2 October 2012
Former South African deputy defense minister argues that while peace and justice can be achieved in Palestine, the plans currently on the table offer neither. Read more about To a South African the two-state solution sounds like apartheid
15 May 2012
The decade-old Arab Peace Initiative “is our initiative and we will stick to it,” Egyptian presidential candidate Amr Moussa told The Electronic Intifada in an audio interview. Read more about Egyptian presidential hopeful Amr Moussa still committed to decade-old Arab Peace Initiative
23 April 2012
In a recent op-ed, the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman smugly offers the Palestinians how to settle their “conflict” with Israel: accept the settlements and the violent settlers, give up a large part of East Jerusalem, and forget about the refugees’ right of return. Read more about Tom Friedman's latest advice to Palestinians: accept a farce of a state
13 April 2012
In his new book, The Crisis of Zionism, Peter Beinart stops well short of accepting a Palestinian right of return or repudiating the idea that Jews are sovereign in a state where fully a fifth of its citizens are non-Jews. Read more about Israeli democracy was dead on arrival: Peter Beinart's "Crisis of Zionism" reviewed
28 February 2012
Norman Finkelstein’s attack on the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is an opportunity — particularly for those of us who are Jewish — to affirm our unequivocal support for Palestinians’ fundamental rights. Read more about Transforming Finkelstein BDS attack into opportunity
15 December 2011
Talking Palestine: A diary from London of a life hugely shaped by being Palestinian. Read more about Talking Palestine
18 August 2011
A survey of 250 Israeli Jews reveals the extent of anti-Arab racism in Israel. Read more about Video survey: Racism rampant among Israeli youth
20 June 2011
Anyone who follows developments related to Palestine will have heard countless times the lazy assertion that “everybody knows” what a final outcome will look like. It is common refrain from a Middle East peace process industry that seeks to define the limits of permissible discussion about political outcomes. Anything that does not fit with Israel’s priority to remain a “Jewish” state is automatically deemed “not pragmatic” or “utopian” at best, or “extremist” and betraying a desire to “destroy Israel” at worst. Read more about Can Palestine be partitioned? Taking the discussion back to basics