Palestine Think Tank

Sawt el-Amel launches worker to worker solidarity fund 
www.gaza-worker-fund.org 
…Thousands of workers from Gaza spent years working for private Israeli employers…When the Gaza Strip was sealed off, they lost their jobs, and the money owed to them, without any compensation…Today they are trapped in Gaza, unemployed, their families dependent on foreign aid…Sawt el-Amel is taking their cases [...]

WRITTEN BY MARY RIZZO
Last week might have been a week when history was made. There would have been a precedent set that would from that point onwards made a change in very many ways, one comparable to fulfilling the request the ANC made in South Africa. At first, the ANC request was seen as merely symbolic, [...]

It is shocking that the world accepts Israel’s genocides and threats against its neighbors as fait accompli without regard to the never ending suffering of Palestinians under its brutal military occupation. Palestinians and Lebanese die, suffer and endure in silence in a world conditioned to accept Israel’s “right to self defense”, a euphemism for wanton murder. They die in silence, absent from the western conscience due to the blanket support of most western media outlets, none more so than in America, the nation exporting democracy and freedom through smart bombs and biased politicians who if they dare to criticize Israel jeopardize their ambitions and become the recipients of the worst media smears. In the U.S. no debate or action is allowed against Israel either by our own “never challenge Israel” government or by our staunchly Pro-Israel media.

(Pacifici and Alemanno – the Zionist and the Neo-Fascist decide who must be silenced in Italy). Antonio Caracciolo is a scholar of philosophy of law who works at the Faculty of Political Sciences of Rome University.
Politically, he is a liberal in the Italian sense of the word: a believer in the separation of Church and state, [...]

AN INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR ESSAYS  and the first essays by MARY RIZZO, AYMAN EL KAYMAN AND SANTIAGO ALBA RICO (Spanish and French translations below. Translations to English, Spanish and French by Manuel Talens, Machetera and Fausto Giudice)
Reclaiming Significance: Palestine Think Tank and Tlaxcala declare the First Word War
WRITTEN BY MARY RIZZO 

There are some words that are used as emotional [...]

WRITTEN BY Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News   
Despite the outcry raised by Palestinian and international human rights organizations, the Israeli military announced this weekend it plans to go ahead with 55 home demolitions in Nablus — a city deep inside the West Bank which is supposed to be under the control of the Palestinian Authority.
The [...]

The International Campaign for Freedom of Movement for Palestinians (KARAMA) 
The International Campaign for Freedom of Movement for Palestinians (KARAMA) is an independent public and national campaign that aims to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people and help them travel within and outside of Palestine in freedom and dignity. The Campaign is fully aware that [...]

Please Sign Petition to Support Free Speech and an Investigation of Alleged Israeli Organ Theft From Palestinians
Five organizations have joined together to sponsor the following petition:
"As people deeply concerned with human rights, we believe it is essential to listen respectfully when occupied people speak about war crimes committed against them. Therefore, we support Donald Boström [...]

Israel has many thousands of Palestinian political prisoners locked up in their jails. Men, women, even children are deprived of their freedom and forced to live in a cage precisely because of their love of justice and freedom. Among these prisoners are 21 Palestinian Members of Parliament (Palestinian Legislative Council) and 8 Cabinet Ministers. Shocking but [...]

Bethlehem – Ma'an – Palestinians deported from Bethlehem during the 2002 siege of the Nativity Church insisted on Friday their hunger strike at Palestine's embassy in Rome was meant to pressure Italy, not the Palestinian Authority.
The hunger strike, which began on Thursday, was started to pressure Italian authorities to abide by conditions the prisoners said [...]