This article was written before the warfare of May 2021 It has been over 400 years since the first group of slaves from Africa arrived on the shores of Virginia, and yet, against the backdrop of racial tensions between whites…
RECIPROCAL DELUSIONS IN GAZA AND ISRAEL
It started with the TikTok of Palestinian youth, and escalated to an unprecedented exchange of fire between Hamas and Israel. This is not a classic war, because while the leaders take care to be protected and guarded, the residents of…
Let Us Breathe!
The oppressive permit regime imposed on Palestinian workers must be abolished. When the black movement in the United States raised the slogan “let us breathe”, for us here, in our struggle for rights of Palestinian workers it was a natural…
Out of the political bog!
Sometime in late October 2020, I wrote an article entitled “And the winner is … Bennett.” This was at the height of the Balfour demonstrations, which aroused the false sense that young people had finally risen up to overthrow Bibi.…
Jerusalem – from a city of urban apartheid into the gateway to one democratic state
On Thursday, February 11, the DAAM Party held a public debate focused on Jerusalem. The discussion presented a difficult and alarming picture of a divided city in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinian residents live in extremely difficult conditions. Conversely,…
Mansour Abbas puts religion before nationalism, breaking up the Arab Joint List
Knesset member Mansour Abbas, who recently split off from the Arab Joint List, dropped a powerful bomb when he said, “Religious principles are no less important than [Arab] national principles.” The utterance has not yet been answered by Abbas’ former…