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In Palestine, the law has been used as a tool of oppression to legitimize and advance the dispossession of the Palestinian people…
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Israel’s status as a bona fide democracy is often taken to be a self-evident truth, but a more critical look at the…
Writing and photographing in wartime are acts of resistance, acts of faith. They affirm the belief that one day ā a day…
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