Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Friday, February 28, 2020
"...the possibility of infinite development"
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| Susan Muaddi Darraj standing beside the Philadelphia Mural |
"This #Philadelphia #mural takes a quote by #WEBDuBois and translates it into #Arabic. (quote below)
It honors the neighborhood of Black Bottom, whose inhabitants were steadily displaced.
The mural was sponsored by @albustanseeds
"I believe that all men, black & brown & white, are brothers, varying through time & opportunity, in form & gift & feature, but differing in no essential partcular, & alike in soul & the possibility of infinite development."
- DuBois, Darkwater (1920) "
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
March First for Al Awda - a poem in Growing Gardens for Palestine by Anne Selden Annab
March First for Al Awda
My heart is with all
who march March 1st ...
with all who value every home
& family.
All who value freedom of
(and from) religion.
All who crave and help create
fair and just laws...
All who write stories and poems, and paint,
all who build beauty & museums for Palestine.
All who vote for full and equal rights
and respect.
Every step marched yesterday
today and tomorrow for Al Awda
is amplified a thousand fold,
by all who can not be there.
And amplified again, and again
for Al Awda, amplified a trillion fold
by every refugee.
My heart is with all
who march for real justice
and a lasting peace.
poem
copyright ©2020 Anne Selden Annab
Monday, February 3, 2020
Arab Jerusalem, Palestine long ago
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| Jerusalem Palestine old photograph by Félix Bonfils from the British Library |
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Diana Buttu in Newsweek: Trump's "Peace" Plan Risks Setting Fire to Israel, Palestine—and International Legal Order As We Know It
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"Beyond just Palestinians, many in the international community are deeply alarmed by the Trump/Kushner plan. As a precedent, it threatens to do away with the international legal system as we know it, including the idea that countries should not be allowed to acquire territory by force, replacing it with a system in which "might is right." The dangers beyond Palestine/Israel are obvious, including legitimizing Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea."
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Palestinian-American Sam Bahour on "Trump's Ordeal of the Century" regarding Israeli/U.S. Occupied Palestine
NO JUSTICE = NO PEACE
The American Human Rights Council (AHRC-USA) expresses its serious concerns regarding the so-called “Deal of the Century,” a false hope to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict.This effort to impose a surrender on the Palestinians is a betrayal of international law, justice and American values.
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Monday, January 27, 2020
#Bethlehem, #Palestine: City from the southwest circa late 1920's
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| Bethlehem, Palestine: City from the southwest circa late 1920's |
Sunday, December 22, 2019
Israeli settlers set a Catholic Church in Galilee on fire
Dec 20,2019
In recent years, mosques
and churches have been targeted by vandals in similar attacks. They are
always attributed to extremist Jews in West Bank settlements.
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| The Galilee church where Jesus was believed to have performed miracle of feeding 5,000 followers was set alight in arson attack carried out by extremist Jewish settlers. |
Hebrew graffiti was also scrawled across the walls of Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish.
An
adviser to the Catholic Church blamed Jewish extremists for the
“deplorable” attack after Israeli police said there is a “strong
possibility” the fire was started deliberately.
The
current structure was built on the remains of a fifth-century Byzantine
church at Tabgha on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, where many
Christians believe Jesus fed 5,000 followers with just five loaves and
two fish.
Police
confirmed there was extensive damage to both inside and outside the
building after the fire broke out in the middle of the night.
A monk and a church volunteer were hospitalised from smoke inhalation, but the incredibly, the prayer area was unaffected.
“It's
deplorable, absolutely deplorable,” Father Gregory Collins, head of the
Order of Saint Benedict in Israel, said. “I consider such an attack to
be not just an attack on a religious site, on a sanctuary, but also on
one of the most visited places in Israel.”
“It is also an attack on freedom of speech, democracy and the right to live here,” he added.
This
incident, which happened in June 2015, was not the first such attack to
be carried by the extremist Jewish settlers against Palestinian Muslim
and Christian holy sites.
In
recent years, mosques and churches have been targeted by vandals in
similar attacks. They are always attributed to extremist Jews in West
Bank settlements.
Such
attacks have been on the rise because the perpetrators, who are being
backed directly by the Israeli government, go unpunished.
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Banksy unveils ‘Scar of Bethlehem’ nativity scene in the Walled Off Hotel, Palestine
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| A new Christmas-themed artwork dubbed the "Scar of Bethlehem" by secretive British artist Banksy is displayed at his Walled-Off Hotel in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank Afp |
Dubbed the "Scar of Bethlehem", the baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph are backlit through damaged concrete, chiseled pockmarks exploding out from a gaping hole in four directions to approximate the Christmas Star.
The work is installed at Banksy's Walled-Off Hotel, where all rooms overlook a concrete section of the barrier built by Israel to cut off the occupied West Bank from Israeli territory.
"Love" and "peace" are respectively graffiti tagged in English and French on the artistic installation's concrete blocks, while three large wrapped presents are at the forefront of the scene.
"It is a nativity," the hotel's manager Wissam Salsaa told AFP after the piece was installed. "Banksy has his own contribution to Christmas."
"It is a great way to bring up the story of Bethlehem, the Christmas story, in a different way -- to make people think more" of how Palestinians live in Bethlehem.
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Banksy unveils ‘Scar of Bethlehem’ nativity mural |
The “Scar of Bethlehem” artwork features a nativity scene with Mary and Joseph and the baby Jesus – but instead of a star hanging over the crib, there is what appears to be a large bullet hole piercing an imposing grey wall.
The piece has appeared in the Walled Off Hotel, Banksy’s property which overlooks the border wall in the divided city.
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| The Walled Off Hotel (Dusan Vranic/AP) |
Opened two years ago, the hotel is billed as having “the worst view of any hotel in the world” and is filled with original Banksy artwork.
The highlight is room number three, known as “Banksy’s Room”, where guests sleep in a king-size bed underneath Banksy’s artwork showing a Palestinian and an Israeli having a pillow fight.
The artist is known for making political statements with his graffiti, and has made previous forays into the Palestinian territories.
In one secret visit, he drew a girl being pulled upwards by balloons on the dividing wall, and he is believed to have sneaked into Gaza to draw four street murals, including one on a metal door that depicted the Greek goddess Niobe cowering against the rubble of a destroyed house.
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Saturday, December 21, 2019
From the Jordan Times: ICC to probe WAR CRIMES in Palestinian territories
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| A Palestinian woman stands next to her home near the site of an Israeli air strike the previous night in Gaza City on Thursday (AFP photo) |
"THE HAGUE — The International Criminal
Court's (ICC) chief prosecutor said on Friday she wanted to open a full
investigation into alleged war crimes in the Palestinian territories,
sparking a furious reaction from Israel and condemnation from the United
States.
The
Palestinians welcomed the move by the ICC as a "long overdue step"
following a nearly five-year preliminary probe by the prosecutor into
the situation since the 2014 war in Gaza.
Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the decision made the Hague-based
court, which Israel has refused to sign up to since its creation in
2002, a "political tool" against Israel.
"I
am satisfied that there is a reasonable basis to proceed with an
investigation into the situation in Palestine," ICC Prosecutor Fatou
Bensouda said in a statement.
"In
brief, I am satisfied that war crimes have been or are being committed
in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip", she
added, without specifying the perpetrators of the alleged crimes.
She said that before opening a full
probe, she would ask the ICC to rule on the territory over which it has
jurisdiction because of the "unique and highly contested legal and
factual issues attaching to this situation.
"Specifically,
I have sought confirmation that the 'territory' over which the court
may exercise its jurisdiction, and which I may subject to investigation,
comprises the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza." "
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