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Issue 544 of New Internationalist

Reader-owned global journalism

July-August 2023

Palestine: From occupation to uprising

As Israel lurches towards fascism, Palestinians continue to struggle and innocent people are killed on a weekly basis by occupying forces.

Thirty years on from the Oslo Accords, this Big Story looks at the realities of occupation, apartheid and resistance on the ground in Palestine and Israel – and the possibilities for change.

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Decolonization

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The Big Story

From accord to Apartheid

As extremists run rampant in Israel’s halls of power, Zoe Holman traces the origins of apartheid and its effects for Palestinians pushing back on the ground.

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Harvesting oppression

Issam Adwan speaks to Palestinian farmers about how Israel is attacking their agriculture – while profiting from their lands.

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Sanctions Mark II

Andrew Feinstein calls for international mobilization of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions strategy that helped end South African apartheid.

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Gaza’s fragile ‘peace’

The Strip is under renewed assault by Israel. Aziz Hamdi Al-Masry writes from Gaza about the costs of siege and the prospects of intensified conflict.

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Q&A: Equal citizens, one state?

Cherine Hussein talks the failures of Oslo, the mirage of the ‘two-state solution’ and why Palestinians are increasingly looking to a one state model for justice.

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The art of resistance

As Israel seeks to airbrush Palestinian history from Jerusalem, Frances Leach reports on how culture is both a tool of and weapon against occupation.

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Currents

Boost for Right in Chile

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Plus: Borderlines

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Introducing: Elly Schlein

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Plus: Seriously?

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Attacks on trans rights in the US

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Journalist imprisoned in Vietnam

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Plus: Inequality Watch

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Embargoes limit earthquake aid in Syria

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Children taken from their parents in Ukraine

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Workers take on Meta in Kenya

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Reasons to be cheerful

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Regulars

Letter from Shapajilla

Stephanie Boyd experiences new life and loss on a night voyage in the Peruvian Amazon.

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Cartoon History: Algeria Conquered

ILYA examines the events and legacy of its colonization by France in the nineteenth century.

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The Interview

Leila Khaled speaks to Marta Vidal about the Palestinian struggle and why she hi-jacked a plane.

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Hall of Infamy – Itamar Ben-Gvir

Spouting hate is a lark when you’re in power – just ask Israel’s National Security Minister

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Temperature Check

Should we believe the hype about electric cars? Danny Chivers assesses the state of play

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Agony Uncle

Should I stay or should I go? NI’s new Agony Uncle advises a support worker who’s sick of their boss.

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What if… the West stopped exporting second-hand clothing?

Alice McCool calls time on fashion waste.

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Country profile: Egypt

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Opinion

View from Africa

Vaccines alone won’t stop malaria.

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View from India

Gandhi defiant, Modi rattled?

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View from Brazil

Investigation into attack on democracy.

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Features

‘I’ve painted the hallway red’

Richard Matoušek reports from São Paulo, Brazil on the movement providing long-term housing through mass-occupations.

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From the archive: No room at the inn

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown writes, in 2002, on the racism behind Fortress Europe’s deadly policies in the Mediterranean.

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The Long Read – Now for implementation!

The Ogiek of the Mau Forest, Kenya, have been displaced from their ancestral land since British colonization, but could a landmark reparations ruling change things for them and Indigenous people across the region? Amy Hall reports

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Mixed Media

Mixed media: music

Cowboy Junkies, Such Ferocious Beauty; Faizal Mostrixx, Mutations.

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Mixed media: film

Name Me Lawand directed and written by Edward Lovelace; The Damned Don’t Cry directed and written by Fyzal Boulifa

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Mixed media: books

The Drinker of Horizons by Mia Couto; Macunaíma by Mario de Andrade; Out of Sri Lanka, ed. Vidyan Ravinthiran, Seni Seneviratne, and Shash Travett; Black Oot Here by Francesca Sobande and laylaroxanne hill

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Mixed media: Spotlight

Subi Shah discusses courage, grief and cultural struggle with British author Michael Rosen.

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Mixed Media: Hot Docs

Richard Swift and Heather Macdonald review the highlights of Canada’s premier documentaries festival.

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Independent media awards 2022: International reporting of the year.

Past issues

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/issues/2023/09/18/decolonize-now
Decolonize now
/issues/2023/09/07/palestine-occupation-uprising
Palestine: From occupation to uprising
/issues/2023/04/12/crisis-loneliness-social-isolation
The crisis of loneliness
/issues/2023/03/01/world-win
A world to win
/issues/2023/02/14/cost-greed-crisis
The cost of greed crisis
/issues/2023/02/08/take-back-land
Take back the land
/issues/2022/08/17/whose-railway-it-anyway
Whose railway is it anyway?
/issues/2022/06/30/rivers-life
Rivers of life
/issues/2022/04/28/how-we-stop-big-oil
How we stop Big Oil
/issues/2022/03/03/jailbreak-reimagining-justice
Jailbreak: reimagining justice

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