Israel’s Celebration of Destruction, Dispossession and Desecration
By Jeremy Salt On May 10 this year the state of Israel … but wait a moment … before we go any further … in talking about this state, its ‘independence’ was announced in 1948 […]
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‘Colonization of the Mind’: Joint Nakba Commemorations and Normalization
By Benay Blend “If 15/20 years ago we had listened to ‘serious moderate’ voices telling us to support ‘two-state solution,’ not call out Israeli apartheid and not push BDS,” tweeted journalist Ali Abunimah, “where would […]
The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, A Daughter’s Quest, and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil – Book Review
By Jim Miles (The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, A Daughter’s Quest, and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil. Charlotte Dennett. Chelsea Green Publishing. London/White River Junction, VT. 2020.) Titles […]
Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery – Book Review
By Jim Miles (Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery. Mark Charles, and Soon-Chan Rah. InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, Illinois. 2019.) The Doctrine of Discovery, created in a series of Papal […]
From Jerusalem to a Kingdom by the Sea – Book Review
By Liza Foreman (From Jerusalem to a Kingdom by the Sea, by Adel A. Dajani. Published by Zuleika London on March 11, 2021.) What happened to the families of Palestine? Those that were ushered out […]
The Lion and the Eagle: The Interaction of the British and American Empires, 1783-1972 – Book Review
By Jim Miles (The Lion and the Eagle – The Interaction of the British and American Empires 1783-1972. Kathleen Burk. Bloomsbury, London/New York, 2018) The 200-year historical span of Kathleen Burk’s “The Lion and the […]
Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour – Book Review
By Jim Miles (Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour. Barbara Tuchmann. NYU Press, 1956; Preface, 1984; Random House, 2014) Part of history is reading historical documents, and it […]
Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas Between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial – Book Review
By Jim Miles (Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas Between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial. Somdeep Sen. Cornell University Press, New York. 2020) A book that has a very narrowly defined title often fails to look at the […]
Re-Marketing ‘Racist-Zionism’ and Manufacturing Double White Privilege-Plus
By Gavin Lewis Zionist Colonialism Vs The Post-War Consensus. At just over the 52nd minute of the 1967 film thriller Funeral in Berlin’, a female character who’d been seducing British agent Harry Palmer (played by […]
American Empire: A Global History – Book Review
By Jim Miles (American Empire: A Global History. A. G. Hopkins. Princeton University Press. Princeton & Oxford, 2018.) Most recent works on the United States accept that it is an empire, perhaps not in the […]
Jewish Settlers Desecrate Muslim Cemetery below Old City Wall in Jerusalem
A group of Jewish settlers today trespassed and desecrated a Muslim cemetery located just below Jerusalem’s old city wall, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Munther Siam, A member of the committee in charge […]
‘Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free’: On Extending the Holocaust Day of Remembrance
By Benay Blend In a speech entitled “Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free” (1971), Fannie Lou Hamer told the National Women’s Political Caucus that black and white women had to work together in order to achieve […]
On B’tselem’s Declaration: Israeli Apartheid from the River to the Sea
By Jeremy Salt B’Tselem’s description of Israel as an apartheid state is valuable because B’Tselem, Israel’s leading human rights organization, is saying it. Otherwise, the reaction should of course it is. B’Tselem applies the word […]
WATCH: Palestine Chronicle Hosts: Ilan Pappe and Awad Abdelfattah on ‘One Democratic State’
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Renowned historian, Professor Ilan Pappe and respected political analyst and leader Awad Abdelfattah speak to Palestine Chronicle TV about the One Democratic State Campaign and their shared vision for a […]
WATCH: ‘Palestinian: Beyond Conflict’ – Featuring Ilan Pappe (Identity International)
