Tag: Palestine
The Trump-Netanyahu “Peace” for Gaza does not conform to international law and does not augur well for sustainable regional and international peace and reconciliation.
The Trump-Netanyahu construct is incompatible with the UN Charter and with the erga omnes obligation of all UN member States to ensure the enforcement of Security...
The voyage went relatively well until the interception. We sailed with the 1000 Madleens to the Gaza flotilla so we spent some time catching up to them, waiting for them and then sailing with them. I met a couple of their people while we were in prison and at the...
The history of modern Israel and Palestine is not just a story of land, security and diplomacy.
It is also a story of narratives: Who gets to define reality, whose pain counts, and whose voice carries weight in the global conversation?
For decades, the pro-Israel lobby has worked tirelessly to frame...
For the third time in five months, drones carrying explosives have attacked boats in the Gaza flotillas. I was in Tunis when the Familia and Alma ships were attacked by drones carrying explosives.
On the evening of September 8, an explosive dropped from a drone hit Familia,” the lead ship of the Global...
The well-organized Palestine conference in Detroit brought more than 4,600 there, with a heavy Palestinian presence.
Most of the speakers in the plenaries were genuine Palestinian activists tested in battle, not well-known writers or professors.
The over 270 journalists who have been targeted and murdered for informing the world of the...
After October 7, Marwan Barghouti called on Palestinian factions to rise up to fight the oppressive Israeli occupation. According to Al Jazeera, “this call to action spread like wildfire” and resulted in Marwan being sent to solitary confinement.
As Palestinian life hangs in the balance, calls for his release have...
There was a time when American clergy were the nation’s conscience. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, many abolitionist Protestant ministers were leaders in the movement to end slavery. Congregationalist Jonathan Edwards, Jr. (1746-1801) was among the many outstanding voices in the Abolition Movement.
Since World War I, few members...
The ongoing genocide in Gaza has brought greater global attention to the plight of Palestinians, a huge number of whom have been refugees since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 when they were expelled from their land in what is known as the Nakba.
The brutal Israeli...
Mahmoud Khalil is free! After spending 104 days unjustly held in an ICE detention center in Jena, Louisiana, he was reunited with his wife Noor, newborn son Deen and community over the weekend...
As Israel began its unprovoked attacks on Iran on June 13, the last three of the twelve volunteers of the Gaza Flotilla ship Madleen were still in Israeli prisons.
Marc van Rennes, a Dutch citizen, was in the detention cell at Ben Gurion Airport when Israeli authorities closed the airport expecting Iranian...
