Jeff Halper argues that the only way out of a colonial situation is decolonization: the dismantling of Zionist structures of domination and control and their replacement by a single democratic state, in which Palestinians and Israeli Jews forge a new civil society and a shared political community.Read More

"Israel has created an institutionalised regime of racial domination and oppression over the Palestinian people as a whole, using the strategic fragmentation of the indigenous Palestinian people and of the oPt as a main tool for the maintenance of its apartheid regime, which predates its ratification of ICERD and is rooted in the foundational laws...Read More

Abulhawa narrates the story of Nahr, a Palestinian refugee who, despite learning from an early age that she is a second-class citizen, continues to dream of love and acceptance. She arrives in Palestine via Kuwait and Amman, and endures a suffocating confinement that steals the best years of her life and entraps her beloved homeland.Read More

The Israeli government’s policy of ‘boxing-in’ Palestinian communities is not limited to the West Bank and Gaza but extends to Palestinian towns and villages inside Israel, Human Rights Watch said today. The policy discriminates against Palestinian citizens of Israel and in favor of Jewish citizens, restricting Palestinians’ access to land for housing to accommodate natural population...Read More

How is President Trump’s plan to solve the Israeli Palestinian conflict being received on the ground? The BBC’s Middle East correspondent Tom Bateman went to visit two homes in the occupied West Bank; starting with a Palestinian family whose house is in a fenced off enclave within an Israeli settlement. Israel has said it intends...Read More

The intent of Israel’s policies toward Palestinians is an apartheid system. It is often described in Hebrew as hafrada (“separation”), a word that is strikingly similar in meaning to the Afrikaans word apartheid (“separateness” or literally “apart-hood”). These visuals illustrate five parallels between the state policies of apartheid-era South Africa and those of the present...Read More

Israel has over 60 laws that work to privilege Jewish people while dispossessing, displacing and discriminating against non-Jews.Read More

The definition of Israel as "the Jewish State" or "the State of the Jewish People" makes inequality a practical, political and ideological reality for Palestinian citizens of Israel, who are marginalized and discriminated against by the state on the basis of their national belonging and religious affiliation as non-Jews. Additionally, the Palestinian minority is not...Read More

The 100-year-old colonial occupation project is about rendering of the Palestinians as non-people, writing them out of the historical narrative as if they never existed and denying them basic human rights. The colonial project which also became an apartheid that surpasses the onetime savagery and racism of apartheid South Africa. Its democracy was always exclusively...Read More

The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, Michael Lynk, has warned that the recently-announced US plan "is not a recipe for a just and durable peace but rather endorses the creation of a 21st century Bantustan in the Middle East" consisting of "scattered archipelagos...Read More