One of Just World Ed’s major projects in Spring 2019 was the “Story/Backstory” project, in which– over a 13-week period– JWE President Helena Cobban produced weekly packages providing richly informed …
Miko Peled talks Jerusalem, Trump ‘deal’, in Istanbul
by Yousef Aljamal Istanbul, May 29– Israeli-American author and activist Miko Peled recently gave a seminar titled “Deal of the Century and the Fate of Jerusalem,” at the Center for …
Palestinian political groups’ statement on Eurovision
[We are pleased to publish this statement, received from Gaza this morning. The list of signing organizations is at the bottom. ~Editors.] A statement by the Palestinian Islamic and National …
Turkey’s “IZU” hosts global confab on Palestine
by Yousef Aljamal [Editorial note: Turkey has hosted a number of notable conferences on Palestinian issues in recent years. Just World Ed is fortunate that Palestinian social activist Yousef Aljamal …
Young Gazans speak up at online seminar
“People are demanding their basic rights! People want to live in dignity… It is a choice between slow death under siege or being shot at the fence.” “I think the …
Palestinian churches and mosques: Burned deliberately by Zionist extremists
There has been some consternation this week about comments that the (Israeli-government-paid) Rabbi of Beit El settlement made about the terrible fire at Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral. Rabbi Shlomo Aviner …
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 …
Fire under Al-Aqsa mosque at same time as Paris’s Notre Dame fire
On April 15, the same day that a massive fire gutted much of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, a much smaller fire broke out in the Al-Marwani prayer room …
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 …