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News & opinions from a Palestinian-American
living & working in Ramallah/Al-Bireh, Palestine

Support Solar Project in Gaza Displacement Camp

In the aftermath of October 7th and the ensuing genocidal campaign by Israel, the Jabalya Refugee Camp was leveled, including R and M’s home. Here is a photo of their home after it was destroyed in April 2024.

Ungrounding by Eyal Weizman

Ungrounding establishes that architectural and territorial analysis is key to understanding the relationship between coloniser and colonised – and how Israel’s actions after 7 October escalated into violence so extreme and so far-reaching as to, Weizman argues, meet the definition of genocide.

Unshielded Childhood (B’Tselem)

Lethal, unbridled violence employed by the Israeli regime’s armed forces, including the military and settler militias, has led to an unprecedented increase in the killing of Palestinians, and particularly the killing of children and teenagers by Israeli forces.

“The essence of childhood has been destroyed” (Human Rights Council)

The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel examines violations and crimes against and affecting Palestinian children, including serious physical and psychological harm by the Israeli security forces since 7 October 2023 resulting in the death of at least 20,179 and injury of 44,143 children.

Importing Occupation

Importing Occupation is a four-year investigation by Global Echo Litigation Center into how agricultural products originating in illegal Israeli settlements enter European markets, declaring
preferential tax status reserved for Israeli goods and bearing “Product of Israel” labels and invalid organic and plant health certifications, undermining EU and UK laws.

Erasing Anything Palestinian – Amnesty International

This report lays bare the scale and severity of the ethnic cleansing campaign targeting these communities, carried out in a context of apartheid and unlawful occupation and against the backdrop of an ongoing genocide in the occupied Gaza Strip.

PODCAST: How Israeli classrooms indoctrinate Jewish supremacy

Education scholar Nurit Peled-Elhanan unpacks the ways children learn to view domination as necessary and Palestinians as ‘a problem to be solved.’

The Disorder Podcast with Sam Bahour on Gaza

To discuss from a Palestinian perspective the fallout of October 7th, two years of the Gaza War, and the suffering of the Palestinians from occupation, displacement, cantonization, and bombardments, Jason is joined by Sam Bahour, a Palestinian-American entrepreneur based in Ramallah.

Louis Theroux: The Settlers (2025)

Fourteen years after his first visit and 2011 film The Ultra Zionists, Louis Theroux meets some of the growing community of religious-nationalist Israelis who have settled in the West Bank.

The Perimeter

Breaking the Silence
New Testimony Collection
Soldiers’ testimonies from the Gaza Buffer Zone 2023-2024

The Silent Overhaul: Changing the nature of Israeli control in the West Bank

The current government’s policies and actions are an apex towards realizing a strategy designed to fulfill a political vision of applying full Israeli sovereignty to the West Bank while establishing a reality of Jewish supremacy and relegating the Palestinians living in the territory to the smallest possible geographical area.

Saudi Arabia: Thank you, but no thank you!

As Saudi Arabia attempts to assume the unilateral leadership role in the Arab World, it has welcomed the Palestinian issue as a component in the negotiations because it is looking for a save-face measure in front of the Arab and Muslim worlds to normalize with Israel, which seems to be one of the conditions the Biden Administration has placed on Saudi Arabia to be able to reach a historic U.S.- Saudi Arabia deal.

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PayPal and Palestine

Linkedin - 8/26/2016 PayPal and Palestine By Sam Bahour ​​ As a Palestinian-American management consultant in Ramallah, Palestine, I advise my Palestinian clients living under Israeli military occupation to use world-class software and online services, assuring them...

MEE: US fuelling Israel’s civil war

Wednesday 24 August 2016 Middle East Eye US fuelling Israel's civil war By Sam Bahour ​ Israel is a very special country. Its history is like no other. Maybe that's why its civil war, which is well underway, is almost indistinguishable to the untrained eye from a...

