Happy Yom Ha’atzmaoot

Another cel­e­bra­tion of Israeli Inde­pen­dence Day. In New York, the Salute to Israel Parade is enlisting gullible kids from my ele­men­tary school to celebrate ethnic cleansing and politi­cide, giving them, once again, no hint that Israel Inde­pen­dence meant Nakba to the Pales­tini­ans, an intol­er­a­ble act that should be com­pen­sated in kind: return of the refugees. In […]

In Memoriam: Bassem Abu Rahma

It does not devalue the lives or the deaths of white or Western heroes to say that we live in a racist world that refuses to know the names of heroes like Bassem Abu Rahma, that our world honors heroes with the resources to get on a jet-plane, that it honors less heroes that can never […]

Film review: Pastoral resistance in “This Palestinian Life”

Orig­i­nally published on EI:

“Is it true that the Jews want to retake this country?” asked a Pales­tin­ian farmer close to the turn of the 20th century, according to the notes of Albert Antebi, an official of the Jewish Colonial Asso­ci­a­tion. They did and do. Pales­tin­ian peasants were the first to feel the effects of Zionist encroach­ment. And […]

Land Day was violent in Gaza

Video courtesy of Bianca Zammit.

Diaphanous clouds of smoke moved to and fro in the wind above a group of Pales­tin­ian youth, waving Pales­tin­ian flags, standing on top of a promon­tory. Beyond it lay the Israeli border. I was near the Nahal Oz crossing, close to where Israel brings diesel fuel into the Gaza Strip. It was […]

They Really Hate Non-Violence Don’t They?

From the unmatch­able Alter­na­tive Infor­ma­tion Center:

An official from the Israeli Military Pros­e­cu­tion recently stated to Attorney Gaby Lasky, who rep­re­sents many activists arrested in the course of the weekly Bil’in demon­stra­tions, that the objective of the military is to put an end to these demon­stra­tions. This may explain why, on the night of 12 December, an […]

Courtroom Intifada

“Our argument in the case against the two companies is that they are engaging in an activity that con­sti­tutes a war crime and a violation of inter­na­tional human­i­tar­ian law. If there is a price for being a col­lab­o­ra­tor of the violation of inter­na­tional law, maybe other companies will think twice before they engage in such matters.”

Michael […]