Palestine Think Tank

Even in his wildest dreams, Midhat Radwan Abu Karsh never imagined that one day he would be tied up to a power pole and savagely beaten by bigoted Jewish settlers who believe that non-Jews are animals in a  human shape.
Yet, this is exactly what happened to him earlier this week when [...]

I’m happy to finally be able to publish this! When the news broke, at the very day the trial ended, all of the activists who were following the case were asked to kindly not give too many details for reasons of a Gag Order. Seeing that this article has been published in an Irish paper, [...]

More than just a chic checkered scarf, by Mafaz Al-Suwaidan in Toronto Star
The scarf once seen covering the faces of stone-throwing boys, wrapping the bodies of bullet-pierced babies and shading the creased napes of olive farmers now makes an appearance on the mannequins of Toronto and the outfits of the rich [...]

WRITTEN BY OMAR BARGHOUTI and first published in Institute of Social Studies
Omar Barghouti, an independent Palestinian political and cultural analyst and commentator, is a long-time advocate of a unitary, secular democratic state in historic Palestine. He is a co-founder of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), established in 2004, [...]

WRITTEN BY DAVID HALPIN
Bon Voyage to Khalil Al Niss and Linda Willis
This couple have decided to take precious medical supplies by road to the prison which is Gaza. They set off on Thursday 10th of July
See http://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/content/view/2547/458/
They are doing this under their own steam but donations towards their expenses have been [...]

When one Israeli person is killed or kidnapped, the media makes sure every single person hearing the news would know the name of that person, giving the incident a human dimension. But this has never been the case with Palestinians who have been killed, imprisoned or kidnapped by the Israeli authorities.
Palestinians are considered as a [...]

92 years after the martyrdom of his grandfather for the cause of Arab nationalism, a man was killed for devoting his efforts to his people, the Arabs of the Middle East. He was hanged in slightly different manner by the new colonialists of Palestine. Riad was born in Beirut in a Lebanese family; his grandfather, [...]

A Palestinian woman’s story. Zeina Shrawi Hutchison is Hanan Ashrawi’s daughter.
I am Palestinian - born and raised - and my Palestinian roots go back centuries. No one can change that even if they tell me that Jerusalem, my birth place, is not Palestine, even if they tell me that Palestine doesn’t exist, [...]

Israeli Soldiers force Palestinians to approach, enter and search buildings where they believe gunmen may be hiding.
The civilians are subjected to different forms of manipulations to use them as human shields during operations to acquire control of the houses, detaining inhabitants in one place (often in one room of the house) and turning the houses [...]

WRITTEN BY Ibrahim Turner
I received a message asking me to send a message to Google to protest that URUKNET has been deleted from the News service of Google News, which means that no articles will show up when you search for them using the url: URUKNET
Not having heard of this site [...]