IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
The young Palestinian writer Mohammed El-Kurd sits quietly in front of his laptop with a grin on his face, preparing for the launch of his most recent manuscript, “Rifqa.” He seems excited, anxious and afraid all at once, as he revises his poems and the paragraphs about his grandmother. She died at 103 defending her home from Israeli settlers who had already squatted in one part of it. El-Kurd seems to clutch onto his words in an attempt to ensure that the memory of his grandmother, of himself and his lineage, remains with him.
on May 10, 2021
Failure to condemn anti-Palestinian violence will only further it.
on May 7, 2021
Social media users sharing content from Sheikh Jarrah complain their accounts have been censored, limited or shut down.
on May 7, 2021
The Human Rights Watch report is a valuable, sober, and deliberately uninflammatory piece of scholarship—which won’t make a damn bit of difference.
on May 5, 2021
Israeli special forces use batons and mounted horses to disperse Palestinian and international activists protesting in solidarity with families facing eviction
on May 5, 2021
Palestinians continue solidarity protests against forced displacement of families from the occupied East Jerusalem.
on May 5, 2021
Israel ordered six Palestinian families to leave their homes in Sheikh Jarrah on May 2 to make way for Jewish settlers.
on May 3, 2021
Some may think Human Rights Watch is going too far, but actually it is behind the curve. Late last year, I convened a panel with veterans of the South African anti-apartheid struggle who certainly know what apartheid looks like, including the former South African ambassador to the United States. They were in no doubt that what is happening in the occupied territories is indeed apartheid. Other human rights organizations, including Israeli ones such as B’tselem, have also reached the same conclusion.
on April 29, 2021
Israel’s ever-changing limit on how far fishermen are allowed to sail out to fish has placed many boats – and lives – at risk.
on April 29, 2021