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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

This American Life: Picture Show (A MUST LISTEN)

This American Life Apr 19, 2013 Producer Nancy Updike goes to the West Bank to investigate why Israeli soldiers routinely wake up Palestinian families in the middle of the night, to take photos of the teen boys in the house. (23 minutes)...

Eminent Europeans: Drop The Oslo Peace Process (A MUST READ!)

Dear friends, At first take, this seems groundbreaking, but a closer read reveals deep flaws that explain why this intelligent group has utterly failed! Reality rules, Sam --- Daily Beast - Open Zion Eminent Europeans: Drop The Oslo Peace Process by Ali Gharib Apr 19,...

[Youngstown, Ohio] Vindicator: Obama fails in the Mideast

[Youngstown, Ohio] Vindicator Obama fails in the Mideast By Sam Bahour Published: Sun, March 24, 2013 As I watched President Barack Obama's helicopter pass above my home, just before landing at the Palestinian Presidential Compound next to Ramallah, I just shook my...

NYT Magazine: Is This Where the Third Intifada Will Start?

New York Times March 15, 2013 Is This Where the Third Intifada Will Start? By BEN EHRENREICH On the evening of Feb. 10, the living room of Bassem Tamimi's house in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh was filled with friends and relatives smoking and sipping coffee,...

NYT: Is Any Hope Left for Mideast Peace? (By RASHID KHALIDI)

The New York Times March 12, 2013 Is Any Hope Left for Mideast Peace? By RASHID KHALIDI WHAT should Barack Obama, who is to visit Israel next Wednesday for the first time in his presidency, do about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? First, he must abandon the stale...

NYT: On Questioning the Jewish State

March 9, 2013, 7:30 pm On Questioning the Jewish State By JOSEPH LEVINEI was raised in a religious Jewish environment, and though we were not strongly Zionist, I always took it to be self-evident that "Israel has a right to exist." Now anyone who has debated the...

NYT: U.N. Panel Says Israeli Settlement Policy Violates Law

Asked if Israel’s actions constituted war crimes, Ms. Chanet replied that its offenses fell under Article 8 of the International Criminal Court statute. “Article 8 of the I.C.C. statute is the chapter of war crimes,” she said at a news conference. “That is the...

WOW!! Grand Waffle in the Middle East — By Chas Freeman

Lobe Log January 17th, 2013 "Amb. Chas Freeman (ret.) spoke to a Middle East Policy Council (MEPC) forum on U.S. Grand Strategy — or, in his words "Grand Waffle" — in the Middle East on Capitol Hill yesterday and has graciously agreed to have the text posted on Lobe...

The New Yorker: The Party Faithful (by David Remnick)

You think you know Israel? Well, think again...this is a long read but well worth the insights gained. --- The New Yorker Letter from Jerusalem The Party Faithful The settlers move to annex the West Bank—and Israeli politics. by David Remnick January 21, 2013 Read...

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