Category Palestine
Bare Facts About Gaza Demonstrators are Correct, But Rest of Story is Missing
Palestinians are not merely a ragtag collection of refugees; they are a people purposefully kept from their homes by an army of occupation.
Polly Mann | How Do U.S. Military Gifts to Israel Affect Children and Youth?
Israel’s military and court detention is unique in the world in its systematic incarceration of children––specifically, Palestinian children.
Ahed Tamimi and a Slap That Was Heard Around the World
the slap she gave the IDF soldier has resounded around the world.
In a Major Free Speech Victory, a Federal Court Strikes Down a Law that Punishes Supporters of Israel Boycott by Glenn Greenwald
It’s hard to imagine a law that more directly violates the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech than one that seeks to deny people benefits for which everyone else is eligible due solely to the state’s disapproval of their political views and activism.
Focus: Gaza | Keeping Hope Alive for All Gaza’s Children: Dr. Mona Qasim El-Farra } WAMM Newsletter
On a Sunday afternoon in November, Dr. Mona El-Farra spoke with an audience in Minneapolis via Skype from Manchester, England,
Facebook Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments
Would Facebook ever dare censor American politicians or journalists who use social media to call for violence against America’s enemies? To ask the question is to answer it.
Polly Mann | Of Cabbages and Kings
There is no question that the United States has the biggest, strongest, costliest armaments in the world and it devises the rules by which other nations use or display their ships, troops, and arms.
Juan Cole | Why Is Acknowledging Israeli Apartheid a Shock?
What Sanders is doing here is demolishing typical Israeli propaganda points (hasbara) wherein Israel is simply a victim of the Palestinians and in which Palestinians are demonized as Khamas and terrorists and violent and irrationally angry.
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Mazin Qumsiyeh | Action in Politics, Israel/Palestine
Senate Passed Anti-Free Speech Bill. It targets
human rights activists, not hatred.
Ann Wright | Women Call for Israel-Palestine Peace
“We cannot count on men to create peace. We will have to do it by ourselves.”
Rise Up Times | Articles about the Middle East
Articles about the Middle East. Click the title of each article to read the full article. Found on the link on the RiseUpTimes.org page. Regularly updated. Also visit the WAMM Middle East Committee website here for information and articles. +++ +++ A few of the newer posts. US Won’t Release Text Of Secret Deal With Russia To […]
Allison Deger | Israel has demolished more Palestinian homes in first half of 2016 than all of 2015
From 2006 to June 30th of this year B’Tselem found Israel demolished more than 1,113 Palestinian homes in the West Bank, making homeless 5,199, of whom 2,602 are children.
Chris Hedges|Inside the Occupied Territories with Amira Hass (On Contact)
Chris Hedges goes inside Israel and the Occupied Territories with Amira Hass, the Haaretz Correspondent for the Occupied Territories.
Betraying Progressives, DNC Platform Backs Fracking, TPP, and Israel Occupation
“If we can’t say a word about TPP, if we can’t talk about Medicare-for-All explicitly, if the greatest prophetic voice dealing with pending ecologically catastrophe can hardly win a vote, and if we can’t even acknowledge occupation… it seems there is no way in good conscience I can say, ‘Take it to the next stage,'” [Cornel] West declared before the assembly.
Decades-Long Israeli Military Occupation Drives Palestinian Revenge Attacks (Video)
I think that this is what this attack has shown, is that while most of the political and militant leadership of the Palestinians has been assassinated in the last century, or is imprisoned, even though there isn’t a way for Palestinians to actually unite because they’re divided in bantustans all over the West Bank, in Gaza, and all over Israel, even though they are separated by a complex matrix of control of IDs and live under extreme discrimination inside of Israel, they will still continue to resist until they have freedom.
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War in the United States
Whatever one’s position on how to resolve the conflict, it is uncontroversial that Israel could not continue occupying Palestinian territory without U.S. diplomatic, military, and economic support, and it’s unlikely that support could continue without the backing—or, at least, acquiescence—of the U.S. public.
Liza Burr | One Humanity, One State: An Interview with Mazin Qumsiyeh
Only a single democratic state will promote “human rights and…reconciliation and justice”; there is no other way. You cannot make 78 percent of historic Palestine off-limits to Palestinian refugees (or their descendants) who were ethnically cleansed from their homes and have been granted the right of return under international law. You cannot divide “such a small piece of land…into two countries.”
VIDEO | Mazin Qumsiyeh Live from Bethlehem
Excellent analysis of the situation in Palestine and the Middle East by a scholar activist.
Mainstream Media Focuses On Israeli Deaths While Ignoring Israeli Violence
“Each new day in the current round of strife in Palestine seems to bring news that more Palestinians have been killed in increasingly gruesome ways by Israeli security forces. …”
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