“This is the call of all the Palestinian families, the thousands of children who were killed, including my son Abdullah. Our call is to all free people across the world. Please stop this genocide.”
Israeli has actively targeted and decimated the healthcare sector in Gaza. Withholding or interrupting health care is a way of preventing Palestinians from living, even as they await death.
Neta Golan recounts the day in 2002 when Colin Powell visited a besieged Yasser Arafat in his presidential compound in Ramallah during the Second Intifada, as international solidarity activists tried to protect the Palestinian leader from Israeli attack.
When Neta Golan’s husband traveled to Egypt at the beginning of March for a wedding, she never imagined it would take nearly five months for him to make his way home. Her story is just one of thousands of families where Palestinians were stranded abroad.
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They can not erase, the sharp metallic taste of absence of the hands that terraced these mountains and planted cacti and olives, the heart’s left behind
Falesteen
I will sing your name from the minarets, even after they transformed the mosques into bars, until
the inevitable, Return.
Read two poems by Neta Golan, “Return is Inevitable” and “Love Under Apartheid.”
Saturday, 12th July, a group called Jews Against Genocide (JAG) held a memorial service for Palestinian…