The Taste of Freedom
Yousef Munayyer: To understand why the mass Palestinian hunger strike is so important, it helps to remember the first moments of the Arab Spring.
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‘It is beautiful… not a single Arab to be seen’
Yousef Munayyer: Israel is isolating its Arab citizens, despite its claims to democracy.
First Step to Peace: Conquering Nakba Denial
Yousef Munayyer: Last week in Tel Aviv, the Israeli Nakba activists group Zochrot (“Remembering” in Hebrew) attempted to recite the names of depopulated Palestinian towns at Israel’s Independence Day celebration. They were repressed.
Wilf’s Colonialism Denial
Yousef Munayyer: In her piece “Zionism Denial,” Member of Knesset Einat Wilf rightly argues that Zionism, and not the Holocaust, led to the creation of the modern state of Israel. But in the process of making her argument she significantly distorts the history of Zionism.
Why BDS doesn’t come with a map
Yousef Munayyer: In recent reactions to the BDS movement, writers like Peter Beinart, Daniel Levy and Thomas Friedman have offered criticism. This criticism, however, which views the question of Palestine through the prism of Zionism, is incapable of grappling with a movement that views the same question through a humanist perspective of rights.
Deir Yassin: No passing over history
Yousef Munayyer: Israelis and Palestinians alike cannot move forward without addressing massacres from the past.
A State that Fears the Womb
Yousef Munayyer: Last week, the Israeli central bureau of statistics reported future trends which indicate the proportion of Palestinian Arabs in Israel will increase significantly by 2059.
This Duck Still Quacks: Apartheid
Yousef Munayyer: Last week I argued that Israel fits the Apartheid designation. Here, I’ll defend my piece against the responses. My argument was straightforward; the de facto Israeli state, which stretches from the river to the sea, uses a system of policies which abuses human rights and ensures the ethnic group ruling the regime, Israeli Jews. This constitutes Apartheid.
This Duck Is an Apartheid Duck
Yousef Munayyer: Apartheid. This word conjures up specific images and ideas: Mandela, Sharpeville, De Klerk, pariah status, divestment and perhaps most importantly, South Africa. Thus, discourse about Israel’s status as an Apartheid state devolves into discussions about the similarities and differences between Israel and South Africa.
