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Items by Rebecca Stead
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Return to the ghetto: Israel’s Nation State Law would make early Zionists turn in their graves
This week, Israel’s “Nation State” law has caused outrage. In his usual way, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has steamrolled the bill forwards saying he hopes to see it pass before the Knesset enters its summer recess next week. A final version of the bill was discussed by Knesset...
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The aid model has been shunned internationally. It won’t work for Palestine either
Last week, prospects for Palestinian development took a step backwards. On Monday, Australia announced that it would stop direct aid to Palestine, citing concerns by Australian MPs over whether the money was being used for so-called “martyr payments”. The move was slammed by the Palestinian Authority (PA) which accused...
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‘We want you to see our reality,’ Palestine journalists tell British Parliament
In a meeting held at the British Parliament yesterday, Palestinian journalists told parliamentarians, journalists and the general public that “we want you to see our reality”. They called on the international community to “take responsibility” for the protection of Palestinian journalists, for discussions to be “translated into reality” and...
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Aram Rawf, the first asylum seeker to join St. John Ambulance
Aram Rawf, a Kurdish refugee who fled Iraq in 1999, became the first asylum seeker to join St. John Ambulance in a bid to “say thank you to my community”. When Aram arrived in the UK as a 17-year-old minor seeking asylum, he didn’t know what to expect from...
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Remote control repression: Israel tested its latest weapons against the Great March of Return
Over the course of the Great March of Return protests which started on 30 March, 115 Palestinians were killed and a further 13,000 were injured. Many were shot by live ammunition fired from Israeli positions behind the nominal Gaza-Israel border. Tear gas rained down on protesters from unmanned drones...
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MEMO hosts launch of The Last Earth by Ramzy Baroud
Last night MEMO hosted Ramzy Baroud as he launched his new book The Last Earth in front of a packed lecture theatre at Imperial College, London...
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The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story
“On the first day of their journey, they walked for twenty long hours. On the second, they walked from eight in the morning until three the next morning. No matter how carefully they tried to ration their water supplies, they were running out quickly, and the food was completely...
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Samir Awad is another victim of Israel’s biased judicial system
16-year-old unarmed Samir was shot once in the knee, once in the head and then again in the back....
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This International Women’s Day, Palestinian women face more challenges than most
8 March is International Women’s Day, a time to commemorate the movement for women’s rights and raise awareness of some of the challenges confronted by women around the world...
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3000 Nights
A radio babbles unintelligibly in the background, the helmet of a soldier outlined against the grill of a military vehicle. The light flickers across nameless faces, bloodied and blindfolded as they wrestle futilely with their handcuffs. This is Nablus, 1980. When Layal Asfour, a young Palestinian schoolteacher, finds herself...
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Gaza: Preparing for Dawn
Weaving personal stories intricately with unique insights from the world of international diplomacy, Donald Macintyre’s book Gaza: Preparing for Dawn paints a vivid picture of this small strip of land which, despite being known as the world’s largest open-air prison, never fails to surprise with its entrepreneurial and enduring...
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Remembering the Egyptian Revolution
Government corruption under President Hosni Mubarak was a key focal point of the protests, as demonstrators shouted 'Down with Mubarak' in the streets....
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Israel’s policy on African asylum seekers reflects its internal divisions
Yesterday, the BBC reported that, “The Israeli government has issued a notice for thousands of African migrants to leave the country or face imprisonment.” Other British news outlets followed in reporting the story, with the Guardian and the Independent weighing-in on the topic. Ordering migrants to leave within 90...
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The Commander: Fawzi al Qawuqji, the accidental hero of Palestine
One of this year winner of the Palestine Book Awards, Laila Parsons...
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Banksy and Boyle’s Bethlehem Alternativity
Dubbed as bringing a little festive cheer to Bethlehem, the place where Christmas was invented, Banksy’s much anticipated documentary film, “Alternativity”, was aired on BBC2 last night. Charting the journey of film director Danny Boyle and his local project partners as they set about realising Banky’s version of a...
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Beyond the Frontlines: Tales of Resistance and Resilience in Palestine
In her capacity as the head of mental health services in the West Bank, Jabr is trying to develop a model of services that corresponds with the resources available...
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Today They Took My Son
The film, which highlights the plight of Palestinians children was released on International Human Rights Day...
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#HandsoffJerusalem
The Twittersphere has been awash with opinions on the unfolding events in Jerusalem this morning, as the world waits with baited breath to see if, or indeed when, US President Donald Trump will announce his decision on whether to officially recognise the city as Israel’s capital and move the...
