The New Colonizing Nations Fight Each Other to Control World Power
By Roger Van Zwanenberg
(Wealth and Power: Global Transformation and Destruction 1492 to 2020 Part 2: Transformation to Urban Industrial Capitalism and the path to Global War)
This...
Palestinian Rejection of Zionism is a Historical, Anti-Colonial Strategy
Palestinian Rejection of Zionism is a Historical, Anti-Colonial Strategy (Part 1 of 2)
by Ramona Wadi | Oct 1, 2020
Zionist colonial narratives do not take Palestinian history into...
The Power of Memory to Reclaim What was Lost
By Benay Blend
In the article “Invention, Memory, and Place,” the late Edward Said reflects on the question of collective memory: what is remembered, how, and...
Do you buy this phony “anti-Semitism” smear language?
If you support the genuine inheritors of the Holy Land you’re “pro-Semitic”
By Stuart Littlewood
Semites are a language group not a religious group. They spoke (and...
Collected Memories – Photographs of Gaza
"Photo Kegham" was known all over Gaza. As one of the territory's first phtographers, the Armenian Kegham Djeghalian opened a photo studio in Gaza...
Why Should Palestinians Write Their Sports History?
By Issam Khalidi
Palestinian modern history is unique, not only because of the Nakba (i.e. catastrophe) of 1948, and the expulsion of the 750,000 refugees from...
How the West Stole Democracy From the Arabs – Book Review
How the West Stole Democracy From the Arabs – Book Review
How the West Stole Democracy From the Arabs, by Elizabeth F. Thomson. (Photo: Book...
Settlements and National Parks
IntroductionIsraeli construction in East Jerusalem began as soon as the area was annexed in 1967. Large Jewish neighborhoods/settlements were built: French Hill, Giloh, East...
Why are Israel’s allies suddenly concerned about its latest annexation?
Israel has repeatedly stolen Palestinian territory throughout its seven-decade history
Israel’s announcement of plans to annex 30 percent of the occupied West Bank has caused...
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Unsilencing Gaza – Reflections on Resistance
by Sara Roy
Pluto Press £19.99
SARA ROY’S stated aim in writing this book is to explain the significance of the occupation of Gaza, analysing its...
Swedish church calls for study into Israel’s standards of law keeping
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Swedish church calls for study into Israel’s standards of law keeping
When a church body that carries influence and clout speaks up, Israel...
Resistance literature and ‘pedagogy of the oppressed’ in colonized Palestine
By Haider Eid
This semester, I am teaching two novels and a few short stories written by brilliant, critical “Orientals,” and Africans following Edward Said’s...