Posted on September 21, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
the headline on the united nations website reads: “un mission finds evidence of war crimes by both sides in gaza conflict.” here is the news brief in full and if you want to read the full 575-page report download this pdf file:
The United Nations fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict at the start [...]
Filed under: Apartheid, Colonialism, Egypt, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Iraq, Kurds, Media, Militarization, Obama, Occupation, Palestine, Racism, Resistance, U.S. Foreign Policy, Zionism | Tagged: Adolf Eichman, aharon barak, Al Jazeera, Amnesty International, As'ad AbuKhalil, Augusto Pinochet, barak obama, bosnia, cambodia, Chile, China, christine chinkin, crimes against humanity, desmond travers, Fourth Geneva Convention, Gaza, geneva, Ha'aretz, Hamas, hebrew, hina jilani, Human Rights Watch, ian c. kelly, institute for internationa criminal investigation, international criminal court, international humanitarian law, iraqi kurds, jerusalem, libya, london school of economics, nazi holocaust, nicole goldstone, operation cast lead, pol pot, rafah, richard falk, richard goldstone, Rwanda, Saddam Hussein, serbia, sherine tadros, shimon peres, South Africa, supreme court of pakistan, tel aviv, the economist, the hague, thomas friedman, UN security council, United Nations, united states, uri avnery, war crimes, wesr bank, Yugoslavia | 1 Comment »
Posted on September 21, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
last month two comrades in the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement (bds)–omar barghouti and haidar eid–both of whom i respect a great deal–wrote a statement about the gaza freedom march asking them to adopt a statement of context that addressed palestinian needs and demands rather than impose an american idea of those needs and demands [...]
Filed under: Activism, Apartheid, Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions, Colonialism, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Militarization, Occupation, Palestine, Racism, Refugees, Resistance, U.S. Foreign Policy, Zionism | Tagged: al aqsa university, Apartheid, Apartheid Wall, bantustan, bds, ccdprj, checkpoints, christopher j. ee, Civic Coalition for the Defense of Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem, closures, Coalition for Jerusalem, colin powell, Council of National and Islamic Forces in Palestine, curfews, detention, electronic intifada, european union, farm land, Fatah, Federation of Independent Trade Unions, Fourth Geneva Convention, garbirel ash, Gaza, gaza freedom march, General Union of Palestinian Women, general union of palestinian workers, Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, hague, haidar eid, Hamas, harvard university, house demolitions, International Coalition to End the Illegal Siege of Gaza, International Court of Justice, islamic university of gaza, ittijah, jerusalem, jewish state, jim crow segregation, Jimmy Carter, mahatma gandhi, mich levy, nakba, National Committee to Commemorate the Nakba, nazi, nelson mandela, ngos, noam chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Occupied Palestine and Golan Heights Initiative, omar barghouti, opgai, pacbi, Palestine Right of Return Coalition, palestinian boycott divestment and sanctions campaign national committee, palestinian campaign for the academic and cultural boycott of israel, Palestinian Economic Monitor, palestinian general federation of trade unions, palestinian ngo network, pngo, pulse media, richard falk, ronald reagan, safundi, sara kershnar, sara roy, satyagraha, settlements, Slavery, South Africa, stw, torture, UN Resolution 194, union of arab community-based associations, Union of Palestinian Charitable Organizations, Union of Palestinian Farmers, Union of Youth Activity Centers, United Nations, united states, West Bank | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 13, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
three great new stories on palestinian rappers and how hip hop culture is used as a mode of resistance:
first: from a dear friend in bourj al barajneh refugee camp in lebanon. yassin and mohammed are originally from akka and are rapping until and for their right of return:
then ayman mohyeldin is [...]
