September 23, 2019
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Rebecca Stead “Baris.” He sighed. “It is where my life is.” So Faruq Al-Azmeh, the “one other Arab on board the ship to Marseille”, told an impressionable Midhat Kamal as he...
August 21, 2019
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Rebecca Stead Cycling4Gaza will travel across four countries to highlight the freedoms enjoyed by many in Europe but denied to Palestinians in the occupied territories
Last week US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib rejected an offer from Israel to visit her grandmother in the West Bank village of Beit Ur Al-Fouqa, after she and fellow Congresswoman...
August 15, 2019
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Rebecca Stead What: Israel dismantled its illegal settlements in the Gaza Strip, withdrawing all settlers and ground troops from the enclave. Where: The Gaza Strip, occupied Palestine. When: 15 August 2005....
July 17, 2019
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Rebecca Stead “The idea of agitating against BDS played a big role here: to defame any kind of criticism of reactionary, imperialist government as anti-Semitic and any kind of solidarity...
July 11, 2019
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Rebecca Stead Ainle O Caireallain tells MEMO why he’s raising money to set up a gym in the West Bank
July 4, 2019
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Rebecca Stead The Israeli Labor Party on Tuesday elected a new leader, Amir Peretz, to lead the faction ahead of Israel’s upcoming general election on 17 September. Faced with a choice...
In 2014, Suhad Abu Fayed gave birth to her daughter Huriye, a bright-eyed child with a mop of curly hair. When Suhad took Huriye to see her father, Sameer,...
May 31, 2019
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Rebecca Stead For the second time in a year, Israel is heading to the polls. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – who only two months ago was celebrating a historic fifth...
May 21, 2019
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Rebecca Stead Palestinians in the diaspora and those who are citizens of Israel can all help to build a Palestinian state, Haifa professor As'ad Ghanem says
May 18, 2019
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Rebecca Stead During the 1967 Six Day War, the West Bank and East Jerusalem were occupied by Israel. Fifty-two years later this brutal military occupation remains in place, with the West...
May 18, 2019
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Rebecca Stead Palestinian citizens of Israel – who number around 1.8 million people and amount to just over 20 per cent of Israel’s population – are often ignored by the broader...
May 3, 2019
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Rebecca Stead “I have coined quite a few terms,” noted Professor Oren Yiftachel, “but ethnocracy really captures the idea of a regime that creates a state for the benefit of an...
April 16, 2019
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Rebecca Stead Here are the ten new Knesset members who will be fighting for Palestinian citizens of Israel in the upcoming parliament.
April 13, 2019
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Rebecca Stead This week Benjamin Netanyahu won a spectacular election victory, his fourth in the last decade. Yet though supporters have once again bowed down to King Bibi, his victory parade...
Jewish Power, Jewish Home and the National Union support overtly religious-Zionist ideas and believe in the creation of a greater Israel, meaning no Palestinian state.
As Israel’s General Election approaches on 9 April, MEMO interviews candidates, current and former, about their hopes for the future of Israeli politics.
April 3, 2019
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Rebecca Stead As Israel’s general election approaches on 9 April, MEMO has interviewed candidates, current and former, about their hopes for the future of Israeli politics, to be published in the run-up to the poll.
March 30, 2019
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Rebecca Stead Tens of thousands of Palestinians congregated on the first day, and continued to protest every week since
March 22, 2019
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Rebecca Stead This week, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled to ban Michael Ben Ari – the leader of the extreme-right-wing Otzma Yehudit party – from running in the country’s upcoming general election...
February 25, 2019
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Rebecca Stead Believed to be the burial place of the prophets Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque is revered within Islam and Judaism.
Twenty-four-year old Ayatollah Ashraf was arrested from her home in the Qalyubiyah governorate of Egyptian capital Cairo on 3 October 2018. Egyptian security forces broke into the family’s home...
January 30, 2019
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Rebecca Stead “I could not stomach the way the Arabs, who should really own this country, are being treated by not only the UN but by the government in Palestine,” a...
Palestinian anthropologist Suhad Jarrar-Browne at 'BAYT | The Art of Arab Hospitality'
Khaled Hamdy was arrested on the 27 March 2014 from his home in Egypt. He had been working as a production manager for Egypt 25, a TV channel founded...
December 27, 2018
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Rebecca Stead What: Israel waged a three-week military offensive against the Gaza Strip, killing almost 1,400 Palestinians and wounding thousands more. Where: The Gaza Strip When: 27 Dec 2008 – 18...
December 15, 2018
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Rebecca Stead In the dead of night, Israeli forces knocked on the door of Salah Hamouri’s apartment in Jerusalem, he told me. “When I opened the door they told me they...
December 11, 2018
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Rebecca Stead Embroidered by Palestinian women, the Palestine History Tapestry is composed of embroidered panels depicting Palestinian history from Neolithic times to the present
December 6, 2018
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Rebecca Stead On 6 December last year, US President Donald Trump formally recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and promised to relocate the US embassy from Tel Aviv. One year...
