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so i am loving watching these images on al jazeera of illegal israeli settlers being removed from their homes. i love watching this. it is a beautiful sight to see. but the problem is that these settlers are just going to be removed to some other part of palestine–albeit probably in 1948 palestine–where they will [...]
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Petition in support of call by United Nations General Assembly President Miguel D’escoto Brockmann for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel
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During the 57th Plenary Meeting on the Question of Palestine, President of [...]
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i think that press tv could learn a lot from watching al jazeera’s “inside story” in terms of learning how to shut people up when they need to be shut up. though i think al jazeera should cease putting these racist american and zionist mofos on the air. we get enough of their hatred in [...]
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i just finished watching my dear friend rania on press tv’s “middle east today.” it was tedious to watch because some delusional zionist was on the show. he–with the help of the show’s host i might add–effectively silenced dr. naji shurab the one voice living in gaza who was on the show. it’s so hard [...]
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this is an article i wrote for electronic intifada a couple of weeks ago in the aftermath of my anger at rumors of clinton being appointed as secretary of state. this is material from the second chapter of my book that i’m working on, though many thanks and a big ya3tiki il3fiye to maureen who [...]
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amira hass, the israeli journalist with ha’aretz who was asked to leave gaza this week, was on democracy now! today. the zionist regime briefly detained her before they let her return to her apartment in ramallah. a recent report from hass called “this is gaza” gives a small glimpse into what is going on there, [...]
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this is how the israeli terrorist forces’ (itf) media describes its cold-blooded murder of two young boys, one 15 years old the other 18 years old:
The Israel Air Force killed two Palestinian gunmen who fired mortar shells at the Kerem Shalom crossing on Tuesday afternoon. Four other men were injured in the strike, which took [...]
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Urgent Action Needed – No New EU-Israel Action Plan!!
The European Parliament (EP) has recently announced that a vote will be held on December 4 to enter into force the EU-Israel Association Agreement, which will enable far greater Israeli participation in European Community programs. Originally, the EU had stated that the vote on this [...]
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i feel like i’m repeating myself. i am repeating myself. but i’m making myself sick from repeating myself. nauseous, really. oh, no, wait–the nausea is coming from the hypocritical, deceitful, immoral president elect barack obama. not that i ever drank even one sip of the koolaid that killed off whatever remaining strand of leftists there [...]
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Thanks to the tireless efforts of rafiq super-Saed the candlelight vigil in Nablus tonight came off with out a hitch. (Okay, there was one hitch: I should not be allowed to hold a candle. I set my hair on fire twice before putting it up and my kuffiyeh on fire once before a friend took [...]
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Yesterday I woke up early so that Saed and I could get to Ramallah before the Muwatin conference began. We had to leave extra early because the Israeli Terrorist Forces (ITF) won’t let him drive through Huwara checkpoint, so we had to go at least 30 minutes in the opposite direction before we could cut [...]
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a dear friend wrote to me today to share with me a new mural they are putting up in deheishe refugee camp. these are all students who are using their own money to do so. no sponsorship from any political–or any other kind of–organization. this is a mural of the martyrs of deheishe of which [...]
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first libya, now qatar. when exactly will the un or europe challenge this siege? when will it send aid directly to gaza? this could be an excellent move for the boycott campaign. if you look at photographs of what exactly tends to be in those aid trucks there is way too much hebrew for my [...]
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In Mumbai this morning people woke up in a state of shock. People are mourning. And it’s not over yet. In the U.S. Americans woke up to a day off, a day when most “celebrate” a holiday called Thanksgiving. In theory, if this were merely a holiday where people had a day off to give [...]
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2 translations. the first from huwaida who graciously translated the call we have put out from nablus for a hunger strike and candle light vigil this saturday to commemorate the international day of solidarity with palestinian people. for those not in nablus, please consider creating such an event where ever you may be:
Because the people [...]
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i had lunch today with a lovely young woman from my university. it’s interesting that a lot of people here in palestine who know i’ve lived in lebanon seek me out. they want email addresses, and now that it is legal to call, phone numbers of my palestinian friends in lebanon. they want to connect [...]
