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The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) may well be operating with a permanent financial deficit. UNRWA's Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini warned...
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"Sovereignty is made out of a patchwork, weaved together from institutions, private companies, and most significantly technology itself, which dictates certain behaviour and habits." Israel's security narrative has become...
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Out of hundreds of UN Resolutions on Palestine, Palestinian Authority leader, Mahmoud Abbas, has recently said he only wants one resolution implemented, digging a deeper hole for himself in...
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The two-state compromise facilitates the international community's alienation from the repercussions faced by Palestinians as a result of Israel's ongoing settler-colonialism and violence. Imagining Palestine through the imposed (and...
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This week, the White House announced US President Joe Biden's forthcoming visit in July to Israel and the occupied West Bank. Needless to say, the Palestinian Authority will increase...
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For each concession the Palestinian Authority gains, the Palestinians suffer additional repercussions. The EU's decision to resume financial aid for the PA after the EU voted in favour, with the exception of...
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The UN Human Rights Council's Commission of Inquiry recently released report on the violations in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) has infuriated Israel and sparked another statement from the...
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On the 55th anniversary of the 1967 war and the commencement of Israel's military occupation over Palestinian territory, the Palestinian Authority's Prime Minister, Mohammad Shtayyeh, feebly called out the...
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"Debt is about borrowing in the present and repaying in the future. In both cases it is the future that is at stake when debt is thought about as...
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Israel's Military Court of Appeals has ruled that documents pertaining to the Kafr Qasem massacre, which happened in 1956, may now be declassified. In February 2017, Israeli historian, Adam...
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Israel's public relations and diplomacy may be running into a few pitfalls, as US mainstream media outlet CNN explicitly called out Israel's responsibility in the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. During...
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When Palestinians speak of their ongoing Nakba (Catastrophe), they are imparting a political consciousness which the international community refuses to recognise. For world leaders, diplomats and international organisations, Palestine...
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Concern about the election of Australia's new left-wing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his political stance on Israel is already making news in local and Israeli media. Outgoing Prime...
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Alex Poppe's collection of short stories is a turbulent itinerary of the marginalised. At face value, the observations laid out in Jinwar and Other Stories tend to border on...
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"In the face of enemy violence, the Zionist answer has always been settlement, security and immigration," Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett declared during a visit to the illegal Elkana...
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While there is still much focus on the extrajudicial killing of Palestinian-American journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, calls for justice will remain resonant, at least presently. However, Israel has perfected...
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The extrajudicial killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by an Israeli sniper last week has led to Israel's media clamouring for the occupation state's impunity to be upheld....
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Humanitarian aid, which has played a major role in stagnating Palestine and Palestinians, is one of the factors mentioned in the latest World Bank analysis of the dire economic...
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The European Union is, as usual, taking the wrong approach when it comes to dealing with Israel's violations of international law. With over 1,200 Palestinians facing forced eviction from...
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Around 600 Palestinians are currently being held by Israel under administrative detention orders, according to the Israeli human rights group HaMoked. The number is the highest since 2016 when...
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Since 2021, criticism of Israel has focused heavily on its apartheid system and practices. The gradual awareness within the international community, since B'Tselem's declaration, which was followed by that...
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Earlier this month, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid called for "international support for returning calm to Jerusalem" when tweeting about updating US Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the...
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The international community's non-committal attitude towards Israeli colonial violence in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa is not new. It does, however, build upon the established narrative in 2019, when the former...
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At an international level, Israel continues to be rewarded for its human rights violations. As momentum gains over Israel's apartheid practices, even by the UN's own Special Rapporteurs, the...
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Can we speak of the sustainability of humanitarian aid in the face of ongoing colonial expansion and perpetual dispossession? Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini who heads the UN Relief and Works...
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In March 2021, a leaked memo from the US addressed to Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, indicated that the Biden administration might take a different approach from that of...
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When the UN does nothing but perfunctory duties, human rights and civil society organisations are brought to full stop; a dead end. Earlier this week, the Palestinian Centre for...
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A recent report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) places Israel in 10th place when it comes to the share of global arms exports from 2017 to...
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UN Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk has issued one of his strongest condemnations yet of Israeli apartheid in a report to the 49th regular session of the UN Human Rights...
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US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, gave additional proof that Palestine is far from a priority for the Biden administration. During a press briefing in Ramallah following a meeting...
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Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh and Finance Minister Shukri Bishara met with World Bank senior directors this week in Ramallah, urging that pressure should be placed on Israel...
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Maurice Ebileeni's study of Palestinian literary narratives and the imaginings of the Palestinian homeland highlights the need to rethink both. Being There, Being Here: Palestinian Writings in the World...