Reading Red, Reading Palestine

In the three years since the outbreak of the second Intifada in October 2000, the policy making of the U.S. government has been haunted by the question of Palestine. The Intifada made briefly visible the consequences of Israel's continued occupation and expanded colonization of the West Bank and Gaza, an expansion facilitated by the Oslo accords of 1993 and disguised under the name of "the peace process." Within a year, however, the launching of the worldwide war on terror provided Washington with a new way to misrepresent the nature of Israel's war against the Palestinians. A century-long history of dispossession, expulsion, occupation, and resistance was reduced, once again, to a series of Palestinian acts of terror. A people's loss of their homes and homeland, of their freedom of movement and human dignity, of their personal security and political future, could instead be framed as a battle of civilization against terror, of democracy against hatred, of the West against Islam. Under the banner of the war on terror, the United States then announced its plans for a war against Iraq as the cornerstone of an unapologetic project to remake the political order of the Middle East. Yet the question of Palestine refused to disappear. From the protests of up to half a million people in several cities of Europe to the revived antiwar activism of the campuses of North American universities (see Vincent Lloyd and Zia Mian's essay in this issue), an emergent peace movement in the West placed the issue of Palestinian rights, alongside the right of the Iraqi people to be spared the devastation of war, at the center of its politics. The importance attached to the Palestine question was a response to the obvious discrepancy between Washington's use of U.N. Security Council resolutions against Iraq, its disregard for council resolutions against Israel, and its vetoing of any international intervention on behalf of the Palestinians. But the importance reflected something larger. The injustice against the Palestinians has always been carried out in the name of the West. Washington supports, funds, and arms many forms of injustice in the Middle East. But only in the case of Israel is the injustice disguised and defended as a moral struggle of the West against the rest. The Palestine question now haunts the West, much as the question of apartheid haunted a previous generation. We draw the analogy with apartheid not to make any simplistic historical comparison between Israel and South

A Land Without People for a People Without Land – A Colouring Book About Palestine, 2009

A LAND WITHOUT PEOPLE FOR A PEOPLE WITHOUT LAND is an exhibition of interactive graphic posters dealing with the conflict between Israel and Palestine. It produces a visual discourse around the social tensions of daily life in this region where three continents collide and propose a new approach to exploring the conflict. The discourse is critical, but it is also ironic and playfully exposes the current situation by inviting people to colour in the maps and drawings as they journey through the exhibition. This bilingual book (English and Portuguese) includes the revised images and texts comprising the exhibition along with new material produced specifically for this publication. It also details its production and documentation and contains texts by the authors discussing the political and design context of the work. In addition, contributors from different professional and cultural backgrounds were asked to respond to the exhibition format and content from their own perspectives by contributing essays.