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لأن الشعب واحد
ولأن الوطن واحد ولأن الجرح واحد
نابلس المحاصرة تتضامن مع غزة المحاصرة
تضامنا مع أهلنا في قطاع غزة
وبمناسبة اليوم العالمي للتضامن مع الشعب الفلسطيني (29-11-2008)
ندعوكم للإضراب عن الطعام (صيام) يوم السبت الموافق 29-11-2008
للتعبير عن تضامنا ومطالبتنا بإنهاء معاناة شعبنا الصامد في غزة
كما ندعوكم بهذه المناسبة للتجمع
لإشعال الشموع من أجل غزة ونابلس
ودعما لحق العودة
مساء يوم الأحد [...]
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today was supposed to be ahmad sa’adat’s day in court. although his trial has been postponed before, it seemed as if it might actually take place today but it has been postponed yet again. maybe they are still fabricating evidence. not that they need any. the zionist state will do what it wants to. it [...]
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when one is writing about palestine one must speak about multiple sieges. there are layered sieges. they come from all directions. yesterday one of my students was in my office. like most palestinian families i know the political ideologies vary from family member to family member. she is pflp, one of her brothers is in [...]
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Palestinian National Authority
Gaza Emergency Water Project
Funded By The World Bank
السلطة الوطنية الفلسطينية
مشروع مياه غزة الطارئ
الممول من البنك الدولي
استغاثــــة
في ظل الممانعة والمعوقات الدائمة التي يفرضها الجانب الإسرائيلي على دخول احتياجات قطاع خدمات المياه والصرف الصحي في قطاع غزة من مواد ومعدات وقطع غيار وكان آخرها منع دخول بعض المواد الكيميائية التي تستخدم في معالجة مياه الشرب [...]
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19 days of closure | 1.5 million palestinians held hostage | 30 trucks of aid
surface-to-surface missile
disengagement
explosion
critical level
solar
torture
blockade
mud ovens
animal feed bread
no money, no candles
unacceptable
genocide
hope
Posted in Human Rights, Militarization, Occupation, Palestine, Zionism Tagged: Gaza
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i’ve been obsessing over this one for the last 24 hours:
WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton has decided to give up her Senate seat to become secretary of state in the Obama administration, making her the public face to the world for the man who dashed her own hopes for the presidency, confidants of Mrs. Clinton [...]
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from my dear friend laith…
WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO?
CKUT 90.3FM Fall Funding Drive, November 13 – 23, 2008.
CKUT 90.3 FM will be hosting its 2008 Fall Funding Drive from November 13-23, 2008!
On behalf of the volunteer hosts and programmers of CKUT’s Under the Olive Tree, I ask you to support CKUT.
Why does CKUT deserve [...]
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anyone wanting to understand the inherent lack of logic, the inherent lack of humanity among zionists, the inherent distortion of history and of the present realities in gaza you must watch the brilliance of rania and caoimhe on press tv yesterday.
the siege on gaza continues unabated in spite of outrage expressed by journalists and humanitarian [...]
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I meant to blog about this earlier, but given everything going on in the world it slipped my mind. When I was in the U.S. for the American Studies Association meeting I found that Aunt Lute had finally released the second volume of its Anthology of U.S. Women Writers. The volume was edited by [...]
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As if it is not enough that there is a never ending siege on Gaza, now British complicity compounds the matter by closing a charity bank account that aids Palestinians in Gaza. Read below to take action.
INTERPAL UNDER THREAT
Announcement
PRESS STATEMENT: 17 November 2008
Dear Friends,
Due to the overwhelming support Interpal has received on this matter, this [...]
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I don’t like diamonds. Or gem stones of any sort. I am reminded of this every day whenever I glance at my hand and see a diamond ring. I wear this only because it was my mother’s wedding ring and seeing it on my hand reminds me of when these rings were on her hand. [...]
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jeremy scahill of blackwater fame–whose book should be a must read for every american–was on democracy now! today and has an important article on alternet that i’ll post in full below. the interview and the article make it abundantly clear why activists have our work cut out for us if we don’t want more of [...]
