By Nashat Halawi, activist Somewhere in the hills near the Hizme checkpoint, January 3 – We have to get going, Ahmad. It’s almost time for those school buses to pass by on the road down the hill, and we have ...
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The true meaning of Christmas is not to look too carefully at the facile analogies of Palestine activists. Bethlehem, December 23 – Most of the Christian world heads into the Festival of the Nativity this weekend. We residents of the ...
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By Mohammed El-Kurd, activist Jerusalem, December 14 – People under foreign occupation have a right to resist that occupation, and, as pro-Palestinian apologists have long argued, that right extends to “by any means,” a phrase that my people have always ...
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by Itbah al-Yahud, PhD candidate, Al-Quds University Abu-Dis, December 3 – Sir, I’ve come close to finishing these equations, and I’ve some exciting news: it looks like we only need to throw a few hundred more children into battle against the ...
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by The Serpent Garden of Eden, November 24 – The removal of the Thomas Jefferson statue from New York City’s City Hall filled me with a sense of accomplishment I haven’t felt in a long, long time. It resonated with ...
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By Mahmoud Abbas, President, Palestinian National Authority (State of Palestine) Ramallah, November 15 – My predecessor Yasser Arafat and I, along with numerous prominent Palestinians, have long proclaimed we will compromise on none of the rights that other peoples enjoy, ...
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By Ofir Tzfonbon Tel Aviv, November 4 – Few moments in Israel’s history carry more power or trauma than does the murder of its prime minister in 1995; none others underscore the need to address the polarization of the country’s ...
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By Hallel Schusterman, age 16 Your parenting violates the Fourth Geneva Convention. There, I’ve said it. This is my room. It’s been my room as long as I can remember. I forged my identity in this room, became who I ...
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by Simone Sheodlo-Higanu New York, October 14 – An aphorism attributed (wrongly) to Albert Einstein characterizes insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. With all due respect to the professor, I believe my ...
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by God Divine Throne Room, October 6 – OK so this is awkward. You know how in your Yom Kippur liturgy – I get that many of you tuned out or were otherwise engaged during this part of the service ...
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