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Gaza: Siege and Sumud
One of the oldest cities on earth, under the most documented siege of the modern era — and the people who keep teaching, writing, and reporting through it.
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Palestine has long been part of a global argument about colonialism, apartheid, and human rights. These are the people who made it, in their own words.
11 entries · 1964–2025
Palestinian-Canadian lawyer; former legal advisor to the PLO negotiating team and former PLO spokesperson
Diana Buttu on Negotiations and Media Framing
The idea that people who are living under occupation have to negotiate with their occupier is repugnant.
Barrister, Matrix Chambers; counsel for South Africa
South Africa v. Israel: The Genocide Case at the International Court of Justice
The first genocide in history where its victims are broadcasting their own destruction in real time in the desperate, so far vain hope that the world might do something.
UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
Francesca Albanese: 'Anatomy of a Genocide' and the Reports of the UN Special Rapporteur
There are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating that Israel has committed genocide has been met.
Writer and journalist; author of 'Between the World and Me'
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Palestine and 'The Message'
It occurred to me that there was still one place on the planet — under American patronage — that resembled the world that my parents were born into.
Scholar, activist, and author; Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of California, Santa Cruz
Angela Davis: Freedom Is a Constant Struggle — From Ferguson to Palestine
Solidarity with Palestine must likewise be taken up by organizations and movements involved in progressive causes all over the world.
Archbishop and anti-apartheid activist
Desmond Tutu: Israeli Apartheid is Worse Than South Africa's
I have witnessed the systemic humiliation of Palestinian men, women and children by members of the Israeli security forces.
Former President of South Africa
Nelson Mandela on Palestine
We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.
French writer and playwright
Four Hours in Shatila
Genet's eyewitness account of the aftermath of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre — four hours among the dead, written without flinching.
Palestinian-American intellectual
Edward Said: The Question of Palestine
Palestine is a state of mind, a place of exile and longing, and a territory that has been the site of successive dispossessions.
Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization
Yasser Arafat at the United Nations: The Olive Branch and the Gun
Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom-fighter's gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
Minister and human rights activist
Malcolm X in Gaza and "Zionist Logic"
Days after walking through the refugee camps of Gaza, Malcolm X set down his analysis of Zionism as a new form of colonialism.
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