Posted on September 19, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
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 [...]
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Posted on August 24, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
so just as i left beit lahem the city was preparing for a major fatah conference. the first signs of this were all of the black fatah suvs driving around the city like maniacs. i drove by ma’an news on my way home one night and a ton of them were out front. it turns [...]
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Posted on August 24, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
my dear friend rami and i have started a new blog to catalog the ongoing nakbas that happen every day in palestine, lebanon, syria as the result of a zionist land grab. here is what rami wrote about it on his other blog:
A few days ago, Marcy sent me a link to a post by [...]
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Posted on August 24, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
a couple of weeks ago i posted about the campaign to write to amnesty international in order to get them to comply with the boycott and pull out their funding of a leonard cohen concert in the zionist entity. well, it worked. here is the official statement reporting this victory from the palestinian campaign [...]
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Posted on June 23, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
this afternoon my friends wanted to take a walk. we went to cremsian, a church with a vineyard in beit jala. we went for a walk here once before, but it was late at night and so i couldn’t see as much as we could see today. this church is in the middle of a [...]
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Posted on June 20, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
today is world refugee day. there are 42 million refugees world-wide. there are also 7.6 million palestinian refugees, who are not included in the numbers that the united nations high commission for refugees (unhcr) uses because palestinian refugees fall under the united nations relief and works agency (unrwa) which means something different in terms of [...]
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Posted on June 18, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
the global boycott, divestment, and sanctions (bds) movement released a damning report this week detailing how the south african government is complicit in the zionist entity’s apartheid regime. a mere 15 years after south africa ended its apartheid regime through armed resistance coupled with their own bds movement we see how state power replicates [...]
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Posted on June 18, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
there are a lot of people who are very pleased with jimmy carter’s trip to gaza this week. certainly, his trip to gaza helped put gaza back in the news, which is important. but carter’s insistence that there should be a two-state solution with no right of return for palestinian refugees makes me extremely frustrated [...]
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Posted on June 3, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
i’m wondering what the first two turning points were. the last few days i’ve heard war games in the sky above beit lahem. all day long i’ve heard ominous war planes testing out the zionist entity’s doomsday scenario. here is an al jazeera report on the “defense” strategy it is testing, though for those of [...]
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Posted on May 26, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
today the palestine festival of literature split up into two groups during the day, one going to the arab american university of jenin and the freedom theatre in jenin refugee camp and the other group to birzeit university. the organizers have been tweeting about their activities and posted photos today of the checkpoints where they [...]
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