Palestine Think Tank

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 [...]

WRITTEN BY JOHN CATALINOTTO
Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon, popular because of their successful resistance to past Israeli attacks on the country, have answered a provocation from the U.S.- backed Lebanese government and at the same time handed a sharp military defeat to rightist forces, especially in Beirut. By May 12 heavy fighting between the Hezbollah-led opposition [...]

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 [...]

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights Centre ADDAMEER, declared that the Israeli Zionist forces have arrested almost 6200 Palestinians since the last Intifada started in September of 2000. 350 of those languishing in prison are children who, against international conventions, are still imprisoned in Israeli jails and detention centers.
Those youngsters undergo severe punishment and [...]

(Arabic translation below)
WRITTEN BY ABDUL BARI ATWAN,Editor of Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Translated by Adib S. Kawar
The last four days uncovered the reality of the balance of power in Lebanon, for when the pro-government leaders, such as Saad Al-Hariri and Walid Jumblatt find themselves under siege, and cannot leave their headquarters, and ask for the army’s protection, [...]

(illustration by Mazen Kerbaj - translation below*)
What is going on today in Lebanon is just an extension of the situation in the entire region. The US and its western allies are trying to show everyone that religion is the main factor of this dispute and they are trying to cover the political motivations and especially [...]

PCHR Condemns Detention of 3 Journalists and a Columnist by the Palestinian General Intelligence in the West Bank
 
PCHR strongly condemns the detention of 3 Palestinian journalists and a columnist by the Palestinian General Intelligence Service (GIS) in Bethlehem and Qalqilya towns in the West Bank on Thursday, 8 May 2008. PCHR believes that such arrests [...]

Exeter Friends of Palestine Society Presents:
The Nakba - Voices for Palestine
Featuring: His Excellency Dr. Manuel Hassassian the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, Gilad Atzmon and band, Nizar Al Issa and More…
University of Exeter, Monday May 12th, 2008:
 
On commemoration of the 60th anniversary of The Nakbah, meaning: “The Catastrophe”: The expulsion and dispossession of hundreds [...]

הזמנה לצעדה שקטה
בשכונות במערב ירושלים
לציון 60 שנה לנכבה
הינכם מוזמנים להצטרף לצעדה שתתחיל בטלביה עד בקעה. הציבור מוזמן לבוא בלבוש שחור. בלי כרזות או דגלים, בבקשה.
תאריך: יום ראשון, 11 למאי, 2008
שעה: 16:00 עד 18:00
מקום מפגש: חזית תיאטרון י”ם בטלביה. רח’ דויד מרכוס ליד כיכר סלמה (כיכר וינגייט)
האירוע מאורגן על ידי ניצולי נכבה, קבוצת ירושלמים המעוניינת בהעלאת [...]

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 [...]