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.
Gaza: Israel’s war drums are getting louder
Israel is entertaining another round of fighting on the besieged strip.
UN report confirms that Israel is guilty of apartheid, and endorses BDS
On Wednesday afternoon, a ground breaking UN report from the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) found the State of Israel guilty of the crime of apartheid.
How to hold Israel accountable for the crime of apartheid
A new UN report concludes that Israel is guilty of policies that constitute apartheid and, therefore, crimes against humanity. Now it’s time to act.
Im Westen nichts Neues
Palestinians must hang on to the green line, whether the aim is two states or one
The 1949 armistice border underpins the international community’s refusal to legalise Israel’s occupation. We must hold any changes to it accountable
