Analysis and debate

Film director Iyad Alasttal talks to Hassina Mechaï | Published in Middle East Monitor on November 24, 2019.

Iyad Alasttal is a Palestinian film director. Born in Khan Younis, he has directed award-winning documentaries about the Gaza Strip which have won prizes at several film festivals in Egypt, France, Lebanon, Britain, Italy, Tunisia and Palestine. He also works as a translator for French delegations and journalists in Gaza.

By Gideon Levy and Alex Levac. Published in Haaretz on August 30, 2019.

Settlers have taken over dozens of springs in the West Bank, all of them on private Palestinian land, and are keeping the owners away. Rina Shnerb, a Jewish teen, was murdered last week at one of them.

By Gideon Levy. Published on May 19, 2019 on Haaretz website.

Germany has just criminalized justice. A blend of warranted guilt feelings, orchestrated and taken to sickening extremes by cynical and manipulative Israeli extortion, caused the federal parliament on Friday to pass one of the most outrageous and bizarre resolutions since the end of World War II. The Bundestag has defined the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel as anti-Semitic. Benjamin Netanyahu and Gilad Erdan rejoiced. Germany ought to be ashamed.

A petition signed by the Group of Prefiguration de 2018, un Temps de la Palestine à Rennes:

What is COPELFI?

COPELFI is the “Association pour les Conferences de Psychiatrie de l’Enfant et de l’Adolescent en Langue Française en Israël,” a joint association of French and Israeli child and adolescent psychiatrists. It was founded in 1989 by the French psychiatrists G. Gachnochi and M. Vincent, in partnership with the Israeli psychiatrist S. Tyano, with the goal of “promoting the exchange of clinical and therapeutic experience between child psychiatric professionals within France and Israel, as well as to stimulating creativity and acquainting our colleagues in Israel with new modes of thinking developed in France.”

Overnight on August 8-9, Israeli warplanes bombed the Water and Sanitation system for al-Mughraqa City in Gaza.

from Quds News Network.

By Amira Hass. Published in Haaretz on Aug 13, 2018.

How many of the young people protesting at the Gaza border fence hoped the soldiers facing them would pull the trigger and end their lives? Unfortunately, many

The roots of France’s ascendant racism lie as deep as the origins of the French republic itself by Yasser Louati (published on July 11, 2017).

Marine Le Pen was never really the story so much as the symptom. Ever since global terrorism set the new norm in terms of a permanent threat of bombs in public spaces, mass shootings or crowd-ploughing trucks, the politics of identity has found a new source of legitimisation in France.

In memory of Marah Diab [[Marah Diab was 10 years old when she died of kidney failure in a hospital in Gaza on 17 February 2016. Marah was one of the victims of the lack of medical facilities in Gaza due to the blockade by Israel. This text was written the same night her death was announced, as a reaction to it.]]

For a moment, just imagine yourself in Gaza. You live in a city on its knees, in an isolated and narrow strip of land with another 1.8 million fellow citizens. 360 square kilometers of prison, no more. Your children still bear the scars of several wars in their minds – some on their bodies – as well as the harrowing memory of the bombs – including phosphorus bombs – from the summer of 2014.

French Jewish Union for Peace – UJFP

The trap set for Jews of France

In describing the Jewish community as having one homogenous voice fully in support of all Israeli policies, Israel has set a trap for the Jews of France. How was this accomplished and what can be done? The French Jewish Union for Peace explains.