This year's National Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) conference took place at Bethlehem University where we witnessed a strong dose of Palestinian realism when a dispute occurred between the Palestinian Minister of Economy Jawad Al-Naji, and BDS participant, Nizar Banat, resulting in Al-Naji storming out of the room. The argument was triggered when Banat questioned Mahmoud Abbas and his...

  On September 30, 2000, the French channel, France 2, broadcast a televised report which claimed to show the cruel murder of the twelve- year old Palestinian boy, Mohammad al-Dura, at the hands of Israeli soldiers.  This powerful visual purportedly portrayed the merciless death of this young man sheltered in the arms of his father at the Netzarim junction near Gaza.  France 2,...

  The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement's biggest success is rooted in its ‘soft power.' The ability to influence behavior through values, policies, institutions and culture, as opposed to 'hard' or coercive power exercised through military or economic pressures, plays a tremendous role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Using soft power pro-Palestinian groups have been...

  In May 2013, the Church of Scotland issued a document titled The Inheritance of Abraham? A Report on the ‘promised land'.[1] This text, which was a follow up to another paper on the same subject, Theology of Land and Covenant,  published in 2003, generated a lot of complaints, most of them directed at its criticism of the belief that the Jewish people have a legitimate claim to the...

  "A monologue is one person talking to himself.  A dialog is  two persons talking to theirself. (sic)'"                                        ...