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The Palestinian group building power through youth
Baladna head Nidaa Nassar explains how the Haifa-based NGO is raising a generation of Palestinians to overcome their fragmentation and erasure.
By
Vera Sajrawi
June 21, 2023
How Palestine became a ‘forbidden word’ in German high schools
From textbooks to trips, Germany's education system is aggressively pushing a pro-Israel narrative hostile to any Palestinian dissent in the classroom.
By
Hebh Jamal
December 5, 2022
The dilemma of Palestinian representation in Israeli cinema
The cast of Israel's Oscars pick, ‘Let It Be Morning,’ open up about the conflict of sharing a Palestinian story in a country that erases their identity.
By
Natalie Alz
October 21, 2021
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The Israeli right is erasing Arabic from Jerusalem, one street sign at a time
A campaign by right-wing activists to strike off Arabic from Jerusalem street signs goes hand in hand with government attempts to uproot the city's Palestinian identity.
By
Ben Reiff
September 24, 2020
For Gaza’s youth, Palestinian national identity is under siege
In the minds of many young people in Gaza, Palestine is no longer place. Instead it has become a vestige formed by history books, grandparents' stories, news, photos and old songs.
By
Salsabeel H. Hamdan
November 28, 2019
Re-imagining a future by examining the past: Novels of love in Palestine
A trilogy of novels set in Palestine raises critical questions about the tension between identity and the desire to live. By Salsabeel Hamdan The Palace of Angels, Mohammed Massoud Morsi, Wild Dingo Press, 2019. In The Palace of Angels, his trilogy of novels set in Palestine and the Palestinian diaspora, Australian-Egyptian novelist Mohammed Massoud Morsi places his…
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September 27, 2019
In my Palestinian grandfather’s story, I find reasons to endure
Like all refugees, Ahmad Badawi Mustafa Ayoub left the world unmoored, his memories rent from the land that made them. But his story, like Palestine’s itself, will matter well beyond the next negotiation. No empire, no flag, or sovereign can change that. The Government of Palestine’s Directorate of Education, from its Samaria branch in Nablus, informed Ahmad…
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Samer Badawi
November 11, 2018
The changing relationship between Palestinians on either side of the wall
Despite physical separation and internal divisions, Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line are once again talking about the future of their struggle, and the role that Palestinian citizens of Israel can play. Out of sight from most of the Israeli public, yet under the close watch of the government, an internal debate has been raging within…
By
Rami Younis
July 15, 2018
Between Poland’s Holocaust revisionism and Israel’s Nakba denial
Poland’s attempt to scrub clean its role in the murder of European Jewry is, at its core, no different from Israel’s attempt to erase the catastrophe that befell the Palestinians in 1948. By Haneen Zoabi The responses coming from Israel to the new Polish law, which forbids discussing war crimes committed by the Polish people…
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January 28, 2018
Yes, the right of return is feasible. Here’s how
Seventy years after the violent displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, it is time to undo the injustice and to enable whoever desires to return as equal citizens to do so, while respecting the rights and identities of all who live in Israel-Palestine. By Tom Pessah (translated by Yoni Molad) For millions of Palestinians worldwide, the right…
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Haokets
November 7, 2017
Women rule the stage at DC’s Palestinian film and arts festival
For the first time in its seven-year run, the annual DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival brings live performances to the stage, highlighting the role of women in storytelling. By Christa Blackmon In an age of increased reliance on digital media, and when diaspora identities are being formed through the lenses of cameras, live oral performances remain a vital tool…
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October 31, 2017
Why is the Israeli Right so terrified of cultural expression?
The Right holds near total power in Israel, so why is it so afraid of poetry and theater productions? Should a stranger come upon the public discussions happening in Israel over the past few years, he or she would be under the impression that the country is a global cultural powerhouse. From Al-Midan Theater, Jaffa’s Arab Hebrew Theater,…
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Orly Noy
September 26, 2017
The cops at the checkpoint always remind me which side I’m on
Until I learned Hebrew, I saw Jews as frightening, scary, armed people who expelled us from our land in 1967, now working on finishing us off. Does that surprise you? By Suleiman Maswadeh My name is Suleiman, I am 22 years old and I was born in Jerusalem’s Old City. Despite the fact that it…
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February 13, 2017
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