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Rubber-Stamping Israeli Brutality: Biden’s Meeting with Israel’s President and His Military Secretary

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The imminent White House visit by Israeli President, Isaac Herzog, and his Military Secretary, Brigadier General Naama Rosen-Grimberg, has hurled a harsh spotlight on Israel’s human rights track record. Rosen-Grimberg’s tenure as the Israeli occupation forces’ Central Command’s Intelligence Officer saw a record of human rights violations, including the arbitrary detention of 74-year-old Palestinian-American, Jamal … Read more

Palestine’s Silent Agony: The Harrowing Tale of Iyad al-Hallaq

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In the dim light of dawn on May 30th, 2020, Iyad al-Hallaq—a beacon of hope to his mother and a special-needs student passionate about cooking—stepped out of his home, his pockets carrying three forms of identification attesting to his autism. His day had begun like any other until it veered off its familiar track in … Read more

Bridging Borders or Amplifying Bias? Israel’s Potential Membership in the Visa Waiver Program

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This month, the U.S. will assess the ability of Palestinian-Americans to travel through points of entry controlled by Israel. This pilot program forms part of the groundwork for a potential U.S. waiver of visa requirements for Israeli citizens. In a significant move Wednesday, 21 June, 65 U.S. Senators urged President Biden’s administration to consider Israel’s … Read more

“Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color”

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“Black Power and Palestine” uncovers why so many African Americans—notably Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Muhammad Ali, among others—came to support the Palestinians or felt the need to respond to those who did. This is the first book to explore how conflict in the Middle East shaped the American civil rights movement.

Israel demands loyalty from Palestinians in Jerusalem

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Israel passed a law on 7 March that would permit the revocation of people’s residency status in occupied East Jerusalem if they should be found in “breach of allegiance” to Israel. The law, sponsored by the Israeli government and ratified in the Knesset, allows the cancellation of residency permits on three grounds: for betraying Israel’s “trust,” for being granted residency status on the basis of false information, or for posing a danger to public safety in the eyes of the interior ministry.

Structural Injustice: How Trials of Palestinians in Israeli Military Courts Lead to Misperception

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by Palestine Center Interns

Despite the fact that most Palestinians who are convicted have committed no crime and engaged in no violence, the military court system creates a notion that legal due process is happening in Palestine. While this is the opposite of the truth, it still affects global perceptions of Palestine and Palestinians. This can be seen especially in the United States, where major media organizations might play up the alleged charges against a Palestinian while neglecting to mention the circumstances of their situation. This essay will attempt to demonstrate the injustice of these structures and systems of the Israeli military court and prison system, which has negatively impacted the lives of Palestinians and created false perceptions of their lives, character, and actions.

Josh Ruebner: Israel – Democracy or Apartheid State?

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In light of the milestones of 2017 (100 years after the Balfour Declaration, 69 years since the 1948 nakba, 50 years since the 1967 naksa), Josh Ruebner draws on personal anecdotes and reflections, historical documents, and legal analyses to address the question: is Israel a democracy or does its separate and unequal treatment of the Palestinian people render it an apartheid state?

Emancipated Palestinian Futures? Hard Lessons from the South African Dream Deferred

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Dr. Irene Calis discusses how the frequent comparisons of Israel with Apartheid South Africa may obscure more fundamental questions Palestinians we should be asking. From her recent base in today’s South Africa, where “whiteness” still lives on the back of “blackness,” she argues that the post-apartheid moment should alert Palestinians to take stock and reframe both the form of our campaigns and the terms of any proposed resolution. This requires asking qualitatively different kinds of questions, ones which concern not the nature of the apartheid state, but instead, the nature of our preferred future.

Israel’s Dangerous New Transfer Tactic in Jerusalem

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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

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