Tag Archives: Palestine

Letter to Obama: Don’t visit Nativity Church in Bethlehem, witness Separation Wall & refugee camps instead

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Munther Isaac

Munther Isaac, director of the “Christ at the Checkpoint Conference” and faculty member at the Bethlehem Bible College has written an open letter to President Obama on his upcoming visit to Bethlehem.

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Who’s afraid of the Qassams?

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Max Ajl

One of the more remarkable yet less remarked upon moments of the recent Israeli massacre in Gaza came when the Qassam Brigades gave a press conference on 17 November. They had a message for the Israeli public: “It was your leadership,” they said, “that dragged you into this and into the shelters to score cheap political points.” What’s truly stunning is that the Qassam Brigades were making an open anti-government appeal to the people of Israel.

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Israel seeks to ban the Palestinian protest movement from iOS store

Posted on June 22, 2011 by alec

Arab springtime is welcomed in Syria and Libya but not in Israel. Israel’s determination to follow South Africa’s apartheid path seems relentless.

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Pizzarotti should follow in Deutsche Bahn’s footsteps

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Stephanie Westbrook

Italian construction firm Pizzarotti is stupefied, bewildered, stunned. In an article on today’s Corriere della Sera, Italy’s top newspaper, covering Deutsche Bahn’s withdrawal from the Israeli project for a high-speed train line that cuts through the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Michele … Continue reading →

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On International Women’s Day, Palestinian women are faced with two struggles – freedom from occupation and liberation within their own society

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Circarre Parrhesia

The following interview is with Hitam Saafin, the Chair of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees (UPWC), which was founded in 1980. UPWC’s aim is to empower Palestinian women, while contributing to the Palestinian national struggle against the Israeli occupation. … Continue reading →

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Tony Blair’s lips are moving. But he’s saying…nothing.

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Matthew Taylor

Irrelevant Quartet diplomat Tony Blair says: Israel needs to ‘accelerate and deepen’ measures to build Palestinian confidence that a state is in the offing… …While all the while, Israel continues to accelerate and deepen measures to steal Palestinian land and … Continue reading →

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One American’s awakening

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Louise Ross

Editor’s note: A vital function of this site is to inform Americans about fellow citizens who are discovering the issue and struggling to engage on it. Louise Ross of Washington, D.C., has visited Israel and Palestine twice. She is a … Continue reading →

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A Chanukah prayer for Palestinian justice and dignity

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Philip Weiss

More and more American Jews are dissenting when it comes to Israel support, and some are getting excommunicated for doing so (and one even lost an eye for it, without any support from her government). And an important group in … Continue reading →

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The handshake on the White House lawn

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Philip Weiss

By now, readers must know that I possess one of the hallmarks of weak judgment, I believe whatever the last person I talked to has told me; and in that spirit, let me pass along what a friend told me … Continue reading →

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Goosebumps video links American sacrifices in civil rights struggle to Palestinian protesters’ travails

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Philip Weiss

One of my strongest impressions of my last trip to Palestine is what a great price people are paying for their sturdy resistance to occupation. This is also a theme of Budrus, the fine new documentary. Well now Sana Kassem … Continue reading →

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The reunification of my parents

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Linah Alsaafin

Yesterday my mother crossed the Allenby bridge, from the West Bank to Jordan, to see my father in Amman. What makes this banal act unusual is that she had to wait almost a year to be finally granted permission to … Continue reading →

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I had a mighty hard time, but I’m on my way, to Canaan land; and if you don’t go, please don’t hinder me

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Philip Weiss

This is the great Mahalia Jackson, gone but with us in spirit, adapted to the Gaza flotilla and uploaded yesterday. Beautiful. Notice the honor granted to Islamic prayer at 1:50; I had to pray so hard, I’m on my way. … Continue reading →

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Lauren Booth: Conversion to Islam has made my life less materialistic

