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ODSC STANDS WITH AMERICAN STUDENTS AND FACULTY STANDING WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE

The One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC) stands in solidarity with you, the courageous and principled students and faculty at dozens of universities throughout the United States, demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, divestment of your universities from companies profiting from Israeli wars on the Palestinians, and for Palestinian national rights. We recognize the genuine jeopardy …

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STOP THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA!

A Statement of the One Democratic State Campaign The Palestinian people in Gaza are undergoing a campaign of genocide by their Israeli jailers. Confining two and half million people to a tiny area (made even smaller by the Israeli army’s order that half of Gaza’s inhabitants move south), cutting off all food, water, electricity and …

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FROM CITIZENSHIP TO LIBERATION DISCOURSE

The One Secular Democratic State CampaignAwad Abdelfattah In the early eighties, an elderly Israeli man came into the office of Al-Fajr English Newspaper where I worked in East Jerusalem, and introduced himself as a journalist from the Israeli ‘Maariv’ newspaper, Israel’s second most widely circulated paper at the time. He said he was investigating what …

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“But if I don’t steal it, someone else is gonna steal it” – Israeli Settler-Colonial Accumulation by Dispossession

Areej Sabbagh-Khoury This article originally appeared in MERIP In a video clip widely shared on social media platforms in late April 2021, Mona al-Kurd (a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood) is seen confronting Jacob Fauci (an Israeli Jewish settler from Long Island) in the yard of her family home. “Yaakov, you know …

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It is time Israel, the West admit the two-state solution is dead

A recent survey shows that even Western and Israeli pundits know two states in Palestine are impossible. Haidar Eid This article originally appeared in Al Jazeera In August, the influential US magazine Foreign Affairs carried out a survey on the two-state solution in Palestine among “authorities with specialized expertise together with leading generalists in the …

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The two-state solution: The opium of the Palestinian people

It is time for the de-Osloisation of the Palestinian struggle. Haidar Eid This article originally appeared in Al Jazeera Last month, Saeb Erekat, chief Palestinian negotiator and secretary-general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, passed away at the age of 65. His death has been seen by some Palestinians as a metaphor …

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WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE

Haidar Eid The Israeli government, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, is intent on annexing at least 30% of the occupied West Bank. By doing this, the Zionist movement, which has historically denied the national and cultural rights of the indigenous population of Palestine, will finally kill the racist two-state solution, paving the way for an extended …

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