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i’m feeling numb today. this may partly be due to the weather. the sky had a strange haze to it all day. i couldn’t see the sea or the sky. it had an odd brown color and there was an intense wind blowing all day. of course, this didn’t stop the israeli terrorist forces (itf) [...]
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a few years ago i met hossein derakhsham at the world culture forum at the dead sea in jordan. we kept in touch on and off over the past few years since then. sometimes commenting on each other’s blogs (his english blog is called hoder). a month or so ago he gave my name and [...]
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another u.s. bombing of pakistan today. as with gaza, the congo, no public outcry. more death and displacement. more euphemisms to mask the death of innocent civilians:
At least five people have been killed in a suspected US missile attack in the North West Frontier province of Pakistan, near the Afghan border, security officials said.
A senior [...]
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Last night I was on Iran’s Press TV’s Middle East Today to discuss “Israel’s Internal Politics and the Crisis in Gaza” (a bit different than what I was told we would be talking about–I was expecting to discuss the recent U.S. election in relation to what is happening here not the Zionist state’s upcoming [...]
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There is a documentary that was on Al Jazeera about a year ago byTom Evans and George Azar called Two Schools in Nablus. The program is worth watching if you want to see what life is like here in Nablus. Just by catching a glimpse of these two schools–one for boys and one for girls–one [...]
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i woke up to this alarming story in the guardian today:
Hillary Clinton plans to accept the job of secretary of state offered by Barack Obama, who is reaching out to former rivals to build a broad coalition administration, the Guardian has learned.
harper’s has a brief piece today on why hillary clinton should not be [...]
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do words have no meaning any more? is “all language bankrupt” as suheir hammad tells us in her beautiful poem “a prayer band”?
here is how my dictionary defines these words:
cease-fire
noun
a temporary suspension of fighting, typically one during which peace talks take place; a truce.
• an order or signal to stop fighting.
truce |troōs|
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Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
November 17, 2008
For Immediate Release
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, calls on all its chapters and members, supporting organizations and individuals to organize demonstrations to demand an end to the siege of the Gaza Strip.
On November 5, Israel completely sealed the Strip’s border crossings after launching an unprovoked [...]
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In The Nation magazine this week Naomi Klein makes a powerful pronouncement:
The more details emerge, the clearer it becomes that Washington’s handling of the Wall Street bailout is not merely incompetent. It is borderline criminal.
Klein was on Democracy Now! today and elaborates hear argument in light of the G 20 summit and provides some [...]
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First, a couple of examples–both examples of the continued ethnic cleansing project that is part and parcel of the Zionist state.
In Al Quds:
Last Sunday [27 July], around 11:30 A.M., my parents were abroad and I was home alone. The bell rang and when I opened the door, I saw three Jerusalem Municipality inspectors and [...]
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I was just glancing through my posts from the beginning of this year–in January. I was recalling the teach-in on Gaza we did at Boise State University around that same time. I was recalling the images I watched on television and read in the newspapers about Gaza earlier this year. Here is one such [...]
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angry indian had this important announcement on his blog. for those of you who can help, please do.
EMERGENCY WINTER HEATING/UTILITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
October, 2008 through March, 2009 For the Elders, Disabled and the Sick Living on the Lakota Sioux Reservations in South Dakota Our goal is to raise $20,000. We are not grant-funded at this [...]
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so i’m sitting here in my apartment in nablus, working on my book, with al jazeera playing in the background. “people and power” was on and i turned up the volume when i heard arundhati roy’s voice coming from the tube. she’s one of my favorite writers and thinkers in this horrifying world. the episode [...]
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Rumor after rumor, decision after decision: it’s like watching a train wreck. The latest news? That Hillary Rodham Clinton may be Obama’s Secretary of State. For a candidate who wanted change, for a candidate who ran on a platform that was purported to be anti-war–at least against the occupation of Iraq–this further signals Obama’s desire [...]
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There are many forms of resistance as I’ve often written about here. Palestinians have always used a variety of such methods. And indeed it took decades before they resorted to their right to armed resistance against the Jewish settler colonists and the British who imposed this colonial context on them vis-a-vis the Zionist project of [...]
