If Americans Knew is a website I will regularly recommend to people [especially Americans] who have the humility, grace and guts to ask me “what is really going on” in Palestine. It is therefore, with inestimable disgust, that I read of JVP’s treatment and ostracism of Alison Weir, the founder of IAK, a woman who has…
Ramallah, June 8, 2015–Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP) is deeply troubled by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s decision not to include Israel’s armed forces in his annual list of groups that commit grave violations of children’s rights. Each year, the UN Secretary-General submits a report on children and armed conflict to the UN Security Council…
Reports have come out that the UN was considering adding Israel to the list of “grave violations against children in armed conflict.” As detailed below, Israeli army and Israel’s state policies are systematically violent against Palestinian children. A recent Independent article noted that [Special Envoy for Children and Armed Conflict Leila]“Zerrougui’s draft report cited IDF…
Day in the Life of the Boat People. More than 5,000 migrants trying to reach Europe have been saved from boats in distress in the Mediterranean between May 29 and June 2 The floating black hole: Astonishing images show more than 1,000 migrants, including 200 children, squeezed onto two levels of rescued boat in Mediterranean…
A challenge to Hamas/Fatah “I have to agree with the sentiment in this article..I hesitated to post it as it could undermine the efforts that some people are making but generally Government forces in Gaza and West Bank (& external Embassies) are appalling at promoting their cause. Whether they are under the Israeli jackboot or…
IMPORTANT: Today, Al Mayadeen Tv interviewed Brother Farooq Al Qaddoumi / Farouk al-Kaddoumi “also known as Abu al-Lutf, is Secretary-general of Fatah’s central committee …” Brother Abu Al-Lutf was very clear and stated the following: “PLO and Hamas were wrong in supporting the Saudi aggression against Yemen The Liberation of Palestine, we must support Syria…
Last week, millions around the world marked the 67th anniversary of the Nakba – literally “the disaster” or “the catastrophe” in Arabic – commemorating the seizure of Palestinian land and transformation of historic Palestine into modern Israel. Naturally, there is little ambiguity among pro-Palestine activists that the Nakba represents the opening salvo in the ongoing…
Malak al Khateeb is an icon to all those who fight for the freedom of Palestine and the release of Palestinian children unlawfully detained, beaten and abused in Israeli jails deprived of their Human rights, deprived of their childhood by a brutal occupying regime who fabricates the threat of a slim petite 14 year old…
Can the Unspeakable be Spoken? The mood of our uneasy times is incredibly bellicose, dark, apocalyptic and vengeful. The “war on terror” is like a virus that infects everything it touches. And it does seem to touch everything, from our popular television shows, to getting across borders, travelling overseas somewhere. You can’t read the Sunday paper…
Gaza – The Endgame As Israel pursues its war on Gaza with ever-increasing ferocity, and with 25% of Gaza’s people forced from their homes, what’s the final objective? It’s unthinkable that Israel’s aim is to ‘cleanse’ the territory of its people, seize its vast gas reserves, and annex some of the Med’s hottest real estate.…
The Wall Will Fall 