When my grandfather died, the pain of his exile died with him too. But his hope that his grandchildren would return one day to his beloved Jaffa remain alive today.
A recent poll showed Summer Lee up by 25 points in Pennsylvania’s 12th District Democratic primary, but that lead quickly shrank as Israel lobby groups pumped more than $3 million into the race.
Childhood in Gaza includes children gaining their first awareness of siege and occupation.
The latest escalation by the ADL against CAIR, Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, labeling them as antisemitic because they are anti-Zionist, is further proof of the ADL’s desperation. The ADL has long worked to secure total impunity for the Israeli government. For the Palestinian community, Zionism is the political ideology that has enabled their violent subjugation and systematic dispossession. People must be able to discuss and debate these issues without being falsely smeared as anti-Semites.
J Street’s battle with AIPAC and Democratic Majority for Israel is good and important because two branches of the Israel lobby are making Israel a political football. Maybe progressives will get a voice here too.
In his debut collection of poetry, “Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza,” Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha writes about everyday life Gaza: the siege, wars, poverty, and unemployment. Mondoweiss interviewed Abu Toha at his home in Gaza City about his collection and the stories behind his poems.
Mainstream Democrats were shocked by the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, but their calls for an investigation were vague, even suggesting that Israel could investigate itself– a recipe for “whitewashing,” says a human rights group. No mainstream leader approached the position of progressive Congresspeople, that the U.S. must investigate Israel, or the view of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, that Israeli “apartheid” is the context of the killing.
July 8, 2022 will mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Ghassan Kanafani, a political and cultural icon of the Palestinian resistance and the Palestinian people. We urge all groups, organizations and communities working on Palestine to mark this important anniversary that highlights the immortality of Palestinian resistance and creativity, despite the deliberate policy of targeting and assassination used by the colonizer against Palestinian leaders, freedom fighters and visionaries.
Israeli police attacked the funeral of slain Palestinian Walid al-Sharif, 23, in occupied East Jerusalem on Monday night, injuring dozens of funeral goers. Al-Sharif was shot in the head with a rubber coated steel bullet by Israeli forces on April 22 during an Israeli assault on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
Churches for Middle East Peace calls on the U.S. government to ensure a fair and independent investigation into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.