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Israel Defense Forces (IDF) veterans founded Breaking the Silence in 2004 to inform the public about what really goes on during military service. Their latest publication, This is How We [...]

His Excellency Maen Rashid Areikat, Chief Representative of the PLO Delegation to the United States, fielded questions from a skeptical audience in a March 9 discussion moderated by Alon Ben-Meir [...]

More than half a million images of Palestinian refugees, dating from 1948 to the present, have been stored in an UNRWA warehouse in Gaza. To be precise: 430,000 negatives, 10,000 [...]

Rawan Damen, a 24-year-old documentary filmmaker from Ramallah, joined the 16-day tour of 'Jerusalem Women Speak: Three Women, Three Faiths, One Shared Vision' at the last minute as a replacement [...]

After Israel's 22-day Cast Lead assault on Gaza, which ended Jan. 18, 2009, leaving nearly 1,500 Palestinians dead, 5,000 injured, 20,000 made homeless, infrastructure demolished, and whole families killed by [...]

INLSeparate Justice, an important ew public education initiative, was launched in New York on Jan. 7. On one of the coldest nights on record, scores turned out to hear a [...]

Hany Abu-Assad does not shy away from difficult topics. He co-wrote and directed the film 'Paradise Now,' which dealt with Palestinian suicide bombers. It won the 2005 Golden Globe award [...]

Athol Fugard's 1973 prize-winning lay 'The Island,' about two black political prisoners in apartheid South Africa, needed no alterations to fit the Palestinian condition. The only concession in the Jenin [...]

Dr. Amin Jaafari (played by Ali Suliman, of 'Paradise Now' and 'The Lemon Tree') is a model of assimilation. He won scholarships to become a surgeon, is respected by his [...]

On Nov. 28, the eve of the U.N. General vote on upgrading Palestine's status to non-member observer state, New York University's Center for Global Affairs hosted a conversation between a [...]

Imagine finding out that the son you have I raised, cherished, and instilled with your values turns out to be, biologically, your enemy. Imagine growing up proud of your heritage, [...]

For Palestinian farmers, 'agriculture is a form of resistance' Vivien Sansour, product relations manager for the Palestine Fair Trade Association, told her Columbia University audience on Dec. 6. In addition [...]

Six weeks after Palestine applied for membership in the U.N. and the day after it was granted membership in UNESCO, Palestine's permanent observer to the U.N., Ambassador Riyad Mansour, spoke [...]

Scott Peterson, who has covered the Middle East for The Christian Science Monitor for more than 15 years, currently is the newspaper's bureau chief in Istanbul. He is also a [...]

Professors Hamid Dabashi of Columbia University and Bassam Haddad of George Mason University spoke about the uprisings in the Arab world at Alwan for the Arts on June 8. In [...]

The response of Israel and the U.S. to the September 2009 release of the Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, aka the Goldstone Report, was [...]

Marwan Bishara, senior political analyst with Al Jazeera, discussed the 'Arab Revolt and the Future of Palestine' at New York University on Feb. 15. Having spent the previous few days [...]

At a Sept. 22 panel discussion at Brooklyn Law School entitled 'Flotilla: Fact, Fiction & The Law,' attorney and Gaza Freedom Flotilla participant Fatima Mohammadi provided an eyewitness account of [...]

At an April 29 discussion sponsored by Brooklyn for Peace, Lynn Gottlieb described her path from being a young Zionist to a rabbi who now supports Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions [...]

In an April 13 talk at Columbia University, Bill Fletcher, Jr., the executive editor of BlackCommentator.com and a senior scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies, placed the issue of [...]

At 1:30 in the morning of March 2, shortly after Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh left for a speaking tour in the U.S., the Israeli army invaded his village of Beit Sahour, [...]

Three participants in the Gaza Freedom March plus one spoke to a crowded hall in New York's historic Judson Memorial Church in New York on Jan. 21. The sponsoring organizations, [...]

In visiting Gaza at the end of May, four CODEPINK-affiliated delegations--this writer being a member of the New York-area one--accomplished three goals. First, we broke the siege and got into [...]

Mr. France in the Middle East' is Francois Burgat's sobriquet. His connection with the region began in 1968 when, to avoid the military, Burgat joined France's National Service. He asked [...]

