Tag: Palestine
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Helena Dollimore sent me another letter
When the Handala was attacked and boarded by Israeli occupation troops, and its crew abducted, I wrote to my MP asking her how the government is supposed to respond to acts of piracy. Just as when the Madleen was attacked, she responded with a letter full of her opinions about Israel / Palestine. Here is…
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Forever black? I don’t think so.
After October 7th 2023, as soon as it became clear that neither our government nor the mainstream media were capable of giving due respect to Arab lives when Israel was in the equation, some of us changed our social media profiles to black, and declared that they would stay that way until our government ceased…
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This woman won’t wheesht about Palestine
I think one of the most disastrous things that’s happened as our lives moved online is that ‘block’ function on social media. I think we’ve brought up a generation of humans who can’t cope with the fact that they can’t block everyone they don’t like in real life. What’s even more destructive is that it’s…
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They were not criminals
Most people have never liked war much and the vast majority of us have never liked war crimes at all. Some people — quite a lot of people, actually — will go to quite a lot of work to prevent war crimes, if they can see a way. A few years ago, I wrote about…
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What would you do?
When you carry the Homeland in your heart and travel the world with it, you become its ambassador wherever you go, telling its story, transporting its concerns and spreading its culture. – Amjad Rfaie If that sounds to you like the antidote to genocide, you’re thinking the way I am but Amjad has a more…
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Politicians are the aggressors. Peoples are the peacemakers
The Freedom Flotilla is on the move, and this time the eyes of the world are on them, and a massive march to Gaza is heading the same way. This is how it always works – politicians treat the world like a chess board. They plan and action the wars, the occupations, the oppression and…
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Not a single firefighter, police officer or soldier had come
“Nearly 20 minutes had passed since Huda and her staff had come across the burning bus … she and the UN nurses gently carried burned children to waiting volunteer cars…” The drivers would take the burn victims to “the nearest accessible hospital. For most of them, that was Ramallah. The hospitals in Jerusalem were far…
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Reassurance For Helena Dollimore MP
Okay, I’m sorry – it’s a joke. Apparently, Ms Dollimore was very upset by the ‘WANTED’ poster that’s been posted around the town, the one that reads WANTED: a straight answer from Helena Dollimore so I thought I’d give her a bit of reassurance after the style of Dennis Skinner’s famous retraction. (You remember –…
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They are all dying
but they taught us resilience. With every Palestinian blown to bits, the West’s model child, the apartheid state, dies a little more. With every callously deflected question, our shabby politicians push their government further into fatal contempt. With every mendacious report, the BBC dig the grave of the mainstream media a little deeper. With every…
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Who are we?
Who are we, the monstrous, pitiless, violent, racist enemy you can’t understand, and can’t defeat? How did we become the despicable, cruel demons you stare at daily in horror? How do we do it? We take our children, as they approach adulthood, and put them in a heroic cult-army where at first they have adventurous…
Kay Green 