Salman Abu Sitta, 23 Sep, 2024

Building Future PalestineOn 13 Sept 2024, the awards were announced in London for the 8th year Competition for the reconstruction of destroyed...

Salman Abu Sitta, 15 May, 2024

The Right of Return to Free Palestine76 years later, Palestinian return to the homes and lands we were expelled from in 1948 is feasible and, of course,...

Salman Abu Sitta, 15 May, 2024

FROM: MIDDLE EAST , JW SUPPLEMENT FROM MAY 15, 2024“The right to return is sacred to us”About the historic Nakba and October 7th. A conversation with...

Salman Abu Sitta, 4 January, 2023

I could have been one of those who broke through the siege on October 7 Nothing can hide the determination and courage of those young people who...

Salman Abu Sitta, October, 2023

The barbarians are backAlmost one thousand years ago, Pope Urban II exhorted European kings to wage a Crusaders war on the Holy Land. This past week has...

Salman Abu Sitta, July, 2023

‘Zionism is an Ashkenazi thing’: how Zionism engineered the expulsion of Iraq’s Arab JewsIn "Three Worlds: Memoir of an Arab Jew," Avi Shlaim declares...

Researcher-in-Charge Shourideh C. Molavi, May, 2023

This investigation is accompanied by a comprehensive report, which supports an ongoing legal initiative by Adalah.On the night of 22-23 May 1948, one...

Salman Abu Sitta , May, 2023

Dr. Salman Abu Sitta, 85, hat vor 75 Jahren die Vertreibung der Palästinenser aus Palästina selbst miterlebt. (Foto Karin Leukefeld)Mit Gewalt enteignet...

Salman Abu Sitta, May, 2023

Refuting the Eu’s Der LeyenSalman Abu SittaTuesday 16 May 2023 Salman Abu Sitta pens an open letter to President of the European Commission Ursula von...

Salman Abu Sitta and Daleen Saah, April, 2023

Anatomy of A Massacre - Ed Dawayima, Hebron District  

Salman Abu Sitta, Autumn, 2022

Transactions of the Jewish National Fund volume 3 autumn 2022Britannia Park – Burial and TreacherySalman Abu-SittaThis paper demonstrates the treachery...

mondoweiss.net, September 03, 2022

The Zionist archaeology that erases the Palestinians of BurayrDr. Salman Abu Sitta excoriates the authors of an archaeological survey that covers up the...

Salman Abu Sitta, Automnu, 2022

Britannia Park – Burial and Treachery   Salman Abu-SittaThis paper demonstrates the treachery of the Jewish National Fund, in particular the UK branch...

Salman Abu Sitta, May 18, 2022

Israel is the ugliest ever face of brutal colonialismIsraeli army soldiers, near Nablus in the occupied West Bank on May 17, 2022 [JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP...

AUB, February 22, 2022

INAUGURATING THE PALESTINE LAND STUDIES CENTER AT AUB – BRINGING KNOWLEDGE TO THE REGION    AUB recently celebrated what President Fadlo R. Khuri...

mondoweiss.net, JANUARY 28, 2022

Return? to GazaIn November 2021, Salman Abu Sitta returned to the Gaza Strip after five decades of forced absence. What he found surprised and inspired...

Salman Abu Sitta and Daleen Saah, September, 2021

Anatomy of A Massacre - Burayr, Gaza district  

Salman Abu Sitta and Daleen Saah, September, 2020

Anatomy of A Massacre - Abu Shusha, Ramle District  

Salman Abu Sitta , June 12, 2020

Massacres as a weapon of ethnic cleansing during the NakbaFrom April 1st to May 14, 1948 -- before Israel was declared, before the British left, and...

Salman Abu Sitta , September 5, 2019

  What happens when a people are confined to a bubble where the “truth” has one book to read, to follow and obey, then suddenly the bubble bursts and...

Salman Abu Sitta, June, 2019

 In an unexpected move, the Arab governments, headed by those with close ties to the US, announced a new plan: The Salvation of The Century to end the...

Salman Abu Sitta, 2016

Gaza is Palestine. The Gaza Strip is a symbol of Palestine's geography and history. It has the distinction that it has never willingly raised a flag...

Salman Abu Sitta, 2016

I discovered I am ‘Palestinian’ the first time I stepped out of Palestine. Not because I lacked identity but because I did not need to prove that to my...

Salman Abu Sitta, 2016

HISTORICAL CONTEXTDr. Salman Abu Sitta provides this historical perspective placing the Kafr Qasem massacre within the context of the brutal process of...

Salman Abu Sitta, August, 2015

Che Guevara’s visit to Gaza in 1959 was the first sign of transforming the Zionist colonization of Palestine from a regional conflict to a global...

