The name Manhattan was taken from indigenous Native Americans, similar to how Atarot, the name of an Israeli settlement, took its name from the Palestinian village, Attara. The settlement stole the name from the village upon which it was built.
In a visit this week, Mahmoud Abbas hailed the Jenin refugee camp as an icon of resistance even as the PA continues imprisoning resistance fighters. But as a member of the Jenin Brigade once told Mondoweiss, “Ramallah will not see freedom” while the PA rules there.
Walid Daqqah broke free during his nearly four-decade imprisonment through his writings, his resistance, and the birth of his daughter, Milad. His lifetime of refusing the prison’s walls has brought us all closer to freedom.
If two-year-old Mohammad al-Tamimi was named Eric instead, would his killing by Israeli soldiers have been treated differently in the international media?
Walid Daqqah’s health continues to deteriorate inside Ramleh prison’s death chambers. Yet “despite all the roughness and challenges of prison, Walid keeps saying, ‘I am still kind and loving'” says his brother, As’ad Daqqah.
Israeli settlers and military systematically made life unbearable for the Bedouin community living in the West Bank’s Ein Samiya region. On May 22 they were forced to leave their lands and were displaced for the fourth time since 1969.
The Flag March represents the Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestine and the imposition of Israeli colonial dominance over Jerusalem. It is part of the Zionist forever war on Jerusalem.
The “ongoing Nakba” means that the Zionist drive to expel and eliminate the Palestinian people continues to this day. That is why Palestinian resistance to Zionism will remain as long as Zionism exists.
Nakba is 75 years of what is happening to us, not what happened.
Nothing remains. But in the traces– Everything remains.
Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by the same Israeli bullets directed against her fellow Palestinians. Those bullets have continued to fly, and the Israeli war machine has taken the lives of nearly 300 Palestinians in the past year. Shireen’s was one of them.