Op-Eds & Articles

I started researching censorship of Palestinian children’s books out of concern that my forthcoming young adult novel, Ida in the Middle, could be attacked or banned because the protagonist is a Palestinian-American. Ida is an 8th grader who faces ridicule and bullying at school and finds her strength by connecting with the struggle for self-determination…

From Iran to Palestine, protest movements are fighting regimes that have grown stronger and smarter since the Arab Spring. Can this time be different?

The re-fragmentation of Palestinian parties in Israel exemplifies the lack of a political compass to guide their struggle, with the public divided on how to confront both a far-right government and a broken liberation movement.

Regardless of Israel’s election results, there will always be support for the continued oppression of Palestinians

Comments by a doctor in Beersheba, who suggested that Palestinian mothers should be fined for having five children, seem to have been ripped straight out of a fascist textbook

A report on the social media giant validated Palestinian experiences of censorship in May 2021, but missed how those policies are biased by design.

Israeli analysts have transformed a tool of objectivity to one of distortion.

The archaeological “facts” that bolster the marriage between and goals of both Zionism and Christian Zionism may be most patently obvious in Jerusalem – and particularly Silwan – but a myriad of other archaeological sites in the West Bank similarly serve to shore up Israeli settler colonialism and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

A Palestinian perspective on why the so-called “two-state solution” has inevitably failed

A recent boat tragedy off the Syrian coast left more than 100 refugees and migrants dead. But instead of providing rescue and safe passage, Europe's hostility towards those seeking a better life continues to grow, writes Yara Hawari.