The memories of the summer vacations she spent as a child with her family in Tantura were shattered when when she realized how the village had been conqered, destroyed and emptied of its inhabitants in 1948.
A campaign for a selective boycott and sanctions against Israel was initiated by four Matzpen members, who wrote the appeal's draft and obtained the endorsement and signatures of 31 other people.
Une campagne de boycott sélectif et de sanctions contre Israël a été lancée par quatre membres du ‘Matzpen’, qui ont rédigé le projet d’appel et obtenu l’appui et les signatures de 31 autres personnes.
Israelis and Palestinians exposing together the lies of zionism and Israeli propaganda.
Rami Heilbronn, during a picket in London, in solidarity with the Israeli nuclear whisle-blower Mordechai Vanunu and against nuclear weapons.
This book reviews the development of Israeli-Arab relations from 1948 to 1961 as reflected in the Israeli press and on the Knesset stage. Many will find here for the first time a detailed description of forgotten facts. The few who know the facts will be surprised to realise the extent to which a state propaganda apparatus is capable of shaping not only a citizen's outlook but also their memory.
In the Israeli-Arab conflict, no side will be able to achieve a "clear” victory over its opponent, without bringing about the destruction of its own house.
I was three or four years old in that morning, when the village of A-Reineh, where we were living at the time, woke to the sounds of mighty explosions from the direction of Saffuriyeh, some five kms away. I clung to my father and clutched his gown in terror. All around stood the members of my family and the neighbors, rooted to the ground by the fearful sights and sounds. Columns of smoke and dust rose to the heavens above Saffuriyeh. In the evening came the news: there would never be a return. The Jews had blown up the houses with dynamite.
An overview of the pages of the booklet reveals the range of topics that have occupied the members of Matzpen, and the changes in emphasis over the years.
Who was Anthony Compass, who wrote a letter to a local newspaper in Cornwall, and what could be his connection to the Socialist Organization in Israel — Matzpen?
With the worsening economic situation in Jordan, the population is being and will be pushed into one of two camps: Islamic fundamentalism or socialism. So far, Islamic fundamentalism is the more popular of the two. Such is the traditional stronghold of Islam in Jordan, that without even questioning the viability of this solution, people blindly accept the so-called Word of Islam.
The fact that Zionism continues to posit the Hebrew speaking Jewish people of Israel as part of a world Jewish nation testifies to the unique nature of both the Zionist project and the essentially artificial nature of Israeli nationhood. Politically and economically the basis of Israeli nationalism is the sponsorship by imperialism and the consequent attempts by Israel to dominate and subjugate the Palestinian people within and the Arab peoples without. This is the material basis of Israeli Jewish nationalism.
During all those years when Israel demanded of the Soviet Union to allow Jews to emigrate from there to Israel, all Israeli governments consistently denied the right of the Palestinian refugees to return to their homeland.
Revolutionary or progressive ideas cannot be derived from dogmas that claim divine origin and include so many reactionary and oppressive tenets, not least those concerning women. Religious ideology is therefore a false consciousness, which mystifies the potential revolutionary consciousness of the oppressed and has often provided a cover for the manoeuvres of the ruling classes.
In 1982 the West Bank's entire hydrological system was integrated into the Israeli national water company Mekorot. A suppressed report, prepared a few years ago, saw this integration of water systems as an obstacle to Palestinian independence: "It may thus become practically and politically impossible to sever the water administration of the Occupied Territories from those of Israel".
Eight young women had been arrested that night and deported to 'Amman the following morning. Eight women, representing eight families in a village of 60 families. A great suffering for the women, for their men and children and for many of their relatives.
Women Against Fundamentalism was launched on May 6th 1989, as a network to challenge the rise of fundamentalism in all religions. Women's groups involved in this campaign include Southall Black Sisters, Brent Asian Women's Refuge and the Iranian Women's Organization in Britain.
The policies of the great majority of the Israeli-Jewish society are influenced neither by Palestinian restraint nor by lack of it, but by Palestinian force, by the Palestinians' effectiveness in causing harm to Israel ‒ be it military or financial, through other countries such as the USA.
The left and other secularists failed to mount a serious challenge to Islamization. The acceptance of Islam by the bulk of the population does not signify callous indifference to the slaughter of individual leftists; rather, it is an expression of despair. The population feels powerless.
"The Political Economy of the West Bank" not only develops and stimulates a number of important debates, it also constitutes a useful compilation of data, rendering it a valuable read for those concerned with the Palestine of today and the Palestine of tomorrow.