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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

Palestine-Israel Journal: Incompetence or Accomplice?

Palestine-Israel Journal Vol. 26 No. 3&4 , 2021 - Looking Back, Thinking Ahead 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲? By Sam Bahour The international community, coerced by America, never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity to bring peace to the Middle East. A...

“Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story”, an Al-Jazeera documentary

“A land without a people, and a people without a land” is how the relationship between Palestine and the Jewish people was described by Christian writers in the 1800s. And the 20th-century history of the Middle East has largely been written through these eyes. But this film from Al Jazeera Arabic looks at Palestine from a different angle. It hears from historians and witness accounts, and features archive documents that show Palestine as a thriving province of Greater Syria and the Ottoman Empire at the dawn of the 20th century.

“Tantura” documentary meticulously documents a 1948 Israeli massacre

When Israeli graduate student Teddy Katz meticulously documented a massacre of Palestinian civilians surrounding Israel’s independence, he was initially celebrated for his groundbreaking work. But soon, he was stripped of his degrees and was publicly shamed as a fraudulent traitor. Decades later, incendiary new evidence emerges to corroborate Teddy’s initial findings, not just vindicating him, but raising profound questions about how Israelis — and we all — deal with the darker chapters of history.

(+61J) Israel’s ‘economic peace’ is hollowing out the Palestinian economy

Plus61J Media (Australia)𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹'𝘀 '𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗲' 𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 By Sam Bahour "Bennett's initiative to entice Palestinians to work in Israel's high-tech sector will make it harder for the struggling Palestinian economy to stand on its own...

“Boycott” documentary highlights those challenging the wave of US anti-boycott legislation

Boycott traces the impact of state legislation designed to penalize individuals and companies that choose to boycott Israel due to its human rights record. A legal thriller with “accidental plaintiffs” at the center of the story, Boycott is a bracing look at the far-reaching implications of anti-boycott legislation and an inspiring tale of everyday Americans standing up to protect our rights in an age of shifting politics and threats to freedom of speech.

“Born in Deir Yassin” documentary now available online

The traumatic story of Deir Yassin, the Palestinian village located near Jerusalem that was invaded, conquered, and emptied by Jewish underground fighters in April 1948, is told through first-hand testimonies by Jewish fighters who participated and youths who were sent in to “mop up” the dead. In parallel, the film tells the story of Dror Nissan, a man who tries to discover the secrets of his origins by visiting the Israeli government psychiatric hospital built on the grounds of Deir Yassin in 1951.

Foreign Perceptions of the United States under Donald Trump [Recommended]

Featuring a chapter by Sam. “President Donald Trump’s term in office significantly affected the way the United States is seen by other nations in the international setting. This book presents 18 case studies of the effect of Trump policies and behavior on the U.S. standing abroad, and examines the long-term consequences of these effects.” A big hats off to Professor Gregory Mahler, Research Professor of Politics and Academic Dean Emeritus at Earlham College, as well as to all the distinguished fellow contributors from around the world.

MEDIUM: Hyphen-ated for Life

As the U.S. 2020 Census results are being released today, here are my reflections, which I also submitted to The Medium Writers Challenge on the topic of "Space". Hyphen-ated for Life "Democratic representation of 'We The People' requires an accurate ascertainment of...

تخرجت من الجامعة (بقلم: سام بحور)

تخرجت من الجامعة؟ تهانينا، بس شو يعني!  نقص مقلق في المعرفة لدى الخريجين الجدد!   بقلم: سام بحور  أجلس هنا أهز رأسي محبطًا مرة أخرى، بعد أن قرأت مجموعة من السير الذاتية لخريجين جدد. بدأ هذا الإحباط منذ زمن بعيد عندما عدت من الولايات المتحدة...

The News Story the World is Waiting for From Israel

Medium The News Story the World is Waiting for From Israel Israel launches "Operation Face History". By Sam Bahour READ AT:https://sbahour.medium.com/the-news-story-the-world-is-waiting-for-from-israel-cba504acee7f?sk=6e7409e0cfdb34183847ecd7f6ca525e...

