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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.

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Palestinian clowns are everywhere

Some Palestinians refuse to just sit still and accept their fate as a permanently, militarily occupied people. One would think by now that Palestinians would have received the message loud and clear – the world couldn’t care less about their fate. But no, these...

Where’s my friend?

Walid Abu Rass Where’s my friend? By Sam Bahour My friend is Walid Abu Rass. He is the Finance and Administration Manager for the Health Work Committees (HWC, at www.hwc-pal.org), one of the largest community health service providers in the occupied Palestinian...

Souciant: Home and Garden (by Mitchell Plitnick)

The Harper's article mentioned in this article may be found here: http://mitchellplitnick.com/2011/11/29/avishai-abrahams-children-toward-a-right-of-return-for-palestinians/ BEST TO READ BELOW ARTICLE AT URL GIVEN EMBEDDED LINKS:...

Rafeef Ziadah – ‘We teach life, sir’, London, 12.11.11

RAFEEF ZIADAH is a Canadian-Palestinian spoken word artist and activist. Her debut CD Hadeel is dedicated to Palestinian youth, who still fly kites in the face of F16 bombers, who still remember the names if their villages in Palestine and still hear the sound of...

bitterlemons.org: The Quartet facade

bitterlemons.org  The Quartet facade  Sam Bahour  Israel and the United States have perfected, almost to a science, the management of international players who dare to intervene in trying to advance peace in the Middle East between Palestinians and...

Israeli settlers of Anatot settlement in action…

If you missed the clip, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbv8a3l6qts&feature=email Given those protesting the settlers are Israeli peace activists the clip is in Hebrew, but you can read here to see what was being said:...

TEXT: President Abbas speech in UNGA Sept 23 2011

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UNRWA: Beyond the Myths (By Chris Gunness)

The Huffington Post  UNRWA: Beyond the Myths  By Chris Gunness, UNRWA Spokesman  Posted: 8/30/11 09:29 AM ET  As debate intensifies over the anticipated Palestinian bid for statehood at the UN in September, many column inches have been devoted to...

Ma’an: UN bid ‘endangers Palestinian rights’

Ma'an UN bid 'endangers Palestinian rights' Today (Last Update) Time 15:40  BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The Palestinian team responsible for preparing the United Nations initiative in September has been given an independent legal opinion that reveals a high risk...

Pianist Rich Siegel – “In Palestine”

Dear friends,  Please listen to the end. After the song he explains how he moved from a benig Zionist to seeing reality. Very moving.  http://www.vimeo.com/6630724 My thanks to Maha, my good friend in Gaza for passing this along. Rgds, Sam...

Guardian: Palestinians will soon come full circle

To comment on this article visit this link today: http://bit.ly/oBQQ0M guardian.co.uk  Palestinians will soon come full circle  Years have been wasted making concessions to their colonisers. Palestinians were right to call for a secular state at the...

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