November 26, 2018
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Rebecca Stead Director Wafa Jamil discusses her film ‘Coffee For All Nations’ ahead of its screening at the London Palestine Film Festival tomorrow. Sitting in semi-darkness, Abed brews his coffee. The light from...
November 24, 2018
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Rebecca Stead Film director Toomas Järvet discusses Rough Stage ahead of its screening at the London Palestine Film Festival on 27 November
November 20, 2018
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Rebecca Stead Dr Anandi Ramamurthy discusses ‘Cinema of the Palestinian Revolution’ ahead of its screening at the London Palestine Film Festival today
“Baris.” He sighed. “It is where my life is.” So Faruq Al-Azmeh, the “one other Arab on board the ship to Marseille”, told an impressionable Midhat Kamal as he...
Cycling4Gaza will travel across four countries to highlight the freedoms enjoyed by many in Europe but denied to Palestinians in the occupied territories![Ninety-year-old Muftia Tlaib and US congresswoman Rashida Tlaib [Rashida Tlaib - Twitter]](https://web-archive.nli.org.il/National_Library/im_/https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Tlaib-e1566216954167.jpeg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Last week US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib rejected an offer from Israel to visit her grandmother in the West Bank village of Beit Ur Al-Fouqa, after she and fellow Congresswoman...![Israeli tanks and armoured vehicles are deployed to the Gaza Strip fence [File photo]](https://web-archive.nli.org.il/National_Library/im_/https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/middle-east/israeli-forces-move-towards-gaza-border-with-tanks-JULY-2014-5.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
What: Israel dismantled its illegal settlements in the Gaza Strip, withdrawing all settlers and ground troops from the enclave. Where: The Gaza Strip, occupied Palestine. When: 15 August 2005....![BDS protesters [Heri Rakotomalala/Flickr]](https://web-archive.nli.org.il/National_Library/im_/https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/BDS-protest-14680250832_779c307fde_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
“The idea of agitating against BDS played a big role here: to defame any kind of criticism of reactionary, imperialist government as anti-Semitic and any kind of solidarity...![Ainle O Caireallain, the chief architect of the Palestine Community Gym project [Eddie Hennessy]](https://web-archive.nli.org.il/National_Library/im_/https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/image-e1562835956576.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Ainle O Caireallain tells MEMO why he’s raising money to set up a gym in the West Bank![Former Israeli Defence Minister, Amir Peretz [File photo]](https://web-archive.nli.org.il/National_Library/im_/https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/people/amir-peretz.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The Israeli Labor Party on Tuesday elected a new leader, Amir Peretz, to lead the faction ahead of Israel’s upcoming general election on 17 September. Faced with a choice...
In 2014, Suhad Abu Fayed gave birth to her daughter Huriye, a bright-eyed child with a mop of curly hair. When Suhad took Huriye to see her father, Sameer,...![Israeli Likud Party campaign material and posters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strown on the floor following election night on April 10, 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel [Jack GUEZ/AFP/Getty]](https://web-archive.nli.org.il/National_Library/im_/https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/GettyImages-1136007662-e1555063098898.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
For the second time in a year, Israel is heading to the polls. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – who only two months ago was celebrating a historic fifth...![Professor As’ad Ghanem, a lecturer at the School of Political Science, University of Haifa, speaks at MEMO's 'Present Absentees' conference in London on April 27, 2019 [Middle East Monitor]](https://web-archive.nli.org.il/National_Library/im_/https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/104A0561.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Palestinians in the diaspora and those who are citizens of Israel can all help to build a Palestinian state, Haifa professor As'ad Ghanem says![Palestinian worshippers, wait in a queue from early hours to move for passing through the Qalandiya checkpoint from Ramallah into Jerusalem after Israeli authorities let the Palestinians, to cross into Jerusalem to attend the third Friday prayer of Muslim holy month of Ramadan at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem on June 16, 2017 [Issam Rimawi / Anadolu Agency]](https://web-archive.nli.org.il/National_Library/im_/https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/20170616_2_24263553_23199508.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
During the 1967 Six Day War, the West Bank and East Jerusalem were occupied by Israel. Fifty-two years later this brutal military occupation remains in place, with the West...![In order to avoid demolition fees by Israeli forces, a Palestinian man was forced to demolish his own home [Arab48]](https://web-archive.nli.org.il/National_Library/im_/https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2019_2-6-Palestinian-citizen-of-Israel-forced-to-demolish-his-home2019020511112178.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Palestinian citizens of Israel – who number around 1.8 million people and amount to just over 20 per cent of Israel’s population – are often ignored by the broader...![Oren Yiftachel, Professor of political geography and urban studies at Ben-Gurion University, Beersheva, at MEMO's 'Present Absentees' conference in London on April 27, 2019 [Middle East Monitor]](https://web-archive.nli.org.il/National_Library/im_/https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/104A0474.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
“I have coined quite a few terms,” noted Professor Oren Yiftachel, “but ethnocracy really captures the idea of a regime that creates a state for the benefit of an...
