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Palestine Remix

Posted on 1 May 202011 July 2022 by Admin

A fascinating site that not only has many great resources on Palestine but allows the visitor to create their own story, or remix, from the available content.

Our interactive database of more than 530 Palestinian villages destroyed during the creation of Israel marks the first time that the data contained in the Atlas of Palestine (Salman Abu Sitta, 2004) has been digitized.

Around 30 documentaries available in several languages
Transcripts of all documentaries
Complete timeline of major historical events spanning from 1799 till present day. The timeline is linked to specific scenes in the documentaries.
Vanishing Palestine: An annotated video tracking land control and population shifts over the past century.
Drone images: Beautiful videos taken high above several historical cities
Database of destroyed villages: Enter the name of a village that existed prior to 1948; find out what happened to it
Terminology: A list of frequently used, and misused, political terms
Quizzes: A fun way to check your knowledge on Palestine

https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/PalestineRemix/

https://www.facebook.com/PalestineRemix

Delegitimizing Solidarity: Israel Smears Palestine Advocacy as Anti-Semitic

Posted on 25 April 202011 July 2022 by Admin

https://jps.ucpress.edu/content/49/2/65

Ben White – Journal of Palestine Studies

An interesting and well researched article from the Journal of Palestine Studies, that sheds light on the tactics used to delegitmize Palestinian advocacy and the lengths that have been taken to battle campaigns such as BDS. For example, the establishment of GONGO’s and organisations such as NGO Monitor.

“Steinberg had found his niche. That year, he founded NGO Monitor, initially run from the Institute of Contemporary Affairs within the well-known right-wing Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA).”

The reach of these efforts is quite extraordinary and include lawsuits in countries outside of Israel.

”Shurat HaDin’s efforts are deployed through a plethora of lawsuits, including one in 2011 (that “went nowhere”) claiming that Carter [former President of the US] had “defrauded consumers” with Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid and another against a pro-BDS Australian academic on the grounds that he was “in breach of the country’s anti-racism laws” (the case was dismissed by the Federal Court of Australia).”

Palestine in the sun of the black radical tradition

Posted on 20 April 202011 July 2022 by Admin

Portrait of Black Panther and political prisoner George Jackson by Ivan Lopez (courtesy of Greg Thomas).

https://nakbafiles.org/2016/10/27/palestine-in-the-sun-of-the-black-radical-tradition/

Palestinian Prisoners Day zoom rally

Posted on 18 April 202011 July 2022 by Admin

https://m.facebook.com/JewishVoiceforPeace/videos/579521642659266/

Zoom Rally to Free Prisoners from Rikers Island to Palestine. #PalestinianPrisonersDay: JVP’s Executive Director, Stefanie Fox hosted an incredible lineup of speakers at a Zoom Rally of more than 500:

Speaker included:

Marc Lamont Hill, Professor of Media Studies and Urban Education at Temple University
Ahed and Bassem Tamimi, Nabi Saleh, Palestine
Mariame Kaba, Organizer and Educator
Arab Marwan Barghouti, son of Palestinian political leader and hunger strike organizer Marwan Barghouti
Dareen Tatour, Poet
Randa Wahbe, Al-Shabaka and Addameer
Brad Parker, Defense for Children International, Palestine
Azadeh Shahshahani, Legal & Advocacy Director, Project South; past president, National Lawyers Guild
Lex Steppling, Director of Policy and Campaigns, Dignity and Power Now
Andrea James, Executive Director, National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls

The Colonization of Palestine: Rethinking the Term ‘Israeli Occupation’

Posted on 10 April 202011 July 2022 by Admin

There is some debate around the use of the term “occupation” and many have issues with only talking about Palestine in relation to occupation. The following article sheds some light on this matter.

https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2018/06/08/the-colonization-of-palestine-rethinking-the-term-israeli-occupation/

Radical Futures: When Palestinians Imagine

Posted on 29 March 202011 July 2022 by Admin

“We must tell stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe…Remember this: another world is not only possible, she is on her way.”

– Arundhati Roy

Radical Futures: When Palestinians Imagine

Microsoft sells stake in Israeli facial recognition company

Posted on 28 March 202011 July 2022 by Admin

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/microsoft-sells-stake-israeli-facial-recognition-company-n1170781

From the article:

“Holder and his team at the law firm Covington & Burling conducted an audit of AnyVision starting in October 2019 after NBC News and other news outlets including Forbes and Israeli business publication TheMarker reported that the facial recognition startup was surveilling Palestinians throughout the West Bank.”

Microsoft needs to be commended for taking an ethical stance in these times of rampant circumventing of human rights to privacy by the major technology players.

“The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) calls for boycotting AnyVision, Israel’s facial recognition technology firm, due to its irrefutable complicity in Israel’s occupation and repression of Palestinians.”

from https://bdsmovement.net/tags/microsoft

Violent settlers on the move

Posted on 4 March 202011 July 2022 by admin

Emboldened by Trump and Netanyahu, violent settlers are once again trying to seize Mount Al-Urma, one of the highest mountains in the occupied West Bank and a strategic position for Israelis.

But the people of nearby town Beita aren’t going anywhere. They’re holding 24-hour vigils to protect the mountain amidst threatening social media calls for its takeover.

We can’t physically link arms and sit down with the Palestinians of Beita, but we can use our grassroots power to work against Trump’s “peace plan.”

Will you raise your voice in solidarity with the Palestinians of Beita?

Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner are trying to convince us that their one-sided apartheid plan is somehow good for Palestinians. But these are the kind of far-right settlers it’s already inspiring. Palestinians have rejected the plan, along with 50 former European foreign ministers and leaders, a group of Catholic bishops, most members of Congress who value international law, and many other leaders across the world.

Pope Francis warns against ‘unfair’ solutions to end Israel-Palestine conflict

Posted on 29 February 202011 July 2022 by admin

The Associated Press, Rome Sunday, 23 February 2020 Text size A A A

Pope Francis has cautioned against “unfair” solutions aimed at ending the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

In a speech Sunday during a visit to the Italian southern port city of Bari to reflect on peace in countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea, Francis lamented the many areas of war and conflict, including in the Middle East and Northern Africa.

Francis spoke of “the still unresolved conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, with the danger of not fair solutions, and, thus, presaging new crises.”

The pope didn’t cite any specific proposals.

Democrats Ignore AIPAC

Posted on 29 February 202011 July 2022 by admin

Four major Democratic candidates said they will skip the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference while Mike Bloomberg is set to speak at the annual event taking place on Sunday.

Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg will all skip the conference for various reasons.

Sanders has vowed to skip AIPAC’s conference, aligning with liberal activists who pushed every Democratic White House candidate to rule out an appearance. The decision by the Vermont senator is drawing sharp criticism from pro-Israel members of Congress and the Anti-Defamation League, making Bloomberg’s decision to attend a point of sharp contrast with his opponent.

Sanders said in a tweet the group gives airtime to “leaders who express bigotry.”