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Erasure vs Sumud: How the Nakba Came to Define the Collective Palestinian Identity

25Jun

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Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

Erasure vs Sumud: How the Nakba Came to Define the Collective Palestinian Identity

DR. RAMZY BAROUD Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, June/July 2023, pp. 12-14 Two Views—The 75th Anniversary of the Nakba By Dr. Ramzy Baroud ON MAY 15, 2023, the Palestinian Nakba turned 75 years old. Palestinian refugees brandish keys symbolizing the homes they lost during the 1948 war, during a demonstration at the Daheisheh refugee camp outside the West Bank town of Bethlehem on May 13, 1998 . Some 500 schoolchildren joined the “march of the keys” to mark the 50th anniversary of the Nakba and the exodus of nearly 800,000 Palestinian refugees from their land. (AWAD AWAD/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES) Palestinians all over the world commemorated the tragic occasion, known as the Catastrophe, when nearly 800,000 Palestinians were made refugees and nearly 50...

11 Lives: Stories from Palestinian Exile

25Jun

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Palestine Affairs

11 Lives: Stories from Palestinian Exile

Edited and translated by Muhammad Ali Khalidi, OR Books, 2022, paperback, 247 pp. MEB $22.95 Reviewed by A Bustos With the signing of the Oslo Accords between Israel and the PLO in 1993, the main site of the Palestinian struggle shifted away from refugee camps in the surrounding countries and back to the area of “Historic Palestine,” namely Israel and the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. While celebrated as a triumph by its supporters, critics argued that Olso, among other things, abandoned Palestinian refugees who still resided in camps by the hundreds of thousands. Since then, the plight of Palestinian refugees has seemingly remained on the backburner, despite worsening living conditions in the refugee camps caused by the Syrian civil war and Lebanon...

Discourses of Violence and the Fight for Palestinian Liberation

25Jun

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Discourses of Violence and the Fight for Palestinian Liberation

PRIYA ARAVINDHAN Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, June/July 2023, pp. 56-57 IN THE THIRD part of the “Learning and Unlearning Palestine” webinar series hosted by the Foundation for Middle East Peace and Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, panelists explored how “dialogue” and “peace” discourses undermine Palestinian liberation. The Feb. 27 webinar included Inès Abdel Razek, executive director of the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy; Yara Hawari, senior analyst at Al-Shabaka; and Maha Nassar, associate professor at the University of Arizona. The panelists discussed the distinction between the “justice narrative”—which reflects Palestinians’ experience of violent settler colonialism—and the “peace narrative” pushed by Israel and its Western s...

Nazi entity at 75: A Colonial Project Unmasked

25Jun

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Nazi entity at 75: A Colonial Project Unmasked

Israel at 75: A Colonial Project Unmasked By: IDA AUDEH Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, June/July 2023, pp. 8-11 Special Report By Ida Audeh ISRAEL MARKED ITS DIAMOND JUBILEE in May, and although 75 years is a mere hiccup in the history of nations whose people are actually rooted in a geography, it provides sufficient time to get a handle on the nature of a fabricated state. On its 75th birthday, Israel stands unmasked as an apartheid regime, an anachronism in the 21st century. Its Palestinian victims have known its true nature all along—after all, Israel took its place in the United Nations only after sweeping ethnic cleansing and imposition of military rule on the indigenous population it could not expel. South African and Black American visitors ...

Gideon Levy: Palestinians are prohibited from defending their families from violent aggression

24Jun

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Gideon Levy: Palestinians are prohibited from defending their families from violent aggression

CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG Israeli soldier with some of the most advanced weaponry in the world. (photo) By Gideon Levy, reposted from Ha’aretz, June 25, 2023 There aren’t many populations in the world as helpless as the Palestinians who live in their own country. No one protects their lives and property, let alone their dignity, and no one intends to do so. They are totally abandoned to their fates, as is their property. Their houses and cars can be torched, their fields set on fire. It’s all right to shoot them mercilessly, killing old people and babies, with no defense forces at their side. No police, no military: no one. If some such desperate defense force is organized, it’s immediately criminalized by Israel. Its fighters are labeled “terrorists,” their a...

The biggest threat to the environment is the imperialist war machine

24Jun

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The biggest threat to the environment is the imperialist war machine

While lecturing workers about ‘consumer choices’, western environmental lobbies give a free pass to the planet’s real polluters. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our channel The criminal recklessness of imperialism in using weapons of longlasting and devastating toxicity, and the way in which such behaviour is quietly tolerated or even cheered on by green lobby groups, clearly demonstrates how the western establishment’s supposed ‘concern’ for the environment stops conveniently at the line where the interests of the imperialist war/profit machine begin. https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1548269752&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true As finance capital attempts to turn suppos...

Pardeep Singh and Boohoo: sweatshop and semi-slavery conditions on the rise

24Jun

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Pardeep Singh and Boohoo: sweatshop and semi-slavery conditions on the rise

An immigrant worker whose punishment beating was filmed by his employer serves as a stark reminder of the true face of capitalist exploitation. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our channel Conditions described as ‘modern slavery’ are increasingly common in sectors of the British economy such as clothes manufacture, warehouse fulfilment, construction, cleaning and agriculture. Here we see the quest for maximum profit starkly revealed: either export your capital to where labour is cheapest, or import the pay and conditions applicable in developing countries, making maximum use of those members of the workforce, especially ‘illegal’ immigrants or foreign students, who are least able to defend themselves. https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com...

Support Asda Queslett workers’ fight for jobs

24Jun

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Support Asda Queslett workers’ fight for jobs

Don’t let machines come before jobs, nor profit before people. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our channel In a capitalist society automation leads to unemployment and misery; under socialism, it will lead to a lightening of the load for everyone and opportunities to do more interesting and fulfilling work. Staff at Asda in the Queslett neighbourhood of Great Barr, Birmingham, are fed up with the imposition of ‘scan-and-go’ machines, which are taking the place of the usual checkout tills. Where once there were 31 manned tills, there are now only 20, and workers fear that up to a dozen jobs may go by February next year. As well as the threat to jobs in an area of very high unemployment, staff also complain that the scan-and-go machines will disadvantage shoppers ...

24Jun

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Sainsbury’s CEO in the money as workers feel the pinch

As conditions for the mass of workers get rapidly worse, the obscene inequalities of the system come into ever-sharper relief. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our channel Supermarkets are not in business to provide jobs or even to bring food to workers. They are interested in one thing only: maximising profit. A point of a percentage on the dividend is of far more interest to their directors than the living conditions of their workforce. This is the logic of capitalism and this is what Sainsubury’s CEO is being rewarded for achieving. https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1292413807&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true In the midst of panic about fuel prices doubling and treblin...

Homeless charity workers on strike for decent wages

24Jun

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Homeless charity workers on strike for decent wages

St Mungo’s staff have suffered a 30 percent real-terms pay cut in the last ten years. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our channel The plummeting real terms pay of St Mungo’s workers means that some of the charity’s own frontline workers are facing homelessness themselves. Meanwhile, the role of the so-called ‘third sector’ in normalising inequality and whitewashing the activities of the exploiting class is reflected in the increasing salaries being paid to the executives who run these supposedly altruistic enterprises. As at the time of writing, the workers at homelessness charity St Mungo’s are entering their fourth week of strike action, fighting as so many workers across the country are doing to secure a wage rise that might offset the real-terms reduc...