Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by NASSAR Maha
A famous gesture kick-started hopes of peace in the Middle East. But today, the idea of a two-state solution seems further away than ever before.
On Sept. 13, 1993, the world watched as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat shook (...)
, by SOULIER Édouard
The Oslo Accords were a historic event. But nearly thirty years on, no one uses them to talk about the situation in Palestine. There is no longer any talk of the “peace process” or the “quartet”, as was the norm in the 1990s and 2000s, so far have things moved away from the hopes raised by (...)
, by FINKEL David
EARLIER THIS YEAR, we wrote: “The degenerative spiral in the so-called Israel-Palestine ‘conflict’ is nowhere near reaching the bottom yet.” (February 4, 2023, https://solidarity-us.org/a-spiral-toward-catastrophe/) It was true then, and now.
That article spoke of “the Jenin massacre by the (...)
, by NASSAR Maha
Israeli troops have withdrawn after two days of fighting in a camp in the occupied West Bank. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that it would not be a ‘one-time action.’
Israeli troops withdrew from Jenin on July 4, 2023 after two days of heavy aerial bombardment and ground (...)
, by IRAQI Amjad
Palestinians in West Bank cities are fast discovering that if their expulsion won’t be possible, Gazafication will be their future.
The horrifying sight of settler pogroms last week, in which hundreds of Israelis rampaged through Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank after a deadly (...)
, by BARGHOUTI Mariam
Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by the same Israeli bullets directed against her fellow Palestinians. Those bullets have continued to fly, and the Israeli war machine has taken the lives of nearly 300 Palestinians in the past year. Shireen’s was one of them.
During the Israeli military (...)
, by HATUQA Dalia
Israel’s far-right government is undermining a longstanding treaty that many Jordanians already oppose.
A recent wave of Israeli police violence at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound is putting strain on Israel’s already fraught relationship with Jordan, which is the official custodian of Islamic (...)
, par ABUKHATER Jalal, SAJRAW Vera
Writer Jalal Abukhater explains the context behind a violent raid in Al-Aqsa, and why the mosque is more than a place of worship for Palestinians.
In a shocking display of violence, Israeli police forces on Tuesday night raided Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, beating and arresting (...)
, by DAOOD Rula
Since the formation of Israel’s latest far-right government, in late December 2022, we’ve witnessed a massive wave of anti-government protests. These demonstrations mainly focus on the new coalition’s proposed judicial overhaul, which would increase the government’s control over the (...)
, by ABDULHADI Rabab, FEELEY Dianne, FINKEL David
AGAINST THE CURRENT editors Dianne Feeley and David Finkel spoke with professor Rabab Abdulhadi about her recent experiences and observations on the Palestinian struggle. Dr. Abdulhadi is the founder and director of the AMED (Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas) Studies program at San (...)
, by FINKEL David
The degenerative spiral in the so-called Israel-Palestine “conflict” is nowhere near reaching the bottom yet. Even to begin understanding it requires, first, demystifying terms like “conflict,” “cycle of violence” and related phrases that disguise the realities of daily killings — and (...)
, by DAHER Joseph
The newly elected extremist far-right government of Israel is the logical result of decades of unchecked occupation, colonisation, and ethno-nationalism, writes Joseph Daher, and any struggle for democracy must centre Palestinian liberation.
As in every Israeli election for the past 20 (...)
, by PATEL Yumma
2022 has been the deadliest year for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation in decades. In the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem specifically, this year marked the highest number of killings of Palestinians in the territories since the UN began recording fatalities in 2005.
2022 (...)
, by AGUIAR Thiago, DUTRA Israel
Last week ended with a bitter taste for Brazilian football fans. After an irregular campaign, the team went home early, leaving the dream of the hexa (Brazilian Championship) lost on penalties to Croatia. Also last week, the Lula government announced the first names of its ministry, with no (...)
, by BEN EFRAT Yacov
ISRAEL IS UNDOUBTEDLY a unique creature in the family of states: its borders are not defined and it lacks a constitution. It crowns itself a Jewish state, but the question of who counts as a Jew has no consensual answer. According to the Nation-state Law, it is not the ” state of all its (...)
, by WELTMANN Uri
The troubling results of the recent elections to the Knesset (the Israeli parliament), held on November 1st, generated interest around the world for their possible repercussions on the situation in the Middle East and the danger they pose to the cause of Palestinian freedom. Benjamin Netanyau, (...)
, by MACHOVER Moshé, REIFF Ben
Sixty years after co-founding the radical leftist group Matzpen, Moshé Machover reflects on the organization’s enduring legacy, the internal splits that led to its demise, and its lessons for today’s anti-Zionist left.
Moshé Machover is anxious to set the record straight. “There’s been a (...)
, by EL KURD Dana, KANE Alex
Palestinian opposition to the PA’s security coordination with Israel has risen to a level of intensity unseen since the Second Intifada.
On September 20th, Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces arrested Musab Shtayyeh and Ameed Tbaileh, who were reportedly members of Hamas. The PA, (...)
, by GHANEM Asad
In an open letter, political analyst Asad Ghanem urges the Ukrainian president to stop employing double standards and to support the Palestinian struggle
Dear Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
Your recent speech before the Israeli Knesset was a disgrace when it comes to global (...)
, by CYPEL Sylvain
Among the “Western” nations, Israel’s voice is not heard on the Ukrainian crisis. And the leaders of this country do not want to oppose head-on Vladimir Putin to whom they are linked by strategic and economic interests. At the risk of angering the American ally.
Since the beginning of (...)
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