Israel-Palestine

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Sport

Gazan amputees secure Para-Cycling World Championships qualification

Gaza Sunbirds — Alaa al-Dali and Mohamed Asfour earned Palestine’s first-ever top-20 finish at the Para-Cycling World Cup in Belgium over the weekend.

Written by: Isaac Muk

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Activism

Plestia Alaqad: “Journalists should focus on humanising people”

Huck’s April interview — Having become one of the most crucial and followed voices from inside Gaza in the aftermath of October 7, the award-winning author and journalist is releasing a new memoir, ‘The Eyes of Gaza’, collating diary entries made over the past 18 months. We caught up with her to hear more about it.

Written by: Isaac Muk

Activism

The rise of Ben-Gvir is the product of Israeli apartheid

Free Palestine — While the ascension of far-right politicians in Israel has been met with outrage by the British Jewish press, it is merely the logical conclusion of Israeli colonialism, writes Emily Hilton.

Written by: Emily Hilton

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The Gaza parkour group taking back a part of their city

A group of young Palestinians have found temporary freedom in the act of parkour, reimagining wreckage and ruins as a series of high-octane playgrounds. The fearless collective see freerunning as a way of taking their immediate environment to its absolute limits – and, in the process, reclaiming some of it.

Written by: Gunseli Yalcinkaya

Activism

What it’s like to be a Gaza student studying in the UK

‘I feel guilty to be safe’ — After surviving war and finding a way out, Gazan students speak about the experience of studying in Britain, their guilt, family, and the future of Palestine.

Written by: Max Kendix

Activism

The fight to boycott Israel – inside occupied Palestine

#PalestineEconomicWeek — It has long been assumed that Palestinians living inside the apartheid system have an inherently weaker capacity to mobilise. But a new campaign is educating Palestinians about the importance, and feasibility, of boycotting Israeli goods from the inside to corrode colonial-economic structures.

Written by: Amal Nazzal

Activism

A Palestinian dancer recalls Israel’s Intifada crackdown

‘I will never forget this moment’ — Two decades on from the Second Intifada, artist Raed Khatab remembers the bullet wound that left him unable to dance for two months, and how culture remains both a target of Israeli repression – and a source of Palestinian resilience.

Written by: Raed Khatab

Opinion

History tells us that the Israel-UAE treaty is doomed to fail

More empty words — The ‘historic’ peace agreement has been heralded as a major breakthrough – but as long as Palestinian voices remain unheard, very little will change.

Written by: Anmol Irfan

Opinion

We’re Jewish, and we want the occupation of Palestine to end

#ActionsNotWords — Last night a group of Jewish activists projected images onto the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, calling for action on Israel’s occupation of Palestine. Here, they explain why they did it.

Written by: Mia Rafalowicz-Campbell

Books

Zaina Arafat on queer love, desire, and Palestinian identity

2020’s breakout author — The author’s powerful debut novel, You Exist Too Much, follows the story of a bisexual Palestinian-American with a penchant for unattainable women.

Written by: Kate Wyver

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