no homes for nahr el bared, yet again

the last couple of weeks i was writing a review of rosemary sayigh’s brilliant and important book, the palestinians: from peasants to revolutionaries, which is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand palestine, palestinian refugees, palestinian resistance, and, of course, the right of return. i was re-reading the book and i was struck by [...]

it’s official: nakba is removed from the curriculum in occupied palestine

here is the latest news from the zionist terrorist colonist regime: Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar briefed the cabinet on plans for the start of the school year, and announced that the word “nakba” will be taken out of lesson plans. “It can be said with certainty that Arab Israelis experienced a tragedy in the war, [...]

more examples of why zionism = racism

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 [...]

yes, boycott works.

a couple of weeks ago i posted about the campaign to write to amnesty international in order to get them to comply with the boycott and pull out their funding of a leonard cohen concert in the zionist entity. well, it worked. here is the official statement reporting this victory from the palestinian campaign for [...]

on refugees & idps

today is world refugee day. there are 42 million refugees world-wide. there are also 7.6 million palestinian refugees, who are not included in the numbers that the united nations high commission for refugees (unhcr) uses because palestinian refugees fall under the united nations relief and works agency (unrwa) which means something different in terms of [...]

mr. carter goes to gaza

there are a lot of people who are very pleased with jimmy carter’s trip to gaza this week. certainly, his trip to gaza helped put gaza back in the news, which is important. but carter’s insistence that there should be a two-state solution with no right of return for palestinian refugees makes me extremely frustrated [...]

old camp, new camp: how about no camp?

the situation of palestinians in nahr el bared refugee camp in northern lebanon remains one of the primary reminders of why the right of return is the only solution for palestinian refugees. while palestinians who continue to be displaced from their camp two years after the lebanese army destroyed it, an immediate solution to 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 [...]

partners in crime: zionist regimes in palestine and egypt

this week saw more savage attacks on gaza by israeli terrorist forces: Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that several residents were wounded in a series of Israeli air strikes carried out by the Israeli Air Force after midnight targeting several neighborhoods in Gaza City, Jabalia and Rafah. The Palestine News and Information [...]

right of return to nahr el bared and palestine

a-films has a new film out from nahr el bared refugee camp in northern lebanon where palestinians led a protest against the lebanese army’s control over their camp and unrwa’s submission to that control: on 15 may 2009, several hundred residents of the destroyed nahr al-bared refugee camp in north lebanon gathered at the al-quds [...]