Tag: Palestine

Don’t talk or write about Palestine: it is a career killer
Palestine is a “career killer”. That was the advice given by a senior academic at the University of Queensland to a PhD student, according to a submission received from a former student and staff member. In short, if you talk or write about Palestine, don’t expect to have a career at an Australian university.

“Seventy percent of Israel’s cost of munition and weapons used in Gaza are paid by the United States.” A Conversation with Israeli historian Lee Mordechai in Jerusalem
“It would be impossible for Israel to wage this war (of annihilation) in the way it has been waged without the American support.”

Genocide as Israel’s “Banality of Evil”: Six-decades after Adolf Eichmann’s Trial in Jerusalem
Since its founding in May 1948, Israel and its leaders have envisaged, bureaucratized and normalized death, destruction, displacement and dispossession of the natives of Palestine.

Through a Jeffa Native’s Eyes: A Century of Settler Colonial Project by European Zionists
A Conversation with Sami Abu Shehadeh, activist, historian and political leader of Palestinian Israelis.

Mairead Corrigan Maguire, N. Irish Nobel Peace Laureate: Fasting for Children of the World, in particular, Gaza and against Western Militarism
Open Letter on behalf of the Palestinian Children of GAZA and children everywhere in the world suffering from the violence of hunger and war.

With US backing, Israel has already set in motion de facto annexation of lands in the West Bank
The de facto annexation by ethnic cleansing is the direction in which Israel is moving not only in Gaza but also in the West Bank, after 57-years of its savage occupation of Palestine.

Hebron’s Palestinians Resist Israel’s “Evil” Occupation, Violent Settlers & Daily Humiliations A dialogue with Issa Amro, Winner of 2024 Right Livelihood Award
“Israel is the only apartheid in the Middle East, defending its occupation (not its existence),” said the 45-years old Issa Amro, an engineer by training but creative non-violence resister in the Old City of Hebron.

“My Poems are for Palestine”
El Jones, the 5th Poet Laureate of Halifax reads for Palestine.

A window into a fascist engine: arbitrary abuse, population control, and Israel’s impossible destruction of Palestinians
The decades-long genocide, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid enacted by Israel are the most visible aspects of the assault on Palestinians. But I came away from my aborted trip with the knowledge that the seemingly smaller, less deadly events are inseparable and crucial to the system.

Palestinians’ Liberation Struggle Needs Solidarity: Cambodians Respond with Love & Art
“(Cambodian leaders and people) have spoken out against the hypocrisy of Western governments preaching human rights, international law and the rule-based world order while condoning and even aiding and abetting genocide in Cambodia in 1975-1979 and again today in Palestine.”