By Zeina Azzam
At the United Nations General Assembly last week, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu focused his fears on an external threat from Iran, the internal situation in Israel and Palestine started to boil over. The dramatic scene he made during his speech served to deflect attention from his government’s decades-long military occupation policies in the Palestinian territories.
By AAA
Recent years have seen increasing pressure in the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and many other professional academic associations to discuss alleged Israeli violations of academic freedom and human rights, and to move toward sanctioning Israel. More than 1,100 anthropologists, many of whom are AAA members, have now signed a petition asking the AAA to undertake a boycott of Israel.
By Zeina Azzam
With the anniversary of Israel’s war on Gaza, activists, analysts, and policymakers have been writing about the situation on the ground one year later, and how the political landscape has (or hasn’t) changed. The 51-day onslaught devastated this besieged parcel of land by the Mediterranean Sea and left thousands dead, wounded, homeless, jobless, poor, and hungry.
By Yousef Munayyer
Most observers agree that if the Israeli-Palestinian “peace process” is still alive it is on life support with the plug half hanging out of the socket. Last year’s vote at the United Nations, when most of the world opposed the United States’ position and voted for Palestinian statehood, was an international referendum on U.S. mediation. It is undeniable, more than two decades after the Oslo accords, that new thinking is urgently needed.
By Yousef Munayyer
Instead of offering suggestions for changing the prevailing power dynamic, Chomsky warns against the one strategy that offers the most hope.
By Yousef Munayyer
The US and Europe are increasingly taking a backseat in resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
By Yousef Munayyer
If Washington accepts new Israeli demands, it moves the goal posts further away from a middle ground for a just peace.
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.
By Yousef Munayyer
In Yarmouk refugee camp, the largest concentration of Palestinians in Syria among the nine refugee camps there, the Palestinian population is trapped and suffering. The camp sits just south of Damascus and its strategic location has made it part of the battlefield, leaving refugees who would rather take a neutral stance for their own safety caught in the middle.
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