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United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
Article 13. (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state. (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to…
UN GA Resolution 302: Assistance to Palestine Refugees
This resolution recognizes that — “without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph 11 of General Assembly Resolution 194 (III) of 11 December 1948? — “continued assistance for the relief of the Palestine refugees is necessary”…
Reforming UNRWA
It is sometimes suggested by critics of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) that the agency should be abolished and its duties transferred to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the U.N. organization responsible for all other refugees in the world. But it is doubtful whether such a move would change much, for it is not UNRWA’s existence but rather its mission that is the root of the problem.
The Forgotten Refugees: The causes of the post-1948 Jewish Exodus from Arab Countries
By Philip Mendes, Presented at the 14th Jewish Studies Conference, Melbourne, March 2002 This paper explores the question of the other Middle Eastern refugees – the Jews who fled or were expelled from Arab countries between 1948…
The ruined village Palestinians will never forget
The ruins of Lifta are the final remains of the Palestinian hamlets that fringed Jerusalem until 1948. Now plans to bulldoze them are causing outrage. Read the full article here.
Rights are key – and they’re mutual
Rights are key – and they’re mutual By Dimi Reider The Jewish Chronicle Online
UN GA Resolution 181 (1947 Partition Plan)
This resolution lays out the plan for the partition of Palestine between a Jewish and an Arab state and a special international regime for Jerusalem and includes plans for an economic union. UN General Assembly…
There Was No Farewell
Taha Muhammad Ali, “There Was No Farewell.” So What: New and Selected Poems, 1971-2005. Trans. Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, Gabriel Levin. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2006. Available online at Narrative Magazine (free log-in required…
Ben Gurion: letter to his son, October 5, 1937
Letter from David Ben-Gurion to his son Amos, written 5 October 1937
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: a Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century
Adina Hoffman, “My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: a Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century,” New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Read “What Happened,” pp. 111-134, and “Going,” pp. 137-157. This biography of the…
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