As Ramadan started, all eyes were on occupied Jerusalem, and especially in Al-Aqsa Mosque, where the Israeli policy of intimidation and violence against Palestinians has increased. Jalal Abukhater shares a commentary contextualizing the situation in occupied Jerusalem, where Palestinians face an assault on what remains of their culture and identity.

Ten years ago, the Right to Movement campaign organised the first Palestine marathon in Bethlehem to bring runners together. Today, it is a space of Palestinian unity and resistance, write Jalal Abukhater and George Zeidan.

Jerusalemites face occupation and apartheid. No amount of strongly worded statements and money pledges can help them.

From house demolitions to military detention, the violence we Palestinians face daily reflects the power imbalance of occupier and occupied

Media and political leaders have misrepresented Khairy Alqam’s attack in the Israeli settlement of Neve Yaakov that killed seven Israeli settlers by ignoring the context in which it took place.

Settlers are violently blocking Palestinians from accessing the green spaces of the occupied West Bank.

The Israeli election outcomes are a natural result of decades of unchecked settler colonialism in the form of political persecution, institutional violence, apartheid and ethnic cleansing.

A UK embassy move to Jerusalem would do more damage to more damage to British politics that it would to Palestinian resistance.

They claim Jerusalem is an undivided city, yet there are two laws governing two peoples in the most unequal manner.

One month on, still no justice in sight for our beloved Shireen.
But this does not mean there is no hope. There is.

The killing shook every Palestinian, and at her funeral we were clubbed and kicked. But we will fight for all she stood for

Shireen Abu Aqleh was an icon in Palestine and the Arab world, her life lost to the Israeli occupation

Embracing the contradictions and struggle of a life lived in Jerusalem.

Ramallah’s residents have a lingering sense of claustrophobia: it’s not hard to see why.

As a Palestinian Jerusalemite, I live in a surveillance society not that different from those in dystopian science fiction novels.

Palestinians are indeed living in a panopticon – we are all prisoners of Israel’s surveillance regime

Landmark report reveals those in Europe still seem to prioritise Israel’s ‘Jewishness’ over Palestinian rights

In the West Bank, the occupation and settlements pose the biggest threats to the livelihood of Palestinian farmers who depend on olive trees for sustenance.

Palestinians expect more violence and expulsions as fragile eight-party coalition moves right to attract supporters of ousted leader Netanyahu

The success of Palestinian activism in Jerusalem angered the Israeli authorities, who launched a violent campaign to suppress it.

And it has made colonial violence a permanent feature of Palestinian lives in the holy city.