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Honored to be a "Freedom Rider"
![[Image by Marc Israel Sellem.]](/content_images/3/sm_freedomride.jpg "[Image by Marc Israel Sellem.]")
I was honored to be a freedom rider and it was a team effort at its best (those who rode and the many who worked behind the scenes). Two other Palestinians were also arrested with us. They were there as a reporters/observers, not participants. All eight of us were eventually released pending potential trials. Fajr kindly gave us a ride to the edge of Beit Sahour from Ramallah (we were released at Qalandia checkpoint), where my wife met us with my car. She and I then gave Nadim and Badi' a ride to Hebron. I thus arrived home at 1:30 AM and the phones started ringing again at 7 AM. I am extremely tired and with a headache, but wanted to send you a brief report and ...
Keep Reading »Two Poems by Rafeef Ziadah
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Rafeef Ziadah is a Canadian-Palestinian spoken word artist and activist. Her debut CD Hadeel is dedicated to Palestinian youth, who still fly kites in the face of F16 bombers, who still remember the names if their villages in Palestine and still hear the sound of Hadeel (cooing of doves) over Gaza.
Keep Reading »Doctoring the Evidence, Abandoning the Victim: The Involvement of Medical Professionals in Torture and Ill-Treatment in Israel
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[The following is the latest from the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) and Physicians for Human Rights - Israel (PHR) on medical professionals' involvement in mistreatment in Israel.] Medical Professionals and Torture? When we think of doctors, it is often the Hippocratic Oath and its mythical status that comes to mind. We believe that doctors help the sick, standing beside them in times of troubles at any hour of the day or night, remaining loyal to those under their care, and so on. In general, doctors are seen as professionals who can be trusted to do the utmost to bring health to their patients – good people working day and night so that ...
Keep Reading »Palestinian Youth Join Boats Set to Challenge Israel’s Siege of Gaza, Act Now to Defend Today's Boats to Gaza
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[The following statements were issued by the International Solidarity Movement on 2 November 2011.] Palestinian Youth Join Boats Set to Challenge Israel’s Siege of Gaza Irish and Canadian boats in international waters on their way to challenge illegal siege policy Palestinian activists call for end to international complicity in Israel’s crimes Support actions taking place throughout the West Bank and inside Israel [Ramallah] Two civilian boats, the Canadian Tahrir (Liberation), and the Irish Saoirse (Freedom), carrying twenty-seven people from nine countries, are currently in international waters making their way to the beleaguered Gaza Strip to ...
Keep Reading »Bertrand Russell's Legacy
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Making my way back to Ireland from the Third World Approaches to International Law conference at the University of Oregon last week, I found myself with a few hours to kill between flights in New York. In the basement of a second-hand bookshop, I picked up a dusty old copy of the Selected Writings of Bertrand Russell. After paying a visit to Occupy Wall Street, I caught a bus back to the airport, where the words of Russell’s introduction, written on the cusp of the great depression in the late 1920s, jumped out: “It is evident that, in a world where there was leisure and economic security for all, the happiness of all would be greater than that of ninety-nine per cent of ...
Keep Reading »The Making of a Secular Democracy: Law, Marriage, and Empirical Irrelevance in Israel and Lebanon
![[Left: Israeli couples marrying in Cyprus. Image from Reuters. Right: Travel agency advertisment in Lebanon. Image from unknown archive.]](/content_images/3/sm_Screenshot2011-10-28at11.21.42AM.png "[Left: Israeli couples marrying in Cyprus. Image from Reuters. Right: Travel agency advertisment in Lebanon. Image from unknown archive.]")
On any given weekend, Israeli and Lebanese citizens can be found standing together in an orderly line before a Cypriot magistrate. They shuffle forward, couple by couple, in line to get married. The distance to Cyprus is roughly the same for an Israeli or a Lebanese couple, as is the reason why these couples choose to get married there. And no, it is not due to the beautiful weather, the beaches, or the nightlife in Cyprus, which most Israelis and Lebanese would insist to the reader, with a swish of nationalist bravado, are inferior. These are not marriages between Lebanese and Israelis. Rather, these couples leave their countries and travel by boat or by plane to a ...
Keep Reading »El Acuerdo Detras del "Acuerdo Shalit" Presos, Poder y Racismo
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[This article was written in English by Toufic Haddad and translated/published in Spanish by www.rebelion.org] El Acuerdo Detrás del “Acuerdo Shalit” Presos, Poder y Racismo [Traducción para Rebelión de Loles Oliván] Veintiseis prisioneros palestinos incluidos en el ‘acuerdo Shalit’ ya estaban en prisión antes de que Gilad Shalit hubiera nacido. Diez de los liberados han pasado en la cárcel más tiempo que Nelson Mandela en la isla de Robben aunque ninguno de ellos es conocido para el público no arabo parlante. Por el contrario, Gilad Shalit, cinco años en cautiverio, es un nombre familiar en muchos países occidentales: ciudadano ...
