‘Palestine’ as a flat-earth catachresis

Canadian Museum for Human Rights opens ‘Nakba’ exhibit amid pushback from Jewish leaders

The Winnipeg, Manitoba, exhibit is called “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present,” has drawn fierce condemnation from some Jewish groups, including the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.

Israel Is An Apartheid State – And Its Weird Marriage Laws Show Us How

Israel is the only country in the world that does not recognise its own nationality. Why? Because a common national identity would sabotage Israel’s carefully veiled system of segregation Jonathan Cook Israel’s supporters have gone apoplectic over a short post on X from the journalist Mehdi Hasan, highlighting Israel’s peculiar marriage laws. Hasan asks: “Did []

A Palestinian home inside a cage

This Palestinian family's home is sealed inside an Israeli settlement and the separation wall. Al Jazeera's Leila Warah

In Nuestra Tierra, Collective Identity Is Built in Struggle

Lucrecia Martel’s latest film, Nuestra Tierra, the director’s first documentary, juxtaposes the fragility of colonial narratives with the strength of indigenous peoples’ collective identity formed through fighting the dispossession of their land.

Hebron in Israel? Facebook’s curious Palestinian geography problem

This morning while browsing Facebook, I happened to see that a friend had been tagged in a photo in ‘Beit Lehem, Israel’. This, I though was curious. After all, Bethlehem is in Israeli-occupied Palestine, not in the Apartheid State of Israel. Maybe, I thought, this was a mistake tag and was actually referring to Beit []