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January 5, 2011

“Don’t distort our speech” — GYBO

As a follow up on my post from 2 January “Gaza Youth Manifesto,” here is their latest message & corrective. I was alerted to this by a reader of the blog who posted an...

Gaza Strip / Human rights / Israel / Palestine

January 2, 2011

Gaza Youth Manifesto

A group of youths — students, in the main — from the Gaza strip have published the following Manifesto, picked up by the Guardian in the UK from which I reprint it. You can...

Gaza Strip / Human rights / Israel / Middle East / Palestine

August 19, 2010

Gaza: Between the Fence & a Hard Place

Yesterday I was reading the forthcoming translation of Mahmoud Darwish‘s first — 1973 — collection of prose essays on Palestine. This is an extremely moving book, and I will come back to it when...

Blogs / Book Reviews / Gaza Strip / Intellectuals / Israel / Palestine / Paris / Uncategorized

June 10, 2010

At Drouot’s in Paris (the French equivalent of Sothby’s or Christie’s) a big literary sale has just taken place: The manuscript of Jacques Prévert’s “Quai des brumes” (the 150-page scenario of the film directed...

Censorship / Freedom of Speech / Gaza Strip / Human rights / Islamic Fundamentalists / Israel / Journalism / Palestine / Uncategorized

June 2, 2010

Alternate News re Israeli Acts of Piracy in International Water

The New York Times (the rag they call the “paper of record”) after 48 hours of holding its journalistic guns has come out blazing away… at the people attacked by Israeli commandos on the...

Agitprop / Gaza Strip / Human rights / Israel / Middle East / Palestine / West Bank

March 5, 2010

A MOVING PROCESSION TO PROTEST IDF GALA DINNER

JOIN US FOR A MOVING PROCESSION TO PROTEST THE 2010 ANNUAL NY GALA DINNER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES (IDF) NO to the IDF’s brutality! NO to the Occupation and Siege...

Agitprop / Gaza Strip / Human rights / Palestine / Uncategorized

January 27, 2010

SPECIAL GAZA EDITION of Woodstock International

From Tarak Kauff, who had been part of the US delegation of peace workers trying to reach Gaza, but where turned back in Egypt, news of the publication of THE SPECIAL EDITION GAZA of...

Agitprop / Gaza Strip / Human rights / Middle East / Palestine

December 30, 2009

Gaza Freedom March Blocked in Cairo

This post by Max Ajl via adbusters; more info can be found here and here. Swiss Free Gaza Action on December 27 The Gaza Freedom March (GFM) was conceived as a massive nonviolent mobilization...

Gaza Strip

January 17, 2009

Douglas Oliver on Kindness

On this very cold Saturday morning in Albany, as death continues to rain on / reign over Gaza, I am correcting the proofs of a book of essays, Justifying the Margins, to be published...

Gaza Strip

January 4, 2009

Gaza: a blog & a historical comparison

Day nine of the Israeli onslaught — first, eight days of bombardments, & now on the ninth day, the invasion — on the Gaza Strip. Here are two takes: 1) a link to Sameh...