Palestine 2030 – A View in the Future
How does Palestine look like in 2030? This is a big question in which speculation can run wild. A simple proof of this is the history of Palestine in the last 100 years. Who could have imagined that…
Could cantonizing Palestine bring peace?
A boy displays a sign that reads “This is our land!” during a vigil to mark Land Day in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Wadi al-Naam in present-day Israel, 30 March 2012. Bedouins in the southern…
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…
When Falsehoods Triumph
In an initially pointless exercise that lasted nearly an hour, I flipped between two Palestinian television channels, Al Aqsa TV of Hamas in Gaza and Palestine TV of Fatah in the West Bank. While…
The Last of the Semites
Joseph Massad is Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University, New York. He is the…
The Challenges of the Right of Return’s Implementation
The study of post-Zionism, i.e. life in Israel particularly without Zionism, is not a theoretical subject. It should be carried in the context of preparation for an eminent event which is bound to…