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

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.

2023 UN General Assembly Debate: A Speech Worthy of the Palestinian People

I offer the following draft of what I suggest Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas adopt as his speech in the upcoming General Debate of the 78th Session of the General Assembly.

Genocide By Public Policy

[FROM 2004!!!] What is happening in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip today is dangerously close to genocide, close enough that photographs of terrified Palestinians in Rafah loading their meager belongings onto carts and fleeing their homes are all too reminiscent of another time, another place another people.

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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.

That Massacre Was Personal

This week in 1982, 41 years ago, in full coordination with the Israeli military which had invaded South Lebanon a few months prior, a group of “Christian” Phalangist fundamentalists, entered two Palestinian refugee camps, Sabra and Shatila, and slaughtered around 3,000 Palestinian civilians.

The Bible Is Not a Baton [Book Review]

The opening line of Decolonizing Palestine: The Land, the People, the Bible says it all: “For Palestinians, including the Palestinian Christian community, Palestine is a real land with real people.” It seems self-evident, but in a time when more people are in love with some majestic idea of Israel/Palestine rather than the real Israel/Palestine, it needs to be reiterated. This short read debunks many falsehoods that have taken root in parts of the Christian community over time and have been kept alive by constant watering by the State of Israel and the Zionist movement.

Mondoweiss: Israel’s ‘slay-for-play’ practice must be stopped

Israel has instilled a culture of “Slay-for-Play” to enable its soldiers and private citizens to shoot first and ask questions — if ever needed to — later. As B’Tselem, Israel’s leading human rights organization, previously documented, “[Israel’s] open-fire policy — which allows the unjustified use of lethal force — conveys Israel’s deep disregard for the lives of Palestinians and facilitates Israel’s continued violent control over millions of Palestinians.”

“A Day in the Life of Abed Salama” [Recommended]

Nathan Thrall received the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for A Day in the Life of Abed Salama. Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for a school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the way, his bus collides with a semitrailer. His father, Abed, gets word of the crash and rushes to the site. The scene is chaos—the children have been taken to different hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank; some are missing, others cannot be identified. Abed sets off on an odyssey to learn Milad’s fate. It is every parent’s worst nightmare, but for Abed it is compounded by the maze of physical, emotional, and bureaucratic obstacles he must navigate because he is Palestinian. He is on the wrong side of the separation wall, holds the wrong ID to pass the military checkpoints, and has the wrong papers to enter the city of Jerusalem. Abed’s quest to find Milad is interwoven with the stories of a cast of Jewish and Palestinian characters whose lives and histories unexpectedly converge. (Publisher’s description)

Recording of Economic Justice In Palestine!

 Here is a recording of the webinar. ‌ ‌ https://greenolivetours.com/online-events/economic-justice-in-palestine/ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌...

Medium: My clown is in an Israeli prison, again!

Medium 𝗠𝘆 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹𝗶 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻, 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻! Are Israeli mothers and fathers resting better knowing Palestinian children will not be smiling? By Sam Bahour  Read...

PayPal’s missed opportunity with Palestinians

The Plain Dealer (cleveland.com)PayPal’s missed opportunity with Palestinians: Sam BahourPublished: Jun. 18, 2023, 5:11 a.m.Signage outside PayPal headquarters in San Jose, California is pictured on March 10, 2015. At PayPal's May 24 annual shareholders meeting,...

تخرجت ولكن، غير قابل للتوظيف

يمكن أيضًا قراءة هذه المقالة على صحيفة الحدث ووكالة وطن. تخرجت ولكن، غير قابل للتوظيفماذا تفعل عندما تدرك أن شهادتك لا يمكنها أن تجلب لك وظيفة.  بقلم سام بحور  صورة من المناظرة الانتخابية لانتخابات مؤتمر مجلس طلبة جامعة بيرزيت للدورة 2023-2024  التخرج...

“Peacemakers in Israel-Palestine: Dialogues for a Just Peace” [Recommended]

Featuring a chapter by Sam, “Peacemakers in Israel-Palestine aims to analyze the crucial roles and capacities of mid-level, nongovernmental peacemakers as they provide unique approaches to transforming the Israel-Palestinian conflict. It also aims to analyze and experience dialogue as the primary mode of peacemaking communication.

Don’t cry for me. Cry for yourselves.

 𝗗𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗰𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗲. 𝗖𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘃𝗲𝘀.The voice of a Palestinian child in Gaza, taken from this world by Israel — "the only democracy in the Middle East".By Sam...

“The Law and the Prophets” documentary

The Law and the Prophets amplifies the voices of the brave, determined individuals who are trying to expose the destructive, unjust, and sometimes invisible ways in which Israel exploits and oppresses Palestinians. They deserve your attention.

ATTN: Multinational firms in Israel

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al-Walaja

  Today, I visited the village of al-Walaja, on the other side of Bethlehem, on the Green Line, to meet the village mayor and a group of activists working to save the village. On our way to the meeting, we passed several homes that were recently demolished by...

Celebrating Tu B’Shvat🌳

 Celebrating Tu B'Shvat🌳 You will get this immediately if you are on AIPAC's mailing list. If not, trust me.  DONATE HERE: https://epalestine.ps/donate  FOR MORE INFO ON TREES IN PALESTINE: see the visual in the first comment...

Request for Quote – Flags

Ben Gvir, Israeli leader of the ultranationalist Otzma Yehudit [Jewish Strength] party, said in a statement from his office that he had ordered Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai to implement a new policy. The statement read:“Minister Ben Gvir sent the [Israeli] police...

New Israeli Government

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Reports on Palestine

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT (27 November 2025)

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT (27 November 2025)

More than one month after a ceasefire was announced in Gaza on 9 October, Israeli authorities are still committing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, by continuing to deliberately inflict conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction.

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