What does Palestine mean to you?

What does Palestine mean to you?

Laila El-Haddad

Now cooking the cuisine of Gaza. First shot is dagga, or سلطة غزوية, a spicy tomato and dill salad. Can’t wait to explore further from Laila El-Haddad’s Gaza kitchen cookbook.

 

Celebrate Palestinian flavors!

 

The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey: El-Haddad, Laila ...

The Gaza Kitchen is a richly illustrated cookbook that explores the distinctive cuisine of the area known prior to 1948 as the Gaza District and that of the many refugees who came to Gaza in 1948 and have been forced to stay there ever since.

 

"... this is not just a cookbook. In its pages, women and men from Gaza tell their stories as they relate to cooking, farming, and the food economy: personal stories, family stories, and descriptions of the broader social and economic system in which they live."

 

Don't use our hard earned tax dollars for more injustice and war

Rubble in Gaza, Palestine November 2023

Dear Elected Leaders-

Our Congress gives 14.3 billion dollars to the Israeli killing machine, but our Congress aims to block funding UNWRA a humanitarian organization that is trying to help the victims of Israeli violence...  Where is your humanity!

We have proof of Israel's violence in the rubble of Gaza and the escalating death tolls of Palestinians.

We have proof that more than 4,500 Palestinian children have been killed by Israel's war on Gaza in the past month. 

We have proof that countless other Palestinian children have been orphaned and totally traumatized just in the past month by Israel's callous brutality. 

We have proof of Israeli settler violence in the West Bank, and Israel's long history of demolishing Palestinian homes and lives.

But claims of UNWRA's alleged ties to HAMAS are alleged- ALLEGED- not proof of anything except the nasty character of the cruel people who spread hate and lies about a persecuted and impoverished people- the indigenous non-Jewish Arab men, women, and children of historic Palestine.

Sincerely,

Anne Selden Annab

NOTES 

"In its 35th day of attacking Gaza, Israel has: - killed 11,025 Palestinians; 4506 of them being kids. An additional 2,700 remain trapped under rubble. - destroyed 270,00 Palestinian homes; - internally displaced 1.6 out of 2.2 million people Satisfied yet, world?....  After bombing Gaza for 36 days and killing more than 11,000 Palestinians Israel has yet to achieve a single military objective - unless of course the “military objective” is to kill, traumatize and inflict as much damage as possible." Diana Buttu

Statement from APWU [American Postal Workers Union] General Officers on the Conflict in Israel and Palestine

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's 2023 map of Israel - totally erases Palestine and Jordan... 

From the River to the Sea (worldwide) NOTE All human beings need to be free to live and work and love in peace and security.

‘I will not be silenced’: Rashida Tlaib hits back at congressional censure motion

On the growing tide of bigoted anti-Muslim, anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian hate pervading our politics

Israeli attacks have also targeted agricultural areas east of Gaza, flour stores and fishermen's boats, leaving no sources of food.

They Called Me A Lioness

"The exclusion of Palestinian voices contributes to an incomplete picture that undermines efforts towards understanding and peace." Faisal Saleh

My brush is my only weapon. -Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali [1938-1987] creator of #Handala

Nancy's letter to her condescending representatives in America

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib responds to House censure vote over Israel remarks

Just a bit of Palestine before the "light unto the nations" made "the desert bloom."

Ongoing Nakba 1948-2023

From Ellis Island to Gaza, NEVER AGAIN means never again — for anyone.

Sliman Mansour's painting Rituals under occupation (طقوس تحت الاحتلال), oil on canvas, 1989

Christ was a Palestinian - an older poem by Anne Selden Annab

5,000 Palestinian children killed by Israel in Gaza. Thousands orphaned. 1,000 under the rubble. 10,000 wounded.

Mr Biden, I have lost 36 members of my extended family in Gaza in just one day. I want you to know their names.

November 2023 Protest: What to boycott NOW to help stop Israel’s unfolding genocide of Palestinians in Gaza

Press Freedom

STOP U.S. FUNDED GENOCIDE

The academic school year in Palestine, for many students, is over

Lebanese Artist Guinea Radwan's clay sculpture called "Children under the rubble"

Pledge allegiance to America- not Israel please.

Palestine Remembered: A picture from inside the house of Hajj Fawaz Hussein Theeb 

Palestinian women wearing their unique traditional dresses from different regions of Palestine... Cultural Heritage from the River to the Sea

Stop arming and exasperating religious extremism and armed rage in "The Holy Land" !!!

