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WATCH: Palestine Beat Kuwait 1-0 in International Friendly
The Palestine National Football Team achieved an historic victory against the Kuwait National Football Team on Monday, January 18, for the first time in 19 years. Palestine hopes that its victory, in this international friendly, will finally place it on the right course ahead of its upcoming second round fixture in the AFC World Cup qualifiers. Palestine is currently 102 in the ranking of the International Football Federation (FIFA). The Palestinian team managed to clinch its precious victory despite the fact that the entire team consisted of local players, as none of Palestine’s international...
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On Apartheid, White Supremacy and Ongoing Police Violence: Whose Words Really Matter?
“Everyone’s reporting on the B’Tselem report like it’s the first they’ve ever heard anyone say that Israel’s an apartheid state,” commented Susan Abulhawa, Palestinian author and activist. “It’s like nothing about Palestinian lives, realities, and experiences is true or real until Israelis proclaim it.” Abulhawa’s commentary refers to the Israeli human rights group’s position paper (January 12) that declared “the entire area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River is organized under a single principle: advancing and cementing the supremacy of one group—Jews—over another—Palestinians...
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Mladenov’s Parting Message Endorses Trump’s Poisonous Normalization Legacy
The UN has mastered the art of dissociating itself from colonization, especially that which it has supported through international consensus. Former UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov, who in 2019 blamed Palestinians for Israel’s aggression against Gaza, has left his post with a parting message that illustrates how Palestine is an international project and one that endorses a false equivalence which can only work to Israel’s benefit. In recent years, which some have attributed to outgoing US President Donald Trump’s distancing his administration from the...
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Launch of Jeremy Corbyn’s Peace & Justice Project
I salute Jeremy Corbyn’s Peace & Justice initiative which could not be more timely, and I am proud to be part of it. We live in troubled times: the raging pandemic, rise of neo-fascist forces; the rapacious neoliberal global system. For so many, survival against war, police brutality, starvation, disease, collapsing economies, refugee camps, is the stark reality. All of this is compounded by the climate crisis; environmental pollution; collapse of food and water security. The pandemic has exposed to the light of day too often hidden or denied chasms of inequality both within and between nation...
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Beyond Slogans: Palestinians Need an Urgent, Centralized Strategy to Counter Israel in Africa
Arab normalization with Israel is expected to have serious consequences that go well beyond the limited and self-serving agendas of a few Arab countries. Thanks to the Arab normalizers, the doors are now flung wide open for new political actors to extend or cement ties with Israel at the expense of Palestine, without fearing any consequences for their actions. African countries, especially those who worked diligently to integrate Israel into the continent’s mainstream body politic, are now seizing on the perfect opportunity to bring all African countries on board, including those who have hist...
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Trump May Be on Trial, but the System that Produced Him Will Be Acquitted
It is a fitting end to four years of Donald Trump in the White House. On one side, Trump’s endless stoking of political grievances – and claims that November’s presidential election was “stolen” from him – spilled over last week into a mob storming the US Capitol. They did so in the forlorn hope of disrupting the certification process of the electoral college vote, which formally declared his opponent, Joe Biden, the winner. On the other side, the Democratic party instituted a second, unprecedented impeachment process this week, in the slightly less forlorn hope that Trump leaves office disgra...
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Will South Africa Unravel the Mystery of the #VisaScandal?
The campaign to petition South Africa’s ANC-led government to lift punitive Visa restrictions applicable to Palestinians desirous of traveling here is a necessary yet embarrassing exercise. Many people including veterans of the anti-apartheid struggle familiar with Palestine’s freedom struggle, and aware of deep historic ties having existed between the two liberation movements, are shocked to discover the existence of unfair visa requirements. And that the practice of discriminatory protocol allows Israelis to enter South Africa freely without the need for visas but excludes Palestinians, is a...
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‘Beyond Vietnam’: Where Do We Go from Here?
In “Beyond Vietnam” (1967), his speech delivered at the Riverside Church in New York, Martin Luther King opened by quoting from Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam. “A time comes when silence is betrayal,” King explained, then concluded: “That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam.” King’s words that followed still ring true today. In what was perhaps the most significant, but least appreciated, speeches of his career, King warned against falling into “conformist thought,” in particular regarding official policy during times of war. There is no war today like Vietnam, but there is ...
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Covid-19 under Apartheid: How Israel Manipulates Suffering of Palestinians
Israel’s decision to exclude Palestinians from its COVID-19 vaccination campaign may have surprised many. Even by Israel’s poor humanitarian standards, denying Palestinians access to life-saving medication seems extremely callous. Amnesty International, among many organizations, condemned the Israeli government’s decision to bar Palestinians from receiving the vaccine. The rights group described the Israeli action as evidence of the “institutionalized discrimination that defines the Israeli government’s policy towards Palestinians.” The Palestinian Authority was not expecting Israel to supply ...
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Twitter’s Ban on Trump Will Deepen the US Tribal Divide
Anyone who believes locking President Donald Trump out of his social media accounts will serve as the first step on the path to healing the political divide in the United States is likely to be in for a bitter disappointment. The flaws in this reasoning need to be peeled away, like the layers of an onion. Twitter’s decision to permanently ban Trump for, among other things, “incitement of violence” effectively cuts him off from 88 million followers. Facebook has said it will deny Trump access to his account till at least the end of his presidential term. The act of barring an elected president,...
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