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‘This is how you change the status quo’: Rethinking the Palestinian boycott of Jerusalem elections
Aziz Abu Sarah withdrew his historic bid for Jerusalem mayor after Israeli and Palestinian pressures, but he hopes his short campaign ‘provokes’ new ideas on how to build stronger, younger Palestinian political activism in the city. Less than a month after declaring his candidacy to become the first Palestinian mayor of Jerusalem, Aziz Abu Sarah…
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Amjad Iraqi
September 28, 2018
For first time in years, Israeli academics pay solidarity visit to Palestinian university
An Israeli delegation of academics visits Kadoorie University in the West Bank city of Tulkarm to show support following a string of IDF raids on the campus. For the first time in many years, a delegation of Israeli academics made an official visit to a Palestinian university. The first, small delegation arrived a month ago,…
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Haggai Matar
May 13, 2016
Alternative peace initiative comes under fire for ‘normalization’
Pressure from both Palestinian activists and right-wing Israelis has put the spotlight on a conference that will present a new model for peace and coexistence. That is, if it ever happens in the first place. A launch event for an alternative Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative, slated to take place next week in the West Bank, is…
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Haggai Matar
June 4, 2015
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Israeli-Palestinian ‘normalization’ debate reaches NY theater
Palestinian solidarity groups and pro-Israel Jewish groups both stay away from a theater production that addresses the extremists on both sides of the conflict. By Misha Shulman “Thank you for reaching out to us, however, as SJP has a policy of non normalization, we will not be advertising this play.” This was the response we…
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April 24, 2015
The Israel-Palestine Lorde Diaries, Chapter 3: Two Islands
Between general despair and out of fear of offending the anti-normalization movement, the project moves on and Lorde makes an unlikely fan. Read the previous chapters of The Israel-Palestine Lorde Diaries’ here. More than a week has passed and I haven’t heard from Hanin. I figured we need find another translator. Meanwhile, Jewish-Arab partnership in…
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Yuval Ben-Ami
January 19, 2015
Dispatch from Gaza: Why Palestinians should speak to Israeli media
When Hamas banned Palestinians in Gaza from working with Israeli media, I understood why, but could not stay silent. If we Gazans stay silent, a large part of the truth will be lost, and I don’t want the truth to be lost. By Abeer Ayyoub Since Operation Protective Edge started earlier last week, I haven’t stopped…
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July 14, 2014
Moderate Islam meets Auschwitz
It’s hard to think of more divisive activities in Palestinian society today. Regardless of whether one agrees with his actions, it is exceedingly rare to see someone publicly buck the fiercely dominant trends in Palestinian discourse. For nearly 40 years, Mohammed Dajani Daoudi has felt that something was wrong with Palestinian politics. In 1975, while…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
April 16, 2014
Photos of the week: Asylum seeker struggle picks up steam
This week: African asylum seekers continue their struggle in Israel, Afghan asylum seekers march in Brussels, Palestinians block traffic and plant trees, activists promote joint struggle while opposing normalization, visitors express solidarity in the Jordan Valley, and officials demolish homes in South Africa.
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January 16, 2014
Stephen Hawking’s message to Israeli elites: The occupation has a price
By choosing to avoid the Presidential Conference – an annual meeting of Israeli generals, politicians and business elites with their international fans, Prof. Hawking reminds that the occupation cannot be forgotten or avoided. A response to Haaretz’s Carlo Strenger. The British Guardian on Wednesday reported that Prof. Stephen Hawking has cancelled his appearance at the fifth Presidential Conference due to take…
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Noam Sheizaf
May 8, 2013
On anti-normalization, dialogue and activism – a response
“Those who reject dialogue as a means of ending occupation are alienating even the most sympathetic activists by positing replacement of one monumental injustice – occupation oppression and dispossession – with another: envisaging the disappearance of most Israelis from the region.” An argument for why the Palestinian struggle could benefit from a new approach to dialogue.…
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December 1, 2012
On anti-normalization, dialogue and activism
“Thanks, this was the most awful thing I have read in a long time. Going into fetus position.” This was the reply I got on Twitter from a friend after posting the Facebook anti-normalization debate yesterday. The exchange between Palestinians from Jordan and Israeli activists was unpleasant for me to read as well. I posted…
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Noam Sheizaf
September 10, 2012
Anti-normalization and the Israeli Left – a Facebook debate
Could there be a joint political space for radical Jewish leftists and activists in the Palestinian diaspora when anti-normalization is on the rise? Should there be one? Anti-normalization is becoming one of the hottest topics in progressive Israeli and Palestinian circles (ironically, it is not a problem for those elements of society who never been…
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Noam Sheizaf
September 9, 2012
Time to re-boot the peace industry – here’s how
By Arik Segal What is known in Israel as the Israeli “Peace Industry” – a broad reference to civil society organizations and individuals working to advance peace – is facing some tough challenges in 2012 and 2013. The possibility of a preemptive Israeli attack on Iran, political and economic developments in Europe that will make…
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April 6, 2012
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