Showing posts with label Raja Shehadeh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Raja Shehadeh. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

"Don't Say Palestine- How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide" NEW BOOK by the brilliant headline fixing writer Assal Rad ... "In Don’t Say Palestine, Rad reveals a pattern of dehumanizing language—in outlets from CNN and the AP to the BBC and The New York Times—so consistently employed throughout the Palestinian genocide that it amounts to a policy. Mainstream Western media consistently downplays Israeli responsibility, “others” Palestinians, and casts doubt on inviolable tenets of international law like the sanctity of hospitals and journalists in war zones."

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  Assal Rad @AssalRad   Humbled to share the cover of my forthcoming book. A project born of heartbreak, urgency, and the unbearable realit...
Saturday, July 12, 2025

" Ever since the failure to implement the 1948 UN resolution 194, which gave Palestinian refugees the right to return to their homes in what became Israel, we have been disappointed again and again." Yes, Israel’s plan for Rafah would be a crime – but international law has never protected Gaza Raja Shehadeh

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Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip – the planned site of Israel’s internment centre. Photograph: Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images Yes, Israel’s pl...
Monday, February 10, 2025

Nine Quarters of Jerusalem- A New Biography of the Old City by Matthew Teller, lets the communities of the Old City speak for themselves. Ranging through ancient past and political present, it evokes the city’s depth and cultural diversity.

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In Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. Maps divide the walled Old City into four quarters, yet that division...
Monday, November 20, 2023

Raja Shehadeh: Israel has long wanted Palestinians out of Gaza – my father saw it firsthand

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"Today, almost six decades after my father’s failed effort to convince the Israeli government to make peace with the Palestinians base...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Rising From Ruins: Even as Israel neglects a major archaeological site in the West Bank, it is preventing the Palestinian Authority from tending to it.

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"The Oslo Accords list Sebastia among the archeological sites of importance to Israel , yet Israel is not taking care of the place, ar...
Wednesday, February 6, 2013

RAJA SHEHADEH: More Than a Land Grab

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Settlers increasingly impinging on Palestinian lives Jewish settlers aren't just taking empty space, they're destroying Palesti...
Friday, December 14, 2012

Raja Shehadeh reflects on the UN resolution to recognise Palestine as a non-member observer state

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"In my tale, "The Two Djinnis and the Wall", I let loose my imagination and have a Palestinian hiker who has been stopped at...
Wednesday, October 3, 2012

My letter to the NYTimes RE License to Care by Raja Shehadeh

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Palestinian children stand near the Ras Khamis checkpoint in East Jerusalem. A permit system, controlled by the Israeli authorities, det...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

NYTimes Latitudes: A Tale of Two Territories by Raja Shehadeh

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Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert for The New York Times: Hikers near the Cuillin Mountains in Scotland. http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/...
Monday, July 30, 2012

Tales from the West Bank: Palestinian Raja Shehadeh chronicles life during occupation

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The Palestinian author and lawyer Raja Shehadeh has kept a diary since the 1967 Israeli invasion of his homeland AFP/Getty Images ...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Latitude: A Palestinian in Jerusalem By Raja Shehadeh

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Tourists tend to see Jerusalem's Old City as a model of tolerance. It's not. [AS ALWAYS ...
Thursday, July 5, 2012

Our lives remain in peril....

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"...Neither Hereini nor I nor any of the villagers anywhere in the West Bank is an Israeli citizen. You’d think that as such we shouldn...
Friday, June 22, 2012

Latitute- VIEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD... Checkpoint Jitters By RAJA SHEHADEH

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Abir Sultan/European Pressphoto Agency http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/israeli-checkpoint-willies/?ref=global Jabaa Ch...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

My letters to the NYTimes & WSJ RE Music for the Masses by Raja Shehadeh & Harris letter about Maen Rashid Areikat's "The Time for a Palestinian State Is Now"

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A Palestinian girl practicing the flute at a school in a refugee camp near Ramallah, West Bank, in April 2009. The lessons were organize...
Thursday, May 3, 2012

Israel may have won the battle of settling into the West Bank, but it has lost the war of making peace with the Palestinians.

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"... After I left Sabri’s house, I drove back to Ramallah, riding through tunnels burrowed under the highways that connect Jewish sett...
Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Raja Shehadeh in the New York Times: One group gets more rights, more land and more water while the other’s development is being strangled.

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"... I could also see the separation wall snaking through the hills. Here and elsewhere throughout the West Bank, the wall separates c...