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Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians
Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians

Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians

1994

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Alice Lynd, et al.
Alice Lynd, Sam Bahour, et al.

Stories

3 days ago

2023 UN General Assembly Debate: A Speech Worthy of the Palestinian People

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…

Palestine

5 min read

2023 UN General Assembly Debate: A Speech Worthy of the Palestinian People
2023 UN General Assembly Debate: A Speech Worthy of the Palestinian People
Palestine

5 min read


Sep 15

Palestine: The Bible is Not a Baton

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…

Palestine

7 min read

Palestine: The Bible is Not a Baton
Palestine: The Bible is Not a Baton
Palestine

7 min read


Sep 9

PIJ.ORG: Incompetence or Accomplice?

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…

Israel

8 min read

PIJ.ORG: Incompetence or Accomplice?
PIJ.ORG: Incompetence or Accomplice?
Israel

8 min read


Sep 8

A Palestinian Stalwart Rests

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…

Palestine

6 min read

A Palestinian Stalwart Rests
A Palestinian Stalwart Rests
Palestine

6 min read


Sep 7

Israel’s ‘slay-for-play’ practice must be stopped

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…

Palestine

7 min read

Israel’s ‘slay-for-play’ practice must be stopped
Israel’s ‘slay-for-play’ practice must be stopped
Palestine

7 min read


Jul 9

My clown is in an Israeli prison, again!

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. …

Palestine

5 min read

My clown is in an Israeli prison, again!
My clown is in an Israeli prison, again!
Palestine

5 min read


Jul 3

This is the unnamed Palestinian casualty of Israel’s assault on Jenin

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…

Palestine

7 min read

This is the unnamed Palestinian casualty of Israel’s assault on Jenin
This is the unnamed Palestinian casualty of Israel’s assault on Jenin
Palestine

7 min read


Jun 24

From Wisconsin to Gaza to Jenin: An American Writer’s Lived Experience in Palestine [Book Review]

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…

Book Review

4 min read

From Wisconsin to Gaza to Jenin: An American Writer’s Lived Experience in Palestine [Book Review]
From Wisconsin to Gaza to Jenin: An American Writer’s Lived Experience in Palestine [Book Review]
Book Review

4 min read


May 19

Syrian Dust

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…

Syria

3 min read

Syrian Dust
Syrian Dust
Syria

3 min read


May 12

Don’t cry for me. Cry for yourselves.

The voice of a Palestinian child in Gaza, taken from this world by Israel — “the only democracy in the Middle East”.

Palestine

7 min read

Don’t cry for me. Cry for yourselves.
Don’t cry for me. Cry for yourselves.
Palestine

7 min read

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