Palestine Think Tank

These ideas are not allowed to be expressed in an American University Student Union:
Boycott all Israeli products.
Take that $1 trillion you’re spending to kill Muslims, and spend it instead on re-building Detroit.
Stop 400 years of White Privilege—the University should admit every Black high school graduate. Read about it here.

By Emily Ratner *
On 13 October, Tulane University, an elite university in the southern United States, hosted former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as a featured speaker. Forced from office due to corruption charges and under indictment in his own country, Olmert's speaking engagements at respected American universities should at the very least raise questions [...]

My speech and my own account of what happened at the Al-Quds manifestation in Stockholm on the 20th September 2009, with pictures to illustrate what went on.
Written by Lasse Wilhelmson
It should be said that the police played a dubious role, as they did not stop those who tried to sabotage the manifestation.  This ought to [...]

WRITTEN BY SONJA KARKAR
The sounds of “yes we can” still ring in our ears, Mr President, but we have yet to see the changes we can believe in. That was evident when you backed down to Israel on a settlement freeze in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. You made us believe that we can, [...]

In March 2009, at Theatre Shawa, Italian Tenor Joe Fallisi, arriving in Gaza on one of the Free Gaza boats, performs with a group of Palestinian musicians. Here is a bit of the concert.

Exclude Censorship, not Zionism, from the Debate
written by Saja
Dr. Norman Finkelstein spoke on Friday September 26, 2008 to a predominantly Muslim audience at the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn, Michigan. I'd liked a few things I'd read by and about him. His style was engaging and he had generally good things to say – [...]

WRITTEN BY SAMEH HABEEB AND AYMAN QUADER
If you are a young Gazan, how do you react to siege, blockade and war? It's time to hear about the struggle to be constructive in the midst of so much hatred and destruction, and to ask how long it can survive.
26 – 08 – 2009
 
The Gaza Strip has [...]

I strongly reject and condemn the “work” of the Israeli military censorship imposed on the work of journalists and the publications of the Palestinian in the West Bank. I also strongly condemn the continuous restrictions which the Israeli military censorship imposes on the foreign journalists, monitoring their reports, banning and censoring them in the office of [...]

Irrespective of what political settlement is ultimately embraced, Palestinians need a unified strategy for confronting and overcoming Israeli racism, apartheid and oppression. Mustafa Barghouthi* outlines the basis of such a strategy
Palestinians have only two choices before them, either to continue to evade the struggle, as some have been trying to do, or to summon the [...]

WRITTEN BY Franklin Lamb
Ramlet el Baida, Beirut
“Lebanon’s endangered Green Sea Turtles are no less genetically imprinted by nature to return West to the Sea than her Palestinian Refugees are imprinted by justice to return south to their homes.”
Nehme Hamie, Horse Rancher near Baalbek, Bekaa Valley
It is hard to believe that it has already been three [...]