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Appeal, Badil, 13 November 2008
Oxford University’s Balliol College has decided to honor Shimon Peres and the apartheid state of Israel by inviting him to speak in Oxford, and by planning to establish a lecture series in his name. Peres will deliver his lecture on Tuesday, 18 November 2008 under the title “The Globalization of [...]
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So he did it. Rahm Israel Emanuel bowed to public pressure–or Barack Obama forced him to submit to that pressure. Either way he apologized to the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). I posted a link to this ADC demand yesterday encouraging people to help build the pressure to force Emanuel to come clean on whether he [...]
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in gaza right now there is darkness. it is cold, it is raining. and there is no light. there is no food shipment nor any fuel shipment. this is zionism. this is terrorism. (they are one in the same.)
Israel went back on a pledge to ease its blockade of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, turning [...]
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There are still a number of important editorials coming out with critical analysis about what a President Obama will mean. As my posts over the entire election campaign make clear, I’ve never felt duped by this candidate as he never represented progressive–let alone radical points of view. He seemed like the same old sort of [...]
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1.5 million people trapped in the open-air prison that is gaza. 750,000 palestinian refugees living there dependent on unrwa food aid will likely have no food tomorrow.
Israel plans to allow a small delivery of fuel into the Gaza Strip on Thursday on the orders of Defense Minister Ehud Barak, ending a week of total [...]
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even the un is unable to do anything. not that they ever have before. too many parallels between palestine insecurity and congolese insecurity…
Congo:
Palestine:
A spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency on Wednesday said that Israel’s long-term economic blockade on the Gaza Strip had a directly negative effect on the functioning of the world [...]
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A story on Al Jazeera today about Mexican migrant workers–economic refugees if you will–who die on the U.S.-Mexican border. The story is a small one, but it is a reminder of a larger issue that that combines the history of U.S. expansionism–better known as Manifest Destiny–with policies like NAFTA that have been a disaster and [...]
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Russell Means, Lakota Activist leads resistance against the U.S. government with a goal of creating a sovereign nation for the Lakota people, separate from the U.S. In Al Jazeera’s “Inside USA” he explains the significant connections between such resistance movements among indigenous people across history and the globe:
They [Lakotas] were still resisting imperialism. It is [...]
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a new article on the israeli news website ynet talks about the ways in which benjamin netanyahu has coopted the design of barack obama’s website for his election campaign. but that is not what i find most striking about the article. it’s the image on the netanyahu’s website, the one i’ve posted here, which [...]
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Strike day two. I went to the university today–yesterday as today–at the usual time. But it was a ghost town. There were not services and buses full of students unloading at the gates. Even the coffee shop was closed. Rami’s felafel stand was empty–no customers. I found out today that there are 13,000 who travel [...]
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There is a great loss today in Miriam Makeba. This clip of her singing “Khawuleza” in 1966 gives you a sense of how she used music as a form of resistance, as a way to sing the truth about South African apartheid in a way that honored those South Africans who were most severely subjected [...]
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i couldn’t have said it better myself. and it must be said again. and again. and again. cross posting courtesy of angry arab:
“Livni: We see the need for a Palestine, as long as it’s not a terror state“. Angry Arab: We don’t see the need for Israel, as it has always been a terror state. [...]
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I had lunch with a student from Jenin today. She told me about Condoleeza Rice’s visit to her city yesterday. She told me about being under lockdown because of the visit. No protests were allowed. Palestinians were locked up inside their homes functioning ostensibly as jails for this visit. Most people in Jenin were very [...]
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Some months ago I came across an article in the Guardian that suggested some uncanny similarities between the fictional drama The West Wing and the Barack Obama election campaign. In the article it was noted that there was some synergy between the writers of the show and real-life political actors:
For what those West Wing [...]
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i just received this email. there are links below to sign a petition below. yet another example of how institutionalized israeli racism is.
Dear friends,
We ask for your urgent support in the case of Ali Baher. Ali is a student at the Hebrew University, who has been kicked out from his dorm room, and [...]
