BY: Sara Alsayed / Arab America Contributing Writer Sliman Mansour is a Palestinian painter and artist. He was born in a village in Ramallah and in a time when the zionist had not occupied and stolen the Palestinian lands. He is considered a great and inspiring figure to all Palestinians and is known as an artist … Continued
By: Menal Elmaliki / Arab America Contributing Writer “I swear to the LordI still can’t seeWhy Democracy meansEverybody but me.”-Langston Hughes, The Black Man Speaks They know everything about us, and we know nothing about them. In this new age of technology, the phrase, “they know everything about us, and we know nothing about them,” … Continued
The author analyzes the timing of the offensive on Gaza. There are still places in the world in which Muslims have been constant victims of ongoing war. They spend the holy month of Ramadan in conditions that the conservative media censors. Furthermore, the Eid festivals are celebrations that are observed in conflict. Humanity can longer neglect the Palestinian genocide and America has been an accomplice to Israel’s brutality for over half of a century.
By: John Mason/ Arab America Contributing Writer Sheikh Jarrah, a community in East Jerusalem, has been home to Palestinian Arabs literally over centuries. Recently, Jewish settlers have used Israeli law to evict them from their community. This situation is a microcosm of Israeli occupation of the West Bank, in which Palestinian rights are being chipped … Continued
We must make our voices heard sharply and clearly, so that every person who served in the occupied territories will know that speaking out is not merely an option — it is a moral duty. SOURCE:+972 BY: AVNER GVARYAHU Like many who served alongside me, I preferred to remain silent. I preferred to forget, not to … Continued
By: Nada Elia Source: The Middle East Eye A Confederate flag appeared in an apartment window in Manhattan’s East Village in New York City last week, and the neighbours were outraged. A few pelted it with stones, calling it a hate crime. Many said it did not belong in such a diverse city. What few … Continued
By: Nava EtShalom Source: Los Angeles Review of Books MICHAEL CHABON AND AYELET WALDMAN recently co-edited Kingdom of Olives and Ash, a collection of essays about the Israeli occupation. It grew out of a series of trips they arranged for international authors with Breaking the Silence, an organization of Israeli soldiers who have served in the … Continued
By: Alaa Tartir Source: Palestine Square- Institute of Palestine Studies Blog With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu facing corruption charges and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Chief Negotiator Saeb Erekat dealing with health issues, analysts say that a political upheaval is on the docket in the coming few months in Israel/Palestine. Although there is an increasingly narrow difference between … Continued
The Democratic Socialists of America voted overwhelmingly to support the BDS movement [AFP] By: Usaid Siddiqui Source: The New Arab Earlier this month, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the biggest socialist organisation in the US, overwhelmingly endorsed the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) Movement at their most recent national convention in Chicago. With 25,000 paid-up members, … Continued
Yazen al-Qum uses whistles, corn and various sounds to train homing pigeons from his family’s rooftop at the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem. He says he spends all his free time caring for his birds, flying them or thinking about them. (Linda Davidson/The Washington Post) To entice others back to the coop, Qum holds up … Continued
Their lives are characterised by checkpoints, daily interrogations, night raids and incessant fears of detention [Jaclynn Ashly/Al Jazeera] By: Jaclynn Ashly Source: al Jazeera Occupied East Jerusalem – “It’s hard not to get detained here,” 16-year-old Abdallah Balalawi, an Afro-Palestinian from Chad, told Al Jazeera from his home in the Old City. “I have to … Continued
Saeb Erekat, right, the secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its chief negotiator, led ambassadors on a tour of Israeli settlements in the West Bank near the Palestinian village of Jalud in March. By: ISABEL KERSHNER Source: THE NEW YORK TIMES RAMALLAH, West Bank — Saeb Erekat, a leading voice of the Palestinian … Continued
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