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How AIPAC Is Leading Efforts to Dismantle the UN Inquiry on Palestine

As a UN probe finds that the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestine is the root cause of decades-long conflict in the region, AIPAC, the Israeli lobby powerhouse, is actively attempting to extinguish it.

Jessica Buxbaum
بواسطة Jessica Buxbaum
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This month, the United Nations’ Commission of Inquiry (COI) on the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel found that the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestine is the root cause of the decades-long conflict in the region. But as the probe gets underway, the Israel lobby’s flagship organization, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee

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Ahmad Manasra and the Crime of Existing While Palestinian

There exists a chasm between the reality in Palestine and the way that reality is perceived by the “establishment” in Washington, D.C. Palestinians’ existence in their own country is tantamount to a living hell.

Miko Peled
بواسطة Miko Peled
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Conversations with Palestinians both young and old almost always end with them saying to me, “you [a Jewish Israeli] can say these things, but if we were to say them we would be excluded from all spaces and we would be called anti-semitic.” A young Palestinian interning in Washington, D.C. told me she felt that she needed an Israeli beside her to

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Palestinians ‘Are Not Animals in a Zoo’: Redefining the Role of the ‘Victim Intellectual’

For the Palestinian narrative to be truly relevant, Palestinians must assume the role of the Gramscian intellectual, as “purveyors of consciousness” and abandon the role of the “victim intellectual” altogether.

Ramzy Baroud
بواسطة Ramzy Baroud

Dedicated to the memory of Ghassan Kanafani, an iconic Palestinian leader and engaged intellectual who was assassinated by the Israeli Mossad on July 8, 1972. Years before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, U.S. media introduced many new characters, promoting them as “experts” who helped ratchet up propaganda, ultimately allowing the U.S.

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Palestine Action Chase Israel’s Largest Arms Company out of London

In a massive blow to its operations, Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems has been forced to abandon its chique London headquarters, thanks to sustained pressure from Palestine Action.

Lowkey
بواسطة Lowkey
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The MintPress podcast “The Watchdog,” hosted by British-Iraqi hip hop artist Lowkey, closely examines organizations about which it is in the public interest to know – including intelligence, lobby, and special interest groups influencing policies that infringe on free speech and target dissent. The Watchdog goes against the grain by casting a light

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Every Bullet Has a Name: Impunity for Israeli Crimes Against Palestinian Human Rights Defenders

The lives of Palestinians, be they unarmed activists or fighters, be they children, women, men, or the elderly, are only worth the price of the bullet that carries their name. And while we will talk and write about the next Palestinian who is killed for a few days, their children will remain orphans for life.

Miko Peled
بواسطة Miko Peled
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When Ahed Tamimi tried to defend herself and her home from an armed Israeli officer she became an international heroine. Images of her were plastered everywhere and she was named a “Lioness.” As she candidly admits in her soon to be published memoir (co-written with Dena Takruri) she did not want, nor did she seek this fame. She just wanted to go

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