Marco Balich, the creative director of the opening ceremony of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, probably has no idea that “bridging distances” when it comes to Palestinians and Israelis is a euphemism for normalizing Israel’s apartheid and settler colonialism, its brutal subjugation and dispossession of Palestinians. For Palestinians and their…

A paradigm shift in and outside occupied Palestine from the river to the sea is now breaking out onto the Palestinian political scene. It is led by two burgeoning popular movements, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement: Masar Badil and The National Campaign for Rebuilding the PLO. On 5…

I had the privilege to be in Brussels to participate in the historic march for Palestinian return and liberation that demanded of the European Parliament an end to the EU-Israel Association Agreement and the liberation of all Palestinian prisoners (29 Oct 2099). The march was a powerful experience that dramatized…

In preparing for a trip to Dubai with my brothers earlier this month, I was full of apprehension. As Palestinians, we are furious about the now-open complicity of the government of Dubai with the Zionist project and feel betrayed by the diplomacy between Dubai, where many young Palestinians find good…

Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, is being bombarded by urgent appeals, the most strongly-worded of which comes from the National and Islamic Forces in Gaza (a coalition formed shortly after the outbreak of the second Intifada), who are rightly outraged by the upcoming EU-Israel…

It’s not wishful thinking; it’s really happening! To use Bob Dylan’s words, the Israeli order is “rapidly fadin’ and the first one now will later be last, for the times they are a-changin’.” You’ve probably heard that on September 19, the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) is mobilizing globally “in…

I have just filled out the form of appeal to the Facebook and Instagram Oversight Board, which describes itself as “Ensuring respect for free expression, through independent judgment.” The form provides space just for 2000 characters, so I was not able to present my case fully. And the fact that…

Let me ask you a question. If you identify as Jewish, what is your reaction when you see a news item such as: ‘Israel settles 50 Ukrainian Jewish families in West Bank settlements’? Do you think, hey, wait a minute? Why is Israel accepting only Jewish war refugees? …

What a humiliating failure for the group of diplomatic missions in Palestine that are now supporting the six Palestinian human rights NGOs that Israel has dubbed “terrorist organizations” and closed down! The irony is that most of these missions are active accomplices of Israel’s apartheid and occupation of Palestine. When…