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Israel’s Weaponization of Sexual Violence to Uproot Palestinians and Deter All Who Resist Since October 7, 2023, Israel has escalated its use of sexual violence against Palestinians. Rape, forced nudity, sexual humiliation, sexual torture, and genital violence — in detention, at checkpoints, and during home raids — are forms of a systematic policy Israel pursues…
The Nakba Never Ended
In the occupied West Bank, Israel is uprooting the Palestinian Ka’abneh Bedouin from their land — community after community. An Outpost 50 Meters Away Since the third of May, settlers have intensified their daily attacks, day and night, on the families of the Arab Abu Faza’a al-Ka’abneh community, east of al-Taybeh, east of Ramallah. The…
Sileh al-Harithiya: The Return of the Settlers
Sileh al-Harithiya: The Return of the Settlers 20 years after withdrawing its settlers from Jenin district, Israel’s colonial project also targets this area. Sileh al-Harithiya: Land Theft Begins with Bulldozers On May 1st, the people of Sileh al-Harithiya, west of Jenin, woke up to Israeli bulldozers tearing through their lands to open a new colonial…
Ongoing Nakba, Ongoing Return
How Have the Marches of Return Resisted the Ongoing Nakba? Every year on May 15, Palestinians mark Nakba Day. The Nakba (Arabic: catastrophe) marks the start of the mass ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948 to create the state of Israel as a settler colonial project on Palestinian land. The Nakba is not a memory…
The Epistemicide of the Palestinians
Targeting Palestinian children is necessary for Israeli settler colonialism On April 12, Israeli settler militias erected an iron fence, blocking a road used by students from Khirbet Umm al-Khair, south of Hebron (Masafer Yatta), to reach their school. For over 40 years, students have walked this mountain route to school. Israel is preventing at least…
Land Day Under Ethnic Cleansing
Silwan: A Living Example of Ongoing Judaization Hug meAnd hold me tightOr devour meTo suffer no more.I love theeso take me.Make me rich.Make me dirt.Gone are the days of serenity.Guns are the words of humanity.I have no food but a thorn,No sport but a sigh.For a soldier needs to feel high.O, Earth,If in life I…
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Apartheid Israel’s settler-colonial project to clear Palestinian lands from its Indigenous residents has been ongoing since 75 years. Massafer Yatta is in the crosshairs of Israeli ethnic cleansing since 1979, when large parts of the area were declared ‘firing zones’…
In this article, Manal Shqair of Stop the Wall provides an account of the brutalization of the Jordan Valley by Israeli settler-shepherds who, along with the violent Hilltop Youth and the Israeli military, are ranged against pastoral Palestinian communities. Israeli…
On this 74th anniversary of the start of the Nakba, the Palestinian people continue rising up against Israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing. Hear from four Palestinian activists resisting until liberation, and then take action! https://youtu.be/GXB8Y1IMK_M The Nakba is happening now.…
As part of the Israeli ongoing practices of occupation, apartheid and de facto annexation of the Jordan Valley and the looming de jure annexation of the area, the Israeli occupation has intensified its violations of human rights against the Palestinian…
Since its spread, the COVID19 pandemic has been repeating patterns of already existing health inequalities along racial and gender lines. What are the dire consequences of the health crisis on the historically and systematically marginalized, oppressed and subjugated people like…
Since the start of the call for a World without Walls in 2018, endorsed now by over 400 movements from across the globe, we have engaged many diverse reflections and joint actions against walls of injustices with people from all continents. In…














