Gaza – a personal account

Khan Younis Training Camp refugee centre in southern Gaza. In 2012 and 2013 when I spent extensive time in Gaza I met some wonderful people. People with nothing but love in their hearts who had already endured unspeakable horrors during the 2008/9 Cast Lead Operation and the 2012 Operation Pillar of Defence in November of…

Do You Condemn Israel?

Consortium News It has become customary for Arabs invited on Western TV news programs to be asked, off the bat, to condemn this or that act that Israel classifies as terrorism.   When I came to the U.S. in 1983, this was already standard practice.  But back then, the Palestinian “terrorists” were secular: so the media…

GAZA: Where is Hezbollah?

Jabalia camp in Gaza which is being levelled by Israeli bombs leaving hundreds dead more buried under rubble Written by Sayed Hasan Following the spectacular “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation launched by the Palestinian resistance in Gaza, the army of occupation has inflicted an unprecedented level of massacre and destruction on its defenseless civilian population, trapped in…

When Western philosophers deny Palestinians’ right to politics

Mondoweiss – This open letter was written by a Palestinian cultural critic, writer, and artist who has chosen to publish anonymously for fear of reprisal by the Israeli regime, which has subjected Palestinian voices to a brutal crackdown and arrest campaign since October 7. A letter to the most dangerous philosopher in the West Dear Slavoj Žižek,…

Understanding Gaza, under fire and under siege

Gaza 2023 Mike Robinson of UK Column speaks with journalist Eva Bartlett who has lived in Gaza and the Occupied Territories for extensive periods of time, Cynthia McKinney, former US Congresswoman and long time Palestine supporter with her own history of dealing with the Zionist security forces and finally myself, Vanessa Beeley – I was in Gaza…

Invention of the Mizrahim

Israel invented the word Mizrahim to strip Arab Jews of their histories as they tried to do with Palestinians. Susan Abulhawa 2017 – The State of Israel was conceived at the turn of the 20th century in Eastern Europe by a group of elite European Jews who launched a movement called Zionism that sought to establish a…

Israel, Washington Escalate Prospects of Regional MidEast War

Palestinian solidarity rally yesterday (13th October) in Damascus, Syria. Photo: Vanessa Beeley MintPress founder and director Mnar Adley is joined by Daniel McAdams, director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace, and Vanessa Beeley, an independent journalist who specializes in the Middle East. Israel targeted Hezbollah in Lebanon and bombed Syria and Gaza in the…