Today the Great March of Return by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip enters its 30th week. Over the first 29, Israeli military fire into Gaza not only killed 217 Palestinians, …
The #GreatReturnMarch, week 29: a deadly Friday in Tweets
Israeli soldiers killed at least seven Palestinians and injured 252 more, Palestinian ministry of health spokesperson Ashraf al-Qidra said, in one of the two deadliest Friday protests since the Great …
Cartoonist Sabaaneh intensifies his international activities
The ace, Ramallah-based Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh has stepped up his international activities in recent months, continuing his campaign to raise worldwide awareness of the plight of the Palestinians and …
Internat’l psychoanalysts’ group tries to squelch discussion of Palestinian mental health
In a breathtakingly Kafkaesque move, a body called the International Association for “Relational” Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy has been working hard to muzzle discussion of the much-stressed mental-health situation of the …
Pressure mounts to investigate Israel’s killings of Palestinian civilians in Gaza
On June 1, Israeli snipers deployed along Israel’s 1949 Armistice Line with the Gaza Strip shot dead 21-year-old Palestinian paramedic Razan al-Najjar, who like her colleagues was wearing a vest …
Gaza/Palestine: Hannah Arendt, statelessness and the “right to have rights”
i. The Great Return March and the Right of Return The unarmed civilian mass protests that have rocked Gaza since March 30– and have been met with horrific levels of …
Amos Gvirtz: “Gaza Offers Us the Choice of Life”
Just World Ed is pleased to publish the following essay penned recently by veteran Israeli peace and human-rights activist Amos Gvirtz. We believe it contains many important points– especially his …
Pressure mounts over psychoanalysts’ 2019 conference, slated for Tel Aviv
By Alice Rothchild Originally published in Mondoweiss. Rothchild is a Board Member of Just World Educational. An extraordinary response has been unfolding around the scheduling of a mental health conference …
Miko Peled (and we) took Holy Land Fdn Five story to New York, NJ!
Author/activist Miko Peled took the story of the “Holy Land Foundation Five” to two great gatherings in New Jersey and New York last weekend, as part of a speaker series …
Ian Williams explores UN-US ties with DC’s World Affairs Council, and with Helena Cobban
In late January, Just World Educational brought veteran UN watcher Ian Williams to Washington DC, to discuss US-UN ties (in general) with members of the city’s World Affairs Council. We …