Keep Reading »An Apocalyptic Air of Approaching Peril: Zionism at the United Nations
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Bibi sauntered. He swaggered. He spoke freely, seemingly unguided by any text. He irreverently made circles with his fingers. He called the group of diplomats and interns assembled in front of him actors in “a theater of the absurd.” He proudly modeled his thick coat of indifference just as he called the United Nations, a “house of lies.” Indeed, so capable was the UN in presenting the false as true, Bibi gestured assuredly, they could go so far to declare that the sun set in the West. Realizing that the sun did in fact set in the West, Bibi calmly stepped back from the rhetorical precipice and began what he came for: to speak the truth: the truth about ...
Keep Reading »List of Palestinian Prisoners Released on 18 October 2011 (Includes Names, Dates of Arrest, and Sentences )
![[Released Palestinian prisoners arriving at Rafah crossing check-point in Gaza on 18 October 2011.]](/content_images/3/sm_listofreleased.jpg "[Released Palestinian prisoners arriving at Rafah crossing check-point in Gaza on 18 October 2011.]")
The following is a list of Palestinian prisoners being released by the Israeli govnernment on 18 October 2011 as part of the prisoner exchange agreement. It includes the name, origin, date of arrest, sentences received, and destination of release for each of the total 477 (450 male and 27 female) Palestinian prisoners released on this date. The final stage of the prisoner exchange deal will take place in two months, entailing the release of 550 additional Palestinian prisoners. For a comprehensive analysis of Palestinian prisoners being released as part of the exchange, as well as the historical context, political significance, and precedent-making nature of ...
Keep Reading »The Irvine 11, the Police, and the Autonomy of the University
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The recent conviction of ten University of California students of two misdemeanor counts of disrupting and conspiring to disrupt a speech given by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren on 8 February 2010, points to the stifling of free speech and academic work and inquiry in the university. Three of the Irvine 11 are students at the University of California, Riverside, and two of these UCR students have been my own: Taher Herzallah and Shaheen Nassar. Both were studious, inquisitive, and engaged, modeling for others, in their behavior, what being a university student ought to be about. I will even say, if memory serves, that I may in fact have been interrupted by them, and by ...
Keep Reading »What Does a Jew Want?
Udi Aloni is a well-known Israeli filmmaker, theatre director, writer and activist, whose most recent work includes films such as Forgiveness, Local Angel, and Kashmir: Journey to Freedom. Columbia University Press just published his new book, What Does a Jew Want?: On Binationalism and Other Specters. I met with Aloni in Ramallah as he was beginning rehearsals for a production of “Waiting for Godot” with students from the Jenin Freedom Theater and continued the conversation in the United States.
Keep Reading »Threat: Palestinian Prisoners in Israel
Abeer Baker and Anat Matar (eds.), Threat: Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israel. London: Pluto Press, 2011. There are many harrowing passages in the excellent new edited volume by Abeer Baker and Anat Matar on the processes of administrative detention and imprisonment of Palestinians in Israel; some of them are even in the book’s academic chapters. But the most harrowing, and paradoxically the most hopeful, is the account Osama Barham gives of his endless arrests, detentions, and interrogations. These began in 1979—when he was detained for flying the colors of Palestine in a flag partially made of his mother’s blouse—and ended in 2008, when he was released after a ...
Keep Reading »Press Release by South African Union on Russell Tribunal on Palestine
[The following press release was issued by the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) on 7 November, 2011. It was recently published on samwu.org.za] Jacob Zuma and Government must implement recommendations made by Russell Tribunal SAMWU PRESS STATEMENT 07 November 2011 The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) welcomes the findings of the international citizen-based Tribunal of conscience, The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP). This important Tribunal will form a ...
Keep Reading »Palestinian Freedom Riders to Ride Settler Buses to Jerusalem
[The following press release was issued by the Palestinian Freedom Riders campaign on 13 November 2011.] Freedom Riders Sunday, November 13, 2011 For Immediate Release Palestinian Freedom Riders to Ride Settler Buses to Jerusalem. Inspired by the Freedom Rides of the US Civil Rights Movement Palestinian activists will attempt to board segregated Israeli settler buses to occupied East Jerusalem [Ramallah] Groups of Palestinian Freedom Riders will attempt to board segregated settler buses heading to ...
