Armed Israeli settlers have been attacking Palestinian residents of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem. As Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat and Mariam Barghouti write in The Washington Post, “Sheikh Jarrah is now practically a war zone as armed Israeli settlers, under the protection of Israeli police, terrorize the Palestinian residents.”
Israel is dropping bombs on residential buildings in Gaza. Gaza’s Ministry of Health reported that 192 people, including fifty-eight children, have been killed by Israel’s bombings, as of Sunday 16 May 2021, with more than 1,200 additional people wounded. The Israeli military reported that ten people, including two children, have been killed in Israel by rockets fired from Gaza. Eleven Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in the past week.
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Palestinians in Israel are protesting while facing Israeli mob violence. As Rabbani explained in his 13 May 2021 interview with Al Jazeera English, Palestinian protests in Israel “at this level and at this scope and duration” are “unprecedented.”
Jadaliyya’s editorial team has prepared this bouquet of articles, podcasts, live event recordings, and more as part of the Arab Studies Institute’s (ASI) Middle East Learn & Teach (MELT) series. You will find materials from ASI’s various platforms, including Jadaliyya, Status/الوضع, Tadween Publishing, and the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI).
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The materials presented here contextualize current events in Palestine, offering analyses and histories of expulsion, occupation, settler colonialism, forced evictions, home demolitions, and annexation—situating the current struggle as part of the ongoing Nakba of 1948 and in relation to the Naksa of 1967.
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