“When did you first become interested in the issue of Palestine?

My father spoke to me about the Palestinians. He told me that they had been given a raw deal in 1948. I would have been somewhere between the ages of 5 and 12. The family bought a television in 1968 to help with my education and I became fascinated with the news. During the Yom Kippur War, I was grounded for some minor misdemeanour and occupied myself by keeping a map of the Arab progress in the war.”

“We, the undersigned Palestinian and Arab academics, journalists and intellectuals are hereby stating our views regarding the definition of antisemitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), and the way this definition has been applied, interpreted and deployed in several countries of Europe and North America.”

“Palestinians let out a collective sigh of relief after U.S. President Donald Trump’s election defeat. Like much of the rest of the world, they had been anxiously awaiting the outcome—and lamenting the fact that a political process halfway around the world continues to have an undue impact on the trajectory of their lives.”

“The UN said some three years ago that it expects Gaza to become ‘unliveable’ by 2020,” recalls Majed Abusalama, award-winning Palestinian journalist, scholar, campaigner and human rights defender.”

“JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees announced on Monday that it has run out of money to pay the salaries of its staff across the Middle East, after two years of funding cuts by the United States and some other donors.”