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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

A letter from my friend Walid’s daughter

Dear friends, Many of you may be following the Kafkaesque story of my friend Walid who is being detained by Israel under Administrative Detention. My latest update was posted here: http://bit.ly/Walid_Update1. Today, Walid's adorable daughter, Mays, 15 years old,...

Ha’aretz: Goodbye Shamir, goodbye Zionism (A MUST READ)

Ha'aretz - Opinion  Goodbye Shamir, goodbye Zionism  There was never room for a Palestine in Shamir's Zionism of Greater Israel, nor in the Zionism of this government. There was room for one absolute value, and it was not democracy.  By Bradley Burston...

Those Damn Palestinians

By Sam Bahour Those damn Palestinians. They refuse to sit still. They just don’t get it. They are unable to fathom their reality. The more outrageous their situation becomes, the more human they become. When all the powers-to-be thought that they had sufficiently...

Update on my friend Walid’s kangaroo court hearing…

Walid with daughters Malak, 4, and Mays, 13 Dear friends, First, I pass my deep and sincere gratitude to each and every one of you who acted on my last Urgent Action Appeal: http://bit.ly/My_friend_is_still_in_jail. For those of you who still have not acted on this,...

URGENT ACTION APPEAL: My friend is still in jail ! ! !

Dear friends, I could not make up the below update even if I were a world-class fiction writer. Walid Abu Rass You will recall my friend Walid Abu Rass who was taken in the middle of the night on November 22, 2011 when Israeli occupation soldiers arrived at his home...

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) under attack from Israel Lobby

Dear friends,  The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is under attack from the Israel Lobby for bringing to vote in their upcoming General Assembly later this month the issue of divesting from three U.S. firms that are profiting from the Israeli military occupation....

SAD beyond words!

YNET Tourists venture to West Bank to 'shoot terrorists'  Thrill-seeking tourists of all ages brave West Bank shooting range to be taught by settlers how to shoot terrorists  By Akiva Novick  Published: 06.18.12, 13:31 / Israel News ...

Message to Our 2012 High School Graduates

By Sam Bahour At the outset, I extend my respect and thanks to the teaching staff and administration staff of Palestine’s school system. Teachers and their support staff are the wheels and gears that produce a society’s human capacity to face today’s challenges. We...

AP: Israel asks Arab visitors to open emails to search

AP  Israel asks Arab visitors to open emails to search  By DIAA HADID, Associated Press  https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna47690140 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ePalestine Blog: http://www.epalestine.com...

A Movement to End Israeli Impunity + A Bird’s Eye View

A Movement to End Israeli Impunity Watch this 9min clip: http://killingwithoutconsequence.com/  then act. and 26/05/12 Uri Avnery's Column A Bird’s Eye View http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1337954298/ Accountability keeps us human, Sam...

SALON: Israel’s drone dominance

SALON  Tuesday, May 15, 2012 02:45 PM JDT  Israel’s drone dominance    If you want to know how drones will change America, look to the Jewish State -- where they're already widespread  By Jefferson Morley  TO READ ARTICLE:...

The Daily Beast: Bean Counting States

The Daily Beast Bean Counting States  by Sam Bahour  May 8, 2012 2:07 PM EDT As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict faces hunger strikes and the threat of renewed conflict, the question being tirelessly reiterated is whether a two-state solution is beyond us....

NYT: Don’t Give Up on Mideast Peace (By JIMMY CARTER)

New York Times April 12, 2012  Don't Give Up on Mideast Peace  By JIMMY CARTER  The current focus of leaders in Washington and Jerusalem on Iran has obscured the near- death of the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations and the inevitable catastrophe...

Salon: The “NGOs” that spooked Egypt

Salon Saturday, Apr 7, 2012 The “NGOs” that spooked Egypt    History shows that the country is right to regard some U.S.-backed aid organizations warily  By Steve Weissman and Frank Browning  "Like it or not, this is how Washington...

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