Right to worship [en]
Palestinian men and women cross Qalandia checkpoint to go to pray at Al Aqsa mosquee in Jerusalem for the Second Friday of the Holy month of Ramadan. Thousands of Palestinian Muslims arrive throughout the early…
Racist Policies [en]
Israeli policy centered on two complementary processes: the expropriation of land from or its closure to Palestinians; and the construction of Jewish colonies (“settlements”) and towns on the land thus alienated, or its requisitioning for…
Seizures of houses and holy sites [en]
Enjoying an absolute monopoly of power over the Occupied Territories since 1967, Israel has facilitated its colonization of these territories through a whole gamut of administrative, legalistic, economic, psychological, and physical measure. Immediately after the…
Expulsions [en]
In 1967 Israel went further still. Having wrested the greater part of Palestine in 1948, it was now bent on wresting what land remained in Palestinian hands. Between June and September 1967, it expelled across…
Exclusion Of Existence [en]
From the beginning of the colonization of Palestine, the architects of the Zionist “dream” excluded from consideration its potential consequences for the Palestinians. The reality of Zionism as translated on the ground was rarely perceived…
Dispossessed of a Country [en]
During the almost seven decades between the early 1880s and 1948, the Palestinians were at the receiving end of a Jewish political movement of European provenance, Zionism, which presented them with the deadliest threat, short…
Security or Confiscation [en]
The implantation of Jewish colonies and towns accompanied the process of land alienation At first these colonies masqueraded as military or paramilitary outposts in uninhibited areas set up for “security” reasons or even as archaeological…