In the latest episode of ‘Palestine Beyond Conflict’, a series of interviews conducted by Identity International, Professor Ilan Pappé discusses the evolution of Palestinian identity throughout the last century with Misbah Khan. Pappe is a […]
When the People Rose up: How the Intifada Changed the Political Discourse on Palestine
By Ramzy Baroud December 8 came and went as if it was an ordinary day. For Palestinian political groups, it was another anniversary to be commemorated, however hastily. It was on this day, thirty-three […]
Palestinian Intellectuals Discuss ‘Right of Return’ in a London Conference (VIDEO)
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The London-based organization Palestine Return Centre (PRC) hosted a conference which began on Friday, December 11, to discuss the Palestinian Right of Return within historical, political and cultural contexts. The […]
Days of the Future Passed: A Syncretic Look at the Problems of Empire – Book Excerpt
By Jim Miles (Days of the Future Passed – Point of No Return, Jim Miles. Kindle Edition. 2020) By Introduction The United States has throughout its existence demonstrated all the features of ‘empire’, from the […]
From Turtle Island to Palestine: There is No Going Back to ‘Normal’
By Benay Blend Shortly before Thanksgiving social media was abuzz with news that President-Elect Joe Biden had conferred with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden over what measure to take regarding the Coronavirus crisis in […]
The Ancient Olive Grove – A Poem
By Timothy McCord From above the valley, Doha gazed down upon her ancient olive grove, cradled in the fertile crescent, not far from Nablus; proud of the beautiful branches: their silent symbolism. Her once soft […]
In The Loop of History by Adam Kossoff (VIDEO)
By Palestine Chronicle Staff In The Loop of History is an archival essay about images, nationhood, and oppression and how history is manufactured to continually return to a mythical past. Using archival footage from […]
The Assassin’s Creed: Murder as Israeli State Policy
By Jeremy Salt “If our dreams for Zionism are not to end in the smoke of assassins’ pistols and our labor for its future to produce only a new set of gangsters worthy of Nazi […]
‘I Am Greta’ isn’t about Climate Change. It’s about the Elusiveness of Sanity in an Insane World
By Jonathan Cook Erich Fromm, the renowned German-Jewish social psychologist who was forced to flee his homeland in the early 1930s as the Nazis came to power, offered a disturbing insight later in life on […]
Palestinian Court Holds First Session in Lawsuit against UK over Balfour Declaration
A Palestinian court yesterday held the first session to review a lawsuit filed against the British government over its crimes in Palestine during the British Mandate between 1917- 1948 and the Balfour Declaration which promised […]
Days of the Future Passed: Point of No Return
By Jim Miles One of the more pivotal years in modern history was 1979 and its geopolitical events. Until recently I had considered them to be the most important alignment of events influencing future actions. […]
Balfour Declaration Anniversary: Protests in UK, Palestine (PHOTOS)
Factories belonging to Israel’s largest arms manufacturer, Elbit System, woke up this morning to groups of protesters demanding their closure. Protests led by the direct action campaign group Palestine Action were organized to coincide with […]
Wealth and Power (PART IV): Colonization with a New Face
By Roger Van Zwanenberg (Wealth and Power: Global Transformation and Destruction 1492 to 2020 Part 2: Transformation to Urban Industrial Capitalism and the path to Global War) This is a history blog… Unlike any history, you have […]
From AIPAC’s La-la Land to the Bitter Reality in the Holy Land – Book Review
By Sam Bahour (Wake Up and Reclaim Your Humanity: Essays on The Tragedy of Israel-Palestine. Richard Forer. Mindstir Media, 2020) Bookshelves are overflowing with books on Palestine and Israel. One might imagine that there are […]
Wealth and Power (PART III): The New Colonizing Nations Fight Each Other to Control World Power
By Roger Van Zwanenberg (Wealth and Power: Global Transformation and Destruction 1492 to 2020 Part 2: Transformation to Urban Industrial Capitalism and the path to Global War) This is a history blog… Unlike any history, you have […]
Palestinians Initiate Lawsuit against Britain over Balfour Declaration
The National Party for Independents (NPI), the International Commission to Support the Palestinian Rights (ICSPR), and the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) today initiated a lawsuit against the British Government for its responsibility for the suffering […]
