Category Archives: Nakba

The great book robbery

The Great Book Robbery film, due to be released in May 2012, tells the story of the systematic looting of 70,000 Palestinian books during the war of 1948.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Nakba, Reports/Video | 13 Comments

Israel’s Al Jalame prison: ‘Palestinian children are locked in solitary confinement for days or even weeks’

The Guardian published a scathing article over the weekend by Harriet Sherwood on human rights abuses suffered by Palestinian children in Al Jalame prison in northern Israel.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, On the ground reports | Tagged | 22 Comments

New book Palestinians in Israel explores the contradiction of the ‘Jewish and democratic’ state

Ben White discusses his new book “Palestinians in Israel.”

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation | 26 Comments

Gaza youth hear about Israel lobby’s role from Abunimah via Skype

For the second week in a row, the Center for Political Development Studies holds a video link on the role of the Zionist lobby in US elections. Ali Abunimah, the founder of The Electronic Intifada, joined Gaza activists via Skype … Continue reading

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, Gaza, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, On the ground reports, Reports/Video, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 5 Comments

If I must die

A poem from a Gazan writer on the importance of the vision of kites

Posted in Arab Spring, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation | 20 Comments

Sundance Film Festival to feature doc on system of control in longest-running occupation

Sundance Film Festival to feature film on the thousands of laws and regulations governing Palestinians in the occupied territories

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East | 44 Comments

‘I better not call Betty’ — My long path to unreasonable optimism about the conflict

A mathematician describes his spiritual progress to Zionism and then away from it

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | Tagged | 68 Comments

Omar Barghouti: ‘They can colonize our lands, but they can never colonize our minds’

Omar Barghouti spoke in Oakland, CA on his West Coast tour, covering BDS, the Occupy Wall St. Movement and Israeli attacks on Palestinian education.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists, US Policy in the Middle East | 15 Comments

‘Day of reckoning’ settlers who attacked IDF base have friends in gov’t

What started out as a brazen attack by extreme rightwing Jewish zealots on a military base last month is turning into a full-on extravaganza.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | Tagged | 10 Comments

Prayer

Shouts of “Come, let us go down! Let us go pray!” filled the air, as throngs of people attempted to enter the gates..It is impossible for a non-Muslim to understand the significance of attending Friday prayers in Al Aqsa in Ramadan

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, On the ground reports | Tagged | 10 Comments

Jewish power + Jewish hubris = ‘moral catastrophe of epic proportions’

Jewish loss of fear of the gentiles is producing a moral catastrophe of epic proportions — Jerry Haber

Posted in American Jewish Community, Gaza, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation | 154 Comments

Poof, Dome of the Rock, gone: IDF rabbinate edits Dome of the Rock out of picture of the Temple Mount

  IDF rabbinate edits out Dome of the Rock from picture of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount Photo appears in army packet on Hanukkah describing the Jewish revolt against Hellenistic rule; IDF spokesman: Image meant to illustrate a period in which holy … Continue reading

Posted in Activism, Egypt, Gaza, Gaza 2 Years Later, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East | 10 Comments

The Amman talks: Nothing from nothing leaves nothing

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators will meet for a do nothing ‘peace process’ in Amman on Tuesday

Posted in American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 23 Comments

Memories of Gaza: when the victim is called the terrorist

A woman who lived through the Gaza Massacre recalls children who died, her friends

Posted in Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | 11 Comments

Real News Video: JNF ‘Judaizes’ expropriated land

Real News has produced an excellent “JNF 101″, a short 12 minute episode worth volumes.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, Reports/Video, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 94 Comments

Thanks, my enemy. I love Palestine

Raw unfiltered voice from Palestine: you call me a terrorist, but you have taught me to love my country

Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, Occupation | 160 Comments

You call me a terrorist?

From Fidaa Abu Assi’s blog Gaza in Words.

Posted in Arab Spring, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East | 4 Comments

VIDEO: An Israeli soldier recounts the Nakba

A video featuring former Palmach fighter Amnon Neumann recounting his experience fighting in 1948.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Nakba, Reports/Video | 18 Comments

Nada, zilch, finito– the media snowjob of mass proportions

US media’s sudden interest in the struggle over Orthodox practice in Israel is a giant distraction from the real issue: seizing Jerusalem

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Nakba, Occupation, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists | 54 Comments

3 Years Later: Palestinians Still Exist

Cast Lead Anniversary

Posted in Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East | 9 Comments

Three years ago: A ‘normal morning’ turns to horror in Gaza

It was a few minutes past eleven. I woke up “early” to start preparing for my school exams that were due to start in a couple of weeks. It was a lovely morning, warm and sunny. The December sunlight filtered … Continue reading

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At midnight mass, UK’s Catholic archbishop describes ‘deep shadow’ over Bethlehem and West Bank

Europeans have recognized the Israeli occupation of the West Bank as one of the preeminent human rights issues of our time

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Nakba, Occupation | 5 Comments

Christmas greeting from Palestine 2011

Holy places of Jerusalem and Bethlehem were supposed to be international. Here’s a video Christmas greeting from Palestine.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation | 26 Comments

Human rights for invented peoples: Tamimi vs. Gingrich

Calling Palestinians “an invented people” rationalizes their dispossession

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Nakba, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East | 5 Comments

Bed Bath & Beyond flash mob: Stop selling illegal Israeli settlement products

On International Human Rights Day, a flash mob took over a Bed Bath & Beyond in Marin County, CA to boycott Ahava cosmetics and SodaStream home carbonation systems.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, Occupation, Reports/Video, Settlers/Colonists, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 45 Comments