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Educational and economic dimensions in the Israeli project against occupied Jerusalem
Emboldened by American partiality for the Israeli occupation and the feeble Arab-Islamic support for the Palestinian cause, Israel has been taking advantage, over the last five years, of the current events and changing conditions prevailing in the regional Arab system. The Israeli occupation authority employs the two contingent devices of education and the economy in occupied Jerusalem as a base for counter-action in its desperate effort to hit the collective political consciousness that demands terminating occupation, liberation and self-determination. The occupation authority in occupied Jerusalem has employed a systematic scheme to isolate the city from the rest of the West Bank territories. Their aim is to destroy its trade movement in order to tighten the loop of hegemony around the vital economic and social sectors, and to deprive the Palestinian Authority from returns of tourism. Life for the residents of the city has become complicated in every possible way, prompting them to abandon their city. All this would be a part of a ‘voluntary immigration’ policy as a prelude to Judaizing the city, evacuating its residents, replacing them with settlers and, ultimately, dropping the city off the partition claims. The measures adopted by the occupation authorities take advantage of the educational and economic dimensions and employ them as leverage for penetrating the articulating points of the resisting Jerusalemite society. This goal is being achieved by shaking the foundations of the educational system and by obstructing endeavours seeking to improve and propagate it. The occupation authority continued to perpetrate its scheme of ‘displacement/settlement’ when it recently expelled 100,000 Jerusalemites from their city. In light of the aforesaid, this research examines, as its main theme, the impact of putting the educational and economic dimensions to use in the Israeli project against occupied Jerusalem, on the fate of the city, and on the equation of the Arab–Israeli conflict. The paper also argues that it would be natural that a popular youth movement emerging in the face of Israel’s intransigence will nominate its own political leadership, dissociated from the political leadership of the Palestinian factions, so that insurrection can continue.
Journal Article
Beyond borders and blockades: human trafficking risks among vulnerable Palestinian populations under occupation
This article explores the nexus between political occupation, economic marginalization, and the risk of human trafficking in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). It argues that the ongoing Israeli occupation and blockade, particularly of Gaza and Area C of the West Bank, have entrenched structural vulnerabilities that increase exposure to exploitation and trafficking, most significantly of women, children, and unregistered workers. The catastrophic escalation following October 7, 2023, has intensified these vulnerabilities to unprecedented levels, creating an acute humanitarian crisis that compounds trafficking risks. Adopting a combined analytical and legal approach, the study utilizes human rights reports, national legislation, and international conventions. The findings indicate that state fragility, fragmented governance, extreme poverty, and the impacts of occupation create fertile ground for labor exploitation, forced displacement, and survival trafficking. The article critiques international anti-trafficking and counterterrorism policies for their decontextualized, criminalized approach, which often ignores the political and colonial histories of occupied lands. It concludes by calling for a rights-oriented, contextualized approach that addresses the structural vulnerabilities arising from occupation and blockade while strengthening national law and international judicial assistance.
Journal Article
End of Days Ethics, Tradition, and Power in Israel
End of Days is both a meditation on Jewish morality in the age of Israeli Jewish power, and a
cri du coeur by an Orthodox Israeli Jew, a former combat officer in the IDF, for Israelis to look into the Jewish religious ethical tradition for an alternative to the secular and religious Zionism that sanctifies power, statehood, and sovereignty. Appealing to a wealth of Jewish sources from the Bible to the present, including medieval Jewish ethical literature, rabbinic sources, Jewish law, and contemporary Israeli thought, the book presents an argument against Israel’s occupation of the Palestinians and the suppression of their rights from the perspective of a modern Israeli religious Jew.
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Oslo and the Shifting Paradigms of the Human Rights Community in Israel and Palestine
Despite some improvement to the lives of Palestinians through human rights activism, this article argues that the legal regime governing Occupied Territories, combined with a rigid legalized conception and application of human rights, limits the ability to achieve human rights protections for those living under prolonged military occupations. Drawing on a critique of liberal legalism, this article will identify four key barriers to change through an analysis of court cases and human rights reports in the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinians. It will trace key shifts in human rights organizations in Israel and Palestine, which seek to overcome these limitations in an effort to secure long-term human rights for Palestinians.
Journal Article
Palestine's Accession to Geneva Convention III: Typology of Captives Incarcerated by Israel
Upon the 2014 State of Palestine's accession to Geneva Convention III, captured Palestinians who took part in belligerent acts against the occupier should be treated as prisoners of war due to the fact that they belong to a party to an armed conflict. These individuals fall under three categories: members of security forces, affiliates of armed resistance groups, and uprisers who fight the occupant spontaneously on an individual basis. Contrary to established rules of IHL, Israel does not make any distinction regarding the status of these three types. Unilateral Israeli treatment of its captives does not hold water under international law. Such actions may trigger liability based on international criminal law, particularly as the ICC decided in 2021 that it possesses jurisdiction to investigate crimes occurring in the territory of Palestine. The mere fact of confining prisoners of war after the cessation of hostilities may constitute a ground for criminal prosecution.
Journal Article
Bush's lies can't hide Middle East realities
The World Trade Center attacks gave Bush the chance to sell this agenda to Americans as essential to the \"war on terrorism.\" The text calls for an end to the boycott of the Palestinian Authority and a comprehensive settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict based on \"U.N. Security Council Resolutions 242 of 1967 and 338 of 1973, the Camp David peace accords of 1978, the Clinton Parameters of 2000, the Arab League Initiative of 2002, and the Roadmap proposed in 2003 by the Quartet (U.N., U.S., EU and Russia).\"
Journal Article
Gazan Women, Social Media and Small Business Ventures: Opportunities and a Challenges
The state of Palestine, whose total land is around 6020 square kilometers (Worldometer, 2021), consists of two developing areas: The West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The rest of Palestine is controlled by the Israeli occupation. The Israeli occupation that was imposed on the land decades ago since 1948 has burdened the country with deteriorating economic situation of unbearable poverty and extraordinary unemployment rates, pushing Palestinians to find original mechanisms to sustain their basic needs. In particular, Palestinian women’s lifestyles have been profoundly challenged, where particular gender roles change to cope with the current harsh circumstances. Focusing on the geographically-restricted area of the Gaza Strip that has been suffering from an Israeli-Egyptian blockade since 2006, the objective of this study is to bring Palestinian women from the Gaza Strip to the center of a discussion about the gendered dimensions of women’s utilization of social media to launch private enterprises within a patriarchal society occupied by the Israeli occupation to sustain the needs of themselves and their families. A few studies have been carried out on women’s utilization of social media to start-up businesses within the context of the Gaza Strip. Three factors will be tackled throughout the analysis: challenging the social norms and patriarchy within the Gazan society, challenging the blockade of the Israeli occupation, and the novel use of social media platforms by Gazan women in starting-up their own enterprises to challenge both patriarchy and occupation. Four Gazan women entrepreneurs were interviewed to collect data that was qualitatively analyzed. Based on the analysis, the study concluded that the gender roles within the Gazan society are changing due to the high rates of unemployment and poverty, where many Gazan women occupy social media platforms using their own talents and hobbies to start businesses to help support their families. The findings of this study not only add to the feminist literature, but it also gives voices to some creative Gazan women, and gives insights to any business associations either within the Palestinian context or the international context on the different fields where Gazan women can achieve success, opening up new opportunities to the women in question.
Dissertation