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The Palestinian intellectual who loved Hebrew and fought Zionism
Ribhi Kamal was one of a handful of Palestinian elites who mastered Hebrew before 1948. After his exile to Syria, he deployed it as a weapon against Israel.
By
Caroline Kahlenberg
April 21, 2023
One Palestinian film and the colonizer’s endless anxiety
‘Farha’ holds up a mirror to Israelis and their victimless narrative about the 1948 war — and they don't like what they see.
By
Shaul Magid
February 2, 2023
The Tantura massacre’s perpetrators confessed. Its survivors have this to say
Decades after Israeli soldiers killed over 100 Palestinians in a northern village during the Nakba, a new film is spurring demands for historical redress.
By
Baker Zoubi
December 13, 2022
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Looted from Beirut 35 years ago, now on display in Tel Aviv
‘Looted and Hidden’ digs through the archive of films taken by the Israeli army in 1982, and shines light on more property stolen by Israel: the history of Palestinian cinema. Rare images from the archive of Palestinian films and photographs, documenting decades of Palestinian history from before 1948 and after the Nakba, are finally seeing…
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Rami Younis
December 4, 2017
No Bibi, Palestinians succeed despite Israel — not because of it
By urging Israel’s Palestinians to take a more active role in civil society, Netanyahu erases an entire history that existed in this land before Zionism. It is not entirely clear what drove Prime Minister Netanyahu to use this moment and release a video directed at Israel’s Arab citizens. It clocks in at just over three minutes, and…
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Orly Noy
July 26, 2016
Jaffa is neither Palestinian nor Jewish: A response to Rami Younis
What kind of democratic struggle excludes people based on their ethno-religious or national identities, and what kind of liberation is really possible when it concerns only one nation and its nationalism? By Benjamin Birely On the evening of May 1st, 1921 the Jaffa-based Socialist Workers Party (MPS), later the “Palestine Communist Party” and a forerunner…
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+972 Magazine
June 24, 2014
On the ‘invented’ Palestinians—and other absurd comments
Republican candidates in the 2012 primary race have topped each other in inflammatory remarks regarding Palestinians. Ever so often I am bombarded by so many words that almost none come at all and I pass up the opportunity to tackle a certain subject. This was the case recently with a spate of utterly ridiculous—almost comical—statements…
By
Omar H. Rahman
December 11, 2011
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