Khamsin: Palestine: profile of an occupation
Collection of essays focusing on the Israeli attitudes and policies which brought about the first Intifada. It covers the economic dislocation of Palestinians, settler politics in Jerusalem as well as the conditions and types of work available to Palestinian workers in Israel. It also examines Israeli self-images and self-justification is. Various Israeli-proposed Federalist solutions are considered, as is the Palestinian response. Finally, the authors highlight the central role of Palestinian women and the ever-present influence of the refugee camps.
Khamsin: Women in the Middle East
Issue of Khamsin from 1987 about women and feminism in the Middle East and Egypt, Palestine and Israel particular.
The Palestinian Arab National Movement (book review) - Musa Budeiri
Book review by Musa Budeiri on Yehoshua Poreth's The Palestinian Arab National Movement, from Riots to Rebellion.
Changes in Palestinian society - Ehud Ein Gil and Aryeh Finkelstein
A look at the changes in Palestinian society since the beginning of zionist expansion in the region and its affect on the position of women.
The ideological divide in the Palestinian Resistance Movement - Mohammed Ja'far
A critical assessment of the two mainstream currents inside the Palestinian Resistance Movement.
Khamsin: Journal of revolutionary socialists of the Middle-East
Archive of revolutionary socialist journal, Khamsin, which was published from 1978 to 1987. While we might disagree with some of the positions taken, particularly those to do with national liberation, many articles contain interesting information about working class struggle, which we reproduce for reference.
Impossible reconciliation: The contradictions of labor Zionism
Submitted by Chilli Sauce on Nov 12 2012 16:49
A piece written as a university dissertation. I don't claim it's reliably academic material, but I do hope it offers a libertarian exploration of the early Zionism movement: secular and socialist rhetoric, but inevitably compromised by the national project integral to all forms of Zionism, despite any professed radicalism.
I haven't included the footnotes, so PM me if you want to see them.
Palestine price-rise protests photo gallery, September 2012
Submitted by Ed on Sep 12 2012 17:12
Thousands of Palestinians take to the streets to protest rising prices and unpaid wages as a result of the Paris Protocol, the latest joint agreement between the State of Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Soapy is on hunger strike
Submitted by Soapy on Aug 9 2012 19:49
As of yesterday members of Students for Justice in Palestine began a hunger strike in solidarity with hunger striking Palestinian prisoners. The following is a statement we released explaining our actions.
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