Palestine 
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4/17/2022
Does Israel's Right Cultivate a Permanent Enemy to Justify a Permanent Occupation?
by Alon Ben-Meir
The vast majority of Israelis and Palestinians have been born since the occupation began. The current Israeli government seems content to exploit violent outbreaks like those of recent weeks to ensure that no one seriously imagines alternatives.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
3/4/2022
When University Marketing Suppresses Academic Freedom
by Silke-Maria Weineck
For 31 years, the University of Michigan has sponsored an academic freedom lecture named for three professors suspended for refusing to cooperate with HUAC. This year, its marketing team did everything it could to conceal the identity of the lecturer: a lawyer who fights the silencing of pro-Palestinian activists.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
2/10/2022
Hunger Strikes are Powerful Stands Against Injustice
by Nayan Shah
The hunger strike is a potent tool of resistance when the balance of formal power is highly unequal.
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SOURCE: Forward
1/22/2022
Israeli Documentary Works to Break Silence over 1948 Israeli-Arab Violence
Director Alon Schwartz examines the events in the town of Tantura, where an Israeli militia is alleged to have killed 200 Arab residents. Oral history interviews with surviving members of the militia are key, but controversial, pieces of evidence.
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SOURCE: Haaretz
12/12/2021
Haaretz Editorial: Israel Must Acknowledge War Crimes in 1948 Fight for Independence
"It is time to acknowledge the truth, and first to publish the report by the first attorney general, Yaakov-Shimshon Shapira, on the massacres of the dark autumn of 1948... and to hold a penetrating public discussion of their implications today."
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SOURCE: TIME
11/3/2021
How Christian Archaeologists Fed Today's Strife in Jerusalem
by Andrew Lawler
The incursions of 19th century Christian archaeologists onto Jerusalem's historic acropolis created a sense of seige on the part of Palestinian Muslims, which is echoed today in ongoing conflict over the city's religious sites.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
6/14/2021
Opinion: The Palestinian Political Class has Become a Heavy Burden on the People
Two observers of the Palestinian political scene argue that the leading factions of Hamas and Fatah are more motivated to maintain their own power than to support a growing, youth-led Palestinian movement for justice.
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SOURCE: NPR
6/12/2021
The Complicated History Behind BLM's Solidarity With The Pro-Palestinian Movement
"We need to understand that Black identification with Zionism predates the formation of Israel as a modern state," says Robin D. G. Kelley, a historian at the University of California, Los Angeles who studies social movements.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
6/8/2021
UK Education System Struggles to Prepare for Exams as Israel-Palestine Conflict Scares Publishers
Publishers have withdrawn materials needed for prep for the British exams in middle east history because of political complaints of bias both against Israel and the Palestinians.
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SOURCE: Times of Israel
6/3/2021
Solomon's Peace Accord
by David Marks
Can Israelis and Palestinians imagine and implement a Solomonic peace?
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SOURCE: Eurozine
6/3/2021
The Unbearable Easiness of Killing
by Arie M. Dubnov
"As a colleague justly commented, it is only helpful to call a situation ‘complicated’ if one is committed to unfolding the package, willing to examine its contents and prepared to be surprised by what one finds hidden inside."
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SOURCE: Contingent
5/28/2021
Because of Palestine
by N.A. Mansour
"It is because I am Palestinian that I can tell you that objectivity—in history-writing, in the archives, in museums—does not exist."
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5/30/2021
The Settler Colonialist Frame Helps Clarify What's at Stake in the Middle East for Israelis, Palestinians, and Peace
by Jeff Kolnick
Looking at the recent resurgence of armed conflict between Israel and Hamas as part of a project of settler colonialism clarifies the nature of the conflict, and suggests that the immediate cessation of eviction of Palestinians is essential for peace.
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5/23/2021
For Israel and the Palestinians, Reconciliation Must Precede a Peace Process
by Alon Ben-Meir
If the recent cease-fire between Israel and Hamas holds, many may be tempted to push for renewing a negotiated peace process. This is skipping the vital and difficult work of reconciliation that is necessary to a just peace.
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5/23/2021
Jerusalem: A Divided and Invented City
by James A.S. Sunderland
Both Hamas and the Israeli right base their claims to Jerusalem on understandings of the city as shaped by the orientalist and segregationist values of British governors during the Mandate period, and not on the city's longer heterogenous and multicultural history. Peace activists look to that history as an example of coexistence.
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SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
5/20/2021
In Israel, the Violent Legacy of 1948
by Benny Morris
"The chaos in the towns of Lydda, Ramle, Haifa, Umm al-Fahm and Acre is a dim echo of the civil war between Palestine’s Jewish and Arab communities that engulfed the country during the first months of the 1948 war."
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SOURCE: Washington Post
5/18/2021
This is a War Israel Can’t Win
by Max Boot
Post columnist Max Boot argues that the current cycle of attacks and reprisals are symbolic political gestures, and that Israel should declare that it's made its point and resume the work of political normalization with its Arab neighbors and political concessions with the Palestinian Authority that marginalize Hamas.
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SOURCE: MSNBC
5/17/2021
Middle East Historian: Biden Administration is 'Complicit in Shielding Israel' from International Pressure
Historian Rashid Khalidi discusses the conflict with Andrea Mitchell and argues that the Biden administration's support is protecting Israel from pressure from other nations to stop air strikes in Gaza or negotiate with Hamas.
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SOURCE: KPFA
5/17/2021
Rashid Khalidi on Palestinian History: From The Ottoman Empire to Settler Colonialism
Middle East historian Rashid Khalidi speaks with Pacifica Radio's Politics and Letters on the history of Palestine.
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SOURCE: New York Times`
5/14/2021
In Israel’s Rising Violence, Ripples From 1948
The eruption of communal violence between Jews and Arabs in Israeli towns with mixed populations is a legacy of the events of 1948, when, in the context of war, many towns' Arab populations were purged (historians debate the degree to which this was planned, or part of Israeli state policy).
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