The last speech of Palestinian President Abbas’ political career. — I offer the following draft of what I suggest Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas adopt as his speech in the upcoming General Debate of the 78th Session of the General Assembly. It is as follows: Dear President of the United Nations General Assembly, Dear Secretary-General of the United Nations, Excellencies, Heads…

A Palestinian pastor throws an intellectual hand grenade into the body of knowledge on Palestine/Israel. — The opening line of Decolonizing Palestine: The Land, the People, the Bible says it all: “For Palestinians, including the Palestinian Christian community, Palestine is a real land with real people.” It seems self-evident, but in a time when more people are in love with some majestic idea of Israel/Palestine rather…

The international community, coerced by America, never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity to bring peace to the Middle East. A logical explanation is that they are accomplices to Israeli crimes against humanity. This edition of the Palestine-Israel Journal presents a fascinating exchange-dare I term it a debate-between two…

Some people don’t deserve the harshness life imposes upon them. Jaber El-Wanni was one of those persons. This summer, when I last visited him in his home to bid him farewell before heading back to Palestine, I was speechless. How do you tell someone goodbye when you both know it…

For many Israelis, killing Palestinians with impunity is a state-sponsored sport. — If one did not know better, they would believe that the Palestinian government places public ads on social media trying to recruit Palestinians to kill Jews. The sheer sound of that sentence sounds sick, as it should. The reality, of course, is something entirely different. In fact, it is Israel…

Are Israeli mothers and fathers resting better knowing Palestinian children will not be smiling? — In the lead-up to the most recent Israeli military onslaught on the Jenin Refugee Camp in the north of the West Bank, Israeli intelligence was at its all-time best. Aware that Israel had decided to undertake wanton destruction of the Jenin Refugee Camp, yet again, Israeli security teams were on…

Amid Israeli airstrikes and our political struggle for statehood, we are fighting an economic battle to keep Palestinians in Palestine, the ultimate act of non-violent resistance against the Netanyahu government’s state and settler violence. So why are some U.S. companies turning away? — Depending on who you talk to, the Palestinian economy is either in intensive care, a victim of relentless and prolonged Israeli military aggression or it is thriving, exhibiting remarkable resilience in the face of all the challenges it faces.

Christa Bruhn’s newly published memoir is not the first to revolve around Palestine. However, it is uniquely placed among the few books which were written by writers who, themselves, experienced Palestine. If you walk away from reading this book feeling that you have just read a memoir of an American…

The Italian journalist Francesca Borri texted me last week. Her message read, “I am just back from the Maldives…the non-Arab country with the highest number per capita of ISIS fighters, I have been a month with them.” She had interviewed me a few years back and I remember her as…