By Ali Awad It is rare that a person is given advanced warning that a war crime is about to be perpetrated against him. But a few months ago, the Israeli Supreme Court signed-off on the full-scale expulsion of my community in the occupied West Bank. For over 30 years…

Only President Biden and Congress Can Save My Community from Israel’s Bulldozers By Ali Awad It is rare that a person is given advanced warning that a war crime is about to be perpetrated against him. …

By Basel Adra Every night, I go to sleep with my camera next to me, prepared to be awakened at any moment by the sound of Israeli military bulldozers coming to destroy my home. I’ve already photographed soldiers forcing dozens of families out of their homes in Masafer Yatta over…

By Omar Barghouti Fiercely attacking the George W. Bush administration’s case for what he called a “Hiroshima-style” aggression on Iraq in 2003, Edward Said wrote that the U.S. position was “monumentally hypocritical” for accusing the Iraqi regime of atrocities and crimes that had been “the stock in trade of every…

By Osama Ahmad and Rami Sultan Earlier this month, Amnesty International joined a growing consensus among Palestinian, Israeli, and international human rights organizations that Israel practices apartheid toward the Palestinian people. …

By Shirin Odeh Today, seven months after her arrest on July 7, 2021, Health Work Committees (HWC) director Shatha Odeh, my mother, is still held in Israeli detention. …

Israel’s decision, announced on Friday, to designate our Palestinian civil society organizations and two others as “terror organizations” represents a dangerous escalation of its longstanding efforts to silence criticism of its colonization of Palestinian land and apartheid system. It is part of a larger campaign of repression and intimidation intended…

By Khuloud and Shirin Odeh Imagine that in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, a nurse and human rights leader working to provide healthcare in your community is arrested and imprisoned by a hostile foreign occupying army. …

By Sami Huraini I have never known freedom. Not one day. I was born in Atuwani, a village in the West Bank shaped by Israeli military occupation and settler violence. Every day we risk beatings, incarceration, or even death, just to harvest our fields, graze our livestock, and build our…