Palestine: a journal of everyday occupation

Wednesday 28 October 2020 “I took home with me some of the soil, and a handful of olives from the untended trees….” Life can be a struggle. And for some, a much harder and more painful struggle than others. Easter 2020 and we were looking forward to going home to Palestine. Then Covid-19 happened. All [...]

In his latest piece written for the New York Times, Avraham Burg asks: “Where is the good old Israel?” Assuming he is not being tongue-in-cheek, and there is no suggestion in the rest of the article that he is, he continues to peddle the same old clichés that liberal Zionists are so fond of. Propaganda [...]

Published in Labour Briefing, May 2011 Al Nakba was not the random result of the chaos of war but the deliberately planned ethnic cleansing of Palestine. OVER THE past week, Israel celebrated its 63rd birthday. On May 14th 1948, David Ben Gurion announced the creation of the Israel. And while Zionists laud their colonialist success, [...]