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Tuesday, August 18, 2026

"What’s “extremist” about Ben Gvir is that he says out loud what Israel’s mainstream political establishment prefers to do quietly under the false pretense of “fighting terrorism.” At the height of the genocide, Israel was murdering a far greater daily number of children " Omar Baddar

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Jewish Voice for Peace

@jvplive

Ben-Gvir has been making genocidal threats for years. And, as the Israeli National Security Minister and part of Netanyahu’s government, he’s been able to act on them.

The Israeli government has always worked towards the same goal—maximum land with minimum Palestinians. And now Israeli officials are saying all the quiet parts out loud. The question is, when will our elected officials actually do something?

https://x.com/jvplive/status/2089403921391349950

Omar Baddar عمر بدّار

@OmarBaddar

Aug 16

What’s “extremist” about Ben Gvir is that he says out loud what Israel’s mainstream political establishment prefers to do quietly under the false pretense of “fighting terrorism.”

At the height of the genocide, Israel was murdering a far greater daily number of children

https://x.com/OmarBaddar/status/2089085650410553584

https://x.com/jvplive/status/2089403921391349950

* Jewish Voice for Peace

@jvplive

Over the weekend, Itamar Ben-Gvir said the Israeli military should “kill 30 or 40” people in Gaza every night.”⁣ He also called for the targeted killing of Palestinians, declaring, “Not just those who pose an immediate threat. There are people there who don’t deserve to live… They are not even people.” This is genocidal speech, dehumanizing hate speech. But for Ben-Gvir, it’s just another day advocating mass death and suffering.

Ben-Gvir isn’t a random individual—he’s a senior Israeli minister openly calling for the daily killing of Palestinians. He controls Israel’s police and prison services, giving him jurisdiction over Palestinian detainees in the occupied West Bank. He spearheaded legislation imposing the mandatory death penalty by hanging on Palestinians, which the Knesset approved earlier this year. Ben Gvir is also a follower of Kahanism, an extremist Jewish political ideology stemming from Zionism; Baruch Goldstein, who killed 29 Palestinians at the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron in 1994, was also a Kahanist.

Ben-Gvir’s words are grounded in Jewish supremacy and Zionism, the intertwined ideologies that are the foundation for the Israeli state, and used to justify an apartheid regime run on land stolen from massacred and forcibly exiled Palestinians.

Instead of being held to account for its countless war crimes, the US government continues to provide support, weapons and funds to the Israeli government. We demand a complete end to US backing to Israeli oppression of Palestinians. Join us: Call Congress today and tell them to stop arming Israel

Tell Congress: Vote NO to funding war.

https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/tell-congress-vote-no-to-funding-war/

Saturday, May 16, 2026

Britain and the Nakba: A history of betrayal- An unbroken thread of duplicity, mendacity and chicanery connects British foreign policy from Balfour to the Nakba to the present day

A demonstrator holding an umbrella with colours of the Palestinian flag stands by an Israeli flag during a protest against a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on 24 March 2023 (Reuters)

Avi Shlaim

10 May 2023

Britain created the conditions that made the Palestinian Nakba possible.

In 1948, the Palestinians experienced a collective catastrophe of monumental proportions: some 530 villages were destroyed; more than 62,000 homes were demolished; about 13,000 Palestinians were killed; and 750,000 Palestinians, two-thirds of the Arab population of the country were driven out of their homes and became refugees.

This was the climax of the Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

In its essence, Zionism had always been a settler-colonial movement. Its ultimate aim was to build an independent Jewish state in Palestine on as much of the land as possible and with as few Arabs within its borders as possible. Zionist spokesmen constantly reiterated that they meant no harm to the Arab inhabitants of the country, that they wanted to develop the country for the benefit of both communities.

But this was largely rhetoric, kalam fadi in Arabic, empty talk.... READ MORE https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/nakba-britain-history-betrayal

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Friday, May 8, 2026

" “I think [Palestine] is the moral issue of our time and I believe it’s been used to undermine democratic institutions in the US,” Elghandour said. He referred to the cancelled invitation as a sign or “erosion of free speech and the first amendment”. “We’ve seen a livestreamed genocide,” he added. “And we’re supposed to worry about the feelings of the people who support that.” " Rami Elghandour

Rami Elghandour. Photograph: Courtesy Rami Elghandour

Rutgers graduation speaker canceled for pro-Palestinian posts says decision sends ‘dangerous’ message

Rami Elghandour tells Guardian in exclusive interview his speech was cancelled due to students’ complaints

Rutgers University abruptly rescinded its invitation to a prominent alum who was slated to deliver a graduation speech next week after some students complained about social media posts he had published about Palestine.