Huffington Post: To Cry And Laugh, Simultaneously

Huffington Post BOOK REVIEW To Cry And Laugh, Simultaneously "Remember, whatever you do in life, for them you will always, but always, be an Arab. Do you understand?" By Sam Bahour ​ Native: Dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian Life By Sayed Kashua Saqi Books...

“The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza” by Max Blumenthal [Recommended]

On July 8, 2014, Israel launched air strikes on Hamas-controlled Gaza, followed by a ground invasion. The ensuing fifty-one days of war left more than 2,200 people dead, the vast majority of whom were Palestinian civilians, including over 500 children. During the assault, at least 10,000 homes were destroyed and, according to the United Nations, nearly 300,000 Palestinians were displaced. Max Blumenthal was in Gaza and throughout Israel-Palestine during what he argues was an entirely avoidable catastrophe. In this explosive work of intimate reportage, Blumenthal reveals the harrowing conditions and cynical deceptions that led to the ruinous war — and tells the human stories. (Publisher’s description)

Some May 2016 quotes from the heart of Israel

IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Yair Golan speaks at a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at Kibbutz Tel Yitzhak on May 4, 2016 "If there is something that frightens me about the memories of the Holocaust, it is the knowledge of the awful processes which happened...

TWIP: Start Up Your Market

Starting a company is no joke. Well, let me say that in a different way: starting a serious company is no joke. Over 90 percent of start-up companies fail; as this number is high, it is a time-tested factor to consider before taking the leap of faith. READ ON AT:...

BROOKINGS: No unilateral Israeli path to two states

The Brookings Institution SERIES: Markaz: Debating Israeli-Palestinian futures No unilateral Israeli path to two states Sam Bahour February 12, 2016 ​ The composition and track record of the current Israeli government leads Palestinians to expect very little from...

MEE: Layers of confusion choke internal Palestinian affairs

Middle East Eye Friday, 29 January 2016 Layers of confusion choke internal Palestinian affairs  Sam Bahour The starting point to understand today's reality in Palestine is as crystal clear now as it always has been. Over 4 million Palestinians are approaching their...

“Two Blue Lines” documentary explores the impact of Jewish settlement on the Palestinians

From filmmaker Tom Hayes: “Filmed over 25 years, this expansive and incisive film explores the impact of Jewish settlement on the Palestinians, from before the creation of the state of Israel to the present day. What emerges is a picture of a desperate social and political struggle punctuated by violence and segregation.” By primarily featuring the narratives of Israelis whose positions run counter to their country’s official policy, Tom Hayes provides a portrait of the ongoing conflict not often depicted in mainstream media. 1 hr 39 min, 2015.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

​ Dear friends, In wishing you all a Merry Christmas, in these troubling times, and a Happy New Year, after yet another one of more death and destruction, I would like to share with you this profound Christmas message from Bethlehem by Bishop Dr. Munib Younan, Bishop...

This is what being drunk on power looks like.

This is what being drunk on power looks like. The collapse of slavery in the U.S., Apartheid in South Africa, and the Berlin Wall in Germany is what it will ultimately feel like. Israeli Embassy Trolls White House, Exclusively Gifts Settlement Goods All of this year's...

The Hill: President Obama, recognize Palestine now!

The Hill - November 11, 2015 President Obama, recognize Palestine now! By Sam Bahour, Geoffrey Lewis and Nomika Zion "Where many are grasping at straws for new strategies to compensate for so many past diplomatic failures, the only real strategy left is the...

ACT NOW – Support Palestinians’ economic steadfastness

​ ​ACT NOW - Support Palestinians' economic steadfastness While President Obama is meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at the White House today, there is no need to hold your breath for results, rather, there is a need to act. One way to make your actions...

MEE: Palestinians ‘have become unreasonably reasonable’

Middle East Eye Palestinians 'have become unreasonably reasonable' By Sam Bahour​ "Give me liberty, or give me death!" Patrick Henry declared in a speech he made to the Virginia Convention in 1775, at St John's Church in Richmond, Virginia. Fast forward 240 years, and...

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