There is no need to write again today!

July 06, 2019 Open Letter to Chairman of the PLO and President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas رسالة مفتوحة إلى رئيس منظمة التحرير الفلسطينيّة ورئيس دولة فلسطين السيد محمود عباس http://bit.ly/open-letter-abbas November 12, 2019 Make the PLO Great (Central and...

Le Monde diplomatique: Israel called to account

Le Monde diplomatique Israel called to account A new report by Human Rights Watch slams Israel as an apartheid state. What now? by Sam Bahour, 27 April 2021READ at Le Monde diplomatique or on Medium. ____________________________________ ePalestine.ps SUPPORT OUR WORK...

“Better than Nothing?!”

"Better than Nothing?!" By Sam Bahour The barbaric Israeli aggression on our people, land and economy has been clearly met by the same historic steadfastness that has come to identify our plight during the last 50+ years.  However, our determination today must be...

A Decree from the President of Palestine that makes sense

A Decree from the President of Palestine that makes senseMoving from a state of internal chaos to structural reform.By Sam Bahour READ AND COMMENT at:ENGLISH: Medium or https://bit.ly/Decree-from-the-President or download English PDF hereARABIC: Al-Hadath and Wattan...

The PLO is about to self-destruct by ballot box

Medium منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية على وشك تدمير نفسها من خلال صناديق الاقتراع  The PLO is about to self-destruct by ballot box "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all...

Saving Gaza, One Gazan At A Time

Saving Gaza, One Gazan At A Time AN APPEAL FOR FINANCIAL SUPPORT By Sam Bahour  If you can, please pitch in and share with your network. http://bit.ly/Saving-Gaza or https://sbahour.medium.com/saving-gaza-one-gazan-at-a-time-24770bef6f09   ...

An Israeli Settler I Want to Live Beside [Book Review]

The author, Jeff Halper, is a long-time friend, a thought partner, a fellow activist, and someone for who I have the utmost respect. The first two-thirds of this book (how Historic Palestine has been colonized) makes it to my top recommended readings on Palestine/Israel. The last third (how Palestine and Israel can be liberated from the horrendous outcome of this colonization process) gets filed into my growing filing cabinet of grand ideas to get all stakeholders past their pasts and engaged in building a joint future worth living between the River and the Sea.

Medium: Jews of the world, disunite…in Israel!

Medium Jews of the world, disunite…in Israel! Stop loving Israel to death. By Sam BahourREAD AND COMMENT AT: http://bit.ly/Jews-of-the-worldhttps://sbahour.medium.com/jews-of-the-world-disunite-in-israel-aa1f741e5b16?sk=02e2998051125dfc4bca01706e25eb5bMondoweiss:...

Reports on Palestine

“All My Dreams Have Been Erased”

“All My Dreams Have Been Erased”

HRW – The Israeli government’s forced displacement of the populations of three West Bank refugee camps in January and February 2025 amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 32,000 people reportedly removed have not been permitted to return to their homes, many of which Israel forces have deliberately demolished.

Trading with Illegal Settlements

Trading with Illegal Settlements

As humanitarian, development, human rights organisations and faith-based organisations, many with a presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, we witness daily the devastating impact of the settlement economy on the Palestinian communities we work with. Together with Palestinian and Israeli partner organisations, we advocate for an end to the illegal Israeli military occupation and a just and sustainable solution to the conflict, based on the parameters of international law.

Actions you can take

POSTER/FLYER: ECONOMIC PEACE IS EASY [ACTION ITEM]

POSTER/FLYER: ECONOMIC PEACE IS EASY [ACTION ITEM]

Dear friends, As Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to see his government sworn in later today (Tuesday), the sophisticated PR spin that Netanyahu is infamous for is already well on its way. This time the focus is economy. We are not fooled....

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