Palestine Think Tank

A Palestinian security agency holding a Hebron journalist in detention for criticizing the American-backed Palestinian Authority (PA) regime in Ramallah has refused to heed a court order to release him, his family said Thursday.
A Ramallah court has ruled that the continued internment of Awadh Rajoub was unlawful and that he ought to [...]

WRITTEN BY AGUSTIN VELLOSO, TRANSLATED BY TONI SOLO

EREZ CROSSING, GAZA - AUGUST 4: A Gazan patient is helped by a relative on her way to medical treatment in Israel on August 4, 2008 as she arrives at the Erez Crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel. A human rights group claims that Israel’s Shin Bet [...]

From The Nation
I am a Palestinian journalist from Gaza. At the age of 17, I armed myself with a camera and a pen, committed to report accurately on events in Gaza. I have filed reports as Israeli fighter jets bombed Gaza City. I have interviewed mothers as they watched their children die in hospitals unequipped [...]

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 [...]

According to the Convention of the Rights of the Child, to which Israel is a signatory, a child is every human being under the age of 18 years. However, Palestinian children from the age of 16 years are considered adults under Israeli military regulations governing the Occupied Palestinian Territories. In violation of both the UN [...]

WRITTEN BY IAN JACK
For the settlers, subsidies and tax breaks have become as important a motive as Deuteronomy
At Birzeit University in Ramallah last week a young woman student in a headscarf asked how it was that Nadine Gordimer, the South African novelist and Nobel laureate, could agree to visit and speak in Israel. Hadn’t Gordimer [...]

The freedom to share one’s insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.
Carl Friedrich Bahrdt (1740-1792) On Freedom of the Press and its Limits, 1787.

Medical concern
ISRAEL/OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES/EGYPT
Nufuz Husni (f), aged 44
Muhammad al-Hurani (m), aged 25
Rami Al-Arouqi (m), aged 29
Karima Abu Dalal (f), aged 34
Rami al-Masri (m), aged 25
Sameer Taleb (m), aged 47
And at least nine others (five men and four women) with cancer
The Israeli authorities are preventing critically ill Palestinians in the Gaza Strip from leaving in order [...]

In the picture, a visual explanation of Jewish Self-Determination
The right to self-determination is a luxurious approach at conservation of power reserved for the rich, strong and privileged. Since Zionists hold the reigns on international political power through their influence in important positions as well as the military might to maintain their ‘right to self-determination’, any [...]

Two witnesses give their testimonies at the Bruxelles Tribunal for Lebanon, Salam Daher and Dr Hayder Decmak
(in the photo, Salam Daher and one of the victims of the Qana Massacre)
Salam Daher has been a relief worker in Southern Lebanon since 1985, practically his entire adult life. He has seen his share of misery and catastrophe, [...]