“When democracy fails: Reports from the West Bank.”
The admittance of Israel to the United Nations as a full member state in May 1949, and all that preceded and followed this event, reflects the catastrophic failure of Western democracy. 7 MAY—I’m dissatisfied, it’s time to state bluntly, with…
“The defense of Palestinian culture.”
In conversation with the director of the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit. “They want to erase our memories.”—Amer Shomali 31 March—I will always remember my first sight of the Palestinian Museum. Its austere geometry and dazzling white limestone is arresting in every…
“Radical trust.”
Kindergarteners get a playground in al–Mughayyir. First thought, best thought.—Allen Ginsberg 8 MARCH—My first thought as Marwa, my guide and interpreter, drove us away from a tiny two-room kindergarten in the remote West Bank village of al–Mughayyir was one I blurted…
“Winter blankets for refugee children.”
A brief appeal to our subscribers and readers. Amid the cold of another West Bank winter, the Development and Rehabilitation Association of New Askar refugee camp, also known as the Awdeh Center, has begun a “Warm Winter Campaign.” This is an…
“A New Year’s message from the West Bank.”
‘Love from the land of war and pain.’ A New Year’s greeting arrived this morning from a friend in New Askar refugee camp, in the West Bank governorate of Nablus. It’s a powerful message of hope, and I publish it…
“When a mountain falls.”
Stories from Ramla Prison Clinic. Listen, world, to what I want to tell you. By God, the pain and suffering carried by the sick prisoners in Ramla Prison Clinic: If you placed it on a mountain, that mountain would collapse….
“‘Why can’t I see white?’”
Writings from an Israeli prison ‘hospital.’ This is Part Two of a three-part series on Rateb al–Hribat and his writings while in Israeli prisons. Now in his mid-forties, Rateb spent twenty-two years in the Israeli gulag, where he wrote two…
“‘Raw reality’ in Palestine.”
In conversation with a former political prisoner. I learned about Rateb al–Hribat from my Arabic interpreter, a young woman named Sadeel. This was November of last year and we, Sadeel and I, were traveling in the West Bank as I…
“Drawing as resistance.”
It took Israel less than twenty-four hours to violate the current ceasefire in Gaza. As reported in The Cradle yesterday, 14 October, “the Jewish state” killed nine Palestinians by targeting civilians with a quadcopter and shelling neighborhoods. Anyone unknowingly crossing the “yellow line”…
“Settler madness.”
Sanity and psychosis in the West Bank. 11 SEPTEMBER—I recently delivered a talk at the annual Mut zur Ethik conference in Sirnach, Switzerland. Held each summer at the end of August for the past thirty-two years, Mut zur Ethik, which translates as “courage…
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