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Gareth Evans: the case for recognising Palestine

Since a United Nations General Assembly Resolution vote in November 2012, Palestine has had the status of a state within the UN system. It is not a full member state but, like the Holy See, a non-member observer state. Australia – after a heady debate within the Gillard cabinet –…

The Conversation

US decides to rejoin UNESCO and pay back dues, to counter Chinese influence

U.N. cultural and scientific agency UNESCO has announced that the United States plans to rejoin — and pay more than $600 million in back dues — after a decade-long dispute sparked by the organization’s move to include Palestine as a member

The Independent UK

Greens say Israel is 'practising crime of apartheid' and call for boycotts of far-right figures

The Greens adopt a new party position on Palestine and Israel, saying Israel is practising the "crime of apartheid".

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Bristol woman honours dying mother’s wish to build schools in Palestine

One school has a plaque on the wall with her mother’s name on it

Bristol Post

On a culinary homecoming, influencer chefs look to perpetuate Palestinian dishes

For Canadian celebrity chef Suzanne Husseini, a first culinary tour of the Palestinian territories was a chance to preserve and promote the dishes and folk-remedies of her ancestry.

Reuters

‘Day of mourning’: 200,000 Palestinian families lose UN food aid

By August, the WFP will be forced to suspend operations in the West Bank and Gaza if no funding is received.

Al Jazeera

An endless interrogation

The intimidating experience of being questioned again and again in Palestine and Israel after covering the Prime Minister’s visit

The Hindu

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Palestine’s Abbas calls on UN to ‘suspend’ Israel as Nakba marked

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas insists that Israel must respect UN resolutions on Palestine or cease as UN member.

Al Jazeera

Palestine activists remain in rooftop stand-off on Scotswood Road after 12 hours

Photos from the scene show a person standing on the rooftop of Pearson Engineering Ltd armed with a sledgehammer

Chronicle Live

A just and democratic society that benefits all: that’s what Palestinians are fighting for

On the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, we strive for a single state where all citizens have equal rights, says Mustafa Barghouti, leader of the Palestinian National Initiative

The Guardian - UK

‘We fled on foot’: Palestinians in US recall Nakba dispossession

For Palestinians in the United States, memories of the 1948 ‘catastrophe’ sit alongside frustration with US policy.

Al Jazeera

Before and after the Nakba: Palestinian literature of resistance and love for a lost homeland

When a society experiences oppression and trauma, literature helps its people by giving them a voice and reinforcing their identity. It gives the trauma those people have suffered a universal resonance. So it is for Palestinians, whose literature – particularly that of resistance – plays this role. Indeed, Palestinian writers…

The Conversation

Cafe Yafa: A Palestinian bookshop reviving literary culture

Cafe Yafa continues a rich Palestinian literary culture, decades after the Nakba destroyed the libraries of Palestine.

Al Jazeera

UN to commemorate Palestinians' 1948 flight from Israel for the first time

For the first time, the United Nations will officially commemorate the flight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from what is now Israel on the 75th anniversary of their exodus

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The Nakba: how the Palestinians were expelled from Israel

Until 1948, Lajjun was a small village about ten miles south of Nazareth in one of the most fertile valleys in Palestine. Since 1949, the area has been occupied by Jewish settlers who established Kibbutz Meggido there. In the early 1980s, I interviewed Ali Jabareen, a refugee from Lajjun. He…

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The Nakba at 75 – Palestinians' struggle to get recognition for their 'catastrophe'

On May 15, 2023, the United Nations will stage a high-level special meeting to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Nakba – the mass displacement of around 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland in 1948.

Al Jazeera

Shireen Abu Akleh killing: Advocates decry ‘abhorrent’ US stance

One year after Al Jazeera journalist was killed, rights advocates say Biden administration is shielding Israeli abuses.

Al Jazeera

One year on, no justice at ICC for Shireen Abu Akleh

Request to investigate death of Al Jazeera journalist has been received by the ICC, yet no steps have been taken.

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Israel at 75: how inept British intelligence failed to contain Jewish independence groups

Before they were Israeli, the Jewish community of Palestine – the Yishuv – had been Britain’s close junior partner. A dispute over Britain’s restrictions on Jewish immigration to Palestine began in 1939, but was set aside during the struggle to defeat Hitler.

The Conversation

How the British press covered the establishment of Israel – I looked into the newspaper archives to find out

On the evening of May 14 1948, the People’s Council of the Jewish Community in Tel Aviv did not wait for the midnight expiry of Britain’s League of Nations mandate in Palestine. The mandate had given Britain administration of the territories of Palestine and Transjordan after the end of the…

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On its 75th birthday, Israel still can't agree on what it means to be a Jewish state and a democracy

As Israel celebrates the 75th anniversary of its founding, and nearly a century and a half after the first Zionists came to Palestine from Europe, the core tension behind the country’s establishment – whether a Jewish state could be a democratic state, whether Zionism could accommodate pluralism – is more…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Saudi Ship Carries Out Largest Evacuation Since Sudan Fighting Broke Out

A Saudi-flagged ship arrived Saturday at the King Faisal Naval Base in Jeddah, carrying the largest number of evacuees since evacuations from Sudan kicked off. The Saudi-flagged ship “Amana” carried 20 Saudi citizens, as well as 1,866 nationals of brotherly and friendly countries from different nationalities, including: Thailand, Australia, Rwanda,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Saudi Arabia Evacuates More than 2,900 People of 80 Nationalities from Sudan

In continuation of the evacuation efforts exerted by Saudi Arabia under the directives of the Kingdom’s Leadership, more than 190 evacuees arrived in Jeddah Friday Sudan. The new arrivals are from Pakistan, Palestine, Thailand, Mauritania, Sri Lanka, USA, Poland, India, UK, Austria, Indonesia, Canada, Iraq, Egypt, Australia and Syria. They…

Al Jazeera

EU’s ‘Israeli independence’ message rebuked in Palestine

Palestinian leaders, social media users criticise EU commission president for saying Israel makes ‘the desert bloom’.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Saudi FM Receives Phone Calls from Palestinian, Pakistani Counterparts

Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah received on Sunday separate phone calls from the Palestinian and Pakistani Foreign Ministers. During the telephone conversation, Prince Faisal and Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Riad Al-Malki reviewed opportunities to enhance relations between the two countries in…

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