The 21st century Nazism no longer requires trains and gas chambers, it has more “civilised” ways to make a people disappear.
Orly Noy *
Is it permissible to compare yet? When reading testimonies about families who fled their homes from the terror of the marauders, or hid small children in the rooms, is it possible to compare now?
The settlers’ pogrom yesterday in the South Hebron Hills should have naturally been…
While the ideal option for Palestinians is to achieve reconciliation between Ramallah and Gaza, which would preserve the two-state solution, the most likely scenario in the next five years is the continuation of the status quo, with no viable alternative. It is the scenario that does not anger the PA and will not find serious objection from Egypt and Jordan; it is the option that has become familiar to the region.
By Omar Shaban
Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR)
Critical Policy Brief, Number 6/2021
Since the Palestinian division occurred in June 2007, the Gaza Strip has become a geographical area with a political and legal context different from the West Bank. The Gaza Strip is a small area…
In a horribly violent rampage, dozens of masked Israeli settlers celebrated a holy day by attacking a Palestinian village in the West Bank. They slaughtered sheep, smashing cars, severely attack Palestinian residents and injuring at least twelve, including a three-year-old boy, wrecking homes with clubs and hammers smashing furniture and house contents, amongst other violent acts. Soldiers were standing behind the attackers the whole time and did nothing to stop them. Instead they fired huge amounts of gas as well as stun grenades at the Palestinians.
By Yuval Abraham • (Translated by Riva Hocherman)
There’s an insane rampage happening now at Mufaqara, a Palestinian village in the south Hebron Hills. About sixty masked men with clubs, sticks, guns, rocks. There’s never been anything like this here. It’s like a small army. Dozens of settlers. I’m writing…
While almost all Palestinians followed the news about the Gilboa prison break on daily basis viewing it as inspiring to popular resistance, the killing of the opposition activist Nizar Banat and the PA behavior in its aftermath damage the standing of the PA as almost 80% of the public demand the resignation of president Abbas
Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR)
Public Opinion Poll No (81)
These are the results of the latest poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip between 15–18 September 2021.
The period before the conduct of the poll witnessed several developments including the killing of a political activist, Nizar Banat, right after his arrest and sever beating by the Palestinian security services, the eruption of widespread demonstrations…
A joint Palestinian-Israeli research reveals: Mutual Palestinian-Israeli distrust, found at the core of peace failure, is generated by socio-psychological forces heightened by daily life hardships, exposure to violence, and widespread negative perceptions about the other side’s educational system.
September 15, 2021
Palestinian and Israeli public support for peace stands at the lowest point since the beginning of the peace process 28 years ago. Just completed joint Palestinian-Israeli research reveals an unequivocal finding: extremely low level of mutual trust among the two publics is the most important explanation for…
Udi Aloni tells three stories of living in Zakaria Zubeidi’s house. The is the first one: the cultural Intifada.
Eleven years ago, I moved to Jenin to Zakaria Zubeidi’s house to help my beloved friend, Juliano Mer Khamis, at the Freedom Theatre. My job was to teach film, and my student Mustafa wanted to film a night-time car chase inside the narrow streets of the camp at the end…
(Author’s name withheld)
The film Arna’s Children deals with the children of the Freedom Theatre run by Arna Mer Khamis in the Jenin refugee camp in the 1990s. If you look up the Hebrew Wikipedia entry for film it states that “the film tells the story of the group members…
As the scientific question of dating the Jerusalem hills terraces shifts to the political realm, it turns superficial and undergoes dehumanisation. ■ The Palestinians who lived in the mountains until 1948 made a crucial contribution to landscape design. Whether they inherited ancient terraces or not. ■ Terrace is not a registered patent; it is part of the daily life of real people who have lived here. 73 years ago, Palestinians were expelled from their land and since then an effort has been made to erase their existence in the landscape and history.
By Nir Hasson*
Anyone travelling on the road between Har Hatayasim Reserve and Ramat Raziel in the Jerusalem hills these days would encounter a dramatic sight: a large mountain slope, totally burnt out and dotted with charred dead tree . But the fire also exposed a spectacular terrace system, the…
Israelis are proud of their air conditioners and look down with disdain at Europeans who insist on sweating, but this technology has devastating environmental effects
By Ofri Ilany*
Imagine the average temperature in the Israeli summer shooting up by two degrees in the near future. This is not an imaginary scenario, but a reality that is expected to materialise in our lifetime under the impact of climate change. It is frightening, and yet most of…
This week, three more Palestinians were killed by IDF fire in the West Bank and our righteousness is only becoming more and more transparent. The lies and the fables that we tell ourselves, mainly in order to fool ourselves in relation to this carnage, are becoming more visible.
By Karen Haber*
Here is something that has not the headlines this week, like it usually doesn’t: Since Friday, three Palestinians have been killed by IDF fire. Apparently none of them endangered the lives of Israelis. On Friday, Muhammad Munir a-Tamimi, 17, was killed in Nabi Saleh; on Tuesday Lutfi…
