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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 [...]

Jeff Halper arrived at Princeton University on April 28 directly from a Tel Aviv via Moscow flight to New York. He apologized for being jetlagged, then, without notes, spoke lucidly [...]

Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and chair of the history department at Columbia University, editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, and author of Brokers [...]

Columbia University's Center for Palestine Studies launched a new series, The Palestine Library, to give authors an opportunity to talk about their most recent books. To inaugurate the series, Rashid [...]

'Right to life' has taken on a whole new meaning since participating in CODEPINK's first Olive Harvest delegation to Palestine in early November. It began in Ramallah, with Stop the [...]

We've all heard people ask, regretfully or accusingly: Where is the Palestinian Gandhi? Mandela? Martin Luther King? They exist. One of them spoke at the New School in New York [...]

Columbia University's Center for Palestine Studies--the only such research institute in the Western hemisphere--sponsored a Dec. 2 panel on 'Palestine's South Africa Moment? The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement.' Omar [...]

Dr. Mads Gilbert warned his Rutgers University audience on Oct. 30 that the presentation of slides, video and recorded sound clips he had taken while working at Shifa Hospital in [...]

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas spoke Sept. 23 in the Great Hall of Cooper Union, where a century and a half ago then-presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln spoke out against slavery. Reports [...]

Amer Shurrab, a graduate student from Khan Younis who currently attends the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California, discussed 'What Gazans Endure' at an event in New York sponsored [...]

A dozen diverse and outstanding peakers addressed the urgent need to 'Stop Israel's Ongoing War Crimes Against the People of Gaza!' The World Can't Wait organized the event, which was [...]

Jeff Halper, co-founder and director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), spoke June 24 at Alwan for the Arts in lower Manhattan. This was during Israel's Operation Brother's [...]

The Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF) held a benefit dinner in New Jersey on April 26 to raise funds for a Pediatric Cardiology Unit at the European Hospital in Khan [...]

Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the author of Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. has Undermined Peace in the Middle [...]

Muslims for Peace sponsored an interfaith commemoration of the 15th anniversary of 9/11 at the Masjid-e-Ali mosque in central New Jersey. An imam, a rabbi and a minister offered prayers. [...]

In 2009--during Israel's 'Cast Lead' assault on Gaza--Max Blumenthal was on a book tour promoting his highly successful Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party, an examination of [...]

Frida Qishta's documentary about life in Gaza, 'Where Should the Birds Fly,' was screened at the Manhattan Film Festival on June 21. Qishta took the film's title from a 1983 [...]

April 7 was the day for rallies around the world to demonstrate support for the Palestinian Right to Return. They were organized by A1-Awda (The Return) and endorsed by more [...]

Bashar Asadi addressed the Princeton Middle East Society on March 8 on 'Water for Palestine.' Asadi, whose Palestinian family were 1948 refugees, was born in Damascus. He now is an [...]

The Brecht Forum in New York City sponsored three panel discussions on 'The Palestine Question.' The first, on Jan. 25, addressed 'The Oslo Accords: Sowing Peace or Confirming Colonialism?' Samir [...]

Addressing the Princeton Middle East Society Nov. 19, media activist Ali Abunimah said Palestinian grievances during the current al-Aqsa intifada, as in the first intifada, are about land and occupation. [...]

'A Borrowed Identity,' a film about a Palestinian living among Israeli Jews, draws on incidents from two novels by Sayed Kashua: Dancing Arabs, which is also the translation of the [...]

Since 2006 Amaney Jamal, professor of politics at Princeton University and principle investigator of the award-winning 'Arab Barometer Project,' has been researching why, with democracy on the rise in much [...]

Among the many, many tributes from people all over the world to Ramsey Clark at the gala celebration of his 85th birthday at New York City's Riverside Church on Jan. [...]

Novelist and journalist Samar Yazbek witnessed the growing violence in her native Syria until she was forced to flee in the summer of 2011. She has since returned several times [...]

The first Russell Tribunal, chaired by Jean-Paul Sartre, met in Stockholm, Sweden in 1967 to investigate and adjudicate, on the basis of international law, U.S. military intervention in Vietnam. Further [...]

