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 [...]

prisons within prisons within prisons within prisons within prisons

holding an american passport, having the privilege of white skin, and living in palestine means that one needs to be conscious of these privileges and also use them strategically to support palestinians. the summer camp last week was one example of using my white privilege to help palestinian refugees learn about their villages and use [...]

on the criminals who escape prosecution

there was some really disturbing reporting on the situation of the tamils in sri lanka the past few days. here is an update from david chater on al jazeera: i wish that al jazeera posted not only their reports in the field, but also the discussions that follow the reports live in the studio. because [...]

when the war criminals are also the judge & jury

check out these two reports from al jazeera on the plight of tamils in sri lanka. the first is by imran khan and the second by harry fawcett. it is striking how much the situation of tamils trapped under the shelling of the sri lankan army looks just like palestinians in gaza trapped by the [...]

the west bank does not = palestine (just a very small, diminishing part of it)

as soon as i turned on my computer after school today i saw this tweet from @avinunu: Ding dong the 2- state solution is dead! Rub your eyes get out of bed! Ding dong the wicked 2-state solution is dead! #Israel #Netanyahu no, it is not an april fool’s joke. but this is the thinking [...]

politics of the same in the zionist entity

nimer sultany published an article in electronic intifada this week that lays out, in a lucid fashion, just why all this furor over avigdor liberman is not warranted as his politics are particularly unusual in israel’s terrorist society: First, one needs to be reminded that among Yisrael Beiteinu’s elected members of the Knesset are men [...]

if you feel like banging your head against the wall…

you can spend the next 30 minutes with this episode of al jazeera’s inside story. normally maryam nemazee is okay when interviewing her subjects, but given her background in investigating particular topics i find it strange that she ignored things like the israeli terrorist state’s possession of nuclear weapons. her guests are dan schueftan, an [...]

on the ongoing nakba and promises of new palestinian refugees

we have a language problem. i really think that we need to shift how we talk about the zionist entity. more and more i feel like we need to do things to move away from how we speak about zionist colonialism in order to make connections between colonialism in palestine and elsewhere in the world. [...]

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 [...]

oh so many reasons for resistance…

ha’aretz journalist amira hass has a good piece in the london review of books this week that offers some context on the prison that is gaza, its origin, and its relationship to the situation in the west bank, which is worth quoting in its entirety: Israel has finally breached the few limits it formerly set [...]

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