Category: Palestine

Inspired and planned by the institutions of racism

Nurit Peled-Elhanan’s moving reflections on the occupation’s 45th birthday By Henry Norr, June 15, 2012 … Nurit Peled-Elhanan, daughter of a prominent Israeli general and mother of a suicide bombing victim, and her brother Miko Peled have long been among the most courageous Israeli critics of their nation’s treatment of the Palestinians, but this year they’re …

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As natural as the way we think

Why Shakespeare is … Palestinian By Amir Nizar Zuabi, Monday 11 June 2012 10.10 EDT … It is a well-known fact that Shakespeare is a Palestinian. And when I say “is” I do mean “is”, not “was”. The man might have been born in Stratford-upon-Avon four centuries ago, but he is alive and well today …

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Among informed and honest observers

Should we call it apartheid? By Omar Baddar, June 11, 2012 … Among informed and honest observers, there is no dispute that Israel is imposing a separate and grossly unequal system of ethnic discrimination on the Palestinians, most blatantly in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). Setting aside the complex system of discrimination within Israel itself, …

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And the beat goes on

By Monsieur d’Nalgar, Friday June 8, 2012 … This rant emanates from a Facebook conversation today that followed Maha’s lament. Maha is a Palestinian woman who is frustrated with her Israeli friend. Seems that this friend is blind to historical realities of indigenous villages and peoples systematically erased from the ancient landscape by a new …

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Good luck getting into Israel

‘Do you feel more Arab or more American?’: Two women’s story of being detained and interrogated at Ben Gurion By Najwa Doughman and Sasha Al-Sarabi, June 2, 2012 … I am an American citizen. I went to American schools my entire life, graduated from an American university and work as an architect in New York City. …

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The seven laws of Noah?

No charges on ‘racist’ King’s Torah text By Donald Macintyre, Wednesday 30 May 2012 … Israel’s Attorney General has decided not to prosecute two rabbis who wrote a controversial religious text proposing circumstances in which it is permissible to kill non-Jews even if they pose no direct physical threat of violence. Yehuda Weinstein said remarks …

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Talk about shared values

Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal By Yousef Munayyer, May 23, 2012 … I’m a Palestinian who was born in the Israeli town of Lod, and thus I am an Israeli citizen. My wife is not; she is a Palestinian from Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Despite our towns being just 30 miles apart, we met …

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