Keep Reading »Eye-Witness Account of Israel's Capture of Freedom Waves Flotilla
[The following personal account of what transpired on the "Freedom Waves" flotilla to Gaza was written by Lina Attalah, a friend of Jadaliyya and Al-Masry Al-Youm English's managing editor. I was originally published in Al-Masr Al-Youm English. Lina and the rest of the passengers, a group of twenty-seven activists and journalists, were captured on Friday, 4 Ocotber 2011, in international waters by Israeli security forces. On Saturday, she returned to her home in Egypt.] Inside the Tahrir boat ...
Keep Reading »Israel's Exceptionalism: Normalizing the Abnormal
[The following statement was issued by the Palistinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) on 31 October 2011.] Israel’s Exceptionalism: Normalizing the Abnormal In the Palestinian and Arab struggle against Israeli colonization, occupation and apartheid, the “normalization” of Israel is a concept that has generated controversy because it is often misunderstood or because there are disagreements on its parameters. This is despite the near consensus among ...
Keep Reading »Boycott: Where To?
The Haifa-based Mada al-Carmel – Arab Center for Applied Social Research released its latest issue of the electronic quarterly Jadal entitled: Boycotting Israel: Between Theory and Practice. This issue provides a preliminary assessment and critical reflection on the question of boycotting Israel. So far, discussions on this subject have ranged between either an outright dismissal and knee-jerk rejection by pro-Israel groups, or an enthusiastic endorsement by pro-Palestine groups. Jadal aims to provide a ...
Keep Reading »The Spectre of South Africa
Next week, the third session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine will convene in Cape Town’s famous District Six. In the 1970s, 60,000 residents of District Six were forcibly removed following its designation as a White Area by the apartheid regime. Based on testimony from international legal experts and witnesses from the ground in Israel/Palestine, this “International People’s Tribunal” will examine whether Israel’s rule over the Palestinian people violates the prohibition of apartheid under ...
Keep Reading »United States Should Step Aside as Mideast Broker
When it comes to Arab-Israeli diplomacy the American monopoly on mediation needs to be terminated. The reason is simple. Washington’s systematic failure over several decades has disqualified it from acting without adult supervision. Rather than the marriage counselor who must be balanced because both spouses are angry, the US is the arbitrator who sleeps with and solicits bribes from the more powerful disputant, and fixes outcomes accordingly. Given the US mantra that it cannot want peace more than the ...
Keep Reading »Boston Palestine Film Festival (21-30 October)
The fifth Annual Boston Palestine Film Festival features over 50 films from international filmmakers, many of whom will be present. Themes include: Work of Elia Suleiman; celebrating the legacy of Edward Said; recognizing women filmmakers; honoring past revolutions and witnessing the new Arab Spring. Venues: Museum of Fine Arts, Berklee College of Music; Harvard Law School, Cambridge and Brookline Public Libraries. Opening Film: The Time That Remains, with Elia Suleiman in attendance, MFA October 21, ...
Keep Reading »The Deal Behind the "Shalit Deal": Prisoners, Power, Racism
If the prisoner exchange deal announced on 11 October 2011 between Hamas and the Israeli government is fully implemented without major hitches, there is little question who “won” this five-year war of wills. The deal will constitute a major victory for Hamas and the resistance-oriented political forces in Palestinian society, while simultaneously representing a significant retreat for Israel and its historical doctrines of forceful coercion and rejectionism vis-à-vis the Palestinian people and their ...
Keep Reading »Call for Global Hunger Strike in Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners (12 October 2011)
Many Palestinians and their supporters will go on a mass hunger strike worldwide for 24 hours on Wednesday, October 12. Show your support by tweeting the following: Join Us! RT: My name is ( ) and I'll go on a hunger Strike on Wednesday in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners. Follow the strike on on twitter: #TweepStrike & #HS4Palestine #RightsPrisoners #HungerStrike In some cities those going on hunger strike will organize gatherings and sit ins to raise awareness. Background (from ...
Keep Reading »Israeli International Festivals: Occasions for Whitewashing Oppression or Resisting it?
[The following is the latest from the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).] Israeli International Festivals: Occasions for Whitewashing Oppression or Resisting it? While cultural talks go on] in the nice cinematheques of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa, it is hell on earth in Gaza and I would not want to be there basically. [1]--Mike Leigh Once again, the Israeli cultural establishment is attempting to put itself on the global cultural map by ...
Keep Reading »The Palestinian Statehood Strategy in the United Nations: Lessons from Namibia
Palestine’s pending request for recognition in the United Nations (“UN”) has generated great international interest, both in what recognition will mean for Palestine and the Palestinians, and in whether anything will really change in the absence of territorial independence. I will address this question by way of a comparison between Palestine and South West Africa (Namibia), and what legal strategies were followed in both cases at the UN. I would like to particularly recognize the work done ...
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