As Palestinians in the occupied West Bank face the violence of Israeli military raids and the Palestinian Authority’s security services, PA leader Mahmoud Abbas has again invoked the two-state paradigm as the means through which to supposedly put an end to violence. Once again, the killed and injured Palestinians are being marginalised to accommodate a failed diplomacy….
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BOOK REVIEW: Hamas, Jihad and Popular Legitimacy
Veering away from the disparaging rhetoric that characterises the West’s intentional misrepresentation of Hamas, Tristan Dunning’s informative treatise Hamas, jihad and popular legitimacy (Routledge 2016) employs a rigorous dissection of how resistance has shaped recognition of the movement in Palestine. He looks at this both as an alternative to the corruption embodied by the Palestinian Authority, as…
Prisons israéliennes : la cellule d’isolement pour les mineurs palestiniens illustre le sort fait aux adultes (2017)
Sur les 161 témoignages sous serment recueillis par l’organisation auprès des mineurs palestiniens détenus, 25 ont affirmé avoir été maintenus à l’isolement 16 jours en moyenne, la plus longue période étant de 29 jours. Ils se sont vus également refuser l’assistance d’un avocat et la visite de membres de leur famille avant l’interrogatoire. DCIP a…
Pour l’Autorité Palestinienne, les prisonniers ne sont qu’une monnaie d’échange (2016)
La dernière fois, c’était lors d’un sit-in organisé par des militants, devant l’église de la Nativité de Bethléem, en solidarité avec les prisonniers palestiniens en grève de la faim dans les prisons israéliennes. Le premier ministre de l’AP, Rami Hamdallah, a participé à l’événement. Selon l’agence de presse Ma’an qui tenait cela d’un défenseur des…
BOOK REVIEW: Indigenous (In)justice: human rights law and Bedouin Arabs in the Naqab/Negev
Within Israel’s imperialist-supported colonial expansion, the issue of Bedouin in the Naqab remains largely on the periphery, despite its centrality to the wider context of ramifications pertaining to the colonising of land and the Palestinian indigenous population. The lack of visibility is evident in the historical portrayal of hostile narratives – a trend recurring in…
BOOK REVIEW: Ingrid Olderock. La Mujer de los Perros
“In this type of investigation, objectivity is non-existent.” Alejandro Solís Muñoz’s statement in his prologue to “Ingrid Olderock: la mujer de los perros” necessitates reflection. Objectivity, in the wrong hands, is a weapon of normalising violence and human rights violations. The end result would be normalising the dictatorship and its atrocities. It would also be…
While America Sends Troops To Fight Ebola, Cuba Sends An Army Of Doctors
Jean Marie Le Pen, founder of France’s right-wing Front National party, stated in May that Europe’s immigration problem would be solved if the Ebola virus were to resurface. Rising xenophobic attitudes in Europe, fuelled by political agendas, have resulted in the detachment of immigration from the ramifications of colonial and imperialist violence in Africa and…
USAID: An Imperialist Snare Under The Guise Of Humanitarian Aid
Merging historical timelines offers an interesting perspective into imperialism and its snares: April 17, 1961 saw the Bay of Pigs invasion — one of the counter-revolutionary activities against Cuba that was planned during Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency and carried out during John F. Kennedy’s years in the White House. The attempt failed, with Cuba’s mobilized…
Impressions of Palestinian Memory in Watercolour
The initial idea for a series of paintings related to Palestine occurred after finishing “The narration of burnt olive trees”, which is the first in the series themed “Impressions of Palestinian memory in watercolor.” However, it is the last painting which I believe defines this collection, or contribution, as a writer and artist, to Palestinian…
Human Remains May Stir Memories Of Chile’s Dictatorship Past
Chile’s struggle for memory against a dictatorship-imposed oblivion has braced itself for another sliver of discovery. On July 28, water works-related excavations in Las Brisas led to the discovery of human bone fragments. Buried just 10 kilometers south of the town of Santo Domingo, the location corresponds to the vicinities of the first dictatorship era torture…
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