Rami Elghandour – a tech entrepreneur, graduate of Rutgers’ School of Engineering, and executive producer of the Oscar-nominated film The Voice of Hind Rajab – was set to deliver a graduation address at the school’s campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey on 15 May.

But the school’s dean, Alberto Cuitiño, called Elghandour last week and told him he was cancelling the speech because of students’ complaints, though he declined to say how many students and what posts they had complained about. The dean, Elghandour said, broadly described the posts as “opposed to their beliefs”.

“What is most puzzling to me is that they champion me for my humanitarian views and now they’re canceling me for them,” Elghandour told the Guardian in an exclusive interview... READ MORE https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/06/rutgers-cancel-graduation-speech-pro-palestine-post

Saturday, November 8, 2025

Lilies of Gaza – Women Artists in Times of War

PALESTINE: Lilies of Gaza – Women Artists in Times of War- artist unknown

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1196569622518951&set=pcb.1196569662518947

Bright Stars of Bethlehem

“Our aim is that our people, who admire stars, will dare to look up and dream, to believe in goals to strive for, and develop a new sense of hope, community, beauty, and faith.” Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb

Bright Stars of Bethlehem raises awareness and support for Dar al-Kalima University, the first and only university for arts, culture, and design in all of Palestine. Bright Stars is a 501c3 nonprofit organization born out of the vision of Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb and his outreach ministry in Bethlehem in the mid-90s. The desire to help the people of Palestine flourish and have life in abundance has gained supporters around the US. Rev. Raheb, with key US supporters, created an independent U.S.-based nonprofit organization founding Bright Stars of Bethlehem in 2004. https://www.brightstarsbethlehem.org/about

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Monday, November 3, 2025

Dear America- Israel has a right to exist, but Israel has no right to starve and displace the men, women and children of historic Palestine.

𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐮𝐬 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐞 ♱

letter I just sent to my elected leaders

Dear America,

I am a Christian, born and raised to love and to care for others.

As a Christian, and an American, I firmly object to the corporate greed and corruption that are destroying America's democracy.

Furthermore, as a Christian and an educated human being, I object to our elected leaders funding and arming Israeli bigotry and injustice with America's wealth and weaponry.

We give billions and billions of dollars to Israel annually, while many Americans can't afford to feed their own children.

As a Christian who has been married to a Muslim man for decades, a good man who treats me well and has worked hard to take care of our family, I also vehemently object to the bigotry and injustice being fomented here in America, and in Israel, against Arab Christians, Muslims, and Jews.

I grew up in the 1960s in an America when full equality and legal respect for Blacks was a new thing. I was very lucky because my mother, my church, and my school all promoted diversity- an end to segregation, and an end to racist hate and injustice. I went to school with all types of people, every religion and color, and we learned to get along. Diplomacy matters... and so does international law.

FYI Israel has been violating international law in multiple ways time and time again.

International law was created because of the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust. After WWII the United Nations & the Universal Declaration of Human Rights made it clear how to build a better future for all people.

Israel used international law to gain power, and Israel is now is actively sabotaging international law- especially UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. https://www.unrwa.org/unrwa-claims-versus-facts-2025

Israel's puppets in America's Congress have cut funds to UNRWA and to UNESCO. Meanwhile Israel's current cat's-paw Trump has cut U.S. aid projects internationally and also cut programs for America's children, while generously supplying the Zionist empire with oodles of lethal weaponry and political support.

Israel is not a Christmas Carol or the answer to a prayer: Israel is a heavily armed, home demolition, job destroying propaganda savvy killing machine.

Israel insists on arming bigotry and funding religious extremism. There are no borders to stop Israeli aggression and land grabs. Israel steals land and peace from indigenous Arabs, including Indigenous Christians in the land of Jesus Christ's birth.

