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The Israeli academics who helped design Palestinian emigration
Newly-uncovered documents reveal how Israel established the ‘Professors Committee’ in the days following the occupation to devise policies to pacify the Palestinians and make them leave the West Bank and Gaza permanently. Mere weeks after nearly tripling the size of Israeli controlled territory in the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel enlisted teams of academics in the country to find ways to encourage Palestinians…
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Edo Konrad
June 18, 2019
Let’s stop talking about a false ‘Jewish-Arab partnership’
By creating symmetry between Israelis and Arabs, Jews on the left are not only missing the bigger picture — they are actively taking part in erasing the Palestinian struggle. By Rami Younis and Orly Noy The sad state of the “left-wing camp” was clear long before the final results of the Israeli elections were published last week. Without skipping…
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Rami Younis
April 17, 2019
We told ourselves we weren’t settlers. We were something different
In the Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Ze’ev, we didn’t think of ourselves as settlers, despite the fact that we lived beyond the Green Line and our neighbors were Palestinian. By Ofer Matan The first Arab who stepped into our home was Sabah. The first time we met, Sabah washed his hands in our kitchen sink…
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October 1, 2018
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The source of Palestinian incitement
Israelis are right, there is dangerous incitement among Palestinians. Here’s what they can do to fight it. The controversy over the Hebron shooter is the gift that keeps on giving. By Saturday, we have already stood to learn that the star of last week’s show will not be charged with murder, that a large part…
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Rami Younis
April 2, 2016
Saying goodbye to Israel’s oldest dissident Zionist
He was an officer in the IDF, a supporter of a bi-national state, and fundraised money to build a school in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. Until his very last day, Dov Yermiya remained a man of contradictions. By Avi Dabach Dov Yermiya, who passed away two weeks ago at the age of 101,…
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February 11, 2016
Finding my family in Yarmouk — then losing them again
Six decades after the Nakba forced us into different corners of the world, social networks allowed us to reconnect with our families and villages. In Yarmouk, I found the people I should have grown up around—the ones who looked like me and my immediate family. And then war broke out in Syria, Facebook went dark…
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Samah Salaime
April 8, 2015
From Jaffa to Beirut: Re-imagining a borderless Middle East
On a day trip through Israel, one truly understands how close the country is to the great cities of the Middle East. Unfortunately, distances here aren’t measured by kilometers, but rather by border crossings. By Leehee Rothschild Sometimes I think that the greatest tragedy of this place is not what it has become, but what…
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June 11, 2014
Film review: The unending Nakba – Three generations of stateless Palestinians search for home
Tens of thousands of Palestinians have languished for over 65 years in the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp, waiting to return home. Now, through his documentary, Mahdi Fleifel reveals an essential side of Palestinian exile that is often forgotten: the human side. It was heartening that the Academy bestowed its highest honors this year to “Twelve Years…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
March 10, 2014
Resource: Surveying Palestinian identity in the homeland and diaspora
A new survey by the BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, a non-profit organization that works to defend and promote the rights of Palestinian refugees, attempts to understand how youth of Palestinian heritage (third or fourth generation of displaced Palestinians) identify with their ancestry. BADIL conducted a survey focusing on identity and social ties among Palestinian…
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July 3, 2013
The Freedom Bus: Taking resistance on tour in the West Bank
In September, a troupe of performers from the West Bank and Israel held a nine-day tour throughout the West Bank, promoting cultural resistance and staging innovative performance styles in an attempt to unify disparate Palestinian realities. By Marta Fortunato Al-Hadidiya, Jordan Valley, 12 December 2012 – Samir is on the verge of tears while he watches the…
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December 18, 2012
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