Mohammed Jaradat, co-founder of Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, and Eitan Bronstein, director of the Israeli organization Zochrot, spoke on 'Acknowledging the Past; Imagining the Future: [...]

As an award-winning Palestinian journalist and director of the Institute of Modern Media at al-Quds University in Ramallah--and currently the Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University--Daoud Kuttab brings a [...]

In September 1993, while Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shook hands in Washington, DC, Ramzy Baroud was living in Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza. The entire camp celebrated the advent [...]

Dr. Norman Finkelstein addressed the question of whether anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism in a Feb. 16 talk sponsored by the Princeton Committee on Palestine. Finkelstein has been studying this issue since [...]

With the aim of connecting the domestic anti-war movement with soldier resistance organizations, Rutgers Against the War sponsored an ambitious weekend conference, 'Marching Home: the Iraq war and its consequences [...]

On April 22, 2007 Dr. Azmi Bishara resigned from the Israeli Knesset, where he had served since 1996 as leader of the National Democratic Assembly (Balad). The government of Israel [...]

Less than three weeks before her untimely death from a stroke at the age of 63, Prof. Tanya Reinhart, formerly of Tel Aviv University and author of The Road Map [...]

Professor Norman Finkelstein was the keynote speaker at 'Prospect for Peace? The Palestinian Israeli Conflict,' an event organized by BAKA--Students United for Middle Eastern Justice, on Oct. 30 at Rutgers [...]

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)-Rutgers (New Brunswick) hosted Dr. Mahmoud Alhirthani and Miko Peled on Sept. 19 for its first event of the academic year. Dr. Alhirthani is professor [...]

If all had gone according to plan, The Jenin Freedom Theatre's production of 'The Siege' would have been staged at New York's Public Theater this past spring. Of course, for [...]

B'Tselem, Israel's highly respected human rights organization, published a report in May entitled 'The Occupation's Fig Leaf: Israel's Military Law Enforcement System as a Whitewash Mechanism.' Executive director Hagai El-Ad [...]

At an April 11 lecture sponsored by the Transregional Institute of Princeton University, Sara Roy spoke about 'The Crisis Within: The Struggle for Palestinian Society.' According to Dr. Roy, a [...]

Professor Joan Scott of the Institute for Advanced Study, and chair of the Committee on Academic Freedom of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), was the keynote speaker at [...]

As director of the Ramallah-based Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, Dr. Khalil Shikaki has conducted more than 100 surveys of Palestinian public opinion since 1995. Discussing 'Palestinians in [...]

The 17th anniversary banquet of the Palestinian Heritage Foundation, held Sept. 12, was devoted to a memorial for Prof. Edward W. Said. Last year's honored guest, Dr. Clovis Maksoud, sent [...]

Tony Judt's article, 'Israel: The Alternative,' in the New York Review of Books last October, and circulated widely on the Internet, generated a storm of controversy. To address issues raised [...]

John Brady Kiesling was the first American diplomat to resign in protest of the George W. Bush administration's then-impending war on Iraq. His 20-year career in the State Department began [...]

The Palestinian American Congress, a grassroots organization whose goal is to unite the American-Palestinian community, commemorated the 55th anniversary of al-Nakba, the day of Palestinian dispersal, with a May 18 [...]

A panel on 'The War on Iraq: Implications and Consequences,' sponsored by the Hagop Kevorkian Center and the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, took place on March 28 on New [...]

New Jersey Solidarity has been active lately in bringing to the Rutgers University community speakers on issues relating to Palestine. On Feb. 9 Ramzy and Suzanne Baroud, founder and managing [...]

'Megaphones and Muffled Voices: What Constitutes Full and Fair Media Coverage of Israeli-Palestinian Issues?' was the topic of a two-day conference held in New York April 17 and 18. organized [...]

On Feb. 6, in Madison, New Jersey, Drew University's Middle East Studies Program presented 'Between the Scylla of Occupation and the Charybdis of Settlements: Palestinian Life on the West Bank.' [...]

Of late, some writers for The New York Times have noticed that conditions for people living in Gaza are challenging. Columnist Thomas Friedman wrote in a Feb. 7 op-ed, 'Due [...]

On Nov. 2, 1917, His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Arthur James Balfour sent a brief letter to Lord Rothschild: His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment [...]