This is Why Gazans Won’t Back Down
The main takeaway from the “Great March of Return Protest” – a 45-day event that began just after I left Gaza six weeks ago and Tuesday reached its most important…
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May 16, 2018
Interview with IPS Senior Fellow Brian Barber
This is the hardest question to answer: when, if ever, will Gazans crack? I wouldn't dare offer an evaluation on that. This interview was conducted ahead of Barber's field work…
March 29, 2018
Palestinians in Gaza Suffer Enough Without Being Defamed as Sexual Deviants and Mentally Ill
A November 11th Haaretz interview with a psychologist who occasionally visits the Gaza Strip (Gaza Kids Live in Hell: A Psychologist Tells of Rampant Sexual Abuse, Drugs and Despair) portrays…
November 21, 2017
The Situation in Gaza: An Interview with Brian Barber
Brian K. Barber, PhD, is a New America Fellow in Washington, DC, a Professor of Child and Family Studies, and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Youth…
March 31, 2016
Jerusalem Tensions: It’s how the Israelis are Ruling Palestinians There
Once again violence has spiked between Palestinians and Israelis; a surge that might well be hard to quell given the chaotic, random, crude, and brutal forms it has taken. There…
November 13, 2015
After the War: A Week in Gaza, My “Second Home”
“She passed!” exclaimed 34-year old Ahmed, oldest of 9 children in a family in one of Gaza’s eight refugee camps. The news that Noor, his youngest sister, had passed the…
February 23, 2015
Hamas, Shmamas: It’s about Israeli National Ambitions
Much recent commentary on forging a lasting peace between Palestinians and Israel makes two deceptive and unproductive claims: 1) Hamas is responsible for the recent violence and must alter its…
October 9, 2014