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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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Amira Hass: The uber-wardens

"...implanting the jailor mentality in thousands of Israeli young people, soldiers, clerks and policemen - an intoxicating mentality of those who treat those weaker than they with impunity." Last update - 11:11 12/04/2006 The uber-wardens By Amira Hass Two...

GAZA: 8-yrs old at home! What would you do…?

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JPOST: Former FM: Fund, not isolate, Hamas

Former FM: Fund, not isolate, Hamas  ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Orly Halpern, THE JERUSALEM POST  Apr. 10, 2006  ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Israel and the...

“…Surely the EU can do better….”

Palestinians now being punished for choosing Hamas By Lara Marlowe IRISH TIMES  08/04/2006 Israel and the United States are concocting a Palestinian state that is famished and thirsty, shrunken and chopped into pieces, writes Lara Marlowe   So the...

Ambassador Dean on American Policy Toward Palestine

Transmitted below are some thoughts on American policy toward Palestine from Ambassador John Gunther Dean, a wonderful man and a great personal friend who, born Jewish in Germany, cares deeply both about his adopted homeland, the United States of America, and about...

“The Woman I Left Behind”, a novel by Kim Jenson [Book Review]

The Woman I left Behind is much more than an untraditional love story. A Palestinian refugee and a young American woman become equally entangled in the each other’s past, present and future. Their story is interwoven with class struggle, national aspirations, careers, love, and the good and bad of each other’s culture. Both of them, searching for a meaningful relationship, find that courage is needed when they are confronted with the opportunity to learn about themselves through the other.

Ismail Haniyeh: A just peace or no peace

Comment  A just peace or no peace  Israeli unilateralism is a recipe for conflict - as is the west's racist refusal to treat Palestinians as equals  Ismail Haniyeh Friday March 31, 2006 The Guardian Do policymakers in Washington and Europe ever feel...

Staughton Lynd: AM I AN ANTI-SEMITE?

 AM I AN ANTI-SEMITE? by Staughton Lynd  March 28, 2006        I attended a private high school in New York City during World War II.  I was one of a very few students who were not Jewish.  One of my closest friends...

Howard Zinn: America’s Blinders

"What is the idea of our moral superiority based on? Surely not on our behavior toward people in other parts of the world. Is it based on how well people in the United States live? The World Health Organization in 2000 ranked countries in terms of overall health...

30 Israeli Soldiers Killed 8-Year-Old Palestinian Girl

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The Israel Lobby – A MUST READ!

Dear friends, Please read this outstanding report then sit down this weekend and write (and lobby to get published) a letter to the editor in your local papers and/or your government representative. Poor 1st world citizens, Sam -------------------------------- London...

‘Israel prevented initial Saadat trial’

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NYT: Israel’s Tragedy Foretold

The New York Times March 10, 2006 Op-Ed Contributor Israel's Tragedy Foretold By GERSHOM GORENBERG Jerusalem  WITH Israel's national election approaching, each day's news emphasizes a clear political shift: the settlement enterprise has lost the support of the...

Jimmy Carter: Colonization of Palestine Precludes Peace

Dear friends, This is for those that still think a two state solution is possible.  Carter starts to make a little sense, then sadly falls back into demanding the occupied people basically beg for their right to live in "peace and dignity."  I...

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