Israel has a right to exist, but Israel has no right to starve and displace the men, women and children of historic Palestine.

Sincerely,

Anne Selden Annab

NOTES https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search/label/Notes

‘Olives are everything for us’: West Bank farmers prevented from harvesting by settler violence... About 70% of town’s olives are inaccessible without risking a potentially fatal clash with Israeli settlers

The grim task of recovering thousands of bodies from the rubble of Gaza. Relatives and experts tell of the human and societal need to find and identify the dead, while images and data shed light on the scale of the job

‘We don’t feel safe’: after week of bombings, people in Gaza are losing faith in ceasefire- After initial enthusiasm, people fear ceasefire does not mean end to war but just less frequent, more unpredictable [ISRAELI] violence

Children attending UNRWA temporary learning spaces in Gaza express their joy at learning in person and their hope that it will last. While most schools have been damaged or still host displaced families, UNRWA was able to quickly re-open 38 new temporary learning spaces in Khan Younis between September and October 2025. This has more than doubled the number of children reached through in-person learning compared to August levels. All children should be able to go to school. #UNRWAworks

“International law is clear: States must neither aid nor assist in the internationally wrongful acts of others, and must prevent & punish international crimes." New report “Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime"

"Families buried under rubble, hospitals struck, and deliberate starvation of an entire people are not isolated mistakes. They are the product of a system driven by power, sustained by impunity, and empowered by propaganda..." World leaders cannot claim to seek peace while enabling war and ignoring human suffering

"Admirers from UNICEF leaders to Hollywood actors have praised her for saying what many politicians won’t. Critics, meanwhile, accuse her of politicizing childhood. She doesn’t flinch. “I have to just remind myself that kids’ lives are more important than my reputation,”" Ms Rachel, Glamour magazine's Women of the Year

Another Palestinian journalist killed by ongoing ISraeli bombardment. Muhammed al-Miniarawi was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Nuseirat regfugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. October 29, 2025

"Imagine slashing SNAP, the program that helps children in the U.S. not go hungry- while sending billions in weapons to another country to kill other children" Ms Rachel for Littles

Let UNRWA aid in... Lifesaving UNRWA medicines are waiting at the border, denied entry into Gaza by the State of Israel.

Meanwhile, pre-positioned outside Gaza, UNRWA has enough food parcels for 1.1 million people, flour for 2.1 million individuals, and shelter supplies for up to 1.3 million people."

"Maybe you don’t believe that we’re still starving in Gaza. So far: no enough food no meat, no chicken, no eggs at all no medicine." Israel's broken promises... AID ENTERING GAZA DURING CEASEFIRE: ACTUAL vs AGREED

Genocide is not a matter of opinion: 300+ writers, scholars & public figures refuse to write for the New York Times Opinion section in a collective effort to hold the paper accountable for its role in the genocide in Gaza.

The Catholic Church of Maalul, Nazareth remains standing despite the village’s destruction in 1948 and the expulsion of its people. Today, Maalul is an Israeli military zone, but its original inhabitants visit the church on special occasions or to commemorate their history.

"Across Palestine, the olive trees are disappearing, burned, cut, and uprooted by Israeli settlers, often under military protection. In Gaza, tens of thousands of dunums of farmland have been leveled, destroying nearly a million olive trees, some that had stood for centuries. Families are attacked or blocked from reaching their groves, their livelihoods erased before their eyes. Yet every year, people still go to harvest, even among the ashes and stumps, to remember that the land is theirs. When the trees are gone, they still reach, as an act of resistance." Sliman Mansour of Palestine

Two photographs nearly identical, as if captured on the same day. One in black and white, the other in color. Yet between them stretches seventy-seven years. The first taken after the Nakba of 1948. The second after the Nakba of 2023..

