Daoud Kuttab is an award-winning Palestinian journalist and former Ferris Professor of journalism at Princeton University. His twitter handle is @daoudkuttab
Daoud Kuttab
By Daoud Kuttab
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Opinion Why do American Jews and Christians lack empathy for Palestinians?
Jews and Christians fought for freedom and equality, just not for my people
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Opinion The U.S. must fight for fair Palestinian elections — and Israel should, too
After years of hibernation due to internal conflict, Palestinians were expecting to head to the polls on May 22 to choose local representatives to the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) — until those elections were (again) postponed indefinitely by President Mahmoud Abbas last week. Those who preach to Palestinians about democracy, including Americans and others in…
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Opinion Stop calling these peace deals ‘historic.’ It’s the Arabs who are waiting for peace.
In the wake of the recent announcements that the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain would be normalizing relations with Israel, there seemed to be breathless if begrudging coverage of what many called “historic” peace achievements between Israel and the sovereign Arab states who have opposed normalizing relations with Israel. The truth is this opposition has…
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Opinion American Jews: You are desperately needed in the fight against annexation.
The most serious setback to peace in the Middle East has taken place under the cloud of the coronavirus and the internal Israeli political scene. A chance, however, still exists for a unified Arab coalition with action by American Jews to create a firewall that will help preserve a chance for Israeli-Palestinian peace. As part…
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Opinion Unsportsmanlike Conduct: FIFA Ignores Its Rules In Israeli-Palestinian Soccer Dispute
The worlds of politics and football (soccer) clashed again. This time, the location was the Bahraini capital, Manama. The two sides of the conflict were the Palestinian Football Federation and the Israeli Football Federation. At stake in the conflict was a resolution submitted by the Palestinian federation demanding that six Israeli clubs based in exclusive…
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Opinion Netanyahu’s Latest Move To Undermine Abbas Before Trump Meeting
Israel’s Prime Minister has a problem with the fact that the Palestinian social affairs department pays monthly benefits to support families of prisoners. In a Facebook video timed to reach the widest possible viewership on the eve of the Abbas-Trump White House meeting, Benjamin Netanyahu called on Palestinians to stop supporting families of prisoners. Netanyahu…
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Opinion John Kerry’s Leaned Over Backward to Praise Israel — and the Numbers Prove It
Israel’s prime minister has claimed that John Kerry’s recent speech, given in response to U.N. Security Council Resolution 2334, was “unbalanced and anti-Israeli.” A quantitative and qualitative review of the the December 28 speech, however, shows the opposite. From the very beginning, Kerry was clearly making the case for Israel. During the speech, “Israel” received…
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Opinion Salam Fayyad Doomed by Israel and Palestinian Enemies Alike
When Salam Fayyad took over the Palestinian ministry of finance, the No, 1 complaint against the Palestinian leadership was corruption. I should know: In 1996 I was jailed for seven days because the small TV station I was running dared to broadcast live a session of the newly elected Palestinian legislative council dealing with corruption….
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