Palestine Think Tank

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Emily Dickinson

Intuition and concepts constitute … the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
Emmanuel Kant

How many innocent lives will be wasted, ripped and torn apart before the world is able to see clearly; before the world starts to realize the nature of the occupation, the nature of a powerful army that uses Palestinian land and Palestinian bodies as its training zone and battle field.
IMEMC report

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.
Elisabeth Kenny

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, “Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.” The Greek said, “All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.”
Edith Hamilton

I cannot completely understand Palestinian women or their suffering.  I don’t know how I would have survived such humiliation, such disrespect from the whole world.  All I know is that the voice of mothers has been suffocated for too long in this war-stricken planet. . . . This I know and it [...]

 The Israelis try to assassinate our history and human feelings beside our physical existence in the area for hundreds of years. They insist on treating us as numbers, as 3rd grade citizens that are only entitled to the least of human needs. But they are daily faced by the Palestinian people’s ability to continue living, [...]

The liberatory voice … is characterized by opposition, by resistance. It demands that paradigms shift–that we learn to talk– to listen–to hear in a new way.
Deirdre Lashgari, Professor

Culture and art are the soul of human civilizations. Throughout history, culture and art have always been the celebration of freedom [...]

Not all citizens, even when they can do so and have access to digital devices, record disasters or human rights abuses - especially when their own security could be compromised for having done so. Governments can also clamp down hard on citizen journalism. The French Constitutional Council approved a law in early 2007 that criminalizes [...]