the Galilee

About two dozen young people have moved into Iqrit, a village ethnically cleansed by Zionist forces in the 1940s.

Palestinian Bedouin residents of Ramiya are being pressured by the Israeli government to leave their ancestral lands and relocate.

Israel has arrested several Palestinian citizens following Gaza solidarity demonstrations.

Palestinians in Israel are protesting draft legislation which would make national service mandatory, despite the state’s system of discrimination against the community.

An emerging network of Palestinian filmmakers in Israel aims to connect with filmmakers in neighboring Arab countries — and mentor a new generation of Palestinian artists.

A complaint has been lodged with the Israeli ministry of justice after the violent arrest of 17 demonstrators at a hunger strike solidarity protest near Ramle prison.

Thousands of Palestinians marched to destroyed villages and called for the return of Palestinian refugees.

A decision was made last week barring Palestinians from running for student union president at a college in the Galilee.

I have just emerged from a week-long frustrating experience. It was exhilarating to spend the week in the company of our good guests, friends to whom we owe much. Yet now I am left with a certain bitter aftertaste of disappointment. I am battling an inner feeling of guilt and shame at having failed to communicate to them adequately “the whole truth” about “my” country. Hatim Kanaaneh writes.

“It is a reflex question for Palestinians, always posed early in the Arab greeting ritual, to ask a stranger, even another Palestinian, ‘Where are you from?’ before enquiring: ‘Where do you live?’ Few Palestinians live where they feel they belong. ” Jonathan Cook introduces us to a new generation of Saffuriyeen who are keeping their ties to the destroyed town of Saffuriyya strong and vibrant.