Category Archives: 2010 Mondo Awards Entries

This is Entry 11 in the Mondo Awards end-of-year contest. As the Campaign Manager for CODEPINK’s Stolen Beauty Ahava Boycott Campaign, I had been working with Dalit Baum and Merav Amir, the lead researchers of Who Profits (a project of … Continue reading →

Entry 10 in the Mondo Awards end-of-year contest are the people of al-Araqib. It was 6 a.m. when the Israeli police invaded al-Araqib for the third time. Still half-asleep, I stood alongside village residents and Israeli and international activists, trying … Continue reading →

Entry 9 in the Mondo Awards end-of-year contest. Sung to the tune, Darling Clementine In a tavern with my companion Excavating for some wine Found my hummus implicated In the suffering in Palestine … Humiliation of a nation By brigades … Continue reading →

Entry 8 in the Mondo Awards end-of-year contest. Year before last, I was sitting in the living room of my childhood home sharing a cup of morning coffee with my mother and musing over the holidays. We laughed over kitschy … Continue reading →

Entry 7 in the Mondo Awards end-of-year contest. This contest helps us remember how intertwined we all are, all the many pieces and members of the movement that are moving all the time–in Palestine, in Israel, in the U.S., in … Continue reading →

By Sameeha Elwan In Memory of Nakba He closed his eyes when the smell of the thyme found its way to the deepest memory his mind is still tirelessly clinging to. He opened them with a persistence to inhale as … Continue reading →

by David Samel In one sense, I owe my life to Zionism. My parents met in a Zionist youth group in New York in 1946. As a boy, I naturally absorbed the prevailing view portraying Israel as a lonely outpost … Continue reading →

by Morgan Bach My first trip to Palestine has left me discouraged, confused, and at times just seething mad, but somewhere in the last two days I found the thread in my jumble of thoughts, my take-away, my inspiration. It … Continue reading →

Nominated by Sandra Tamari: Hedy Epstein, 85-year old Holocaust survivor and tireless champion for Palestinian rights, traveled to Cairo in December 2009 to participate in the Gaza Freedom March. This was her third attempt to visit Gaza and break the … Continue reading →

Nominated by Rae Abileah and Colleen Kelly: We in Generation Y (children of the ‘80s and younger) have been known to express a desire to try something new, beyond the looping renditions of “Give Peace a Chance” and marchers carrying … Continue reading →

By Morad Fareed I loved you once, I love you now anyway We danced at a wedding once. It wasn’t always around flags on fire. Palestine is Iraq is New Orleans. Loss breeds ire. ……..