Salman Abu Sitta, July 20, 2015

The Jewish National Fund–JNF (or Keren Kayemet LeYisrael–KKL) is a unique colonization tool. The adjective "unique" is usually associated with positive...

Salman Abu Sitta, Founder and President, Palestine Land Society, May 2015

How does Palestine look like in 2030?This is a big question in which speculation can run wild. A simple proof of this is the history of Palestine in the...

Salman Abu Sitta, January 28, 2015

An interesting plan for dividing Israel into provinces was published a few months ago by Haaretz. It suggested a remedy for the fragmentation of Israeli...

Salman Abu Sitta and Terry Rempel, October, 2014

The internment of thousands of Palestinian civilians in Israeli-run prisoner of war camps is a relatively little known episode in the 1948 war. This...

Salman Abu Sitta, September 30, 2014

For over six decades the Israeli narrative about al Nakba events dominated the Western media and Western minds. It was a well woven tale of religious...

June 3, 2014

We, the undersigned, representing the University of Virginia School of Law International Human Rights Law Clinic; Boston University School of Law Human...

Salman Abu Sitta, June, 2014

The destruction of Palestine was the inevitable result of the most ill-conceived and destructive settler-colonial European project in the history of...

Uri Avnery, May 16, 2014

Years ago I was invited to a UN conference on the Palestinian refugees in Paris. I was to open the debate as an Israeli, after the Palestinian...

Ramzy Baroud, November 14, 2013

In an initially pointless exercise that lasted nearly an hour, I flipped between two Palestinian television channels, Al Aqsa TV of Hamas in Gaza and...

Speech of Joseph A. Massad, May 10-12, 2013

Joseph Massad is Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African...

Salman Abu Sitta, March 22, 2013

The study of post-Zionism, i.e. life in Israel particularly without Zionism, is not a theoretical subject. It should be carried in the context of...

Salman Abu Sitta, 2013

Diplomats, politicians and activists alike have long laboured under the assumption that a two-state solution is the only path to peace between the...

Salman Abu Sitta, 2013

Sharon, feted in death by Western colonial powers, was a killer whose distinction among all of Zionism’s criminals was simply being brazen about his...

Salman Abu Sitta, December 23, 2012

News has been swirling that important members of Fatah in Ramallah have been instructed to prepare for a new confederation between the ‘new state of...

Salman Abu Sitta, November, 2012

Dear President Obama, I saw you when you visited Sderot in July 2008 as a presidential candidate, wearing an “I love Sderot” T-shirt and heard you...

Yazan Al-Saadi, Al Akbar, August 5, 2012

Palestinians walk outside the Dome of the Rock at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem during the third Friday prayers of Islam's holy month of...

Salman Abu Sitta, June 29-July 01, 2012

In May 2012, Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) made an outstanding discovery, which had escaped scores of politicians, diplomats and experts for six decades. He...

Salman Abu Sitta, July, 2012

To predict that Zionism will vanish or be totally discredited is probably difficult to imagine now, but in reality it is inevitable. The reasons for the...

Salman Abu Sitta, April, 2012

The inclusion of a new term, “Registered Persons”, removing the word “refugee” from about one third of a million records, is a revival of old, albeit...

Salman Abu Sitta, July 10, 2011

The new leadership will be well-versed in the history and geography of Palestine and the rights of the Palestinian people, and will be prepared to...

Salman Abu Sitta, February 13, 2011

The issue is not that documents giving details of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority were leaked by Al Jazeera and the Guardian...

Salman Abu Sitta, January, 2011

In the past few months, we have heard the news about the destruction of Al-Araqib village in the district of Beer Sheba in the Naqab by hundreds of...

Salman Abu Sitta, December, 2010

In the Middle Ages, they burned books on science and astronomy. In the 19th century, colonial powers promoted the super-race theory. In 1948, the...

Salman Abu Sitta, July 16-20, 2010

The deteriorating situation of the Palestinian cause is no secret to anyone, including Palestinians themselves and the Arab world. There is, therefore...

Salman Abu Sitta, April 16, 2010

To maintain a façade of moral code, you do not kill a friend, you kill an enemy. You do not rob another man’s house, you recover your long-forgotten...

Salman Abu Sitta, January 27, 2010

Newspaper columns are currently busy with commentaries on Arab, Israeli and US diplomatic moves suggesting new initiatives in the peace process, which...

Salman Abu Sitta, May-August, 2009

One of the most important lessons we have learned from the 60-year Palestinian-Israeli conflict is that the essence of the struggle has not changed: it...

Salman Abu Sitta, February 13, 2008

The Associates Press, in its report quoted by the Herald Tribune and Ha'aretz on February 11, 2008, said that Qiryat Yam sued Google Earth "for slander"...

