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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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POWERFUL VIDEO: “The Silence of a Nation”

POWERFUL VIDEO: “The Silence of a Nation” Excerpts from a speech presented by Chris Hedges http://australiansforpalestine.com/must-watch-video-the-silence-of-a-nation and for anyone that believes good news from Gaza at face value, read this brief report. The day we...

Happy Passover from Gaza

Happy Passover from Gaza  By Sam Bahour In 2010, Jews in Israel and around the world will celebrate Passover beginning on March 30th. Passover is the seven-day holiday of the Feast of Unleavened Bread commemorating the ancient Hebrews' escape from enslavement in...

Why Israel Always Prevails (By JEFFREY BLANKFORT)

Counterpunch Weekend Edition - March 19 - 21, 2010A Crisis in U.S. / Israeli Relations? Sure. But ...Why Israel Always PrevailsBy JEFFREY BLANKFORTIf the State Department had issued travel advisory warnings to US government officials about to travel to Israel, Vice...

Zionism’s Invented State [Book Review]

This was not the first time I have read the word “exceptionalism” in relation to Israel.  New York Times columnist Roger Cohen recently wrote that Israel “lives in a perpetual state of exceptionalism.” (New York Times, Oct. 16, 2009).  However, Professor Alam explored this Israeli phenomenon on a deeper level of its underlying ideology to shed light on why this abnormal state seems to be unable to come to terms with modern day realities. 

Hats off to the Presbyterian Church USA

To download the full report with maps and all go to:https://www.pcusa.org/sites/default/files/4-middle-east-study-2010-2012.pdf-----------------------------------------------------------------------ePalestine Blog:...

America To The Rescue, (Not) Again

America To The Rescue, (Not) Again By Sam Bahour We are told that President Obama has taken a leap of political faith in trying to bridge a final peace settlement between Palestinians and Israelis.  The United States' new weapon is "proximity talks": if either...

My unpublished letter to NYT Editor

To the Editor:  Re “Declare a Palestinian State,” by Jerome M. Segal  (NYT, Op-Ed, Feb. 23):  Mr. Segal’s call for Palestinian statehood, before resolution of the core issues, is a recipe for total disaster and incongruent with...

Palestine’s Economic Pieces

A new building in Ramallah, or 100 for that matter, make for good ribbon-cutting ceremonies, but are as far from economic state-building as is wrong is from right. Sam Bahour A serious misconception is being propagated by the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah. Media,...

Guardian: Growth that Palestine can believe in

Dear friends, Please consider visiting the site and leaving a comment at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/mar/01/gdp-growth-palestine-hardship Living "Economic Pieces" (which was my suggested title for this piece), Sam --- guardian.co.uk, Monday 1 March...

NYT: Hard Mideast Truths

Dear friends, With my strong objection to some of the omissions (like the separation/Apartheid barrier was deemed illegal under int' law, misuse of numbers - he omits the 200,000+ settlers in E. Jerusalem settlements, among others details), I still think this new...

Aljazeera: Israel denies NGOs work permits

MIDDLE EAST Israel denies NGOs work permits http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/02/201029143920277962.html For more info on this subject visit:  http://www.righttoenter.ps/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------...

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