Author Archives: Annie Robbins

Arab Idol finalist Mohammed Assaf managed to get out of Khan Younis refugee camp to Cairo and has has drawn comparisons to the late Egyptian nightingale Abdel Halim Hafez; Mahmoud Abbas has called him to say he has made Palestine and the Arab world proud; his poster is hanging in homes, restaurants and stores all across Palestine…

A grim video of the occupied territories shows a Palestinian boy fallen apparently after being shot outside an Israeli settlement and soldiers and “security” pointing guns at his head.

‘Another soldier in the delegitimization war against Israel’– that’s what the Jewish Press calls Mandy Patinkin for favoring boycott of West Bank settlements and speaking to Peace Now

Refugee Naifeh Abu Ayadah makes a video about the Nakba by Wafaa Aburahama

‘I’m not allowed on Israel’s segregated buses’ and ‘I’m only allowed to attend Israel’s segregated schools’ — creative ads in Washington state feature portraits of ordinary Palestinians

In its effort to break the “Information Blockade” the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign stages a Mother’s Day exhibit in downtown Seattle commemorating the Nakba in Palestine. Mothers Against Ethnic Cleansing!

Church of Scotland report came out for boycott and divestment to end Israeli settlements of Palestine. Jewish groups objected to the language. The Church has now bagged the report and will “reword” it

Stephen Colbert asks Donna Edwards if she isn’t “lukewarm on Israel” and she defends the two-state solution. A reminder of how broken the US discourse is

The reports began last night. First the New York Times and Washington Post reported that Israel had struck Syria on Friday. Then Reuters and later AP reported fresh strikes by Israel on the Syrian capital. Video footage uploaded onto the Internet by activists showed a huge ball of fire rising into the night sky. The missile strikes are alleged to target Syrian arms being transported to Hezbollah.

PNN: “The International web search engine “Google” recognized the Palestinian state after it was referring to Palestine as “The Palestinian Territories” since its establishment.”

Last year the tireless chronicler of racism in Israeli society, David Sheen, showed how Israeli politicians described African refugees as ‘infiltrators.’ Now the US State Department appears to have picked up Sheen’s report.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice recently told an audience that she spends a lot of her time defending Israel.