Palestine Think Tank

“This morning we saw pictures of the Warsaw ghetto at Yad Vashem and this evening we are going to the Ramallah ghetto.”
German Bishop Gregor Maria Franz Hanke during a visit to Ramallah in March 2007.
Basking in their usual insolence and self-absorbedness, Israeli leaders have been visibly irate over the highlighted commemoration of the 60th anniversary [...]

Illustration by Abdul-Rahman Modallal, Tulkarem from the Badil Poster Contest
As Israel ostentatiously celebrates the passage of 60 years since its creation in Palestine in 1948, more than nine million Palestinians at home and in exile are commemorating the Nakba, the violent seizure of their ancestral homeland by Zionist Jews and the dispossession, expulsion and dispersion [...]

Something positive is happening, I would even call it a shift of awareness, a realisation that the Palestinian struggle is leading somewhere after all.
Yesterday, at Exeter University, to a very crowded theatre, in an event of that was a commemoration of 60 years of the Nakba, I had a chance to listen to Dr Manuel [...]

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently made outrageously ignorant comments on the plight of the Palestinian people.
He claimed that criticism of and opposition to the Israeli policies of ethnic cleansing and apartheid against the Palestinian people amounted to “anti-Semitism.”
“Unfortunately, Israel at 60 remains a country under threat - threatened by those groups and regimes who [...]

Participate in painting the skies of Occupied Al-Quds (Jerusalem) with black
21,915 (365 days x 60 years) black balloons
Please read and ask your friends to help. It will be a great show of support for a fighting, oppressed and 60 years suffering people.
Lutuf
Dear Beloved Friends,
Many thanks to our friend, Dr Ahmad Kamal, who passed this info. [...]

WRITTEN BY BENNY ZIFFER for Haaretz Hebrew Edition
On Sunday, one of my students (I am a lecturer in a course from four to six at Tel Aviv University) approached me after the class and told me that she was the producer of an alternative Memorial evening, which also takes into account cruelty to Palestinians, that [...]

Press release - BADIL and the Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign on behalf of
the National Committee to Commemorate the Nakba*
Nakba Commemoration - 11 May, 2008

Prominent authors and poets from around the world present their work in the Palestine Literary Festival.
The campaign to educate Palestinians on the Nakba and their collective Right of Return continues today in the [...]

Normal nations, like normal people, don’t celebrate their days of infamy.  In fact, they struggle to forget them. Some countries with a troubled past try hard to deal with their shameful legacies, often by openly acknowledging their sins and apologizing to their victims and to their victims’ descendants.
 
However, in Israel, which encapsulates evil and racism, [...]

We cannot but thank those who arranged for Palestinian Arab refugees who were chased out of Iraq for finding for them a path out of the hell they found themselves in, namely a desert no man’s land between Iraq and Syria. I am not sure for how long they spent of their lives suffering the [...]

Haaretz

In a short period of seven days the State of Israel dictates three times what its citizens should feel: They should grieve twice - on Holocaust Remembrance Day and on Memorial Day, and to be happy once - on Independence Day. These three days are commemorated in Israel with near zealous totality, a sort of [...]