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A few days ago I watched a video on LBCI TV of Alem Dechasa being savagely beaten by Ali Mahfouz in front of the Ethiopian embassy. At the time we did not know their names. Now we do. Mahfouz works for one of the 500 agencies that employs migrant domestic workers in Lebanon. Of these [...]
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there was great news coming from the united nations the other day, but like the goldstone report, unless there’s teeth to back it up it will fall by the wayside. it seems that finally the united nations is not going to treat the zionist entity with kid gloves any more when it comes to their [...]
Filed under: Colonialism, Environment, History, Human Rights, Imperialism, Indigenous, International Law, Iran, Militarization, Obama, Occupation, Palestine, Racism, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Policy, Zionism | Tagged: a jazeera, alexandra robbins, ali asghar soltanieh, american indians, apache, Apartheid Wall, arizona, Athabascan, Australia, back mesa, Barack Obama, black mesa, boeing, brenda norrell, Canada, cancer, chiquita bananas, cold war, colorado, Counterpunch, dan evehema, david danieli, dine, divide and conquer, earl tulley, elbit systems, four corners, george h.w. bush, geronimo, gilbert badoni, glyn davies, grand canyon, havasupai gathering to halt uranium mining, hopi, iaea, international atomic energy agency, jonathan bush, longest walk, manhattan project, mohawk nation, national academy of science, navajo nation, new mexico, non-aligned movement, nuclear weapons, paul zimmerman, peabody coal, peter macdonald, radioactive, radon, richard goldstone, rio puerco, school of the americas, skull and bones society, United Nations, united states, uranium, utah, war crimes, yucca mountain | 1 Comment »
elia suleiman, one of my favorite palestinian filmmakers has a new movie out entitled “the time that remains.” the film premiered at cannes and i’m hoping it comes to a theater near me very soon. here is a clip from the film, though it is in arabic with french subtitles: here is a synopsis: THE [...]
Filed under: Apartheid, Colonialism, Economy, Film, Human Rights, International Law, Media, Militarization, Obama, Occupation, Palestine, Resistance, U.S. Foreign Policy, Zionism | Tagged: absurdism, Ali Abu Nimah, anne le more, Barack Obama, ben lynfield, Benjamin Netanyahu, brent scowcroft, cannes, casbah, cinema city, darwish jarwan, electronic intifada, elia suleiman, farouk al-masri, gaza strip, george w. bush, Hamas, hasan abu nimah, hollywood, home demolitions, Jordan Valley, knafeh, london times, Mahmoud Abbas, mecca agreement, Nablus, Oslo, Palestinian Authority, palestinian legislative council, Ramadan, ramalah, salam fayyad, samuel beckett, sawiya, tel aviv, the independent, the time that remains, Washington, West Bank, zbigniew brezezinski | Leave a Comment »
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 of [...]
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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 [...]
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i’ve been reading various articles and blog posts about the anniversary of the massacre of the palestinian refugee camp shatila and the surrounding neighborhood of sabra (no, sabra is not a refugee camp, but many palestinians live there). pulse media and falasteenyia both had nice posts on the subject. ma’an news posted a reflective piece [...]
Filed under: Activism, Apartheid, Colonialism, Human Rights, International Law, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Media, Militarization, Music, Obama, Occupation, Palestine, Refugees, Syria, U.S. Foreign Policy, Zionism | Tagged: akka, Al Akhbar, al awda, al hol refugee camp, al tanaf refugee camp, al waleed refugee camp, Amal, as safir, bad luck 194, Barack Obama, beit itab, bill frelick, california, carlos latuff, chatila, christian science monitor, civil war, Deheishe refugee camp, george mitchell, Hamas, hasaka, Hezbollah, hip hop, Human Rights Watch, Kata'eb, Ma'an News, massacre, matthew cassel, michel suliman, Nahr el Bared refugee camp, patrik jonsson, phalangist, pity the nation, PLO, right of return, Robert Fisk, ruweished refugee camp, sabra and shatila, Saddam Hussein, salam fayyad, Shatila refugee camp, sheik yassin, shi'a, مخيم نهر البارد, نهر البارد, Washington, Yassir Arafat, جهاد بزي, راجانا حمية, رحلة لبلادي | 3 Comments »
i am certain i have written a post with this title before. certainly with the same or similar content. such is the case with falasteen: always the zionist terrorist colonists say one thing and do the opposite. here is a classic example: In direct violation of international law, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak approved permits [...]
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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 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
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 »
here is a great episode of al jazeera’s fault lines with josh rushing documenting the extent to which america’s wars, started by bush, have become obama’s.
Filed under: Afghanistan, Human Rights, Imperialism, International Law, Iraq, Media, Militarization, Obama, Occupation, Resistance, U.S. Foreign Policy | Tagged: Al Jazeera, Barack Obama, George Bush, josh rushing, obama's wars | Leave a Comment »
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