Exhibition explores implementing right of return
Author: Jillian Kestler-D'Amours 30/09/2011
TEL AVIV (IPS) - In a new project that has tackled one of the most divisive issues plaguing the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, a diverse group of academics, architects, urban planners and Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups are examining how the right of return of Palestinian refugees can be implemented on the ground.TEL AVIV (IPS) - In a new project that has tackled one of the most divisive issues plaguing the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, a diverse group of academics, architects, urban planners and Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups are examining how the right of return of Palestinian refugees can be implemented on the ground.
Why not return?
Author: Eitan Bronstein 31/08/2011
Wounds of dispossession reopened
Author: HARRIET SHERWOOD 31/05/2011
In the golden light of a spring evening, Yacoub Odeh climbs through knee-high grass to the ruin that was his childhood home.
Education Ministry hunting for Arab teachers absent on Land Day
Author: Jack Khoury 31/03/2011
Principals of Arab schools received a letter from the Education Ministry on Land Day, held on March 30, asking them to immediately "report the names of teachers who were present in the schools and of those who were absent."This year marked the 35th anniversary of the first Land Day in 1976, when 6 Israeli Arabs were killed in clashes with security forces while protesting the seizure of Galilee land.
Israel criminalizes commemoration of the Nakba
Author: Jillian Kestler-D'Amours 28/02/2011
“Law will not influence the way we commemorate the Nakba,” Haneen Zoabi, Palestinian member of the Knesset, told The Electronic Intifada. “On the contrary, we must prove to our people and to the state that we will not be afraid from this law and that this will not succeed in oppressing our feeling or our identity. We will commemorate the Nakba in a much more impressive way this year than we ever did.”
Israel Charny, director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem and former editor of the Encyclopedia of Genocide, acknowledges that Zionists committed genocidal massacres and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
Author: Gal Beckerman 31/01/2011
The question is provocative, and the answer for most people is an unequivocal no. But a debate over this idea has formed the crux of a heated argument among the most eminent genocide scholars in the world, and led recently to the censure of an Israeli professor by the field’s leading academic association.
The forest through the trees: What the Carmel fire reminds us about Israel’s history
Author: Max Blumenthal 30/11/2010
Most of the original inhabitants of Ein Hod, which was called Ayn Hawd prior to the expulsions of '48, and was continuously populated since the 12th century, were expelled to refugee camps in Jordan and Jenin in the West Bank. But a small and exceptionally resilient band of residents fled to the hills, set up a makeshift camp and watched as Jewish foreigners moved into their homes.
A 'Hidden History' in the Holy Land
Author: Ben White 31/07/2010
As Bronstein explained to me, “I had the idea to post simple signs indicating the Palestinian history of the park. My friends told me it was a great idea—but that it wasn’t just a few villages, but hundreds,” a realization that helped give birth to Zochrot.The Israeli group Zochrot seeks to introduce fellow Israelis to the people who lived on the land before them -- and to engage Jews and Palestinians in an open recounting of their painful common history.
