Thursday 18-July-2024
“A World Without Borders”, read the tattoo on the arm of one of the Brazilian activists who stood with me and my Palestinian friend at the São Paulo Airport, bidding us farewell before our return flight.
Thursday 4-July-2024
Many disturbing videos of the abuse of blindfolded Palestinians have recently surfaced on social media. One of these shows Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank forcing blindfolded Palestinians in detention to listen to a children’s song, “Meni Meni Meni Mamtera,” continuously for eight hours.
Friday 29-March-2024
Torture remains a pervasive reality in Palestine, where countless individuals have endured unspeakable physical and psychological trauma at the hands of Israeli forces.
Tuesday 19-March-2024
Amid dire warnings from the UN regarding the food insecurity crisis in Gaza, the US proclaimed loudly that it is delivering humanitarian aid to the enclave.
Saturday 20-January-2024
Israel’s appearance before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the Hague is an important step on the road to justice and a necessary contribution to the healing of the historical trauma of the Palestinian people.
Saturday 29-January-2022
Gaza is less than 100 kilometers from Jerusalem. It is deliberately placed out of reach separated by three visible borders.
Thursday 24-September-2020
Last week Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and foreign ministers representing the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed the “Abraham Accords Peace Agreement” in Washington DC which normalises their relations at the expense of Palestinian national and human rights.
Wednesday 17-June-2020
We have emerged from the global solidarity brought about by the Covid-19 crisis to return to our familiar state of disunity in the struggle against oppressive power domination and fascist politics.
Thursday 28-May-2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has the seeds for a mental health crisis around the world; in Palestine it highlights pre-existing challenges in mental health provision.
Wednesday 13-September-2017
In a psychotic state a 16 year old young woman patient from the West Bank went beyond the confines of her own boundaries: “I saw the sky turned red in color and I perceived a calling… I looked into people’s eyes to see that they too were excited and understood the call of the sky.”
Sunday 19-February-2017
After 100 years Britain seems to be at the same moral stage as it was when UK Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour wrote to a leader of the British Jewish community Baron Rothschild promising the establishment of a “national home” for the Jewish people in Palestine.
Tuesday 8-July-2014
Clashes erupted in our neighborhood of Shufat East Jerusalem with Israeli security forces shooting at Palestinian youths who were protesting the killing of a 16 year old boy Mohammed Abu Khudair.