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The 'Peace to Prosperity' plan is simply the latest version of a US plan revised repeatedly since the 1970s asking the Palestinians to trade basic rights in return for fanciful financial promises.
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The activists who managed to keep the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement alive are now facing difficult times under the Trump presidency.
Edward Said's seminal text on Orientalism laid the foundations for analysing the modern world and its relationship with power structures. But does it go far enough?
Gazans have launched reading projects in the first English-language public library opened recently with the help of American linguist Noam Chomsky.
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