Filed under: Apartheid, Colonialism, Gaza, Lebanon, Media, Music, Palestine, Poverty, Prisons, Refugees, Resistance, Zionism | Tagged: akka, Al Jazeera, ayman mohyeldin, ayman mughames, black unit, bourj al barajneh refugee camp, breakdancing, camps breakerz, eva bartlett, Gaza, gaza cultural center, Hamas, I-Voice, ips, jackie reem salloum, khaled harara, mercy corps, palestinian rapperz, rachad shawa, rapping, Slingshot Hip Hop, water band | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 12, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
i like fasting for ramadan. in fact, i like fasting in general. i used to fast a couple of times a year for an entire week (though not without water and tea) to detox. and in either case the fact of being hungry, of being conscious of what your body feels and that your stomach [...]
Filed under: Apartheid, Colonialism, Economy, Egypt, Gaza, Human Rights, Iraq, Media, Militarization, Occupation, Palestine, Refugees, U.S. Foreign Policy, Zionism | Tagged: ad-doura, agriculture, Al Jazeera, al karmel high school, arab liberation front, ayman mohyeldin, Beit Hanoun, buffer zone, detox, eid, electronic intifada, eva bartlett, fasting, figs, Gaza, gaza city, ghazi al-zaneen, ghazi attab, hunger, iftar, Kurds, Ma'an News, maher al-zaneen, maids, majed yasin, Muhammad Ali Barhoum, ocha, palestinian liberation army, rafah, Ramadan, saha market, school supplies, shi'a, sunni, thanksgiving, turks, United Nations, yousef ibrahim | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 8, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
although i tried to work it out so that my internet would be up and running by the time i got back to jordan, that has not turned out to be the case. i have tried two different companies here–one kuwaiti, one jordanian–and neither gives me a singal. the third and fourth option, well that’s [...]
Filed under: Activism, Apartheid, Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions, Colonialism, Film, Gaza, Human Rights, Media, Militarization, Music, Occupation, Palestine, Racism, Refugees, Zionism | Tagged: Al Jazeera, artists against apartheid, astral media, avi lewis, b h yael, Benjamin Netanyahu, brand israel, bucharest, Bulgaria, calexico, cameron bailey, Canada, canwest global communications, christianity, cynthia wright, dates, david asper, depeche mode, Desmond Tutu, dinosaur jr., eastern europe, elle flanders, faith no more, fault lines, fishermen, Gaza, gypsies, harry belefonte, internet, jerusalem, joel reitman, john greyson, kabbalah, kaiser chiefs, kathy wazana, lady gaga, leonard cohen, Los Angeles, macy gray, madonna, mgmt, mijo corporation, Naomi Klein, orthodox, palestinian campaign for the academic and cultural boycott of israel, pet shop boys, propabanda, Ramadan, richard fung, roma, romania, sidney greenberg, sofia, steve vai, suzanne vega, tel aviv, tiff, toronto, toronto declaration, Toronto International Film Festival, U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, udi aloni, yaffa | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 8, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
so i have been getting settled in amman. i have moved yet again. hopefully this will be the last time for a while. it was a very difficult decision for me to leave palestine, though it is one i made some time ago. ultimately, one of my prime motivations for leaving the u.s. was not [...]
Filed under: Academic Freedom, Apartheid, Borderlands, Colonialism, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Jordan, Militarization, Occupation, Palestine, Racism, U.S. Foreign Policy, Universities, Zionism | Tagged: Al Jazeera, allenby bridge, amman, arab american university, ben gurion airport, Bethlehem University, birzeit university, Canada, chronicle of higher education, connecticut, east jerusalem, gaza strip, graham stott, hanadi abu-taha, harlem, irish, Jenin, Knesset, malak hussein bridge, manhattan, Mashantucket Pequot reservation, matthew kalman, Oslo, palestine chronicle, Palestinian Authority, qalandia, Ramallah, right to enter campaign, salwa duaibis, sherine tadros, taba, the faster times, toufic haddad, West Bank, yaffa | 2 Comments »
Posted on August 30, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
here is the latest news from the zionist terrorist colonist regime:
Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar briefed the cabinet on plans for the start of the school year, and announced that the word “nakba” will be taken out of lesson plans.
“It can be said with certainty that Arab Israelis experienced a tragedy in the war, but there [...]
