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Letter from Bethlehem: Mazin Qumsiyeh

  Jessie and I were honored with an award last night (World Beyond War). Recording here https://youtu.be/uFATtCze3F4 For other amazing honored awardees last night see https://worldbeyondwar.org/war-abolisher-awards/ But for us as we noted in our talk, it is the extended family who make things happen. In our institute it is the volunteers and staff. The same night (yesterday) Zena and Sara did a brilliant presentation about our collective work. See video at https://www.facebook.com/PIBS.PMNH/posts/pfbid02JxMtgCV3xPqniXw1t3LBDJCusk6LRUrDgLVxvR4bHPbduEJmzA2uXYeC9Xca9La6l The story of Palestine reaches Taiwan TV thanks to Jessie Chinese TV AI voiceover https://youtu.be/WRx_8lbKr6c Original go to minute 44 https://youtu.be/lblTWJ9cHbo The pogroms continued here in the occupied areas. Just in the past 24 hours, several houses were burnt and four brothers shot in cold blood by rampaging colonial soldiers in Til, Nablus. And when one of fascist racist colonial settlers was killed by a res...
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Interview with Michael Barenboim

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  For violinist Michael Barenboim, Germany’s memory culture has become a tool for upholding complicity in Israel's crimes and rendering Palestinians invisible. Since October 2023, Michael Barenboim has emerged as one of the few German public figures to speak out persistently against the government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza — and to name it as such.  A violinist and violist, professor at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin, and son of the well-known pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim, in early 2024 he co-founded Make Freedom Ring , a collective of classical musicians organizing concerts around Germany in solidarity with Palestine. Along the way, he has felt the full force of the German state’s repression against those who speak out on Palestine: op-eds and interviews were pulled , while concerts that he had helped organize were canceled by their venues shortly before they were due to take place. In 2024, Barenboim was also among 150 Jewish artists and wri...
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From Colonial Britain to Genocidal Israel

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  From Colonial Britain to Genocidal Israel, Western Colonialism as State Terrorism vs. Resistance as the Colonised's Way of Life, Plus PIPD Take-Aways. While Terror (against the weak) is not exclusive to any human group, European colonisers (that is, land robbers & resource thieves,, race-faith supremacists & liars) add an Orwellian layer to Language See my essay on looking at Israel through the bifocal lens of Adolf Hitler and Raphael Lemkin. Nazis misappropriated swastika the ancient religious symbol of the Indic Civilization while Zionist Project (land thieving settler colonialist mission via ethnic cleansing) has misappropriated the Star of David. Both symbols will hence be forever tainted. You got to give it to Nuremberg-worthy Class A White, Euro-supremacists of which Zionist Jews (with their Jewish Supremacist Israel in pursuit of “Mein Kampf in reverse”) are the most despicable version. They captured both language and land. In terms of global public narrative, the...
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