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Powering injustice
‘Powering Injustice’ examines how foreign trade and investment in Israel’s energy sector may contribute to grave violations of international law being perpetrated by Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in Gaza. It considers the obligations of states and the responsibilities of companies involved in the supply of energy to Israel.
Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture
Maha Mehanna — Request for Support for Gazan Ph.D. Student in Canada
Then, October 7, 2023, happened, and its aftermath continues with no end in sight through today. Maha, like every Palestinian around the globe, became numb, finding it difficult to focus on anything but our loved ones in Gaza.
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.
Interview with Jonathan Pollard
This racist Israeli who spied on the U.S. has the ultimate solutions… Watch the full 16 minutes and 31 seconds, from 1:48:29 – 2:05:00.
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.”
“They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl’s Fight for Freedom” [Recommended]
A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates the daily struggles of life under occupation in this moving, deeply personal memoir.
Yesterday, I Was a “Security Threat”—Today, I Am Welcome in Jerusalem
So proud of our daughter Nadine...yet another generation of Palestinians speaking truth to power...onward and upward! Jerusalem Story Yesterday, I Was a "Security Threat"—Today, I Am Welcome in JerusalemBy Nadine...
“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)
Haaretz: Decades, I Defended Israel From Claims of Apartheid. I No Longer Can
Dear friends, The last two sentences make no sense after all that is written before them, but nevertheless a worthy read of yet another awakening. Best,Sam---HaaretzIsrael NewsOpinion | For Decades, I Defended Israel From Claims of Apartheid. I No Longer...
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...
Haaretz: This Is the Unnamed Palestinian Casualty of Israel’s Assault on Jenin
Haaretz | Opinion This Is the Unnamed Palestinian Casualty of Israel's Assault on Jenin Amid Israeli airstrikes and our political struggle for statehood, we are fighting an economic battle to keep Palestinians in Palestine, the ultimate act of non-violent resistance...
From Wisconsin to Gaza to Jenin: An American Writer’s Lived Experience in Palestine [Book Review]
The memoir of an American daughter of a German immigrant raised under Nazi Germany, and the mother of three Palestinian Americans, who meets Palestine from the ground level. An eloquent read with nuanced explanations of a multitude of key points about the conflict, explained in depth in extensive endnotes.
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,...
Webinar: Want Israeli-Palestinian Peace? Try A Model of Confederation
Click on above photo or here to watch. Co-sponsored by the Florida Chapter of World BEYOND War, the Veterans For Peace Chapter 136 in The Villages, FL, and Partners For Palestine, FL. ____________________________________ ePalestine.ps SUPPORT OUR WORK...
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.
PayPal Annual General Assembly Meeting (AGM)
Yesterday, I addressed the PayPal Annual General Assembly Meeting (AGM), where I presented, on behalf of Harrington Investments, a 5-minute statement supporting a shareholder resolution asking shareholders to vote to extend PayPal services to Palestinians in...
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...
DAWN: Jamal Niser: Israel Imprisoning Elderly US Citizen Without Charge or Trial
Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) Free my cousin Jamal Niser...
“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...
Talk – Resisting the Radical Right: Palestinian Civil Society
Thanks to American Friends of Combatants for Peace and their outstanding team for making tonight's conversation happen. All the books, documentaries, and my writings that I mentioned may be found at my blog: ePalestine.ps For all those who asked about what can be done...
Reports on Palestine
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.
Torture and Genocide
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 examines the systematic use by Israel of torture against Palestinians from the occupied Palestinian territory since 7 October 2023, encompassing custodial and non-custodial practices that meet the threshold for genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. She documents how torture has become integral to the domination of and punishment inflicted on men, women and children, both through custodial abuse and through a relentless campaign of forced displacement, mass killings, deprivation and the destruction of all means of life to inflict long-term collective pain and suffering.
LIVING HELL – The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps (B’Tselem)
“Living Hell” follows on B’Tselem’s August 2024 report “Welcome to Hell.” Building on the extensive research and analysis carried out for the previous report, it provides updated figures and new testimonies from 21 Palestinians released from Israeli prisons in recent...
Actions you can take
Maha Mehanna — Request for Support for Gazan Ph.D. Student in Canada
Then, October 7, 2023, happened, and its aftermath continues with no end in sight through today. Maha, like every Palestinian around the globe, became numb, finding it difficult to focus on anything but our loved ones in Gaza.
