George W. Bush is well known for his low intellectuality and clarion ignorance of the world. To mask these serious flaws and shortcomings, he routinely adopts a discourse based on mendacity and dishonesty.
And while it is premature to pass a final judgment on the man, it is probably safe to conclude by now that he [...]
The commemoration events of 60 years of the Nakba have brought a very different type of Palestinian solidarity activism to my attention: it is young, vibrant, dynamic and creative solidarity campaigning. It’s a new form of struggle that goes far beyond the old dogmatic clichés, a fierce battle that aims at the exposure of [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
According to Hegel, attaining ’self-consciousness’ is a process that necessarily involves the other. How am I to become conscious of myself in general? It is simply through desire or anger, for example. Unlike animals that overcome biological needs by destroying another organic entity, human desire is a desire for recognition.
In Hegelian terms, recognition is accomplished [...]
wirtten by Khalid Amayreh
Does Shimon Peres carry the genes of a pathological liar?
The question may sound facetious to many, but Peres’s apparent inability to distinguish between truth and falsehood makes the question quite valid.
At 84, Peres continues to dish out a daily staple of lies, including obscene lies.
This week, the “hero” of the Qana-1 massacre, [...]
