Hanan Ashrawi

Israel is cynically exploiting the international community’s focus on protecting humanity and the world economy from the devastating consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic to implement its extraterritorial and e […]

Recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and/or relocating the U.S. embassy to it is a supreme provocation that will destroy the chances for peace and inflame the whole region.

If U.S. President Donald […]

Thank you very much. Thank you for coming, today. It’s great to be back at the Jerusalem Fund again. I’m a frequent visitor here. I’m sure you know, we go back a long, long way and I’m glad to see that you are […]

Despite the predictable degree of uncertainty and apprehension that accompanies any transition, the post-Arafat era is exhibiting positive indicators in both spheres of nation-building and peacemaking. The […]

The oppressive nature of a military occupation eventually victimizes the occupier much like it does the occupied. Gradually, the stench of moral decay overwhelms, internalizing a warped system of […]

What consolation is there for the passing of a great man? He does not leave behind a great void—rather a heaviness of spirit, a weight almost unbearable that mercilessly seems to crush the heart and render e […]

Sweden, a “small, remote” Scandinavian country, has had more of an impact on Palestinian history (and human reality) than closer or greater powers throughout the world. The impact has been consistently […]

Thank you, World Court of Women against Racism, for daring to storm the bastions of power and to give a hearing to the disempowered. Thank you for defying the darkness of racism and hatred to shed light on the […]

Your name still wafts through
          Alleys and centuries of stone with
                    Which old Hebron Khalil the Compassionate
Wraps itself.
          No mercy there
Only settlers strutting
        […]

The conventional, diplomatic Palestinian response to Baraks resignation and its impact on the Palestinians is the usual refusal to meddle in Israeli domestic issues or internal politics. Despite these […]

Some words are hard to pronounce—
He-li-cop-ter is most vexing
                    (A-pa-che or Co-bra is impossible)
But how it can stand still in the sky
I cannot understand—
         […]

“Blaming the victim” has been the common resort of the guilty in rationalizing and distorting the horror of the crime itself.

Whether battered wives, abused children, or Palestinians long subjected to the bru […]