Si c’est la guerre, M. Nétanyahou, la IVe Convention de Genève interdit à la puissance occupante que vous êtes, de transférer sa population dans le territoire occupé : 700 000 colons israéliens vivent pourtant aujourd’hui en Cisjordanie et à Jérusalem-Est, dans 279 colonies illégales en droit international. En toute impunité. Bien que pas un seul pays […]
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On October 22, Israel issued a military order designating six prominent Palestinian human rights groups – Addameer, Al-Haq, Defense for Children International-Palestine, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, the Bisan Center for Research and Development, and the Union of Palestinian Women Committees – as “terrorist organisations”…. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/12/7/what-is-israels-word-worth
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In an equity talk he was asked to give to members of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) two weeks ago, Desmond Cole, a well-known Black author, activist, and journalist in Canada, dared to utter two words: Free Palestine. The moment he said it, moderators demanded he explain how Free Palestine doesn’t entail the “destruction
According to the Israeli state and pro-Israel groups, the Palestinian critique of Israel ultimately stems from a disposition of evil and hate. Pick any of these groups, and you’ll find repeated ad nauseum the assertion that this critique is geared towards the “vilification” and “demonization” of Israel, as if that is the end goal of
On May 11, as Israel was unleashing its military machine in occupied Jerusalem and elsewhere, I was put into contact with CBC Radio-Montreal who were looking for someone to interview to discuss the violent events in Sheikh Jarrah. After offering myself to speak on one of their programmes on the requested day of May 12,
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THE PALESTINIAN LITERARY CRITIC and anti-colonial theorist, Edward Said, taught us that “The native point of view . . . is not an ethnographic fact only . . . it is in large measure a continuing, protracted, and sustained adversarial resistance” to academic, cultural, and political discourses of empire…. https://thebaffler.com/latest/building-from-the-rubble-ayyash
Sheikh Jarrah, a neighbourhood outside the walls north of Jerusalem, was the bucolic site chosen by Palestinian notables at the turn of the twentieth century to build more opulent homes than the cramped streets of the Old City would allow. The creation of Israel in 1948 led to the catastrophic expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians: also
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Scholars of social movements, civil disobedience, liberation struggles, and revolutions have long known that fear is one of the greatest barriers to overcome. For the oppressed to move from inaction to action, they must break this fear barrier. In extreme cases, such as Palestinians living under Israeli settler colonialism, the fear is based on lived
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Hamzah, Dyala (2020). Arrêt sur le monde (Cérium TV Program) : « Israël-Bahreïn-ÉAU : pourquoi la normalisation ? » 31.10.2020
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Whether it is your bias in favor of Israel that recently cost you your seat on the UN Security Council, it is a fact that in the space of five years you have voted “no” 50 times to UN resolutions in favor of Palestine. Of the 166 “no” votes by Canada since 2000 this represents