a walk through beit jala and then some…

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 [...]

on boycotting nestlé

as if we needed another reason to boycott nestle (known as osem in the zionist entity) along comes evidence that it is attached directly to the israeli terrorist forces: The global Nestle food company is, for the first time in its history, producing a new breakfast cereal in the southern Israeli town of Sderot. The [...]

on not forgetting gaza

sara roy has a really important article this week aptly entitled “the peril of forgetting gaza”: The recent meeting between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu generated speculation over the future relationship between America and Israel, and a potentially changed U.S. policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Analysts on the right and left are commenting on [...]

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 [...]

on cultural resistance and anti-normalization

day two of the palestine festival of literature was far less dramatic than day one, thankfully. of course, this is because it was held at the khalil sakakini cultural center in ramallah and not at the palestinian national theatre in al quds (though it is scheduled to return there for the closing night’s ceremony). when [...]

video footage of cultural genocide in al quds (UPDATED)

here is the palestine literature festival video from yesterday. it is a short 4 minute video but definitely a must watch. they filmed in places that i am really shocked by, including the jordanian-palestinian border (under zionist control, of course). for those of you who have been reading my blog for a while and have [...]

khawaja

saturday late afternoon my friends from deheishe refugee camp headed out of the west bank, illegally, of course, to 1948 palestine. we felt that it was important to spend يوم الأرض (land day) in 1948 palestine in the places where the massacre took place in 1976. of course we would like to attend the demonstrations [...]

should it matter that there are no gas ovens in gaza?

so there are no gas ovens in gaza. but really, does it matter. they are trapped in a concentration camp and they are being slaughtered by the minute. here is the definition from the oxford english dictionary of a concentration camp: a place where large numbers of people, esp. political prisoners or members of persecuted [...]

the gaza graveyard

3 days. 345 dead. over 1,450 injured. the death toll continues to rise. and it will. medicine is running out quickly. rania posted this morning a message from the free gaza movement: The Free Gaza movement is reporting: “Dr Khaled from the Shifa hospital ICU in Gaza City told us on Saturday that the majority [...]

the wall comes down…and the bombs continue to fall on gaza

i have been watching al jazeera’s hoda ab del hamid report from an area near “sderot,” that zionist settlement on the village of najd near gaza. behind her are a series of tanks preparing for a ground invasion. this is horrifying in and of itself. but what is even more horrific is the fact that [...]

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