Ramzy Baroud says it’s as if there is a conspiracy not to describe the realities of Palestine and the Palestinian people by their proper names: war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and apartheid.
By preventing a U.N. Security Council vote on Israel’s illegal settlements, Marjorie Cohn says Biden failed to demonstrate even the modicum of reason exhibited by the Obama-Biden administration.
The Palestinian Authority’s foreign affairs ministry said Itamar Ben-Gvir’s new position, which includes responsibility for Border Police in the occupied West Bank, could have a “catastrophic impact on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
Muna Dajani sets an agenda for re-politicizing environmental problems such as water scarcity and placing them inside the popular mobilization against settler colonialism.
Alaa Tartira spotlights the militarization of the PA budget and intensifying authoritarian aggression following the killing of Nizar Banat last summer.
Among other recommendations, Ihab Maharmeh says the BDS movement should further center the violation of Palestinian workers’ rights in its call for boycotts of Israeli companies.