Asa Winstanley | The Electronic Intifada | Thursday, September 8, 2011 Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian and dissident living in semi-voluntary exile in the UK. He is most famous for The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, a seminal work which, although based on his own research, was more original for the sweep of its historical [...]
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They try to steal our history, not just our land – video
9 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The demonstrations in Nabi Saleh started the 21 of November 2009, after the illegal settlement of Halamish expanded, costing locals in land and their source of water for home and agricultural use, a spring declared holy by the settlers. Since the beginning of the demonstrations the village faced outstanding [...]
Bringing hope and history to Balata camp youth
Mel Frykberg |The Electronic Intifada |Balata refugee camp |6 July 2011 A writing workshop at the Yaffa Community Center during the 2010 Palestine Festival of Literature. (Palestine Festival of Literature) BALATA REFUGEE CAMP, occupied West Bank (IPS) – Bougainvilleas climb the walls of the Yaffa Community Center (YCC). Children play in its kindergarten, while older students [...]
International solidarity and history in the making
28 June 2011 | Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK | International Solidarity Movement Today we had a great international press conference. There were representatives from Greece, Sweden, France, Norway, Canada, Spain, Turkey and of course, the U.S. The room was packed with press and passengers; there was really a feeling that we are part of something historic. [...]
Sabri: Not one stone found relating to Jerusalem’s alleged Jewish history
[ 22/06/2011 - 09:51 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Chairman of the Suprerme Islamic Council in Jerusalem Dr. Ekrima Sabri has declared that after twenty-five years of digging, archaeologists are unanimous that not a single stone has been found related to Jerusalem’s alleged Jewish history. Sheikh Sabri said Israel’s opening of a Biblical park south [...]
Jordan: Marches to Palestine
Salem Husseini posted a Storify article on the Jordanian marches in honor of Nakba, or catastrophe, on the anniversary of the founding of Israel.