"It is sad and painful that you come to these Holy Lands for an unholy purpose and that is to adhere to the [Israeli] occupation, its oppressive policies and practices against the Palestinian people" ... "How can a Christian ignore the suffering of the Palestinian people especially what happened during the two years in Gaza which was a War of Holocaust." Theodosios Atallah Hanna, Palestinian Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, in an open letter to US Vice President JD Vance

Foreign journalists are still not allowed in Gaza & Israeli Settlers nearly club a Palestinian woman to death in the West Bank ... Arwa Mahdawi

"What’s urgently needed now is a UN-sponsored international criminal tribunal for Gaza, modelled on those in former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. It should be empowered to examine all aspects of Israel’s and Hamas’s conduct of the war, especially their shared disregard for civilian lives and their killing, torture and mistreatment of hostages and detainees." Simon Tisdall in The Guardian

Israel’s parliament has passed a bill advancing the annexation of the occupied West Bank, a blatant violation of international law... & "Barely a mention in Western media." Assal Rad

“For 80 years, we have worked to forge peace, tackle poverty & hunger, advance human rights & build a more sustainable world – together.” On Friday's #UNDay, @antonioguterres urges people to unite & fulfil the extraordinary promise of the United Nations... The creation of @UN was the result of a global commitment to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war." 80 years later, the UN remains essential for advancing peace, prosperity & human rights. #UN80

The International Court of Justice opinion is clear: UNRWA must be allowed to deliver aid

ICJ orders Israel to allow aid into Gaza and says restrictions breached international obligations. UN’s top court also finds Israel failed to justify blocking Unrwa and other relief agencies

An estimated one million of Gaza’s 1.1 million olive trees have been destroyed. Prior to the genocide Gaza produced 50,000 tons of olives annually.

Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel . Exclusive: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide.

#BetterTogether: The United Nations... "Together, we promote peace & security, advance sustainable development & protect human rights. By uniting nations, we turn shared goals into collective action." LET UNRWA AID IN: "UNRWA has the reach, network, and trust to deliver lifesaving aid directly to people in need"

"In September, 2023—just before October 7th—the United Nations published a report about a spike in Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestinian communities in the West Bank. During the past two years, we’ve seen the situation in the West Bank get even worse. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been pushed out of refugee camps. And dozens of Palestinian pastoral communities have been wiped off the map. Their inhabitants have been forced off their land by a combination of settlers and the Army, which are often indistinguishable from each other. So when we’re talking about ethnic cleansing, or an Israeli desire for ethnic cleansing, we shouldn’t talk about it purely in this future hypothetical way. It’s happening on a smaller scale every day." Isaac Chotiner

"There are now, as the historian Rashid Khalidi has put it, “two peoples in Palestine, irrespective of how they came into being”, and their “mutual acceptance can only be based on complete equality of rights”. If that sounds utopian, it is largely because of the decay of political leadership in both Israel and Palestine. Whatever happens with the Trump plan, no amount of bulldozer diplomacy or external governance will alter that." Kenan Malik

Humanitarian principles & UNRWA

UNRWA has the reach, network, and trust to deliver lifesaving aid directly to people in need across Gaza. To meet urgent needs, let UNRWA bring in its aid to Gaza at scale. Let them do their job.

"This is a UN vehicle entering Gaza today. It looks like a scene in a dystopian movie." Assal Rad

‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins. The territory’s ancient heritage has too often been ignored. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the present- William Dalrymple in The Guardian

Dear America- The vast majority of Americans are not wealthy & the taxes that We The People pay are being diverted into funding religious bigotry and terror via Israel's cruel war on the native non-Jewish men, women, and children of historic Palestine. HAMAS cruelty and stupidity echoes Zionist cruelty and stupidity and on and on it goes. Neither approach will build peace or security.

The weapons industry and a global war machine- AND INJUSTICE- burgeon with American tax payer funds.

Violence is a problem- not the answer.

STOP THE SIEGE- stop funding crazy cruel Israeli schemes & the forced displacement, imprisonment, starvation, torture, and killing of human beings in Gaza and Palestine

"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world..." https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

Saturday, September 27, 2025

Israel is waging a taxation assault on Jerusalem’s Christian presence, endangering its very survival: Patriarchs and Heads of The Churches in Jerusalem renew their condemnation of unjust foreclosure hearing against Armenian Patriarchate, urging immediate intervention.

Kegham Balian

@kbalian90

Jerusalemite Armenian

https://x.com/SavetheArQ The official page of the movement for the defense and preservation of the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem #Save_the_Arq

Sunday, September 21, 2025

From Gaza to Lebanon, Syria to Yemen, Israel is slaughtering civilians and calling it self-defense...

sarah

@sahouraxo

Israel dropped a bomb on a car carrying an entire family in South Lebanon — killing 3 children and their father.

