Arabic language
Tel Aviv – Israel’s one in five citizens, whose mother tongue is Arabic, are increasingly fearful of using it in public as hostility has mounted towards the language from both officials and the Jewish public, human rights groups warned this week. The alert comes as lawyers have threatened the municipality of Tel Aviv , Israel’s largest city, with a contempt of court action for failing to include Arabic on most of the city’s public signs – 14 years after the Israeli supreme court ordered it to do so.