Yael Dayan, daughter of the late Israeli Gen. Moshe Dayan, is a former member of the Knesset and currently deputy mayor of Tel Aviv-Jaffa. She watched the June 3 Israel [...]

As the author of the AET Book Club's perennial bestseller Blood Brothers, Elias Chacour hardly needs an introduction. Nevertheless, so that those who filled the sanctuary of the Catholic Community [...]

Two panel discussions addressed the issue of anti-Muslim activities in America. Jews Against Islamophobia sponsored 'Challenging Islamophobia' at the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew in New York on [...]

Oren Yiftachel, professor of political geography at Ben Gurion University and co-chairman of B'Tselem, spoke at Columbia University on Feb. 20 about his work in the Negev with the Bedouin. [...]

New York Law School hosted an important symposium Aug. 26 on shariah in America. The topic is timely, even urgent, given that half our states have anti-shariah laws in their [...]

Omar Barghouti's American tour to promote his excellent BDS: Boycott Divestment Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights (available from the AET Book Club) came about when, after a four-month [...]

The headline on Jan. 29 of 'Atlas Shrugs,' the blog of Islamophobe Pamela Geller, a leading scourge of the 'Ground Zero Mosque' in New York, screamed: 'RUTGERS STUDENTS NEED YOU [...]

Separation ('apartheid' in Afrikaans; 'us here, them there,' according to the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin) is almost complete in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. The Hebron [...]

During his public talk at Princeton University on Oct. 21--the day after he presented a report to the General Assembly in his capacity as the U.N.'s Special Rapporteur on the [...]

Despite a scary moment, in the end the Aug. 5 sunset cruise aboard the Pad-dlewheel Queen in New York Harbor, a fund-raiser to benefit the U.S. Boat to Gaza campaign, [...]

At two New York City events in June, Gaza Freedom Flotilla participants described what happened in international waters on May 31, when Israel commandos attacked their ships bringing humanitarian aid [...]

Holding signs praising her as 'the people's lawyer,' Lynne Stewart's supporters filled the area set up for them by police outside the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan prior to Stewart's [...]

'I am not here to praise Israel and you are not here to have fun,' said Akiva Eldar in introducing his Oct. 22 talk on 'Progressives' Dilemma: Promoting Peace and [...]

So many people RSVPed to hear Haneen Zoabi that Students for Justice-NYU had to move the event to a larger auditorium--and even that was filled to capacity on April 24. [...]

Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School and UNRWA (the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) hosted a Sept. 23 panel discussion in New York City [...]

American-born Reform Rabbi Arik Ascherman experienced two shocks when he first moved to Israel: first, he recalled, there were no bagels; second, he found that religious Israeli Jews interpret the [...]

'One Occupation, Two Governments: The Onslaught on Gaza and the Palestinian Internal Rift' was the title of Amira Hass' talk for the fifth annual Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture at [...]

Paul McGeough, an Australian award-winning foreign correspondent, happened to be in New York on 9/11. Ever since, he told his audience at New York's Alwan for the Arts, he has [...]

The whining buzz of drones overhead provides a constant background to the sound of bombs exploding intermittently every few seconds--muffled in the distance, sharper if nearer. Hearing this is unnerving, [...]

After Israel ended its 22-day 'Operation Cast Lead,' Dr. Mustafa Barghouti spent a week in the Gaza Strip. Israel refused him entry through the Erez checkpoint, so he had to [...]

On Jan. 13--the 18th day of Israel's military assault on Gaza--an overflow audience assembled at the Ethical Culture Society in New York for an Emergency Town Hall Meeting. The event, [...]

On Nov. 7 and 8, in remembrance of its late professor Edward Said, Columbia University hosted a conference on 'Orientalism from the Standpoint of its Victims.' In her welcoming remarks, [...]

Jazz saxophonist Gilad Atzmon, author of The Wandering Who? (available from Middle East Books and More), gave a small concert and a large lecture on 'The Cognitive Elite Meritocracy within [...]