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Prisoners have recounted being paraded before the Israeli public in cages, being spat at and having bananas thrown at them. Human rights and recent press reports detail instances where soldiers [...]

Once the surveillance cameras of Palestinian shopkeepers in Bast Jerusalem's Shuafat neighborhood revealed the images of the Israeli abductors of Muhammed Abu Khdeir, the fabricated Israeli propaganda that the 16-year-old [...]

The Palestine Mental Health Network in Belgium has recently been established as a new organization, joining the longstanding UK-Palestine Mental Health Network and USA-Palestine Mental Health Network--representing the first such [...]

As the hundreds of thousands of people around the world who protested the massacres in Gaza retreat into inertia, hypnotized by news about the cease-fire and the Gaza reconstruction conference, [...]

Psychiatrist Samah Jabr has witnessed firsthand the psychological impacts of Israel's war on Gaza. for true healing, Palestinians need much more than a ceasefire, she argues. Israel's war against the [...]

Israeli politicians and spokespersons sound like roosters who think they are peacocks when they boast of 'the most moral army in the world,' its 'surgical strikes,' their wonderful 'Iron Dome' [...]

'I used to fly, but you broke my wings I and locked me back in my cage.' This was the reproach of a patient who had just recovered from a [...]

Yesterday morning while crossing the Qalandiya checkpoint to my way to work in Ramallah I 'earned' a traffic ticket. The police officer informed me that I had violated the right [...]

To any sane, civilized person of conscience, the symbolic and very real attack on America's economic and defense system and the mass killing of innocent people is a horrible human [...]

No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.--Article 17. Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A few years ago, my family built a small apartment in the Jerusalem neighborhood of [...]

When I wrote recently that Israel uses security as an excuse for excessive violence, and that much of its treatment of Palestinians no less than part of the long-term strategy [...]

Keeping some people in and others out is nothing new. The crumbling Great Wall of China, built in 215 BCE evokes invading hordes sweeping down the hilly terrain which created [...]

I'm a walker. For me, walking is a combination of hobby and exercise. More than that, however, it is a healthy management of anger. I know this because I've experienced [...]

The news is out. Life is not fair and justice lies beyond us, not only in the courts, but in the choices we make. Ophar Rahoum, a 16-year-old Israeli, was [...]

Ten years ago, Palestinians left their homes to discover a new Israeli surprise--the checkpoint. The fact that these were not just small lean-tos for guards, but cement barriers squarely planted [...]

Among the most joyous moments of my childhood were days spent picking olives. I'm a city person, born and raised in Jerusalem but, like every Palestinian, I have a connection [...]

One cannot understand the recent incidents in which Palestinian Jerusalemites attacked and killed Jewish Israelis without taking into account the current and historical political contexts. Nor will simply judging and [...]

FEB. 11, 2009: One hour ago, at two o'clock in the morning, we awoke with a sense of horror. Around two dozen masked Israeli soldiers surrounded our building, setting off [...]

Aside from a few individual initiatives and such rare, fleeting phenomena as the new historians and refusenics, the 'Israeli peace camp' remains far from being a significant political movement, whether [...]

On May 15 of this year, the day Palestinians commemorated the 60th anniversary of their forceful expulsion from their homes, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said that Palestinians will be [...]

PERHAPS BECAUSE THE present is so complex, my family refrains from narrating the troubles of the past. They might inadvertently have mentioned the work of my grandfather as a guardian [...]

What is happening in Gaza today is not a humanitarian crisis; rather, it is another Nakba, another war. Israel will continue to escalate its atrocities and intensify its siege in [...]