Justice for Palestinians and Jews linked
A broad coalition of Jewish lobby groups has made a series of breakthroughs this year in its campaign to link the question of justice for millions of Palestinian refugees with justice for Jews who left...
View ArticleIsraeli park a lesson in forgotten history
Visitors to Canada Park, a few kilometres north-west of Jerusalem, enjoy its spectacular panaromas, woodland paths, mountain-bike trails, caves and idyllic picnic areas. A series of signs describe the...
View ArticleIsrael sells off refugees’ hopes
Despite the loss of their village, the 4,500 Palestinian refugees from Saffuriya and their descendants have clung to one hope: that the Jewish newcomers could not buy their land, only lease it...
View ArticleOn an old anniversary, a new sense that change is possible
Film shot on mobile phones captured the moment when at least 1,000 Palestinian refugees marched across no-man's land to one of the most heavily protected borders in the world, the one separating Syria...
View ArticleNext year in Jerusalem: Ongoing tremors of the Arab awakening
If there was a moment defining the shift in Israel’s strategic position over the past year, it occurred in September when the Israeli embassy in Cairo was overrun by hundreds of Egyptian protesters,...
View ArticleIsrael’s immigration plan for ‘ethnically pure’ bunker state
Last week the Israeli parliament updated a 59-year-old law originally intended to prevent hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees from returning to the land from which they had been expelled as...
View ArticleIsrael’s impossible plan for refugees is just a stalling tactic
In the shadow of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's theatrics at the United Nations last week, armed with his cartoon Iranian bomb, Israeli officials launched a quieter, but equally combative,...
View ArticleThe return to Iqrit
A dream long nurtured by hundreds of thousands of Palestinians made refugees during the establishment of the state of Israel has become a concrete reality at a small makeshift camp atop a windswept...
View ArticleIsraelis slowly wake up to the Nakba
Palestinians were due to stage marches to commemorate Thursday the loss of their homeland 66 years ago – an event they call the Nakba, or “Catastrophe” – a little more than a week after Israeli Jews...
View ArticleOn Nakba Day, Israelis forced to confront a guilty secret
For 66 years Israel’s founding generation has lived with a guilty secret, one it successfully concealed from the generations that followed. Forests were planted to hide war crimes. School textbooks...
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