For 19 weeks now, every Friday has seen massive demonstrations filling the streets of cities across the large North African country of Algeria. These protests have been overwhelmingly nonviolent, with …
Algerian popular movement stays strong, united!
This past Friday (June 21) saw the 18th week of massive, peaceful protests filling the streets of cities all across Algeria. Midweek, the country’s much-criticized strongman Gen. Gaid Salah, had …
What does it mean to grow up as a Palestinian refugee in Gaza?
by Yousef M. Aljamal (This was written to mark World Refugee Day, observed June 20.) The year 1948 saw the mass expulsion of Palestinians from their towns and villages at …
The Right to Education: Gaza Students Denied Permit to Attend EU-sponsored Summer School in France
by Yousef Aljamal A couple of months ago two Gaza students, Mustapha Al-Buhaisi and Mustapha Aljamal– who happens to be my brother—both of whom are studying French and English (language …
Algeria: Mass, peaceful protests continue, make slow gains
Friday May 31 was the 15th Friday in a row in which, across the massive North African country of Algeria, hundreds of thousands of peaceful protesters have taken to the …
UNRWA: A critical but impossible mission
Our board member Alice Rothchild, a veteran health and rights activist, recently made her first visit to Jordan, traveling as part of a small delegation. We are delighted to publish …
Statement issued by the Palestinian National Movement inside the Israeli occupation jails
[The following is a translation into English by Yousef al-Jamal of the text of the Arabic-language statement issued by the prisoners’ leaders. It provides valuable background to recent developments inside …
On Palestinian Prisoner Day: A Whole Captive Population Longing For Freedom
By Yousef M. Aljamal* NEWSFLASH!! Palestinian prisoners just ended their mass, open-ended hunger strike after they managed to force the Israeli Prison Service to install landlines in prisons which will …
Palestinian prisoners in Israel’s jail: Facts and resources
Prepared with the help of Yousef al-Jamal According to the Ramallah-based prisoners-rights organization Ad-Dameer, as of March 2019, 5,450 Palestinian political prisoners are in Israeli jails and they are scattered …
Our #IStandWithGaza project off to great start!
Earlier this month, our #IStandWithGaza project got off to a great start when we took our “Instant ISWG Photo Booth” to the recent “No to NATO, Yes to Peace” festival …