Trump-Abbas meeting: A celebration of egos
Neither Trump, Abbas, nor Netanyahu is willing to move beyond document signing and actually work for a just and lasting peace
What is next for Hamas?
As new political document is released, questions arise over Hamas’ next moves and new strategy.
Hamas’s new charter is a historic first step
Concerns remain, but efforts to distance the group from antisemitism are an opportunity to be grasped
Trump should seek to be the first to broker peace between Israel and Palestine
President Trump says he wants “to see peace” between Israel and the Palestinians.” No one would disagree. But how is a peace agreement to be reached after decades of failed negotiations? And will it meet the basic requirements of a just and durable solution to the 70-year old conflict?
Between A Rock and A Hard Place: Hamas’ New Platform
In recent weeks, armed with a leaked document, many have speculated that the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, will adopt a new Charter. However, the leaked document is nothing but a new “platform” being floated among the movement members, to be officially announced on May 1 as the “General Principles and Policies Platform.” The platform will not replace its original 1988 Charter, according to Ismail Radwan, a senior leader in the movement.
Europe and the Palestinian Authority’s Authoritarian Drift
The post-Abbas period is poised to be a polarising and confrontational period for Palestinian democracy.
Criminalizing Resistance: The Case of Balata and Jenin Refugee Camps
The Palestinian Authority (PA) adopted donor-driven security sector reform (SSR) as the linchpin to its post-2007 state-building project. As SSR proceeded, the occupied West Bank became a securitized space and the theater for PA security campaigns whose ostensible purpose was to establish law and order. This article tackles the consequences of the PA’s security campaigns in Balata and Jenin refugee camps from the people’s perspective through a bottom-up ethnographic methodological approach. These voices from below problematize and examine the security campaigns, illustrating how and why resistance against Israel has been criminalized. The article concludes by arguing that conducting security reform to ensure stability within the context of colonial occupation and without addressing the imbalances of power can only ever have two outcomes: “better” collaboration with the occupying power and a violation of Palestinians’ security and national rights by their own security forces.
Facebook vs Palestine: Implicit support for oppression
Facebook’s censorship and information sharing policies reveal a persistent pro-Israeli bias.
UK universities must stop repressing Palestinian activism
To commemorate Land Day, UK students have launched ‘Don’t Punish Protest’ to push back against university repression of Palestinian activism.
