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…
“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…
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…
Why calling Israel an apartheid state is not enough
By Lana Tatour. Report from B’Tselem highlighting Israel’s apartheid character is a welcome development, but this finding cannot be divorced from the state’s oppressive settler-colonialism
Joe Biden and the devastating illusion of the ‘peace process’
By Awad Abdelfattah. It would be catastrophic for Palestinian leaders to risk the people’s unity in the hope of securing real change from the Biden…
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…
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…
ODSC WEBINAR WITH MAJD NASRALLAH & JEFF HALPER
With the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Committee, May 28, 2020
ODS groups: On 72nd anniversary of the Nakba we bury illusions and rise up
For the past 72 years, the Zionist project has not ceased its colonial campaign of expanding, grabbing land, ethnically cleansing and killing, a campaign that…
ISRAEL, A SETTLER COLONIAL STATE
The ODSC program for a single democratic state in historic Palestine begins with the need to decolonize Zionism, to transform Israel (and its permanent control…
A Just Future Demands the Decolonization of Palestine – and a Democratic State for All
By Awad Abdelfattah and Jeff Halper December 10, 2019 The very title one gives to a phenomenon often determines how it can be understood and what can be done…
ONE DEMOCRATIC STATE IN HISTORIC PALESTINE: FEARS, HOPES, CONCERNS AND QUESTIONS
Over the past several years, a core group of 60 Palestinians and Israeli Jews have been meeting to formulate a political program that will bring peace,…
Could a One-State Solution Eliminate Racism Without Getting Rid of Capitalism?
by ELLEN ISAACS As we reflect on the latest brutality against protestors in Gaza and the struggle to end the outrageous Israeli occupation of Palestine and…
ONE (APARTHEID) STATE BECOMES A FORMAL REALITY
Jeff Halper With the signing of an agreement with Benny Gantz, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally got a government that gives him the two…
A vision for Palestinian statehood that is not Trump’s
We need to move away from the idea of a two-state solution and embrace the vision of one secular, democratic state. Haidar Eid This article…
The ‘One Democratic State Campaign’ program for a multicultural democratic state in Palestine/Israel
As the Leonard Cohen song goes, “everybody knows” the two-state solution is dead and gone. Zionism’s 120-year quest to Judaize Palestine – to transform Palestine…
Choices Made: From Zionist Settler Colonialism to Decolonization
Over the years tons of ink have been expended on the seemingly interminable issue of the Palestinians and Israel. The wonderful Educational Bookshop in East…
One state for all: The only alternative to Israeli apartheid
Justice and peace can only be achieved in the context of a single democratic state that would include, and benefit equally, all residents and repatriated…
Edward Said and the re-drawing of the (post)colonial political map of Palestine
Haidar Eid Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & SocietyVol. 6, No. 1, 2017, pp. 64-78(CC) 2017 H. Eid – This is an Open Access article distributed under…