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So it is not just Rahm Israel Emauel who has divided loyalties as a dual citizen of the U.S. and Israel. It’s also one of Barack Obama’s other recent appointments–a woman who could likely have divided loyalties between Wall Street and Main Street. As is clear from yesterday’s press conference (in spite of the odd [...]
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and still nahr el bared refugee camp is a camp filled with rubble. and still people are not allowed to return to their homes. and still palestinian refugees are denied the right to return to their homes in palestine as is their right under un resolution 194.
As he picked plastics and paper off the rubble-filled [...]
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and this is what president-elect barack obama is choosing to support with his selection of rahm israel emanuel as white house chief of staff. maybe if obama chose to come to khalil (hebron) instead of sderot he might understand the ways in which emanuel stands for racism, apartheid, colonialism, terrorism. this clip is from al [...]
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okay, i posted this below at the bottom of my previous post, but i think it needs its own post because it is too frightening. first this piece on emanuel as connected to mossad:
Rosen is also tied to Ted Olson, Coca Cola copyright controversy and a scandal now developing which will link Rosen to Rahm [...]
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Yesterday on Flashpoints JR & the Block Report featured an interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal, live from death row in Pennsylvania, to discuss the recent elections (or as JR calls them “selections”). Much of what both JR and Mumia said echoed Bill Fletcher and Ali Abunimah’s comments that I wrote about yesterday: that the response to [...]
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When I spoke with my students about the election this week one woman asked me, why did the Americans emphasize Barak Hussein Obama’s middle name so much–in an attempt to scare Americans into thinking he’s Muslim–when his first name is a Jewish one? Indeed. Those of us familiar with the work of Ehud Barak (it’s [...]
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Obama picks pro-Israel hardliner for top post
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 5 November 2008
Senator Barack Obama greets Representative Rahm Emanuel at the Illinois Delegation party at Ye Olde Union Oyster, in Boston, on the eve of the Democratic National Convention 2004. (Tom Williams)
During the United States election campaign, racists and pro-Israel hardliners tried to make [...]
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unbelievable. or maybe not. i spent the whole day explaining why obama would be disastrous for palestine to palestinians–in arabic i might add (i think my language skills improved exponentially today). and just a few hours later there is evidence to support this claim from the israeli media (and i am told that emanuel has [...]
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This picture is from the coffee shop where I buy my Arabic coffee every morning across the street from the university. One cup of Arabic coffee costs me $.28 (what exactly are those who buy their lattes from Starbucks–when they should be boycotting–paying now?). I started my day as usual buying my coffee, walking [...]
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so there is a result now in the u.s. too. i find it so sad that americans being interviewed seem to think that somehow this means we’ve moved past racism. if the election itself is any indication of the state of racism in society this is far from true. now older americans will be reminded [...]
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I knew that the polls had closed and the votes had all been counted because I heard honking in the streets, though my apartment is too far away to make out the flags on the cars (even all the taxis and services had political party flags all over their cars today). The polls closed [...]
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TELL BUSH, MCCAIN, PALIN, MUKASEY, GOVERNORS OF KEY STATES, CONGRESSIONAL AND REPUBLICAN PARTY LEADERS AND MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA: STOP RACIST VOTER SUPPRESSION NOW!
Please join the online campaign to STOP RACIST VOTER SUPPRESSION!
YOUR EMERGENCY ACTION IS NEEDED NOW! Click HERE to Fill in Online Form
Tell Bush, McCain, Palin, Mukasey, Governors of Key States, [...]
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i’ve written extensively about why i voted for cynthia mckinney. i voted for ralph nader in the last two elections. for those who are looking for a real choice, a protest vote and who don’t want to succumb to the racism, islamophobia, and horrendous policies that mcain/obama would enact in the u.s. here is another [...]
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Due to the recent and devastating flooding which occurred in Gaza, Interpal has launched an Emergency Gaza Flood Relief. The money will be used to aid the flood victims, primarily with food parcels and blankets, which have been in very high demand.
Please give generously to our Emergency Gaza Flood Relief, for a people who have [...]