Here are the ten new Knesset members who will be fighting for Palestinian citizens of Israel in the upcoming parliament.![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to cast his vote during Israel's parliamentary elections at Paula Ben Gurion School in Jerusalem, on 9 April 2019. [Haim Zach / GPO / Handout - Anadolu Agency]](https://web-archive.nli.org.il/National_Library/im_/https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/20190409_2_35896601_43411025-e1555152863838.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
This week Benjamin Netanyahu won a spectacular election victory, his fourth in the last decade. Yet though supporters have once again bowed down to King Bibi, his victory parade...
Jewish Power, Jewish Home and the National Union support overtly religious-Zionist ideas and believe in the creation of a greater Israel, meaning no Palestinian state.![Israeli-Arab member of the Knesset (Israeli parliament) and leader of the Arab Movement for Change Ahmed Tibi on 8 February 2019 [AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images]](https://web-archive.nli.org.il/National_Library/im_/https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2019_2-8-Ahmad-TibiGettyImages-1095635932.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
As Israel’s General Election approaches on 9 April, MEMO interviews candidates, current and former, about their hopes for the future of Israeli politics.![Ofer Cassif, the Israeli-Arab alliance Ra’am-Balad and Hadash’s only Jewish candidate in Jerusalem, on 13 March 2019 [MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images]](https://web-archive.nli.org.il/National_Library/im_/https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2019_3-123-Ofer-Cassif-GettyImages-1130172477.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
As Israel’s general election approaches on 9 April, MEMO has interviewed candidates, current and former, about their hopes for the future of Israeli politics, to be published in the run-up to the poll.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians congregated on the first day, and continued to protest every week since![Michael Ben Ari, the leader of the Jewish Power party on 23 December 2010 [GALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty Images]](https://web-archive.nli.org.il/National_Library/im_/https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2010_12-23-Michael-Ben-AriGettyImages-107772366.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
This week, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled to ban Michael Ben Ari – the leader of the extreme-right-wing Otzma Yehudit party – from running in the country’s upcoming general election...
Believed to be the burial place of the prophets Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque is revered within Islam and Judaism.
Twenty-four-year old Ayatollah Ashraf was arrested from her home in the Qalyubiyah governorate of Egyptian capital Cairo on 3 October 2018. Egyptian security forces broke into the family’s home...![An elderly Palestinian and a child during the Nakba [Hanini/Wikipedia]](https://web-archive.nli.org.il/National_Library/im_/https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2018-10-6_nakbaOldman_girl_nakba.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
“I could not stomach the way the Arabs, who should really own this country, are being treated by not only the UN but by the government in Palestine,” a...![Palestinian anthropologist Suhad Jarrar-Browne at 'BAYT | The Art of Arab Hospitality' on 18 January 2019 - [Middle East Monitor]](https://web-archive.nli.org.il/National_Library/im_/https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/104A7912.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Palestinian anthropologist Suhad Jarrar-Browne at 'BAYT | The Art of Arab Hospitality'
Khaled Hamdy was arrested on the 27 March 2014 from his home in Egypt. He had been working as a production manager for Egypt 25, a TV channel founded...![Photo taken during the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip on 28 December 2008 [Rahim Khatib/Apaimages]](https://web-archive.nli.org.il/National_Library/im_/https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2008_12-gaza-warAB00-13.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
What: Israel waged a three-week military offensive against the Gaza Strip, killing almost 1,400 Palestinians and wounding thousands more. Where: The Gaza Strip When: 27 Dec 2008 – 18...![French-Palestinian activist Salah Hamouri [Palestinalibre.org/Twitter]](https://web-archive.nli.org.il/National_Library/im_/https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/7977793354_9601eac696_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
In the dead of night, Israeli forces knocked on the door of Salah Hamouri’s apartment in Jerusalem, he told me. “When I opened the door they told me they...
Embroidered by Palestinian women, the Palestine History Tapestry is composed of embroidered panels depicting Palestinian history from Neolithic times to the present![Trump's son-in-law and Senior Advisor Jared Kushner (R) and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) shake hands at the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem on 14 May 2018 [Israel Press Office /Handout/Anadolu Agency]](https://web-archive.nli.org.il/National_Library/im_/https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2018_5-16-Jared-Kushner.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
On 6 December last year, US President Donald Trump formally recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and promised to relocate the US embassy from Tel Aviv. One year...
Director Wafa Jamil discusses her film ‘Coffee For All Nations’ ahead of its screening at the London Palestine Film Festival tomorrow. Sitting in semi-darkness, Abed brews his coffee. The light from...
Film director Toomas Järvet discusses Rough Stage ahead of its screening at the London Palestine Film Festival on 27 November![Screenshot of Dr Anandi Ramamurthy, Lecturer in Reader in Post-Colonial Cultures at Sheffield Hallam University, 20 November 2018 [Vimeo]](https://web-archive.nli.org.il/National_Library/im_/https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2018-10-20_beckyinterviewBECKY-INTERVIEW-PIC-.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Dr Anandi Ramamurthy discusses ‘Cinema of the Palestinian Revolution’ ahead of its screening at the London Palestine Film Festival today