The mother and eldest daughter are critically injured.

From Gaza to Lebanon, Syria to Yemen, Israel is slaughtering civilians and calling it self-defense.

Courtney is live in South Lebanon, documenting Israel’s ethnic cleansing.

Every day, Israel murders innocent people in the south.

Every day, Israeli drones are terrorizing civilians, and even the journalists telling their stories.

All on Lebanese soil.

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Arab Christian Bedouin woman from the town of Al-Karak, Ottoman Empire, 1898... before WWII shaped Western imposed borders & bigotry that ended freedom & respect for Arabs in The Holy Land

Arab Christian Bedouin woman from the town of Al-Karak, Ottoman Empire, 1898.

Friday, August 15, 2025

The water fountain is called a sabil [in Arabic], a word that originally meant path. Later, it came to mean path to God. Sabils were widespread in the Muslim world until the early 20th century. They were charitable water fountains refilled by water carriers at specific times of the day

Jerusalem- Naqshbandi Zawiya- a historical little mosque built from about 300 years ago and also used as Islamic information center offers a free rest station for tourist free Islamic books free drinks and give an intro about Islam

Bukhari Mosque in Jerusalem

Arabs in Pictures The water fountain is called a sabil, a word that originally meant path. Later, it came to mean path to God.

Sabils were widespread in the Muslim world until the early 20th century. They were charitable water fountains refilled by water carriers at specific times of the day.

Nadeen Ayoub, a former Miss Earth finalist, will represent Palestine at Miss Universe 2025, the country’s first entry into the global pageant.

Nadeen Ayoub Makes History as the First Miss Universe Palestine 2025

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"I am honored to announce that for the first time ever, Palestine will be represented at Miss Universe.
Today, I step onto the Miss Universe stage not just with a title—but with a truth. 🇵🇸
As Palestine endures heartbreak—especially in Gaza—I carry the voice of a people who refuse to be silenced.
I represent every Palestinian woman and child whose strength the world needs to see.
We are more than our suffering—we are resilience, hope, and the heartbeat of a homeland that lives on through us."

'Miss Palestine' to debut at Miss Universe 2025 beauty contest

Palestine will be represented at Miss Universe for the first time this year, with Nadeen Ayoub confirmed as the country's contestant for the 74th edition of the global pageant.

The event is scheduled to take place on 21 November in Pak Kret, Thailand.

Ayoub, who was crowned Miss Palestine in 2022, made the announcement on social media on Wednesday, sharing a photograph of herself in a traditional tatreez-embroidered dress by Palestinian designer Hiba Abdelkarim. The designer’s work has been worn by prominent figures, including Jordan’s Queen Rania.

In 2022, Ayoub became the first Palestinian to compete at Miss Earth, where she finished among the top five finalists. She said her decision to delay participating in Miss Universe until now was shaped by the humanitarian crisis at home.

"I am proud to walk this path, especially in this time, when we all need to be a voice for Palestine,” she told The National.

"I want to show the world that Palestinian women are not only resilient and beautiful, but are also leaders, innovators and changemakers," she said.

"As Palestine endures heartbreak, especially in Gaza. I carry the voice of a people who refuse to be silenced. We are more than our suffering, we are resilience, hope and the heartbeat of a homeland that lives on through us."

Raised between Palestine, the US and Canada, Ayoub holds degrees in literature and psychology and is a certified wellness and nutrition coach.

Since 2022, she has worked closely with Sayidat Falasteen, the philanthropic and media initiative of the Miss Palestine Organisation, which amplifies women’s voices in Palestine and the diaspora, supports their businesses, and highlights their impact.

She is also the founder of Olive Green Academy, which promotes sustainability and environmental awareness. Through the academy, she helps Palestinian women train in digital media and environmental advocacy, supporting them to launch sustainable enterprises and act as climate ambassadors. https://www.newarab.com/news/miss-palestine-debut-miss-universe-2025-beauty-contest

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Nadeen Ayoub: Passionate humanitarian making history as Miss Palestine

February 13, 2023

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