Shame on Israel for exploiting the Holocaust to justify genocide
My grandparents’ story of surviving the Holocaust taught me what genocide is, and it is how I know to condemn what Israel is doing to Gaza right now. How dare Israel exploit my family’s suffering to try to justify its genocide in Gaza.
'From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine collects personal testimonies from within Gaza and the West Bank, along with essays and interviews that collectively provide crucial histories and analyses to help us understand how we got to the nightmarish present. Taken together, the texts comprising this collection provide important grounding for the urgent discussions taking place across the Palestine solidarity movement.
A collaboration between Haymarket and Verso Books, From the River to the Sea is now available to download as a FREE Ebook.
With contributions from: Reda Abu Assi, Asmaa Abu Mezied, Tawfiq Abu Shomer, Khalil Abu Yahia, Dunia Aburahma, Spencer Ackerman, Hil Aked, Yousef Al-Akkad, Jamie Allinson, Hammam Alloh, Riya Al’Sanah, Soheir Asaad, Tareq Baconi, Rana Barakat, Omar Barghouti, Sara Besaiso, Ashley Bohrer, Haim Bresheeth-Zabner, Nihal El Aasar, Mohammed El-Kurd, Sai Englert, Noura Erakat, Samera Esmeir, Rebecca Ruth Gould, Toufic Haddad, Adam Hanieh, Khaled Hroub, Rashid Khalidi, Noah Kulwin, Saree Makdisi, Ghassan Najjar, Samar Saeed, Reema Saleh, Alberto Toscano, and Eyal Weizman, alongside a number of Palestinian writers published pseudonymously.'
#history / "King Abdullah I and Glubb Pasha (Lieutenant-General John Bagot Glubb) adopted a policy meant to erase the word 'Palestine' from the Arabic dictionary..."
A comment from Abdullah Tal's memoirs "كارثة فلسطين" (The catastrophe of #Palestine) published in 1958[9] (translated to Hebrew 1964), referring to the King fury with the initiative to establish an independent Palestinian government (September-October 1948). Tal was the Military Governor of the Old City of Jerusalem.
The All-Palestine Government of September/October 1948 was a messy affair: a last ditch effort by the Arab League and then de facto Palestinian national leader, Hajj Amin al-Husseini (AHE), to form a government, that will give some semblance of sovereignty and insert the Palestinian voice into the discussions about the future of Palestine at the UN General Assembly, which was about to discuss Bernadotte's recommendations (annex the Palestinian territories to Trans-Jordan).
United States Department of State
501.BB Palestine/10–248: Circular telegram
I've been boycotting certain brands and it's not that difficult, esp in India. You simbly don't need them. There are great alternatives for them that aren't mass manufactured fast food. Instead of ordering McD or Starbucks (which I didn't do a lot anyway), I've been eating poha or idli as much as possible (for the days I cannot cook). We learned the importance of Boycott Movement as children, and although the nature of capital has evolved quite a bit, it doesn't hurt to try. #Palestine
Palestine Speaks Narratives of Life Under Occupation
The occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has been one of the world's most widely reported yet least understood human rights crises for over four decades. In this oral history collection, men and women from Palestine—including a fisherman, a settlement administrator, and a marathon runner—describe in their own words how their lives have been shaped by the historic crisis.
"a conversation to help teachers, at the K–12 & college levels, develop strategies to teach the #Palestine – #Israel conflict & many of the attendant sensitive historical topics it entails. It might seem that this history is a minefield worth avoiding, but thoughtful & engaged teachers have been teaching such difficult topics in a civil & empathetic way for decades"
"Bombing of Gaza has damaged or destroyed more than 100 heritage sites, NGO report reveals" by Sarvy Geranpayeh (The Art Newspaper).
"The human cost of the bombardment of the Gaza Strip in the war with Israel is well documented. What is less well known is how many historic buildings and sites have also been destroyed."
"Several of Gaza’s museums have also been destroyed or damaged. Rafah Museum, located in southern Gaza, published two videos on its Facebook page showing that the building has partially collapsed. Yasin says Palestinian officials have also received reports of significant damage caused to Al Qarara Cultural Museum and Deir Al Balah museum."
OHF WEEKLY, Vol. 5 No. 39 including—
💛 Editor’s Letter by @sherrykappel
💛 “Gun Violence Comes from Mob Rule” by R Wayne Branch, PhD
💛 “Losing a White Friend Due to His Racism” by @williamfspivey
💛 “All Bigotry Is Ignorance, But Not All Ignorance Is Bigotry” by Walter Rhein
💛 and a quote by Dorothy Height.
The Impossibility of Palestine
History, Geography, and the Road Ahead
A controversial and exhaustively researched work on the much-touted “two-state solution”
The “two-state solution” is the official policy of Israel, the United States, the United Nations, and the Palestinian Authority alike.
OHF WEEKLY, Vol. 5 No. 39 including—
💛 Editor’s Letter by @sherrykappel
💛 “Gun Violence Comes from Mob Rule” by R Wayne Branch, PhD
💛 “Losing a White Friend Due to His Racism” by @williamfspivey
💛 “All Bigotry Is Ignorance, But Not All Ignorance Is Bigotry” by Walter Rhein
💛 and a quote by Dorothy Height.
#antisemitism vs #apartheid "The academic world is rising up against us": Hidden boycott threatens Israeli scientific research
Last week, a Zoom meeting was held with senior members of Israel's academia and young researchers. The senior academics expressed concern about what is happening and conveyed a sense of emergency. The President of the University of Haifa, Prof. Ron Rubin, recounted in a conversation that he visited the US during the war and felt manifestations of antisemitism "seeping into places where they have never been before. There is a hostile attitude towards Israelis even in places like medical schools. It is terrifying to the nth degree. In the past, the problem was focused on faculties for the humanities and social sciences, but the phenomenon is spreading to additional fields."
The missing word in this article must be #aprtheid... I do see #BDS and antisemitism mentioned, many times, but not a word about the fact the USA and European boycott of Israeli academia is a refusal to cooperate with a perceived apartheid regime.
Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians
There is one title that always works: "The current crisis in the Middle East." One can't predict exactly what the crisis will be far down the road, but that there will be one is a fairly safe prediction. That will continue to be the case as long as basic problems of the region are not addressed.
This seems like a new low, in my lifetime at least. A regime carries out ethnic cleansing in full view of the world - broadcasting its intentions in barely coded language - while our governments affirm their full support. The US sends aircraft carriers, vetoes calls for a ceasefire #Palestine#Israel (1/7)
They had been overflown by an Israeli helicopter and drones. After broadcasting a live feed for 45 minutes, the Reuters, AFP and Al Jazeera teams turned their cameras to show an Israeli outpost from where tanks were firing. Within 90 seconds a tank round hit them. #Palestine#gaza#Lebanon#Israel