Palestine Think Tank

These words will not be describing my tour in Italy. Rather, I need a lot of time to write, but unfortunately I don’t possess that time. I will be trying to shorten the adventurous political tour in Italy in my diaries that I have started to write.
After the presentation in Perugia City, I moved on [...]

Above: A map showing the area of Silwan threatened with demolition and settlement expansion, including an indicator of the area in which settlements already exist. As highlighted on the map, Silwan as well as the adjacent villages of Tur and Ras Al Amud will be on the western side of the Wall, as Jerusalem is [...]

Israeli ambassador to Britain Ron Prosor has once again claimed that the United Kingdom is becoming a “hotbed” of anti-Israeli propaganda.
In an opinion piece published in Tuesday’s Daily Telegraph, Prosor alleged out that Israel was facing an intensified campaign of delegitimization, demonization and double standards.
“Britain has become a hotbed for radical anti-Israeli views and a [...]

A couple of days ago I read an article by Haitham Sabbah entitled Murder at Huwara Checkpoint. It talks about the killing of a 15 year old Palestinian boy by the Israeli soldiers at the Huwara Checkpoint. What drew my attention to the article was the accompanying photo. It was a painting of a Palestinian [...]

By Mazin Qumsiyeh, PHD *
Some one million Arab and Muslim Americans, including some in my own family, voted for Obama in the primaries. I was not one of them and I will likely vote for a third party candidate in November.
I believe Obama is a shrewd politician who knew his political weaknesses (his contacts with [...]

Yehuda Ben Tzion Lichtenberg writes a long and pathetic rant full of spite. He appears to have become very angry by an article about Patagonia which I wrote some years ago. If what he says is true, then truly the avarice of the zionists knows no limit.
Judge by yourself, and if you don’t believe this, [...]

Gaza Diary: From Gaza To Rome
It was not an easy mission to obtain the Italian Visa, since Palestinians are always disdained. I waited for more than a month; and at the end of the day, I got it. I left my Gaza not for a tour or a period of relaxation which I need so [...]

Ahmad Al-Akhras has a collection of his boarding passes for the past four plus years. Most of these boarding passes were marked for “secondary screening.” Dr. Al-Akhras is the Vice Chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR. He can be reached at ahmad@alakhras.org
Like racial profiling, the so-called Watch List hinges on a false premise [...]

As an Arab, an uprooted Palestinian, the AIPAC annual conference is interesting for me to follow, not because I expect anything good from it, but because this is the annual event in which U.S. leaders show their real mettle. Unfortunately, it was always disappointing for me and others in the Middle East, but we understand [...]

Last week I got my new “Palestinian Passport”. Palestinians need to renew their passports every three years, and it was time for me to renew mine. Living in Germany the next step for me would be to get my “residency permit” transferred from my old to my new passport. As I prepared the documents I [...]