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London lawyer takes on corporations abetting Israel's crimes June 1, 2012

Adri Nieuwhof 1 June 2012 Simon Natas on the case of solidarity activists who blockaded Ahava’s London flagship store and the role of G4s in Israel’s occupation.

Maureen Clare Murphy

Israel blocks mother from visiting her own daughters May 31, 2012

Mya Guarnieri Tel Aviv 31 May 2012 Hundreds of thousands of families — from Palestinians to Southeast Asian migrant workers to African refugees — are being fractured by Israel’s racist laws which seek to limit the number of non-Jews in the country.

Maureen Clare Murphy

Taboo of truth-telling about Palestine in US classrooms tackled by new book May 31, 2012

Steven Salaita 31 May 2012 The question of how to teach Palestine, and anti-Zionism’s career-killing consequences, is the focus of a new book.

nora

Mavi Marmara indictments herald an end to Israeli impunity May 31, 2012

Sarah Colborne United Kingdom 31 May 2012 Turkey has indicted four Israeli commanders for their role in the killing of nine humanitarians aboard the Mavi Marmara aid ship two years ago.

Maureen Clare Murphy

Palestinian contractors demand UN exclude Israel firms from Gaza tender May 30, 2012

Rami Almeghari Gaza Strip 30 May 2012 Invited to bid on Gaza infrastructure projects, does Israel stand to profit from their wanton destruction during the 2008-09 attacks?

nora

green resistance

If I were an Egyptian… May 20, 2012

For the past few weeks in Cairo, the dominant conversation is: who to vote for in the upcoming Presidential elections. At a restaurant, the staff opens the conversation. In a taxi, the driver opens the conversation. and, of course, amongst my colleagues and friends, it is persistent. Which leads me, a non-Egyptian, to wonder… If [...]

r.m.

‘the living planet’ – and the need for courageous environmentalists May 15, 2012

The World Wildlife Fund has published its “The Living Planet – 2012′ report. Available here lpr_2012_final_120507[1] or here The situation remains bad, and the trend for overconsumption and exploitation and rampant degradation continues. The Living Planet Report uses the global Living Planet Index to measure changes in the health of the p […]

r.m.

the interconnectedness of us all – with other beings May 14, 2012

I want to share this story with you. It reminds us that we are connected – not just with each other, but with all beings on this magical earth. A man was able to reach out to traumatized, wild elephants in South Africa. And when he died, the wild elephants somehow knew they had lost [...]

r.m.

ongoing bread saga in Lebanon May 13, 2012

a few weeks ago i wrote about the corruption in the bread pricing in lebanon. this morning, the excellent al-akhbar wrote that the bakeries in Lebanon are planning to increase the price of bread from LL1500 ($1) to LL2000 So they continue to get the unchecked subsidy from the public moneys, and they decrease the [...]

r.m.

water security May 9, 2012

I gave a talk on water security yesterday to the Crisis Department at the League of Arab States title of the talk: Water Security in the Arab World: how to get from ‘crisis’ to ‘sustainable’? FYI: here’s the talk water security presentation for distribution

r.m.

land and people

Reviving the Countryside

Rami Zurayk

إحياء الريف

إحياء الريفرامي زريقمن أصعب المآسي التي قد تصيب المزارعين، إرغامهم على رمي محصولهم في القمامة. هذا ما يحصل اليوم في عكار نتيجة غياب الأسواق وإغلاق باب التصدير عبر سوريا. تتراكم جبال الخضار والفاكهة في المزارع والأسواق، وتكسد وتفسد ولا من شارٍ ولا من مستهلك. إنها حقاً كارثة، وقد تتفاعل أكثر فأكثر وتؤدي إلى إفلاس صغار المزارعين الذين لا يقدرون على استيعاب الخ […]

Rami Zurayk

Hunger in Yemen

"In March, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) reported that levels of food insecurity in Yemen had doubled since 2009. Today 5m people go hungry so often that it affects their long-term health. According to Unicef, the WFP’s counterpart for children, some 30% of kids in Hodeida are “acutely” malnourished, threatened with stunted growth and cognitive im […]

Rami Zurayk

Yemen famine

"Yemen has a catastrophic food crisis. Nearly half the population, 10 million people, does not have enough to eat. While 300,000 children are facing life threatening levels of malnutrition." (thanks laila for reminding me that while we are pontificating about the arab spring cum revolt cum uprisings cum revolutions Yemen is in the throws of famine) […]

Rami Zurayk

How to deal with the natives release 2.0

The following publication from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace The Emerging Order in the Middle East By Sinan Ülgen , Nathan Brown , Marina Ottaway , Paul Salem Policy Outlook, May 2012 "In the political realm, demanding that Islamist movements adopt broad ideological agendas that endorse secularism or blanket philosophical commitments […]

Rami Zurayk

when will the right lessons be learned?

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 [...]

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groundhog day in palestine

Posted on August 20, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان

it has been difficult for me to keep up with news and such since i’ve been in amrika. between taking care of my grandma and packing more stuff of my own to ship and running around getting stuff for friends i have been really wiped out. i love spending time with my grandma, but it [...]

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انا اصلي نن…

Posted on July 29, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان

before i left palestine a dear friend of mine gave me a beautiful silver necklace she had made for me. it says: فلسطين لاجئين 194. i think that this necklace has made more people in jordan offer up where they are originally from. ever since i crossed the border into jordan the other day i [...]

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سيارة العودة

Posted on July 22, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان

at camp al awda with kids from ibdaa cultural center at deheishe refugee camp a couple of weeks ago we realized, too late, that we made a big mistake with at least one of the villages we took the youth to. instead of taking kids to بيت عطاب (or beit ‘itab) we took them to [...]

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the new infiltrators, and the old racism in the zionist entity

Posted on July 16, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان

a couple of weeks ago al jazeera ran ilan mizrahi’s four-part documentary entitled “the rise of the right” in the zionist entity. it follows rabbi meir kahane who preached ethnic cleansing until his death in 1990. one of his followers was responsible for the massacre of palestinians praying in the ibrahimi mosque in khalil in [...]

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مخيم العودة

Posted on July 10, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان

i spent last week at summer camp. my dear friend at ibdaa cultural center in deheishe refugee camp has been organizing and planning for this all year. we’ve done these trips before when we take children under age 16, who do not yet have their identity cards, to their original villages in 1948 palestine. we [...]

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zionist narratives of palestinian land

Posted on June 30, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان

navigating palestine can be a difficult task given that the land has been so judaized so that villages are covered up with forests and colonies and the names altered so as to cover up the crimes committed by zionists over the years. one of the people who has eased this process is salman abu sitta [...]

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a not-so-holy land grab

Posted on June 25, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان

those of us active in the struggle for the right of return for palestinian refugees and justice for palestinians in general are well acquainted with article 49 of the geneva convention, which reads: Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power [...]

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a walk through beit jala and then some…

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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wanted: zionist palestinians

Posted on June 18, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان

yesterday ali abunimah and hasan abu nimah co-authored a brilliant analysis of benjamin netanyahu’s speech in electronic intifada. here is their article in full: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposed a peace plan so ingenious it is a wonder that for six decades of bloodshed no one thought of it. Some people might have missed [...]

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