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Ghada Karmi

Karmi

Ghada Karmi is a former research fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. She was born in Jerusalem and was forced to leave her home with her family as a result of Israel’s creation in 1948. The family moved to England, where she grew up and was educated. Karmi practised as a doctor for many years, working as a specialist in the health of migrants and refugees. From 1999 to 2001, Karmi was an associate fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, where she led a major project on Israel-Palestinian reconciliation.

To fossilise the Nakba is to ignore Zionism's continued settler colonial drive to erase Palestinians. Unless we unite, Ghada Karmi argues, more tragedy awaits.

15 May, 2026

Israel has fuelled wars since 1948, causing death, displacement and global crises. Ghada Karmi asks what benefits, if any, it has brought to the world.

09 April, 2026

Trump’s Board of Peace hands Gaza’s fate to unelected men, enabling Israel to intensify efforts to erase Palestinians & take their land, writes Ghada Karmi.

27 January, 2026

The colonial architecture laid by Britain's Balfour pledge a century ago continues to define Israel's violent dominance over Palestinians, writes Ghada Karmi.

02 December, 2025

Comment: The people of the West Bank should follow Gaza's example; there is no alternative for them but popular resistance, writes Ghada Karmi.

09 October, 2018

Comment: We should be looking for ways to end this long Palestinian exile, not sustain it, writes Ghada Karmi.

17 September, 2018