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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.

LATEST NEWS

Open Letter to the Editors of the New York Times

Open Letter to the Editors of the New York Times By Sam Bahour December 31, 2014 A view of Gaza City Re “Gaza Is Nowhere” (By Roger Cohen, Dec. 30, 2014): I started writing this as a Letter to the Editor, but my anger could not be conveyed in only 150 words, so I am...

Newsweek: Gaza: One War, One Family. Five Children, Four Dead

In Newsweek, of all places. OK, it's the European edition, but still. The tide is surely on the rise. Most of the world may have already forgotten the over 2,220 human beings slaughtered in 51 days this past summer, but we have not. Thank you Sarah Helm for reminding...

What I am supporting

Dear friends, I take this opportunity to wish you all a happy holiday season and a Happy New Year, despite all. It is this time of year that is also tagged as the month of giving. I, like you, am bombarded with funding requests during the end of every year. Some are...

Rick Steves Europe in Palestine

Guidebook author and travel TV host Rick Steves is said to be America's most respected authority on European travel. He visited Palestine in October 2014. Thanks to IMEU for sharing the Palestine episode of Rick Steves' travel show, which debuted this fall on PBS...

Video: Sam Bahour at Startup Grind Palestine (1:08:33)

October 29, 2014, Ramallah Video: Sam Bahour at Startup Grind Palestine (1:08:33) http://youtu.be/R4NfMwIbNRY _____________________________________ Everything about this list: http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/epalestine To subscribe, send mail to:...

Watch: Why is Jerusalem always on edge? (3mins)

As we all mourn, yet more, senseless loss of innocent lives and destruction of property we have no option but to keep hope alive. This is not the time to remind all that we have warned of such an outbreak of uncontrollable violence for years now. Rather, this is the...

NYT: Europe Is Blocking Mideast Peace (By NAVI PILLAY)

A very sound analysis that should be read by all involved. "This cycle of violence will only be broken when the international community insists upon greater accountability and ceases to turn a blind eye to the horrific human rights violations committed by both sides."...

+972/TPM: Why must Gaza wait in the dark?

+972 Blog Published October 3, 2014 Why must Gaza wait in the dark? Separating Gaza's electricity supply from the political conflict is a step long overdue. By Sam Bahour Palestinians gather near a fire in the At-Tuffah district of Gaza City, which was heavily ...

FILM: To see if I’m smiling (MUST WATCH BEFORE TAKEN DOWN)

The International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court are going to have such an easy time holding Israel accountable for their war crimes. Watch how easy here:https://vimeo.com/ondemand/toseeifimsmiling _____________________________________...

The Hill: US guilty of war crimes in Palestine

The Hill (Congress Blog) September 18, 2014 US guilty of war crimes in Palestine By Sam Bahour The U.S. is not a neutral mediator in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict; it is an active participant and is guilty of the crimes being committed by Israel against...

+972: Israelis, stop swimming in our shit

For Hebrew click here.  +972 Blog  Published September 5, 2014 Israelis, stop swimming in our shit A new report by Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network details the damage that consecutive Israeli military assaults have caused to Gaza's water systems, whereby 95...

Guardian: Fatou Bensouda: the truth about the ICC and Gaza

Politicking around when, or if, to hold a criminal responsible for his/her crimes is as abhorrent as the crime itself, if not more so! ~Sam Bahour Friday 29 August 2014 Fatou Bensouda: the truth about the ICC and Gaza Under the laws of the Hague court, my office can...

The Forward/Haaretz: Israeli Teens Gripped by Virulent Racism

A peek into tomorrow's Israel... "For me, personally, Arabs are something I can't look at and can't stand," a 10th-grade girl from a high school in the central part of the country says in abominable Hebrew. "I am tremendously racist. I come from a racist home. If I...

The New Yorker: Friends of Israel

Political prostitution at its best! --- The New Yorker The Political Scene September 1, 2014 Issue Friends of Israel The lobbying group AIPAC has consistently fought the Obama Administration on policy. Is it now losing influence? By Connie Bruck...

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