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Hanan Jarrar

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Hanan Jarrar

Hanan Jarrar is the Palestinian ambassador to South Africa

Palestinian protesters hold posters of Palestinian prisoners demanding a prisoner swap deal between Hamas and Israel in the West Bank city of Nablus. (Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
AFRICAN CONTINENT

Legalising murder: Israel’s shift from control to elimination

Israel has passed a law permitting the execution of Palestinian prisoners, codifying practices previously carried out extrajudicially. With conviction rates in military courts…

  • Hanan Jarrar
5 min read
People all over the world have spoken out against Israel’s actions. It’s time for governments to heed them. (Wikimedia Commons)
OPINION

Recognising Palestinian statehood must translate into diplomatic solidarity

People all over the world have spoken out against Israel’s actions. It’s time for governments to heed them

  • Hanan Jarrar
5 min read
Palestinian supporters wave flags as they take part in a counter demonstration outside the venue where Israel supporters gather in an event organised by the South Africa Zionist Federation in Johannesburg, on May 23, 2021. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP) (Photo by MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)
AFRICAN UNION

Israel must not have a place at the African Union until it ends its occupation of Palestine

The AU Commission chairperson’s decision to accept the credentials of Israel’s ambassador to Ethiopia undermines the anti-colonial values that underpin the AU

  • Hanan Jarrar
5 min read
A protester holds a Palestinian flag as smoke rises from a burning tyre.
AIR STRIKES

Call Israel what it is: An apartheid state

The Nakba began with the establishment of Israel in 1948 and has never ended. Palestinian are still removed from their land and their home and are still being killed and…

  • Hanan Jarrar
4 min read