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I feel obliged to share some good news today, though after speaking with my grandma earlier tonight it seems that she was worried that something bad was happening here. I reminded her that this is “normal” here; Israeli Terrorist Forces (ITF) invade Palestinian cities, villages, and refugee camps every day. Though I’m not sure if [...]
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…or McCain for that matter. But given the tendency for formerly progressive or radical people to support Obama here are more reasons to vote for Ralph Nader or Cynthia McKinney. I have not been keeping track exactly, but over the course of the last year there are numerous examples I’ve given on this blog about [...]
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Anyone who wonders about the influence of the Israel lobby on American media or on U.S. foreign policy needs to watch the documentary Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land. It’s an older film, but unfortunately still applies. I’m posting it here for people who want to watch it to see what happens in the [...]
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I had been looking forward to this weekend for so long. I had first planned to go down to Deheishe refugee camp to see my friends of Eid, but this year is a hibernation year for me so that I can finish my book. And because I hadn’t completed enough work I used Eid [...]
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AMAZING! someone at cnn seems to get it. i haven’t seen cnn or rick sanchez in a long time, but i recall thinking he was a neocon. perhaps he is. but these two videos must be watched. the first one, yet another bullshit ad hominem attack on rashid khalidi by a john mccain’s supporter. (notice, [...]
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This is why I love the rain. This is a view from my apartment last night after the rain stopped. It’s hard to see, but that is the Mediterranean Sea in the background. I’m told it’s a straight shot of 30 minutes down a road, when those roads are not occupied by foreign occupiers. [...]
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Lots of people like to make a mountain out of a molehill. Or here in Palestine the Arabic translation is about an anthill. Nafs ishee. This story about Rashid Khalidi needs to die, now. Not just because it reveals the depths of John McCain’s racism–because he’s perpetuating it–and Barack Obama’s racism–because he’s got no balls [...]
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It’s really hard to live anywhere, I imagine, and not be aware of and disturbed by divisions among people. This week my university is holding student elections as I mentioned in an earlier post. But today Hamas withdrew from the elections because the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA) has been rounding up students in Hamas and [...]
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I’m all for dissolving borders. I’m all for the demise of the nation state as we know it. But not the American brand of border dissolution. Or the American way of ignoring sovereign lands and boundaries. It is not unbelievable that Americans have such disrespect for borders, especially in the Middle East. The lack of [...]
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Okay, it’s just ketchup, but it’s a start. I went to the cafeteria at An Najah University today after I finished teaching to get some lunch. Normally there is a tray in front of the food items with condiments in it, including small packages of ketchup. And normally that ketchup is from Israel. But today [...]
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when will the world stand up to the u.s.? when will it say that the u.s. cannot just invade any country it wants to and kill innocent civilians without repercussions? if it were the other way around would the world really remain silent?
US forces kill eight in helicopter raid on Syria
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It is interesting how various aspects of my work life converge at particular moments. For the past few months I have been thinking a lot about censorship. Initially this was related to a chapter of my book that I recently finished in which I compare the U.S. laws making it illegal for slaves to read [...]
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one year has passed since nahr el bared refugee camp has reopened. well, sort of. since a fraction of the original population was allowed to return to their destroyed homes after the lebanese army attacked the camp, looted the remaining items of value, and killed, detained, and tortured a number of palestinians. a-films has a [...]
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I made it back home to Nablus today, through the Sheikh Hussein Bridge. This bridge is much quieter than Malak Hussein in the south as it is mostly for tourists. I was pleasantly surprised that most of my traveling companions today were not tourists, however. Most of them were Palestinians from 1948. Many of [...]
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Whenever I’m in Jordan I find myself confronted by thoughts of dual occupation. Of two wars. Of two significant refugee populations. And of the two powers most responsible for these problems: Americans and Zionist Jews (of course originally we can blame the British too). This map that appeared on Palestine Think Tank accompanied by an [...]
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I’m more than halfway home and I’m checking out what is going on in Falasteen right now; it seems that things have not changed much in my absence. Not that I should be surprised. This is daily life in Palestine.
This morning Israeli Terrorist Forces (ITF) invaded Al Fara’a refugee camp near Nablus:
Palestinian sources said that [...]
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