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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

palestine and absurdism

Posted on September 21, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان

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 »

settlement freeze my ass

Posted on September 8, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان

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 [...]

Filed under: Apartheid, Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions, Colonialism, Human Rights, International Law, Iran, Militarization, Obama, Occupation, Palestine, Racism, Refugees, U.S. Foreign Policy, Zionism | Tagged: anti-semitic, ariel, Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bil'in, dick cheney, ehud barak, gaza strip, George Bush, har gilo, iaea, international atomic energy agency, Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden, Jordan Valley, maskiot, michael mullen, modi'in illit, Nablus, nakba, nato, non-proliferation treaty, nuclear energy, nuclear weapons, paul craig roberts, sanctions, settlement freeze, South Africa, Stanley McChrystal, United Nations, united states, uranium, war crimes, Washington, West Bank | 1 Comment »

on deleting madonna & other boycott news

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 »

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 [...]

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 »

more examples of why zionism = racism

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 [...]

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 »

the latest on gaza

Posted on August 21, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان

a few weeks ago there was a very important post on kabobfest entitled “stop saying free gaza.” it began like this: Gaza is not a different country than Palestine; its plight is not isolated from that of the West Bank, Palestinian-Israelis, or Palestinian refugees in the Diaspora. So stop changing your banners and placards from [...]

Filed under: Apartheid, Colonialism, Economy, Egypt, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Media, Militarization, Palestine, Refugees, U.S. Foreign Policy, Zionism | Tagged: Al Jazeera, al shifa hospital, Al-Aqsa University-Academic Cooperation Dept., Al-Quds Bank for Culture and Information, arafat hamdona, augusta victoria hospital, avigdor liberman, ayman mohyeldin, bds, Beit Hanoun, Benjamin Netanyahu, breaking the silence, casey kauffman, cast lead, david benjamin, electronic intifada, erez, faraj hamdona, Friends for the Visually Impaired, gandhi, Gaza, Hamas, Human Rights Watch, icrc, irin news, jerusalem, john holmes, jonathan cook, Jordan Flaherty, kabobfest, lily kerber, limmud, Mikhael Mannekin, Norman Finkelstein, palestinian rapperz, palestinian students' campaign for the academic boycott of israel, rafah, Ramallah, red cross, saudi arabia, serhine tadros, South Africa, The One Democratic State Group, unicef, United Nations, West Bank, world health organization | Leave a Comment »

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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los ziongeles

Posted on August 14, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان

driving down ventura boulevard today, which is the main street near my grandma’s house, i was bombarded with cartoon images of what dear ayah calls the “fizz fizz” (personally i prefer the image that kabobfest posted last week of a fizz fizz being chased down the street). these images line a few miles with these [...]

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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 [...]

Filed under: Apartheid, Colonialism, History, Militarization, Occupation, Palestine, Racism, Refugees, Zionism | Tagged: abir kupty, Al Quds, Arabic, astrith balstan, beesan, Benjamin Netanyahu, Dawayima, Deheishe refugee camp, dirasat, education, electronic intifada, ethnic cleansing, gideon sa'ar, Ha'aretz, HaEmunah, hala espanioly, Halhul, hatikva, hebrew, imemc, iraq al manshiya, jamal zahalka, jen marlowe, jerusalem, jewish, jonathan cook, judaism, Knesset, naftali hertz imber, nakba, nasra, nazareth, raleb majadele, Ramallah, ramla, sheikh hussein bridge, sofia yoad, فلسطين, لاجئين, yisrael twito, yousef jabareen, yuli tamir, zakariya | 1 Comment »

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 [...]

Filed under: Apartheid, Colonialism, Human Rights, International Law, Militarization, Occupation, Palestine, Refugees, U.S. Foreign Policy, Zionism | Tagged: ahmed tibi, akka, Al Quds, Avigdor Lieberman, beit itab, beit jibrin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Morris, bethahatap, Burin, christopher columbus, crusaders, Deheishe refugee camp, deir al hawa, east jerusalem, edward robinson, electronic intifada, ethnic cleansing, eusebius, Huwara checkpoint, ibdaa cultural center, israel katz, jerusalem, jonathan cook, Likud, Machsom Watch, mohammed sabih, Nablus, nakba, nasra, negev, nes harim, operation ha-har, operation yo-av, Palestinian Authority, peres peace center, right of return, Salman Abu Sitta, shimon peres, sufla, wadi al-maghara, walid khalidi, West Bank, yaffa, yeshaayahu ronen, yisrael beitenu, العودة, بيت عطاب | Leave a Comment »

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