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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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YNET: Bishops equate Israel’s actions to Holocaust

YNET Bishops equate Israel's actions to Holocaust  Hours after historic visit to Jerusalem holocaust museum, group of German bishops tour Palestinian Authority, say Israel behaving like Nazis  Eldad Beck  BERLIN - "This morning we saw pictures of...

OCCUPATION: In your face

Dear friends, It has been a while since I've been able to write.  So much is happening.  I've been overwhelmed with work for starters.  We are now clearly in a resistance economy mode, similar to where we were pre-Oslo, only on a larger scale and with a...

Just like life under Pinochet

Ha'aretz Last update - 23:07 11/02/2007  Just like life under Pinochet By Nir Hasson  "The Palestinians' lives under the occupation are reminiscent of the lives of Chile's citizens under the dictatorship," says Chilean Judge Juan Guzman, who is...

The hidden cost of free congressional trips to Israel

The Christian Science Monitor from the January 26, 2007 edition The hidden cost of free congressional trips to Israel  Branded as 'educational,' these trips offer Israeli propagandists an opportunity to expose members of Congress to only their side of the...

Global Journalist Radio

Global Journalist Radio The online magazine for the international news business United States Policy in Iraq, Cont. Air Time: 6:30-7 p.m., January 18, 2007 Listen Online: Please click here to listen online. This Week's Guests: Sam Bahour Freelance journalist Ramallah,...

The Nation: Hurricane Carter (by Henry Siegman)

The Nation Hurricane Carter   by HENRY SIEGMAN  [from the January 22, 2007 issue]  Former President Jimmy Carter's new book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, provoked an uproar even before its publication. The reason for the controversy was the book's...

update…The IDF and my daughter’s hamburger

Dear friends,I wanted to write this last night but was exhausted from playing umpteen hands of the card game UNO with my 6 year old daughter, Nadine (pic attached). Why this card frenzy, especially given I hate playing cards? Well, we were in the center of Ramallah...

What Are You Going to Do Now, Israel? (By VIRGINIA TILLEY)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2006/12/15/what-are-you-going-to-do-now-israel/ December 15, 2006 When There's No One Left to Blame What Are You Going to Do Now, Israel? By VIRGINIA TILLEY Johannesburg, South Africa What are you going to do now, Israel?  Now that...

Update from the border from Laila…(ANOTHER ACTION ALERT)

Dear friends, First, I must applaud you all.  Your reply to yesterday's appeal to send letters to the editor to support John Dugard's opinion piece generated a unprecedented reply.  Those of you are that acted are not only prompt, but your letters were...

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