MER Article

Urban Planning and the Struggle Against Israel's Spatial Domination

Located in Wadi Ara within the Green Line, Kufr Qara is a Palestinian town of 20,000 residents. Before the Nakba, its land spanned 28,000 dunums (roughly 7,000 acres), but today, Israel has left it with less than 8,000 dunums (fewer than 2,000 acres). The town

Lama Shehadeh • 12 min read

MER Article

Lessons from '48

A Conversation on Silence, Complicity and Popular Mobilization of Palestinians in Israel

Riya Al'Sanah, Soheir Asaad • 15 min read

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Lessons from '48—A Conversation on Silence, Complicity and Popular Mobilization of Palestinians in Israel

Amid a wave of unprecedented global solidarity with Palestine where does '48 fit in?

Riya Al'Sanah, Soheir Asaad • 15 min read

MER Article

Tracing the Historical Relevance of Race in Palestine and Israel

The global conversation about race and racial oppression in recent years, which has reached new levels of visibility since the summer of 2020, has emerged largely as a reaction to police violence in the United States and the work of the Movement for Black Lives coalition. Its global reverberations h

Nimrod Ben Zeev • 21 min read

Covid-19 Coverage

Palestinian Workers in Israel Caught Between Indispensable and Disposable

While people around the world are under lockdown, Palestinian workers in Israel continue to labor in the now accelerated construction sector. While Israel's project of control and expansion exploits their labor, Palestinians are put at greater risk without proper testing, accommodations or healthcar

Lucy Garbett • 10 min read

MER Article

An Archive of Literary Reconstruction after the Palestinian Nakba

A close reading of a literary journal’s table of contents in colonized Palestine reveals a vibrant culture of resistance and renewal in the midst of destruction and dispossession.

Hana Morgenstern • 7 min read

Current Analysis

Behind the Ban on the Islamic Movement in Israel

The decision to outlaw the northern wing of the Islamic Movement in Israel was announced by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government on November 17, 2015, days after attacks claimed by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, left 130 dead in Paris. Although the ban had been long in the making, the timi

Jonathan Cook • 22 min read

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Seltzer Colonialism

Early each morning, dozens of workers from Jaba’ walk up a narrow set of stairs with trash strewn on either side to reach a bus stop on Highway 60, which bisects the West Bank on its way from Nazareth to Beersheva. As they climb the stairs, the workers pass a tunnel that once allowed villagers conve

Michael Fin, Callie Maidhof • 8 min read

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Jerusalem Mixed and Unmixed

The popular Israeli television series, Arab Labor, follows the lives of the fictional journalist Amjad and his family, all of whom are Palestinian citizens of Israel. Season one of the series, which first aired on Israeli public television in 2007, introduces Amjad and his endearingly unquenchable f

Michelle Campos • 10 min read

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Under-the-Radar Palestinian Connections

With intensity unknown since the second intifada [http://www.merip.org/mer/mer217] and at a daily cost of $12 million to the Hebron economy alone, Israel is cracking down on the West Bank in its search for three missing Israeli settler youth. The result is a growing Palestinian chorus: Stop Israeli-

Raja Khalidi • 4 min read

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Onward, Christian Soldiers

For the past 18 months the Israeli government has gradually raised the stakes in its campaign to pressure Palestinian Christians to serve in the Israeli military. In April, Israel upped the ante once again, announcing it would henceforth be issuing enlistment notices to Christians who have graduated

Jonathan Cook • 17 min read

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Washington Gets “Less Crazy”

Yesterday the New America Foundation (NAF), a center-left think tank located one block north of big, bad K Street, hosted a discussion [http://www.newamerica.org/events/2014/citizen_strangers] about the 1948 war, the expulsion of Palestinians from what would become Israel, the new state’s imposition

Chris Toensing • 4 min read