Talking with the translators of Wissam Rafeedie’s The Trinity of Fundamentals, a book whose genesis is as extraordinary as its contents.
TEL MOND, ISRAEL – JANUARY 27: Arab prisoners flash the V-sign for victory and peer through the barred window of an Israeli prison truck January 27, 2004 in Tel Mond, Israel. Authorities move the prisoners in preparation for their release January 29, 2004 according to a German-brokered prisoners swap deal between Lebanon’s Shiite Muslim guerrilla group
Israel is trying to snuff out journalism in Gaza. This should be a sound-the-alarm, all-hands-on-deck moment for anyone who professes to support reporters and the work that they do.
Families, loved ones, and colleagues attend the funeral ceremony of two journalists—including Hamza Dahduh, the son of Al Jazeera correspondent Wael Dahduh—in Rafah, Gaza on January 7, 2024.
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It was a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it line, deep into a gauzy New
For generations, the voices of Palestinians have been routinely overlooked. When we do turn to them, it is usually to ask them to justify their despair or prove their worthiness as humans—and to teach us the very basics of a generations-long crisis of forced exile and violent displacement.
Instead of making Palestinians play out that endless cycle one more time, we wanted to get to the heart of a question that feels more vital, more essential, in our moment.
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The violence in Gaza may have started on October 7, 2023 for Israel and for the world. But for Palestinians it started 75 years ago, and never stopped.
My Palestinian mother is 79 years old. She grew up in Jerusalem. Seventy-five years ago, she was 4 years old, and Israel drove her, her family, and all of her village out of their homes, which they would never see again. They became part of the Palestinian diaspora.
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After backlash from pro-Israel organizations, Santa Ana’s ethnic studies courses discussing Palestine were put on hold. “You’re asking us to erase a people off the face of the earth.”
Israel’s first war with neighboring Arab countries began on the same day the Jewish state was re-established on May 14, 1948. Jewish sovereignty ended 2,000 years earlier, in the year 70 A.D. at the hands of the Roman conquest. The first Jewish commonwealth dates back 3,000 years to the time of King David.
That war saw surrounding Arab nations – Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Transjordan and Iraq, (with additional forces sent by Saudi Arabia and Yemen) –attack the fledgling state. The
“I lost 14 family members in the church bombing in Gaza,” Layla told me.
Layla requested that only her first name be used, due to safety concerns. She is a Palestinian American student at Columbia University. Grieving with dignity there, she said, has felt impossible. She has been repeatedly called a terrorist while walking on campus wearing a keffiyeh—a traditional Palestinian scarf, which has become a symbol of resistance. One student, she recalled, asked her if she was a Hamas … Read more
The number of Palestinians in detention has soared since October 7. It’s a part of Israel’s strategy of control that cannot be ignored.
Protesters chant during a rally in Ramallah city in the occupied West Bank, in support of Gaza and of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, on November 14, 2023.
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I haven’t heard from my father since October 7, when Israel intensified its violence against
Israeli tanks entered the edge of Gaza city today, while IDF troops were pelted with rocks as they carried out raids against armed Palestinian groups in the West Bank.
The signs that the Jewish state was stepping up its military operations in the region came as a UN official warned the Gaza Strip was on the bring of social collapse, with mobs looting warehouses for food and families forced to drink dirty water.
Fears for the more than 2.2 million
The US Embassy has told foreign nationals to make their way to the Rafah crossing on the Gaza-Egypt border to evacuate as Israeli tanks prepare to plough into the besieged Palestinian enclave.
The Israeli military on Friday punished Gaza with more airstrikes in retaliation to the despicable terror attacks launched by Hamas on October 7. Tens of thousands of Israeli soldiers are readying themselves for battle as an invasion appears imminent.
In an urgent security alert this morning, the US