How to keep the Arab identity of Jerusalem alive? , 2025

Last update 28082025 Le lobby pro-Israël en France par Serge Halimi & Pierre Rimbert I - En Palestine, un peuple debout. Éditorial de Serge Halimi II- مقال البوم: حين ربح نتانياهو وخسرت إسرائيل.. وفازت حماس وخسر عباس III- HALTE À UNE NOUVELLE NAKBA! par Aicha Bouabaci IV- Here, Jerusalemites and Jerusalemites redrawn the map. V- Nouvelles tensions à Jérusalem autour de l'expulsion possible de Palestiniens au profit de colons VI - Violences fascistes et racistes contre les Palestiniens à Jérusalem - silence révoltant de la France VII - Marwan Al-Barghouti VIII : L'Union européenne ne peut pas et ne doit pas inviter des Israéliens en Tunisie PART IX– BOOKS PART IX-I THE FORGOTTEN PALESTINIANS The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel. Ilan Pappe. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011) : L'Union européenne ne peut pas et ne doit pas inviter des Israéliens en Tunisie La Campagne Tunisienne pour le Boycott Académique et Culturel d’Israël (TACBI) a appris avec consternation que la Délégation de l’Union Européenne en Tunisie compte inviter à Tunis en janvier 2020 de jeunes israéliens dans le cadre du programme « Dialogue Méditerranéen pour les Droits et l’Égalité » (Med Dialogue for Rights and Equality) financé par l'Union européenne. Il est indiqué que les candidats doivent avoir « entre 18 et 36 ans » et être « ressortissants des pays suivants : Algérie, Égypte, Israël, Jordanie, Liban, Libye, Mauritanie, Maroc, Palestine, Tunisie, Syrie - ou appartenir à des diasporas apparentées, notamment syriennes et palestiniennes ». PART IX-2 -LETTERS FROM PALESTINE An engrossing new book about the lives of Palestinian people Many books have been written dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the pro- Israeli perspective. However, relatively few reflect the Palestinian point of view. Letters from Palestine is one of the rare books that offers an American audience the chance to listen to and learn about the lives of actual Palestinian people as they describe what it is like to live in the occupied territories of the West Bank or Gaza, or to grow up as a Palestinian in the U.S. Part IX-3- Requiem pour Gaza », préface d’Adonis Signé par le poète Bernard Noël (grand prix de poésie de l’Académie française 2016), l’un des textes les plus mordants du livre décrit Gaza comme une « réserve de chasse » dont l’État hébreu « contrôle absolument les clôtures et qui, en connivence avec son grand allié, lui sert à sélectionner les diverses variétés de gibier humain, de la forte tête dont on fait des cibles au pauvre indic qu’on n’achète pas cher ». Part X-Israel: Water as a tool to dominate Palestinians Water consumption figures are telling: While Israelis have access to around 240 litres of water per person per day, and settlers over 300, Palestinians in the West Bank are left with 73 litres - well below the World Health Organization's minimum standard of 100. PartXI- Crimes de guerre ou des crimes contre l'humanité https://www.lepoint.fr/monde/j-ai-ete-le-premier-medecin-cible-par-un-sniper-a-gaza-15-03-2019-2301472_24.php ENTRETIEN. Tarek Loubani, médecin urgentiste canadien, a été victime d'un tir israélien alors qu'il soignait des manifestants palestiniens. ANTISEMITISME VS ANTISIONISME : LE TEMOIGNAGE DE MICHELE SIBONY QUI TRACE L’HISTOIRE D’UN PEUPLE QUI S’EST OCTROYE TOUS LES DROITS D’ENRAYER DE LA CARTE L'IDENTITE DES PALESTINIENS https://webmail.online.net/?_task=mail&_action=get&_mbox=INBOX&_uid=211153&_token=PxUobIl3RfAnlqXdPq00P13RElHjx55w&_part=2 XII- LA RESISTANCE CULTURELLE : LE THEATRE DE LA LIBERTE A JENINE La victime dirigeait le théâtre de la Liberté, fondé dans le camp de réfugiés de Jénine par sa mère, Arna Mer (1930-1995), militante pour les droits des Palestiniens, tout comme son fils, et mariée à Saliba Khamis, un Arabe Israélien, dirigeant du Parti communiste israélien. A l'origine, le "Théâtre des pierres" avait été lancé durant la première Intifada (1987-1993). Pour Arna Mer, ardente militante de la paix, il s'agissait de créer un espace préservé où les enfants échapperaient à la violence du conflit et de l'occupation. Détruit en 2002 lors d'une opération de l'armée israélienne contre les groupes armés palestiniens, l'établissement a revu le jour en 2006 sous le nom de "Théâtre de la Liberté" grâce à Juliano Mer-Khamis, réalisateur du documentaire Les enfants d'Arna, avec le