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About the Follow-Up Committee: A Return to the Question of Origins
It has been four and a half decades since the establishment of the Higher Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens in Israel, since 1982. The 1970s represented a decade of major transformations in the lives of Arabs in the Palestinian territories, including the Land Day in 1976 and the political awaren...
Is Democracy Not for Us?
We often read or hear the saying: "Democracy is not for us, it does not suit us, we Arabs, and that only a dictator can succeed in ruling Arabs," while some talk about the "just dictator."
The proponents of this thinking justify that Arabs belong to clans, tribes, and various forms of familial and...
Self-Critique Even If It's Harsh
For over a hundred years, the Palestinian people have been struggling through every means to defend their land against the Zionist movement and Western colonial powers, starting with Britain and ending with the United States, amidst the complacency of Arab regimes and the complicity of some with the...
Shifting the Focus... Palestine Between Tragedy and International Policies
The Palestinian issue cannot tolerate ambiguity and does not require repetitive speeches to clarify it; it is simply a matter of a people deprived of their natural right to live on their land, with their suffering being turned into material for political bargaining and international tensions. Despit...
In the Beginning, It Is.. Rebuilding Human Identity as a Priority for the Reconstruction o...
With the escalation and multiple sources of psychological pressures and the terrible negative repercussions we have begun to witness on all segments of Palestinian society during and after the onset of the war on Gaza (October 7, 2023), and to varying degrees across all sectors of society, whether e...
A Vision Towards Liberation from the Constraints of Clearance
Expert in Public Finance
The Israeli government is pursuing a strategy based on economically suffocating the Palestinian National Authority and the Palestinian people, by employing various tools, the most significant of which is clearance revenues, through seizure and deduction, over the past years...
Inspirational Mamdani
Zahran Mamdani's victory as the Mayor of New York was not just a fleeting electoral event, but a cultural and political transformation that transcended the American city to the streets of Palestine and its virtual camps on social media. The young man, born to immigrant parents of Indian and Ugan...
The Significance of Zahran Mamdani's Victory
Many Palestinians were impressed by Zahran Mamdani's election as the Mayor of New York City, considering it a well-deserved victory, to the point of exaggeration and glorification, or viewing it as a political shift or a significant transformation within the United States in translating changes in p...
The Victory of Zahraan Mamdani and the Crisis of Arab Political Thought
(Being a (Muslim) does not grant you superiority over others)Yes, we feel happiness for the victory of Zahraan Mamdani, the leftist democrat, over his Republican opponent in New York City, not only because he has Indian Islamic roots but also due to his progressive stances against President Trump, h...
This Is All That Remains for Me!
I don’t know how I delayed until I decided to open the photo album I salvaged from the ruins of my bombed house two years ago. How did it come time to open it and browse through the old photos collected in it, whose owners' features are hardly recognizable due to their age? But the moment came like...
From New York to The Hague: When Justice Awakens from Its Long Slumber
The train of change has started worldwide
Words have triumphed over politicized money, and humanity has triumphed over discrimination, in New York, the city that was a symbol of influence and a center for the intersections of Zionism. This time, the people chose a leader who sees every human...
Creativity of Abu Marzouk
One of the latest creations of Mousa Abu Marzouk is that he offers to the occupation the protection of settlements around Gaza in exchange for not disarming Hamas. He justified this by stating that if Hamas, the controlling power in Gaza, is disarmed, other groups might emerge to attack the settleme...