Salman Abu Sitta, January 10, 2008

In the fall of 1998, I was having coffee with colleagues in Birzeit’s international conference on “Palestine Landscape” when a young woman and a young...

Salman Abu Sitta, 2008

In wars, the victor frequently conquers a foreign territory, claims it as his own and produces maps to serve as the legitimate birth certificate of this...

Salman Abu Sitta, March 29, 2007

Why should I, a Jew from north London, be permitted to take up Israeli citizenship, when that right is denied to a Palestinian who languishes in a...

Salman Abu Sitta, June 6, 2006

In the spring of 1948, some Jewish mukhtars (headmen) of Jewish colonies in Palestinian went over to the Arab Palestinian mukhtars in the nearby...

Salman Abu Sitta, March, 2006

The ravages of two world wars in the twentieth century laid the foundation to a new world order in intent, if not in fact. It has been realized that war...

Salman Abu Sitta, February 1, 2006

Israel's policy towards the Palestinians was not only forged out of the experiences of European Jews at the hands of Nazi Germany, but it also...

Salman Abu Sitta, November, 2005

We, citizens of the world,celebrating the human pursuit of freedom and independence, adhering fully to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...

Salman Abu Sitta, September 22-28, 2005

New exoduses could mean new beginnings. Tracing the Palestinians' path from being refugees to determining their own fate, Salman Abu Sitta* celebrates...

June 7, 2005

On the eve of declaring statehood on 14 May 1948, Zionist forces expelled half of the population of what became Israel before the state was created and...

Salman Abu Sitta, January 13, 2005

Response to Meron Benvenisti’s article, “The panicky longing for recognition”I admired most writings of Meron Benvenisti, especially when he talks...

Dov Gavish, 2005

Balfour Declaration of 2 November 1917 promised to establish in Palestine a ‘national home’ for the Jews contrary to the self-determination rights of...

Salman Abu Sitta, January 1-7, 2004

The Geneva Accord was long ago scripted by Israeli Military Intelligence, writes Salman Abu Sitta*. The orchestrated media blitz, replete with approving...

Salman Abu Sitta, 2004

The ravages of two world wars in the twentieth century laid the foundation to a new world order in intent, if not in fact. It has been realized that war...

Salman Abu Sitta, June, 2003

The Beer Sheba (Bir Saba') district is the least understood and most mispresented part of Palestine in terms of the number of refugees and related land...

Salman Abu Sitta, February 27-March 5, 2003

 Israel, not Iraq, holds that distinction of being the first country in the region to use weapons of mass destruction with genocidal intent. Salman Abu...

Salman Abu Sitta, May 16-22, 2002

From the 1948 Nakbah to events in the occupied territories today, Israel's aims and supporting myths have been remarkably similar, writes Salman Abu...

Palestine Return Centre, London, April, 2002

By all standards the PRC conference on “the Israeli Law of Return and its Impact on the Conflict in Palestine” was an overwhelming success. The event...

Salman Abu Sitta, January 19, 2002

Two complementary words have become an integral part of the Palestinian narrative for the last 53 years. Al Nakba and the right of return. They...

Salman Abu Sitta, 2001

One of the most important lessons we have learned from the fifty-three-year Palestinian-Israeli conflict is that the essence of the struggle is the...

Salman Abu Sitta, March 9-5, 2000

The initial euphoria of great expectations associated with the peace process in September 1993 has quickly subsided. With hindsight, there was no reason...

Salman Abu Sitta, October 10, 1999

Frederic Hof has written a timely and well-researched essay on the dividing line between Syria and Israel since 1948. This is particularly useful. The...

Salman Abu Sitta, July 31, 1999

There has never been more universal and sustained consensus of the international community than that accorded to the rights of the Palestinian Refugees....

Salman Abu Sitta, June, 1999

Half a century has passed since the dispossession and expulsion of the Palestinians from their homes in 1948. This event shaped the history of the area...

Salman Abu Sitta, November 11, 1998

Excerpts in “Reclaiming the Right of Return”, in Badil publication, al Majdal, issue 1, March 1999. Excerpts from a research report by Salman Abu Sitta...

Salman Abu Sitta, November 5, 1998

Who says Oslo is dead? The final status negotiations are well underway. Although it is only a dry-run for the real thing, carried out by a group of...

Salman Abu Sitta, March 2, 1998

For the first time, Israel has embarked on a plan to sell the land of the 1948 Palestinian refugees (92% of Israel) to Jewish individuals. Clearly this...

Ahram Weekly, Cairo, January 1-7, 1998

The Palestinian yearning to return has been represented as a quixotic gesture, an impossible dream, in the face of Israel's efforts to obliterate the...

Salman Abu Sitta, June, 1997

The conflict between Israel, the Palestinians and the Arab world is the consequence of the creation of the Israeli state, its conquest of Palestine in...