Analysis on Palestinian history, Middle East politics, and the ongoing struggle for justice.
October 18, 2023 at 4:57 pm BBC TV newsroom [Stuart Pinfold/Flickr] by Jamal Kanj jamalkk “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” This quote was attributed to Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi chief propagandist. Today, Goebbels would envy the Israeli
August 19, 2023 at 4:56 pm A Palestinian vendor shows the product to a customer at Al Harajah bazaar in Ramallah, West Bank on August 18, 2023. “Al Harajah” market was established by the municipality of Ramallah to preserve Palestinian culture. [ Issam Rimawi – Anadolu Agency ] by Jamal
December 30, 2022 at 1:24 pm Israeli new speaker of the Knesset (parliament) Amir Ohana (L) receives his gavel as the new government is sworn in at the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on December 29, 2022. [Israeli Parliament (Knesset) – Anadolu Agency] by Jamal Kanj jamalkk Hanukkah 2022 will be
May 21, 2021 at 11:27 am Palestinians stage a demonstration held for the 73rd anniversary of Nakba, on 15 May 2021 in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. [Mostafa Alkharouf – Anadolu Agency] by Jamal Kanj jamalkk Palestinian diaspora narratives are broad. Sheikh Jarrah is the story of Palestinian families,
September 15, 2020 at 11:37 am An Israeli delegation led by National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat, and US National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien and US President Trump’s senior adviser Jared Kushner (L) board the Israeli flag carrier El Al’s airline on August 31, 2020 [Israel Airports / Sivan Farag/Anadolu Agency]
February 28, 2016 at 12:57 pm by Jamal Kanj jamalkk Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom created a maelstrom in Israel by merely demanding a “credible investigation into deaths of Palestinians in order to clarify and bring about possible accountability.” Israel declared the Swedish official persona non grata for daring to
February 14, 2016 at 12:52 pm by Jamal Kanj jamalkk In the last week’s column, I wrote on the banned love story from the Israeli high school reading list. The Israeli education ministry claimed that young Jewish students might not comprehend “the significance of miscegenation” for “maintaining the national-ethnic identity
February 7, 2016 at 12:32 pm by Jamal Kanj jamalkk How can a two-year-old novel become a best seller? Censorship is the short answer. The most important question is, however, why would the “Jewish democracy” censor a love fiction between a Jew and non-Jew? The banned book Borderlife was based
January 31, 2016 at 12:59 pm by Jamal Kanj jamalkk Palestinian civic organisations inside Israel have declared January 30 the Day of Solidarity with Palestinian Israeli citizens. Israel was established in 1948 on the ruins of more than 500 native towns and villages and the forceful displacement of approximately 780,000
October 25, 2015 at 1:37 pm by Jamal Kanj jamalkk Haftom Zarhum, a 29-year-old Eritrean, was lynched by Jewish Israelis simply because he looked different. After being shot in the legs, a mob circled him like hyenas over a bleeding prey throwing a bench over his head and chanting the
October 13, 2015 at 9:45 am by Jamal Kanj jamalkk Tension in Jerusalem has escalated to dangerous levels in response to deliberate Israeli provocation at Haram Al Sharif or the Noble Sanctuary. This fragile situation was further worsened by new Israeli government decrees to blow up Palestinian homes and grant
September 6, 2015 at 11:29 am by Jamal Kanj jamalkk Many years ago I read Men in the Sun, a novel by late Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani. He, along with his young niece Lamis, were blown up by Israel in 1972. In the book, Kanafani told the tale of three
