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Mona (a Jerusalemite) tells about the silent ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land

By Mary Rizzo • Jun 28th, 2008 • Category: Biography, Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, Zionism

This is the story of all Palestinians
Message from Mona (a Jerusalemite):
Dear Friends and Family,
I am writing to share a little about what is happening in my life lately. As most of you know, I have been in Jerusalem since March 18 with Ramzi who at the time had barely turned 5 months. We left Habib [...]

Zeina Ashrawi Hutchison - Denied the Right to Go Home

By Mary Rizzo • Jun 26th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Quotes, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies

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, [...]

The Nakba is our Holocaust

By Khalid Amayreh • May 16th, 2008 • Category: Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Nakba and Right of Return, Opinions and Letters, Our Authors, Palestine, Zionism

“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 [...]

Silent March in West Jerusalem to Rembember the Nakba

By Mary Rizzo • May 10th, 2008 • Category: Grassroots Activism, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

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 [...]

The historic wronging of Palestine

By Mary Rizzo • May 10th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Documents, Israel, Mary's Choice, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Zionism

WRITTEN BY DAVID MORRISON (art by Carlos Latuff)
The state of Israel came into existence 60 years ago on 14 May 1948. In the months before and after this declaration, Jewish forces drove around 750,000 Palestinians from their homes. Over 500 villages were emptied of their Palestinian population and most of them were destroyed [...]