New Icon Appears on Israel's Apartheid Wall - Jerusalem, Palestine 2023

Criticism of Israeli State Policies Is NOT ANTISEMITISM 

We need to empower real democracy with full and equal rights and respect for ALL... here and there!

From the river to the sea I (من النهر الى البحر ١), oil on canvas, 2021 by Sliman Mansour of Palestine

Loving Watermelons for Palestine

Israel-Palestine war: A love letter to my Palestinian family around the world by Susan Muaddi Darraj

Dear Elected Leader- Please stop empowering Israeli racism and violence.

Human Rights are NON-NEGOTIABLE

Many Palestinian families still have the keys to the houses they left in 1948. 

 

Universal Declaration of Human Rights | United Nations

The UDHR is a landmark document that sets out fundamental human rights to be universally protected and translated into over 500 languages. It was drafted by different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world and has inspired more than seventy human rights treaties. 

Statement from APWU [American Postal Workers Union] General Officers on the Conflict in Israel and Palestine

November 8, 2023

The American Postal Workers Union is shocked and saddened by the tragic and ongoing violence in Israel and Palestine. As working people, we stand with the oppressed and the innocent, thousands of whom have lost their lives in the last month.

As a union that stands for equality, social justice, human and labor rights, and international solidarity, we unite with unions and people of goodwill around the world in calls for justice and peace.

We unreservedly condemn the Hamas violence of October 7, which killed over 1,000 Israeli civilians and saw the kidnapping of more than 200 people.

However, Israel’s response has made the prospects for peace more remote. Over 10,000 innocent civilians, including 4000 children, have been killed by the relentless and indiscriminate bombing campaign on Gaza. Israel has shut off the flow of food, water, fuel and medical supplies to the Gaza Strip, a war crime. A humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding every day in Gaza. Thousands more innocent civilians stand to die wholly preventable deaths.

We call on our government, which is the primary foreign benefactor of the Israeli government, to use all its power to protect innocent lives and to help bring about peace in the region, and not use our tax dollars for more war.

We join the calls for an immediate ceasefire, the release of hostages, and urgently needed massive humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza. The cries of humanity demand nothing less.

APWU General Officers: President, Mark Dimondstein; Executive Vice President, Debby Szeredy; Secretary-Treasurer, Elizabeth 'Liz' Powell.

 Statement from APWU General Officers on the Conflict in Israel and Palestine

https://apwu.org/news/international/statement-apwu-general-officers-conflict-israel-and-palestine

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Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's 2023 map of Israel - totally erases Palestine and Jordan...

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich addressing a tribute to Likud activist Jacques Kupfer in Paris, on March 19, 2023.

Israeli injustice, racism, violence and war just keeps pushing all boundaries

From the River to the Sea (worldwide) NOTE All human beings need to be free to live and work and love in peace and security.

NOTES                

Respect respect... and the rule of fair and just laws.

‘I will not be silenced’: Rashida Tlaib hits back at congressional censure motion

Words to Honor- Universal Declaration of Human Rights

On the growing tide of bigoted anti-Muslim, anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian hate pervading our politics

Israeli attacks have also targeted agricultural areas east of Gaza, flour stores and fishermen's boats, leaving no sources of food.

They Called Me A Lioness

"The exclusion of Palestinian voices contributes to an incomplete picture that undermines efforts towards understanding and peace." Faisal Saleh

My brush is my only weapon. -Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali [1938-1987] creator of #Handala

Nancy's letter to her condescending representatives in America

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib responds to House censure vote over Israel remarks

Just a bit of Palestine before the "light unto the nations" made "the desert bloom."

Ongoing Nakba 1948-2023

From Ellis Island to Gaza, NEVER AGAIN means never again — for anyone.

Sliman Mansour's painting Rituals under occupation (طقوس تحت الاحتلال), oil on canvas, 1989

Christ was a Palestinian - an older poem by Anne Selden Annab

5,000 Palestinian children killed by Israel in Gaza. Thousands orphaned. 1,000 under the rubble. 10,000 wounded.

Mr Biden, I have lost 36 members of my extended family in Gaza in just one day. I want you to know their names.

November 2023 Protest: What to boycott NOW to help stop Israel’s unfolding genocide of Palestinians in Gaza

Press Freedom

STOP U.S. FUNDED GENOCIDE

The academic school year in Palestine, for many students, is over

Lebanese Artist Guinea Radwan's clay sculpture called "Children under the rubble"

Pledge allegiance to America- not Israel please.

