An amendment to Israel’s “Prevention of Infiltration” law will mean prison time for asylum seekers and their children — as well as for those who offer them humanitarian aid.
The World Monuments Fund rejected a petition to have Lifta, a destroyed and ethnically cleansed Palestinian village, officially included in their protected heritage site list.
My Life in the PLO: The Inside Story of the Palestinian Struggle, the memoirs of the late Shafiq al-Hout, is historically sweeping, politically critical and fascinating throughout.
In the November issue of British Vogue, Academy Award-winning actress Tilda Swinton wears a scarf emblazoned with the word “Palestine.” Was this a conscious act of solidarity, or just a fashion statement?
National Palestinian consensus on the Palestinian Authority’s UN statehood bid, as The Electronic Intifada’s interviews with various factions and broader debates indicate, is decidedly lacking.
An average Palestinian might in fact be the least interested in whether a Palestinian state would be declared in September. Yet he or she will be the one will be the one whose life will be most profoundly impacted by any hasty act of folly by the Palestinian Authority.
Submitted by Jalal Abukhater on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 11:16
If we can’t learn from recent history, what will we ever achieve? We are being lured into a trap where the rights of millions of dispossessed refugees are at risk, but who is listening?
