by Mahmoud Darwish – 1964 Write down! I am an Arab And my identity card number is fifty thousand I have eight children And the ninth will come after a summer Will you be angry? Write down! I am an Arab Employed with fellow workers at a quarry I have eight children I get them…
by Dr. Ahmed Masoud In 1977 a local theatrical group in Nazareth was banned from performing an adaptation of Ghassan Kanafani’s novel Men in the Sun (1962). The Israeli authority prevented the actors from going on stage and threatened imprisonment. The script was written by a Palestinian writer who was assassinated in a car bomb…
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King David Recruited to Expel Palestinians When Archaeology Becomes a Curse by Jonathan Cook 28 September 2008 When news emerged in June that…dozens of skeletons from the early Islamic period unearthed in Silwan close to the al Aqsa mosque had been discarded without inspection, no archaeologist would speak on the record. From just outside Jerusalem’s…
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5,389 Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers over 8 years of intifadeh Killed by Israeli forces – 194 women and 995 children. 135 Palestinian patients died at one of the 630 military checkpoints throughout the areas. 32,270 Palestinians were injured over the last eight years, 3,530 of those injured have suffered permanent handicaps 220 Palestinians have…
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Report: Artists Against Apartheid Artists Against Apartheid in Montreal, an incredible cultural event which united many celebrated artists as part of the global campaign against Israeli apartheid through an international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions on the Israeli government. Artists Against Apartheid is a regular concert series in Montreal which attracts hundreds of people…
Racism in the name of religion Jerusalem Post Sep 24, 2008 the school physically and academically separated the Ethiopian girls from the rest of the school – separate teachers, separate curricula, separate rooms, separate recess… There are moments when I find myself truly ashamed to be part of Israeli society. I had a moment like…