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Marc Lamont Hill participates in a CNN panel, August 29, 2014. (Screenshot/CNN)

CNN caves to anti-Palestinian smear campaign

CNN fired commentator Marc Lamont Hill for calling for a free Palestine, after some claimed he meant the destruction of Israel. But his statement is no more a call for the destruction of Israel than the end of Jim Crow was the destruction of America. By Omar Baddar “All the people that live in the…

By +972 Magazine November 30, 2018

Palestinians pass through the Israeli army checkpoint at Qalandiya, March 2016. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

50 things that have been around for less time than the occupation

How much has the world changed since Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory began in 1967? The occupation, as we are all too well aware, is about to turn 50. It’s difficult to grasp just how significant a period of time five decades is — especially when we’re trying to imagine the durability of a state of…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland May 21, 2017

A woman holds her hand to her heart at a Donald Trump campaign event in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, November 3, 2016. (Noam Revkin FentonFlash90)

An Arab-American’s final thoughts before the election

The first time I got called a sandnigger I was one semester into an English Lit. degree at the University of Tennessee, where football — the kind that involves hands — was a game more urgent than war. In August of 1990, I said goodbye to my Palestinian family and set off to attend college…

By Samer Badawi November 4, 2016

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The Al-Susi Mosque lies in ruins in Shati' Refugee Camp following Israeli attacks, Gaza City, August 2, 2014. (Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

‘Ending the siege is not a Hamas demand – it is a Palestinian one’

How is this Gaza war different from all the others? Former New York Times correspondent to Gaza, Taghreed El-Khodary, speaks about her time covering the siege of the Strip, and why the international media is slowly coming around to the Palestinian story. By Moriel Rothman-Zecher “I don’t mind being interviewed. Let’s plan the timing,” wrote…

By +972 Magazine August 17, 2014

Members of the Palestinian national security forces carry the bodies of Nadim Nawara and Muhammad Salameh during their funeral procession in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 16, 2014. Both teens were shot dead by Israeli forces during clashes the previous day outside the Israeli-run Ofer prison following a protest commemorating the Nakba. (Activestills.org)

Beitunia killings: Autopsy reveals Palestinian teen shot by live fire

An autopsy of Nadim Syam Nuwara, one of the two teenagers killed last month during the Nakba Day protests in Beitunia, reveals that that the teen was killed by live fire, according to a report by Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem. According to B’Tselem, Nuwara’s body has been well-preserved, making the point of entry and…

By Edo Konrad June 12, 2014

A Gaza man makes maqlooba on Anthony Bourdain's "Parts Unknown." (photo: CNN screenshot)

Celebrity chef humanizes Palestinians on trip to the holy land

Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain recently traveled to Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza to spotlight Palestinian and Israeli food on his CNN show. However, once he arrived in the holy land, it was impossible for Bourdain to avoid things Israelis often prefer to forget about: the settlements, the wall, and Gaza. By Amer Zahr Something…

By +972 Magazine September 17, 2013

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi reaches out before making a speech in Tripoli which he sought to defuse tensions after more than 10 days of anti-government protests in Libya, March 2, 2011. (photo: Ahmed Jadallah/Flickr CC)

Covering the media that’s covering Gaddafi

People get their news in different ways. I learned that Gaddafi had been killed (or injured, or captured…as was be reported at various moments through the day) not by watching TV but rather via an unusual observation. I was just checking-in to my hotel in Tunis when I ran into the CNN crew. They were…

By Roee Ruttenberg October 20, 2011

Aziz Abu Sarah and Shira Nesher talking statehood

Watch: Israeli, Palestinian talk statehood

CNN interviewed me earlier today with Israeli Shira Nesher about the Palestinian bid for statehood. Here is the interview:

By Aziz Abu Sarah September 23, 2011