“Liberal delusions.”
20 January 2025. (Screenshot, PBS.) Two images, their truth. In reality, only the fragment carries the mark of authenticity. — Brecht. 22 APRIL—Peter Dimock, the avant-garde novelist (A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family, George Anderson, Daybook from Sheep Meadow) and an old…
“Poisoning ‘the Holy Land.’”
I met Adnan al–Abayyat last November in Kisan, his rural village in the Bethlehem Governorate. Kisan is 11 km southeast of the city of Bethlehem—as the indigenous hooded crow flies. It is a rather longer distance—27.5 km—on the dangerous and…
“‘Our lives are worth nothing.’”
A letter from Occupied Palestine. In a dream,I saw myself flying a kite.And I was like the kite—free.But when I woke up to fly it,one of us wasn’t free.—Sabeel 3 APRIL—A text arrived from a friend two weeks ago today,…
“From Xizang and Qinghai.”
Guy Mettan’s travels in Tibet. Guy Mettan, the distinguished Swiss journalist, memorably reported for The Floutist, here and here, from the Donbas, formerly the eastern provinces of Ukraine and now incorporated into the Russian Federation. Mettan was and remains one of the few correspondents to…
“Targeting refugee camps.”
Zionist terror spreads. Please visit the original article to listen to the audio and video clips. Home demolitions surged in the northern West Bank governorates of Tulkarm and Jenin during the first week of March. On 6 March, the United…
“And so we avert our eyes.”
The mirror Palestinians hold up to us. Some images and press pieces—pictures, videos, media reports—come to me lately. They arrive separately, one to another over a period of a days. And I am moved to share them now because, when…
“‘An imagined reality.’”
The scars of Zionism, Part 2. This is the second of two reports on the work of Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, who is an authority—and maybe the authority—on the West Bank environment and the environmental consequences of settler colonialism. Qumsiyeh is…
“Scars on the land.”
The environmental catastrophes of Zionist colonialism. Israeli tanks rolled on Sunday into jenin, the northernmost West Bank governorate, marking an escalation in the Zionist regime’s war of annexation against the West Bank. Mainstream media would have you believe this was…
“The I.O.F. ‘weaponizes’ UNRWA.”
Another day in al–Arroub. This report first appeared in West Bank Alerts. 21 FEBRUARY—On Tuesday of last week, 11 February, a text arrived at 5:53 a.m. (American Central Time), along with a video showing an I.O.F. raid in progress in the…
“The banality of violence.”
Daily life in a refugee camp. This piece appears simultaneously in West Bank Alerts. Please visit the original article to view the videos. Israel’s attacks on West Bank refugee camps intensified in the immediate aftermath of the Gaza ceasefire. As reported last Thursday…
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