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Los Angeles, CA - May 16: Los Angeles City Councilwoman Traci Park (District 11), speaks during a meeting where the Council deadlocked on a proposal, 7-7, to ask City Planning Director Vince Bertoni to consider rescinding a general plan amendment initiation for the Bulgari Resort Los Angeles, a planned 58-room hotel that would rise in Benedict Canyon, at City Hall in downtown Los Angeles, CA, Tuesday, May 16, 2023. Developer Gary Safady's proposal will continue in the process, with an environmental impact report being completed. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

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May 26, 2023

(Washington, D.C., May 26, 2023) — The Los Angeles City Council has voted to pass Council Resolution 23-0349, a bill...

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May 3, 2023

Salah Soltan Should be Immediately Released, Offered Treatment Salah Soltan, the arbitrarily detained father of a prominent US human rights...

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April 6, 2023

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May 25, 2023

On May 18, DAWN hosted a panel discussion online on the denial of the history of the Nakba and recognition...

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May 23, 2023

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May 15, 2023

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On May 18, DAWN hosted a panel discussion online on the denial of the history of the Nakba and recognition...

NABLUS, WEST BANK, PALESTINE - 2023/04/11: An Israeli soldier aims his rifle from behind a wall during a military operation after the Israeli army forces killed Palestinian gunmen, near Elon Moreh, east of Nablus, in the West Bank. Two Palestinian gunmen were shot dead by Israeli soldiers. According to Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, the two gunmen opened fire at the Israeli soldiers near the Jewish settlement of Elon Moreh, which caused the clashes between them and resulted in the death of the two Palestinian gunmen. The gunmen are identified as Mohammed Abu Dhraa and Soud al-Titi. Both their bodies were taken under the custody of the Israeli military. (Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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The Technology of Occupation Has Become One of Israel's Main Exports

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The Israel/Palestine conflict has been exported globally. The tools and technologies Israel uses to repress Palestinians are sold to over...

The 1948 Palestinian exodus, known in Arabic as the Nakba (Arabic: an-Nakbah, lit.'catastrophe'), occurred when more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from their homes, during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine and the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The exact number of refugees is a matter of dispute, but around 80 percent of the Arab inhabitants of what became Israel (50 percent of the Arab total of Mandatory Palestine) left or were expelled from their homes. Later in the war, Palestinians were forcibly expelled as part of 'Plan Dalet' in a policy of 'ethnic cleansing'.

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Neither Here nor There: The Shrinking Physical Space for Palestinians

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May 12, 2023

Physical space has been shrinking for Palestinians for 75 years—sometimes in fits, and sometimes in creeping fashion.

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Paul Klee's Tunisia Epiphanies and the Gravitational Pull of the Sublime

Farah Abdessamad

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The Swiss-German modernist painter Paul Klee felt the power of the sublime in Tunisia, and it left him in an...

China's Uyghur Repression

Where Is the Outrage, and Action, in the Arab World Over China's Uyghur Genocide?

Omer Kanat

May 10, 2023

China has succeeded in recruiting non-democratic governments to deny that it is carrying out a genocide against Muslim minorities.

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"I think we have to think of Israel as multiple governments that does different things for different people. The fact that it provides a democracy for Israeli jews does not ameliorate the fact that it practices apartheid and persecution for Palestinians."

"The Biden Administration should not allow senior government officials inciting atrocities against Palestinian civilians to spread their violent and hateful rhetoric in the United States."

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