Palestinian Family Unification in Israel: The Limits of Litigation as Means...
At the end of March 2002, Eli Yishai, then the Israeli Minister of Internal Affairs, decided that all requests for family unifications submitted by Palestinian citizens of Israel married to...
View Article# Palestine /// Law as a Colonial Weapon: Review of ‘The Law in these Parts’...
I recently watched Israeli director Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s fim, The Law in These Parts, which unfolds the legal mechanisms of the occupation of the Palestinian territories (West Bank, Gaza and East...
View ArticleSome Reflections on BDS and Feminist Political Solidarity
We are not asking you for heroic action or to form freedom brigades. We are simply asking you not to be complicit in perpetuating the crimes of the Israeli state.1 A little over two years ago, on March...
View ArticlePalestinian Feminist Critique and the Physics of Power: Feminists Between...
The Palestinian woman in the Jewish state is a woman who confronts and defies bio-political, geopolitical and necropolitical Zionist settler colonialism, as well as socio-patriarchal oppression. The...
View ArticleIt is our belief that Palestine is a feminist issue .…
So long as antiwar activists denounce the U.S. occupation of Iraq, but not Israel’s occupation of Palestine, I will keep drawing the parallels. So long as Western feminists denounce the oppression of...
View ArticleBodies, Buses, and Permits: Palestinians Navigating Care
In May 2013, I traveled to Palestine for six months to collect data for a research project that examines the cultural and visual productions of natalist images, including pregnancy and birth. During...
View ArticleRepetition and Death in the Colony: On the Israeli Attacks on Gaza
At the moment of writing these lines, the BBC reports 100 deaths thus far in Gaza in the recent Israeli onslaught. As we have seen these scenes before, the invocation of repetition comes naturally....
View ArticleCivilians, Combatants, and Histories of International Law
In the media coverage of war, whether reports on individual incidents or the numbing tallies of casualties, the distinction between civilians and combatants is central and frequently contested. The...
View ArticleThree Questions for Hamas
There is no doubt that Hamas has exhibited extraordinary resilience under the most difficult of conditions that have bedeviled its period of political leadership in the Gaza Strip that started in 2007....
View ArticleLessons from Gaza: Human Rights (2009/2014)
According to UN Human Rights High Commissioner, Navi Pillay, “there appears to be a deliberate defiance on the part of Israel in complying with its international obligations. We should not allow this...
View Articlezionisms
… this is, in part, a plea to the left to stop saying ‘Zionist’. Two days ago, the news was full of Jeremy Corbyn’s recent decision to suspend Labour MP Naz Shah while her alleged antisemitism is...
View ArticleAl Khan al Ahmar, international law and the paradox of hope
Imagine living day after day unsure of when your home will be demolished. That will most likely mean having to quickly move elsewhere out of necessity, not out of choice. Will you be able to salvage...
View ArticleAgainst Appeasement: What’s Wrong with Zionism?
In response to recent attacks on Jeremy Corbyn concerning “Anti-Semitism”, the British Labor Party leader sought to appease Zionist organisations in an op-ed in the Guardian (3 August 2018) in which he...
View ArticleHow Liberal Zionists Sowed the Seeds of Israel’s Nation State Law
When Richard Spencer, one of the leaders of the Alt-Right movement in the United States, says that he is a “White Zionist”, and that he wants white people “to have a secure homeland that for us and...
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