Refaat Alareer

Dec 6, 2024 | lithub.com | Susan Abulhawa |Refaat Alareer

On December 7, 2013, a Ph.D. student in Malaysia reached out to me by email because he was writing a research paper on a section of Mornings in Jenin. He told me that he had taught my novel at the Islamic University of Gaza, and he hoped to get my thoughts on his thesis. His name was Refaat Alareer. We corresponded on the topic and kept in touch. We became friends and comrades, and I came to love, respect, and value him.

Aug 28, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Stephen Semler |Brett Wilkins |Amir Nour |Refaat Alareer

Monsters of History Defy Truth, Justice and Humanitarian ValuesThe Israeli-American fraudulent scenario of a ceasefire ended at Cairo without any agreeable outcome. There was nothing new but to kill the time and opportunities for the return of normalcy and humanitarian necessities to have allowed the people of Gaza to breathe oxygen while the bombing and killing of civilians continues unabated.

Aug 27, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Stephen Semler |Brett Wilkins |Amir Nour |Refaat Alareer

If the Biden administration is truly concerned about the loss of innocent Palestinian life in Gaza, it can stop Israel’s atrocities by denying it the tools it needs to commit them. The Biden administration recently approved five major arms sales to Israel for F-15 fighter aircraft, tank ammunition, tactical vehicles, air-to-air missiles, mortar rounds, and related equipment for each.

Aug 27, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Brett Wilkins |Amir Nour |Refaat Alareer |Rima Najjar

In an investigation focusing on a pair of Israeli massacres of forcibly displaced Palestinians in Gaza, Amnesty International on Monday urged the International Criminal Court—whose chief prosecutor has already applied for warrants to arrest Israeli and Hamas leaders—to open a war crimes probe of the attacks, which it said were likely “indiscriminate” and “disproportionate.” “On May 26, 2024, two Israeli airstrikes on the Kuwaiti Peace Camp, a makeshift camp for internally displaced people in...

Aug 27, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Amir Nour |Brett Wilkins |Refaat Alareer |Jake Johnson

“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, – the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea”(W. E.