los ziongeles

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 [...]

beit sahour

when i finished the semester at an najah university a couple of weeks ago i moved back down to the beit lahem area where i lived in 2006 and where most of my friends live. i had planned to take my friend nora’s apartment, but the family who owns it unexpectedly had family coming from [...]

palestinian emirates and two-state conflicts

in an article in the australian today john lyons writes that “most israelis want a two-state conflict.” here are a few recent examples of how the zionist entity perpetuates this conflict. first, in beit ummar witness how palestinians are taunted: A group of Israeli settler youth standing on a hillside near the Palestinian village of [...]

wwjd?

so palestine is buzzing about pope benedict xvi’s visit. all i can say is that i’m staying as far away from al quds and beit lahem as i can until he leaves. my friend from beit lahem came to spend the weekend with me and on her way out of town thursday night she told [...]

on the crimes of apartheid

i posted yesterday my dear friend nora’s interview with another friend of ours hazem jamjoum on her show flashpoints in audio form. i decided to spend today transcribing the interview because it is so amazing and important. hazem is amazing at speaking–and for sure it’s better to listen to the interview–but i think there is [...]

prisoners (of colonizers & collaborators alike)

i was rather shocked when this article by tim mcgirk from time magazine came across my news reader yesterday. it is a story about palestinian political prisoners through the vantage point of his family members left behind and the difficulty his young daughters have when visiting him in prison. here is how it begins: Spending [...]

al quds capital of arab culture needs to join the boycott NOW!

bokra begins the celebration of al quds as a capital of arab culture. last year it was damascus. i have mixed feelings about these festivals because whether it is damascus or al quds how many arabs are prevented from traveling to participate if they had the money and wanted to go? i was not sure [...]

building momentum against israeli apartheid

many of you know that it is now israel apartheid week around the world and also here in palestine (i will paste in the information about events in palestine below because the link here to the apartheid website does not seem to be updated yet). there are all kinds of things you can and should [...]

hillary’s love of war criminals

tamara sent me this photograph earlier because she thought it looked like shimon peres and hillary clinton just got married (sans the white dress of course). actually, i was thinking something was going on with tzipi livni and hillary because i saw them holding hands on al jazeera today. they looked very happy together. i [...]

hillary’s rules for gaza

i know i have been complaining about the weather. so i suppose a bit of perspective is in order. yes, it is very cold here (there was even some snow in ramallah yesterday morning). but it is also cold and wet in gaza. and the palestinians in gaza who lost their homes are now living [...]

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