soutien de Zakaria Zoubeïdi, chef local du groupe armé palestinien des Brigades des martyrs d'Al-Aqsa, qui a participé aux combats à l'époque. Zakaria Zoubeïdi a déclaré à la chaîne 10 israélienne que "tout le monde l'aimait dans le camp" de réfugiés. XIII - HOMAGE TO KHAIRAT ALSALEH (31 May 1939- 29 July 2014) I wrote this poem several years ago. It is about the death of a child of Palestine. Many children died during the Intifada and many children died recently in Gaza. I think our genes are programmed to protect children and not to accept their death. I am dreaming of a day when the Palestinian children will have the chance to grow up normally like all other children, to laugh and play and watch children's TV, as they ehave xpressed so eloquently during the war. Poem by Khairat Al-Saleh POSTED BY RAINBOW DERVISH AT 8:43 AM 2 COMMENTS: LABELS: DEDICATED TO GAZA, POEMS http://rainbowdervish.blogspot.com/ Pourquoi la Palestine ? Pourquoi pas l’Iran, la Syrie ou la Russie ? D’autant plus que les palestiniens sont de plus en plus réduits à rien, quand ils ne sont pas éliminés un à un pour des raisons de sécurité ou promiscuité. Et moi je dis que s’il n’en reste qu’un, un seul palestinien, je continuerai à dire que cette terre lui appartient… en propre et au figuré. Et cette vérité, je la maintiens… ou pour dire vrai, c’est elle qui me maintient… en vie. Je ne tiens pas à verser une seule larme sur ce qui me tient le plus à cœur, mais je tiens à faire de mon long métrage, une arme… pour BRISER tous les miroirs, et remettre en mémoire que la Palestine est aux palestiniens… https://www.lejournaldepersonne.com/2018/06/la-verite/ Personne est sur un nouveau projet, un nouveau film long métrage est en cours de préparation, LA CASA DE PALESTINA (ancien nom de L’orpheline de la Palestine). « Vous n’avez pas besoin de moi pour oser l’imaginer… Mais j’ai besoin de votre aide pour le réaliser. » Pour contribuer à sa réalisation, rendez-vous sur la page de soutien : https://www.lejournaldepersonne.com/soutien-journal-de-personne/ 2ème partie Conformément à la théorie freudienne Israël agit avec la Nakba comme un esprit traumatisé qui tente de refouler ce qui le hante. Une sorte d’”inquiétante étrangeté”, à la source d’un sentiment de honte ressenti à l’égard d’actes passés, provoque un malaise qui pousse à vouloir les faire disparaître. Ce passé dérangeant revient , selon Freud, lorsque s’effacent les limites entre l’imagination et la réalité. La mémoire de la Nakba remonte à la surface par l’intermédiaire de divers acteurs qui détruisent les créations imaginaires pour montrer la réalité, et de Palestiniens qui saisissent toutes les occasions de resurgir dans l’espace public. In his election campaign, Trump promised and stood before the world with all his arrogance to fulfill his promise to Zionism and its birth, "Israel" to declare Jerusalem the eternal capital of the State of "Israel" Will we be satisfied with convictions and protests to keep the Arab identity of Jerusalem alive? Will we suffice tears and stand on the doors of the world, begging half solutions, but quarters and prices ?! Were all Arab, Islamic and international documents paper prisoners? Jerusalem is the flower of the cities and the city of prayer. Jerusalem is the cradle of messages, and the house of the Prophets, carrying a long history that is rooted throughout the ages to pre-heavenly religions, highlighting its Arabism under its ordeal and its rape. Can Jerusalem become cheaper than promises of Israeli peace? Come on her coffins ?!! .. Whatever the remnants of the Arab nation, you have lost the basic cause as you have lost compass in the midst of your disputes and disagreements and distributions, Jerusalem has never been the title of the Isra and Maraj and the address of the Al-Aqsa Mosque or the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, but the city of practical holiness in the case of the oppressed and the oppressed whom the oppressors deny and fought the farthest and stood "international justice" watching them and disguising themselves. XIV- Espionnage et intimidations XV - Israël devient une « ethnocratie » ESPIONNAGE ET INTIMIDATIONS Lobby israélien, le documentaire interdit PAR ALAIN GRESH Israël devient une « ethnocratie » XVI- How to keep the Arab identity of Jerusalem alive? By Hind Obiedin XVII - Palestine, the Birthplace of Civilization When and where Civilization was born Prof. Mohamed Rabie