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Philip Weiss

Lauren Booth, a pro-Palestinian activist who is the sister-in-law of Tony Blair, recently shocked the English establishment by converting to Islam. She wrote about her conversion yesterday in the Guardian. I’m not into organized religion generally, but this is interesting, … Continue reading →

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Dennis Ross strokes AIPAC on delegitimization and 2-states (‘before it is too late’)

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Philip Weiss

Is it election season? Laura Rozen reports that Dennis Ross, the Obama aide at large, and really a representative of the Israel lobby, went to AIPAC in Florida to talk about Iran etc. Read the speech and you will see … Continue reading →

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‘I do not support U.S. gov’t war guarantees or military aid to any country’ — John Dennis

Posted on October 25, 2010 by John Dennis

Over the weekend we ran a post criticizing the Israel-Palestine stance of John Dennis, an antiwar Republican who is challenging Nancy Pelosi from the left in her San Francisco district. John Dennis had this response today: Matthew Taylor’s blog post … Continue reading →

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‘AP’ grants prominence to hasbara re Catholic bishops

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Philip Weiss

This AP story on the Catholic bishops’ criticism of Israel focuses almost entirely on Israel’s view that the synod was “hijacked.” Three substantial quotes are offered from two Israeli officials. For quotations of non-Israeli views longer than one word, one … Continue reading →

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Viva Palestina’s ‘Lifeline 5′ convoy reaches Gaza

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Eva Smagacz

Viva Palestina Lifeline 5 convoy reached Gaza today, with 140 vehicles, 300 activists and over three million pounds worth of aid. Each consecutive convoy is larger than the last one, increasing the number of activists involved (from 30 countries) and … Continue reading →

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Please see ‘Budrus’

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Philip Weiss

Yesterday James North wrote a piece about Budrus and Ayed Morrar, the Palestinian organizer of nonviolent resistance who is at the heart of the film. At North’s urging, I went to see the film yesterday. Every story we get about … Continue reading →

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Two state idea is over because U.S. was ‘repeatedly diddled by a client state’

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Philip Weiss

This morning on his WNYC show, Brian Lehrer expressed some impatience with the Palestinian refusal to come to the table without any Israeli shift re settlements. Maen Rashid Areikat, the Palestinian rep to the U.S., pointed out that negotiations have … Continue reading →

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Palestine, I hear you

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Lillian Rosengarten

Palestine! You call to me with whispers of pain. You speak of lost poets, children who cry for lost parents, lost teachers lost childhoods, dreams torn from their roots, mangled in a desert gone dry. In this place, water is … Continue reading →

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Question: How has activism changed your vision of the conflict?

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Philip Weiss

Question for Joseph Dana: I’m going to put up a post today for your event in New York City next week. A question, one I’d ask at the event, but maybe you want to respond to now: You have spent … Continue reading →

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Farewelling two-state-solution, ‘FP’ authors suggest permanent residency status in Israel for refugees

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Philip Weiss

Yet another sign that the two-state solution idea is over; Mickey Bergman and Amjad Atallah at Foreign Policy propose two multi-ethnic states side by side, but with overlapping citizenships. Israel preserves its Jewish character, but Palestinian refugees gain residency rights … Continue reading →

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Obama continues Bush policy promoting anti-democratic crackdown in the West Bank

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Adam Horowitz

Nathan Thrall has a great article in the current issue of the New York Review of Books on an issue that has received scant attention in the US press – US support for Salam Fayyad’s anti-democratic crackdown in the West … Continue reading →

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N.Y. musicians’ union shuts down debate over Israel/Palestine

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Rich Siegel

Rich Siegel has been a member of Local 802, Associated Musicians of Greater New York, for 25 years, and lately resigned. Below, his explanation, followed by his letter of resignation to the president of the union as well as to … Continue reading →

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American public opinion and the special relationship with Israel

Posted on September 20, 2010 by John Mearsheimer

There is no question that the United States has a relationship with Israel that has no parallel in modern history. Washington gives Israel consistent, almost unconditional diplomatic backing and more foreign aid than any other country. In other words, Israel … Continue reading →

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