Honouring South American Ambassadors for their countries’ support of Palestine
Your excellencies, Fellow engineers, We are gathered here to honour several South American countries for their unwavering support for justice and the rule of international law in Palestine and for…
Hundred Years of Palestinian Struggle: Lessons for Charting the Future of Palestine
A hundred years is a long time for a people to fight for their own sheer survival in their homeland. Palestinians are doing it. And they have no sign of giving up. It is imperative that they should…
Re-Constructing Palestine: Reversing Ethnic Cleansing
Thank you for inviting me to Japan. This is my first trip to Japan and I am pleased to meet the people here. They are universally known as organized, industrious, polite and proud of their heritage.…
The ICRC and the Detention of Palestinian Civilians in Israel’s 1948 POW/Labor Camps
The internment of thousands of Palestinian civilians in Israeli-run prisoner of war camps is a relatively little known episode in the 1948 war. This article begins to piece together the story from…
Filling the Gap: Restoring the Palestinian Narrative
For over six decades the Israeli narrative about al Nakba events dominated the Western media and Western minds. It was a well woven tale of religious beliefs, fabricated history and their incarnation…
Communication to 38th World Heritage Committee on the nomination of Battir as a world heritage site in danger
[The following open letter was issued by the below signatories to the members of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee on 3 June 2014.] To the Honorable Members of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee:…
The Destruction of Palestine: The Original Sin
The destruction of Palestine was the inevitable result of the most ill-conceived and destructive settler-colonial European project in the history of colonization. Britain played the major part of its…
The Moral Right of the Refugees to Return
Years ago I was invited to a UN conference on the Palestinian refugees in Paris. I was to open the debate as an Israeli, after the Palestinian representative, Salman Abu Sitta, a refugee from a…
Zochrot inauguration of new application: iNakba, delivered by Skype
In July 1949, Israel signed the last of Armistice Agreements with Syria. By then, Israel occupied 78% of Palestine, 50% over the partition plan, depopulating over 600 cities, villages and hamlets.…