The Stop the Wall movement in Palestine began a dozen years ago and has transformed the international struggle: bringing people together based on human rights to end the occupation, end racial discrimination towards Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, and to support the right of return for refugees.
Listen up. Racist nationalism feeding on fear and economic discontent directed by an obviously-corrupted leadership with a creative approach to truth is really dangerous. This is not the time to be patient or to normalize the fact of the Trump presidency.
The sickening police killings of young black men in the U.S. reflect American problems, from the school to prison pipeline, our failed educational systems, and lack of opportunity for the have nots. But the Israeli model of lynching desperate young Palestinians under occupation, which has been sold to our police departments, is also part of the problem.
Alice Rothchild is portrayed as an extremist for supporting BDS on Israeli television, and her Facebook page lights up with rage. She responds: Israelis, you must wake up from your stupor and see how the world sees you.
Alice Rothchild finds resistance to speaking openly about the Israeli occupation at a retirement community in Seattle.
When Alice Rothchild met Hashem al-‘Azza five years ago, he was living in hell, holding out in his Hebron home against settler atrocities. Last week he was killed by Israeli tear gas.
At the first anniversary of Operation Protective Edge, we are facing a crisis of memory; Israel’s massive ground, air and sea assault killed nearly 2200 Palestinians, including over 500 children, but it pales in the media discourse next to the portrayal of the Palestinians as the sole aggressors
The deliberate state-sponsored erasure of Palestinian voices and the evidence of their centuries old existence constitutes a form of historical genocide, of attempting to destroy the memory of a people’s history and thus the people themselves.” Alice Rothchild says that the creation of the Nakba museum project in Washington is a deeply political act.
Not a single house has been rebuilt in Gaza since the end of the devastating war 9 months ago, UNRWA reports
I first saw the spanking new administrative buildings for the Gaza Community Mental Health Program…