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Opinion Israel’s Racist Campaigns Don’t Just Hurt Us Palestinians. They Hurt Israelis, Too.
It’s hard to describe the anger and fear that I feel as a Palestinian following the current Israeli election cycle. I was born in Gaza. I was molded by the blockade. I have survived three wars. Countless times, death was only a few steps away from me. “Collateral damage” is what we two million civilians…
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Letters Yes, Israel Has A Right To Exist. And We Have A Right To Demand You Recognize It.
In a recent op-ed in these pages, Yousef Munayyer argued that no state has an inherent right to exist. “States don’t exist because they have a ‘right’ to,” he wrote. “They exist because certain groups of people amassed enough political and material power to make territorial claims and establish governments, sometimes with the consent of…
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Opinion Opinion | The Surprising New Battleground In the War Against Palestinian Rights: Your Local Courthouse
On November 26, 2018, a New York-based lawyer named David Abrams announced that he had filed a lawsuit against Airbnb over its decision to stop providing services in West Bank settlements. Abrams filed the lawsuit on behalf of a “Jewish-owned” Israeli corporation based in “Judea and Samaria” — more commonly known as the West Bank…
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Opinion Palestinians Are Right To Outlaw Selling Land To Settlers
I spent the summer of 2017 living in the heavily occupied West Bank city of Hebron. On July 24, I witnessed the takeover of a Palestinian property in the center of the old city by around 100 settlers. I watched as members of the Abu Rajab family, still living on one of the floors of…
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Opinion This Palestinian Was Tortured. But No One Cares Because It Wasn’t By Israel.
Issam Aqel, a Palestinian-American with Israeli residency, has been detained, arrested and tortured. You may be surprised that you’ve never heard of Aqel. It’s usual for the plight of the Palestinians to make big news. But the ugly truth is, they only make big news when they’ve been hurt by Israel. And Aqel was tortured…
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Letters Letter | Batya Ungar-Sargon’s Attack On BDS Is Inaccurate And Harmful
Dear Editor, Batya Ungar-Sargon’s unsubstantiated comments about supporters of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) — the Palestinian civil society call to hold Israel accountable to basic principles of human rights and international law — deserve a response. While rightly saying that anti-BDS legislation should be opposed, much of her article recklessly slams BDS activists and…
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Opinion ‘From The River To The Sea’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means
A 2018 piece on what the phrase means to Palestinian activists who use it
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Opinion How George H.W. Bush Pushed Israel Toward Peace – With Tough Love
He was accused by the opposing party’s presidential nominee of demanding “unilateral concessions” from Israel and being soft on the Palestinians. His Secretary of State was denounced by some pro-Israel figures as an obsessive hater of the Jewish state who wouldn’t leave it alone. They led an administration that did not tolerate West Bank settlement…
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