Palestine Remembered: A picture from inside the house of Hajj Fawaz Hussein Theeb 

Palestinian women wearing their unique traditional dresses from different regions of Palestine... Cultural Heritage from the River to the Sea

Stop arming and exasperating religious extremism and armed rage in "The Holy Land" !!!

New Icon Appears on Israel's Apartheid Wall - Jerusalem, Palestine 2023

Criticism of Israeli State Policies Is NOT ANTISEMITISM 

We need to empower real democracy with full and equal rights and respect for ALL... here and there!

From the river to the sea I (من النهر الى البحر ١), oil on canvas, 2021 by Sliman Mansour of Palestine

Loving Watermelons for Palestine

Israel-Palestine war: A love letter to my Palestinian family around the world by Susan Muaddi Darraj

Dear Elected Leader- Please stop empowering Israeli racism and violence.

Human Rights are NON-NEGOTIABLE

Many Palestinian families still have the keys to the houses they left in 1948. 

 

Universal Declaration of Human Rights | United Nations

The UDHR is a landmark document that sets out fundamental human rights to be universally protected and translated into over 500 languages. It was drafted by different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world and has inspired more than seventy human rights treaties.

 

 

‘I will not be silenced’: Rashida Tlaib hits back at congressional censure motion

"Tlaib has accused Joe Biden of supporting genocide and threatened that he will lose Arab American and Muslim support in the 2024 election – triggering widespread condemnation by Republicans and many Democrats.

But Tlaib was unrepentant in her speech.

“I will not be silenced and I will not let you distort my words,” Tlaib said. “No government is beyond criticism. The idea that criticizing the government of Israel is antisemitic sets a very dangerous precedent, and it’s been used to silence diverse voices speaking up for human rights across our nation.”"

Sole Palestinian American in US Congress defends her criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza and urges lawmakers to call for ceasefire  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/07/rashida-tlaib-censure-israel-palestine

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Online photo of Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib wearing her traditional Palestinian Thobe Dress

Words to Honor- Universal Declaration of Human Rights

 

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages. The UDHR is widely recognized as having inspired, and paved the way for, the adoption of more than seventy human rights treaties, applied today on a permanent basis at global and regional levels (all containing references to it in their preambles).

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• Text of the Declaration
• History of the Declaration
• Drafters of the Declaration
• The Foundation of International Human Rights Law
• Human Rights Law

On the growing tide of bigoted anti-Muslim, anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian hate pervading our politics

Rep. Ilhan Omar

@Ilhan

  New: Joint statement with

@RepRashida

and

@RepAndreCarson

on the growing tide of bigoted anti-Muslim, anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian hate pervading our politics

Israeli attacks have also targeted agricultural areas east of Gaza, flour stores and fishermen's boats, leaving no sources of food.

 "Israel is waging an "extensive war of starvation" against Gaza’s civilian population.

“Israel has deliberately focused its attacks over the past few hours on targeting electrical generators and solar energy units, on which commercial facilities and restaurants depend to maintain the minimum possible level of their work,” the group said in a statement published on Sunday.

Euro-Med Monitor added that Israeli attacks have also targeted agricultural areas east of Gaza, flour stores and fishermen's boats, leaving no sources of food."  ...READ MORE

People sit in front of a bakery destroyed in an Israeli strike in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-gaza-residents-fear-starvation-thirst

Israel-Palestine war: 'If we are not bombed to death we are going to die of starvation'

A full siege imposed on 9 October, followed by the bombing of bakeries, supermarkets and water tanks, has forced people to take extreme measures to find any food or water

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They Called Me A Lioness

by Ahed Tamini & Dena Takruri:

“What would you do if you grew up seeing your home repeatedly raided? Your parents arrested? Your mother shot? Your uncle killed? Try, for just a moment, to imagine that this was your life. How would you want the world to react?”

Ahed Tamimi is a world-renowned Palestinian activist, born and raised in the small West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, which became a center of the resistance to Israeli occupation when an illegal, Jewish-only settlement blocked off its community spring. Tamimi came of age participating in nonviolent demonstrations against this action and the occupation at large. Her global renown reached an apex in December 2017, when, at sixteen years old, she was filmed slapping an Israeli soldier who refused to leave her front yard. The video went viral, and Tamimi was arrested.

An essential addition to an important conversation, They Called Me a Lioness shows us what is at stake in this struggle and offers a fresh vision for resistance. With their unflinching, riveting storytelling, Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri shine a light on the humanity not just in occupied Palestine but also in the unsung lives of people struggling for freedom around the world.

 THEY CALLED ME A LIONESS

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634628/they-called-me-a-lioness-by-ahed-tamimi-and-dena-takruri/