Filed under: Apartheid, Colonialism, Gaza, Genocide, History, Militarization, Occupation, Palestine, Racism, Refugees, Zionism | Tagged: gaza strip, gideon sa'ar, holocaust, john ging, nakba, unrwa | 3 Comments »
Posted on August 30, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
jordan flaherty, who is one of my favorite journalists has covered, and continues to cover, the man-made disaster that is new orleans after hurricane katrina has a new article marking the four year anniversary, which details the ongoing state of homelessness in new orleans in black agenda report:
Crawling through a hole in a fence and [...]
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Posted on August 30, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
surprise, surprise: obama has decided that building colonies on palestinian land in al quds is not such a problem after all:
The US has dropped a demand that Israel freeze settlement construction in East Jerusalem, the Palestinian capital, an Israeli newspaper reported on Thursday.
The newspaper Haaretz, citing Israeli officials and Western diplomats, reported that US envoy [...]
Filed under: Africa, Apartheid, Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions, Colonialism, Gaza, International Law, Jordan, Media, Militarization, Obama, Occupation, Palestine, Refugees, Resistance, Slavery, U.S. Foreign Policy, Zionism | Tagged: adalah, Al Jazeera, al majdal, Al Quds, Algeria, anti-Semitism, Apartheid Wall, aqbat al-khlidiyya, Barack Obama, bbc, bds, beer saba', beit shean, ben gurion university, Benjamin Netanyahu, caesariya, crusaders, dan nolan, Desmond Tutu, east jerusalem, economic boycott, ein hod, electronic intifada, european union, f.w. de klerk, Frantz Fanon, Gaza, george mitchell, Germany, ghabsiyya, gordon brown, Ha'aretz, haidar eid, haifa, hasan bek, hittin, holocaust, israel's terror inside, jacky rowland, jaffar khalil kawazba, jerusalem, jewish, jonathan cook, london, ma'ale adumim, massacre, max blumenthal, mosque, muhammad faysal jabir, musanna khalil mohammed rabbaye, muslims, nazareth, neve gordon, never before campaign, nisreen el-shamayleh, Palestinian Authority, saladin, sarafand, South Africa, sports boycott, synagogues, tel aviv, the elders, tiberias, UN Resolution 194, united states, West Bank | Leave a Comment »
Posted on August 24, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
here are some news items over the past month–just the latest examples in 122+ years of why zionism = racism.
1. An Arab couple whose one-year-old daughter was expelled from an Israeli day-care center on her first day are suing a Jewish mother for damages, accusing her of racist incitement against their child.
Maysa and Shuaa Zuabi, [...]
Filed under: Apartheid, Colonialism, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Media, Militarization, Occupation, Palestine, Prisons, Racism, Refugees, Zionism | Tagged: adalah, african, akka, Al Jazeera, al jish, amra, awad abu-freih, ayman mohyeldin, bedouins, beer saba', beersheva, ben gurion university, Benjamin Netanyahu, british, chris gunness, christians, Cynthia McKinney, dana zuabi, Darfur, dov yermiya, education, egged, Eritrea, ethiopian, eyal gabbai, faiz abu-sabihan, Gaza, Hebrew University, helena cobban, holocaust, ips, ishmahil glagrove, ivon grinwald, jad salman, jamaica, jerusalem, jish church summer camp, jonathan cook, mairead maguire, marriage, maysa zuabi, mekorot, merhavia, migrant workers, nahum itzkovitch, naqab, nazi, neta kadashai, oren yiftachel, orthodox jews, Palestinian Authority, petah tikva, rahat, ramla, refugee convention, rishon lezion, saad el=din, safad, sharon harel, shemi namimi, shimshon shoshani, shlomo buchbut, shmuel hollander, shuaa zuabi, sigal rozen, simona halperin, sorel cahan, Sudan, sulam, tarabin, tel aviv, tulab tarabin, United Nations, unrwa, uri avnery, water, yad vashem, yaron ezrahi, yedno verka, zodiac special forces | 1 Comment »