Critical Ethnic Studies (link), 2024

CES Volume 9, Issue 1 responds to the urgency of transnational solidarity movements in support of Palestinian liberation by exploring the possibilities and limits of frameworks grounded in comparison and analogy. Analogies to South African apartheid, Jim Crow, and the Trail of Tears have served as important entry points for understanding the Palestinian experience and for developing a sense of shared struggle with other colonized and racialized populations. While the genocide in Gaza has led many of us to reach for analogy to think through anticolonial political violence in Palestine, its gains have also been tempered by the way free-floating analogy can run both ways. We have seen Zionism cloak itself in the language of anti-discrimination, while also positioning Israel as an exception beyond analogy. Considering how both exception and analogy permeate the social construction of Palestine, contributors explore how Palestine emerges as key to a coherent reading of the connections between foreign and domestic political violence, between imperialism and fascism, between counterinsurgency and policing, between settler colonialism and racial regimes, between decolonization and abolition. The issue features four articles, a translation project, a political document, a syllabus, an interview, and a book forum. We dedicate this issue to the people of Gaza.

Cambridge University Press, 2006

Foreword: The idea of this book germinated in my Haifa University class entitled ‘The history of the Palestine conflict’. Very alert and eager Palestinian and Jewish students demanded again and again a narrative of their country’s history that did not repeat the known versions of the two conflicting parties; one that respected the other, included those who are not part of the story, and above all was more hopeful about the future. I began writing the book in the twilight of the Oslo Agreement and found it difficult to comply with the last request. But then I realized that, by then, industrious researchers had already provided us with new perspectives on Palestine, but they were never presented in one narrative. What these novel approaches had in common was that they attempted to tell the story of the people and the land, and not just that of high politics, dogmatic ideologies or rehearsed national narratives. The fact that the students, Palestinians and Jews, wanted to hear the story told from a humanist, and not nationalist, ethnic or religious, per- spective was itself a hopeful sign for the future. It is this perspective that dictates the tone of this book, It is a narrative of those in Palestine who were brutalized and victimized by human follies well known from many other parts in the world. The abusive power used by people against other people in the name of one ideology or another is condemned in this book for being the source of much evil and few blessings. These human ambi- tions wrought invasions, occupations, expulsions, discrimination and racism on Palestine. The heroes of this book are therefore the victims of these calamities: women, children, peasants, workers, ordinary city dwellers, peaceniks, human rights activists. The ‘villains’ to a certain extent are the arrogant generals, the greedy politicians, the cynical statesmen and the misogynist men. Many of the victims were, and still are, the indige- nous people of Palestine, the Palestinians; but many of them also belong to the community of the newcomers, now evolving into a second genera- tion of natives, the Jews. We are constantly warned that we should not be slaves of our history and memory. This book is written with the view that in order to perform this liberation act in Israel and Palestine, you need first to rewrite, indeed salvage, a history that was erased and forgotten. The violent symbolic and real exclusion of people from the hegemonic narrative of the past is the source of the violence of the present. Various historians who came directly from the forgotten and marginalized communities in Palestine provided with their original and pioneering works the bricks with which I could attempt the present project of redrawing the historical picture of Palestine. This is done not for the sake of intellectual curiosity, but out of a wish to disseminate a more expanded narrative of what happened in a country that never ceases, to the great dismay of its inhabitants, to capture the global headlines, even if its population does not exceed that of London or New York and its territory is smaller than that of any of the Great Lakes of North America. It is both an introduction to those interested for the first time in the country – if there are still such fortunate persons – and a suggestion for an alternative narrative for those who think, quite understandably, that they have read everything they need to know of the torn and tortured land of Palestine.

International Politics

In this essay, in conversation with Azmi Bishara's Palestine: Matters of Truth and Justice, I am wrestling with how to write about Palestine, at the same moment that I am contending with the media's erasure and dehumanisation of Palestinian life, in January 2023. And here I am again, on 19 October, 2023, with the proofs for this piece arriving in my inbox, while witnessing bombs rain down on Gaza; a second Nakba and genocide that has the world's full awareness and legitimacy. I wrote and write, full of rage, full of anger and full of love.

Middle East Journal, 2022

Anthropological Quarterly, 2019

Interview about "Being There, Being Here” in The New Arab, 2022

The Middle East Journal, 2021

Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope, edited by Michael Sorkin and Deen Sharp. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2021. 348 pages. $70.00. Unsilencing Gaza: Reflections on Resistance, by Sara Roy. London: Pluto Press, 2021. 278 pages. $99.00 cloth; $26.95 paper; $14.95 e-book. $99.00 cloth; $26.95 paper; $14.95 e-book.