– David Harrop is an independent UK-registered social worker and co-founder of Palestine UK Social Work Network (PALUK) in 2011. Contact the author at his address email: harrop_david@yahoo.co.uk. He contributed this article to The Palestine Chronicle.
By David Harrop On my first night in Palestine in Nablus in 2011, I sat transfixed as I watched a Dabke troupe of Palestinian youth leap and dance with pride in their culture and defiance […]
By David Harrop Mick, a retired UK social worker, has embarked on his solo 3500 km trek as an act of Palestinian solidarity. He has been a long-time supporter of liberation from oppression and of […]
By David Harrop The Durham University Palestine Education Trust (DPET) provides annual scholarships for up to four exceptional Palestinian students and provides a platform for the development of abiding international academic links. Having been a […]
By David Harrop Through meeting and talking to Palestinian social work colleagues it seems that for many, the coming together of communities during the first intifada (1987-93) represented a formative professional experience. Whilst under extreme […]
By David Harrop “Do you know why the Bedouin are called the black goats? Like the black goats they are stubborn and go where they want, and they do their own thing” – (Z., Bedouin […]
By David Harrop “A basic human requirement is the need to dwell, and so to inhabit a place connecting ourselves to a place on the planet where we belong, and which belongs to us.” – […]
By David Harrop I recently received this e-mail from the Palestinian Union of Social Workers and Psychologists (PUSWP): “We received with great sorrow the news of the martyrdom of the social worker, Muhammad Ali Abu […]
By David Harrop “Eat your homeland’s lolium, but not the crusader’s wheat” (Traditional Palestinian saying) We were wrapping up the interview and standing under the monumental key atop the archway into the Aida refugee camp […]
By David Harrop Quasi Hamamra, a 16-year-old boy from the Bethlehem village of Husan, had been shot dead by an Israeli military soldier 4 days previously, and as such he was proclaimed a martyr by […]
A recent New York Times made many claims about the ‘mass rape’ of Israeli women on October 7. But two leading Palestinian media organizations, The Palestine Chronicle and Friends of Palestine Network, conducted a joint investigation, the outcome of which resulted in the ‘The Black Dress’, a groundbreaking 18-minute documentary looking into allegations and the possible falsification of evidence.
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