The Illusion of Justice in the Settler Colony: Palestinian Women, Law and the...
On 14 July in Acre, Mada al-Carmel — the Arab Center for Applied Social Research will host its second annual international conference on the theme of “The Illusion of Justice in the Settler Colony:...
View ArticleHow Many Countries Sponsor West Bank Settlers?
A long exposé last month in the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad has revealed that the government of the Netherlands has deliberately violated Dutch law to pay higher pensions to Dutch settlers in the...
View ArticleState Crime Journal on Palestine
The current issue of State Crime Journal takes up the theme of “Palestine, Palestinians, and Israel’s State Criminality.” The journal is paywalled but the editors, along with Richard Falk, presented...
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Policing the Nakba
By Amjad Iraqi The transnational solidarity movement between Palestinians and Black, indigenous, and other minority Americans has made significant strides in promoting the struggle of Palestinians...
View ArticleA Native American Reflection on the Nakba
By Nick Estes While the Nakba was taking place in Palestine, Native peoples in the United States faced what is known as “the era of termination.” Termination was the attempt by the federal government...
View ArticleReclaiming Native History, from New Mexico to Palestine
As part of an ongoing dialogue with the Native rights movement in the United States, Adalah USA Representative Nadia Ben-Youssef recently sat down with Melanie Yazzie and Nick Estes, scholar-activists...
View Article1967: The Time Machine
By Majd Kayyal The catastrophe that took place on 5 June 1967 boils down to one fact: it sealed the consequences of the Nakba. It marked the defeat of political projects that promised an Arab rebirth...
View ArticleChallenging the Nakba through International Law?
By John Reynolds When it comes to challenging the Nakba in Palestine, international law can be legitimately critiqued as a limited tool at best, and, at worst, part of the problem. International legal...
View Article101 Demolitions and Counting
Last week, on 27 July 2016, the state of Israel demolished al-’Araqib for the 101st time. Al-’Araqib is one of the dozens of “unrecognized” Bedouin villages in the Naqab (Negev) desert in the south of...
View ArticleThe Nakba and the Farm
by Nasser Rego his approach to love he said was that of a farmer most love like hunters and like hunters most kill what they desire –from “Land,” by Suheir Hammad I mediate my ethical relation to the...
View ArticleIsrael Pushing Palestinian Workers Out of Court, No Labor Rights for Workers
Last week, Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked promulgated a new regulation that could effectively close the country’s labor courts to Palestinian workers from the West Bank. Some 60,000...
View ArticleWho Has the “Right” to Steal Palestinian Land?
By Suhad Bishara Israeli authorities continue to deliberate over the fate of some 40 Israeli Jewish families living in the Amona settlement outpost in the West Bank, which is located on private...
View ArticleCan a Citizenship Law Address Palestinian Statelessness?
In 2011, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) circulated a draft Palestinian Nationality Law as part of its efforts to achieve international recognition of Palestine’s status as a state. The...
View ArticleA Brief History of Banning Arabs from Palestine
By Lauren Banko A central and enduring consequence of the Nakba has been the near-total ban on the entry to Israel of Palestinian Arab refugees who lost their homes in 1948. The exclusion of non-Jewish...
View ArticleExplainer: The Jewish National Fund as a Colonial Entity
Adalah — along with the National Committee of Arab Local Authorities, the Arab Center for Alternative Planning, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, and Bimkom–Planners for Human Rights — filed...
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Symposium: Israel’s Colonial Declaration of Independence
The Nakba Files is proud to present an online symposium on The Dynamics of Exclusionary Constitutionalism: Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State (Hart Press), a forthcoming book by Mazen Masri....
View ArticleSymposium: Why “Jewish and Democratic” Values Negate Palestinian Equal Rights
The Nakba Files is proud to present an online symposium on The Dynamics of Exclusionary Constitutionalism: Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State (Hart Press), a forthcoming book by Mazen Masri....
View ArticleSymposium: The Colonial History of Social Contracts
The Nakba Files is proud to present an online symposium on The Dynamics of Exclusionary Constitutionalism: Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State (Hart Press), a forthcoming book by Mazen Masri....
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Symposium: Future Directions in the Study of Law and Colonialism in Palestine
The Nakba Files is proud to present an online symposium on The Dynamics of Exclusionary Constitutionalism: Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State (Hart Press), a forthcoming book by Mazen Masri....
View ArticleNew Measures to Segregate Palestinian Workers
By Sawsan Zaher In the Israeli economy, dirty, difficult, and dangerous jobs often are left to some 170,000 foreign workers, among them 55,000 Palestinian workers from the West Bank. Numerous NGO...
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