Samidoun’s poster for the article: Gaza: The Resistance Lives, The Prison Doors Open — On the Road to Liberation and Return In today’s age of information, history is not written by those in…
They say that before embarking on the fidai operation (“fidai” is someone who engages in guerrilla warfare and other forms of resistance) at the highly militarized Allenby (King Hussein) crossing between Jordan and…
It’s painful, punishing and horrific. You might be tempted not to bear witness and shut off all means of communication and, if you are a believer, to simply focus on…
What do Scott Ritter, Naser al-Laham, Ali Abunimah and Khaled Barakat have in common? They are all purveyors of truthful information (journalists/writers) about crimes committed by Israel and its Western…
A London reporter writes in WSJ that the assassination attempt on Trump, coming after Biden’s “stumbles” during the recent presidential debate, has pushed the superpower to enter “an unusually turbulent…
Caption: My Facebook post on June 21, 2024 with the caption, “Gazans (my cousins of the Bseiso family) celebrating a wedding in Jordan at a site overlooking Palestine.”You would think…
Caption: Frame captured from a De-Colonizer 1948 video titled “Une conversation en hébreu sur le génocide” Even before Israel exposed its heart of darkness to the world in the aftermath…
Means of return: “Our weapons are the means of our return/And (they are) our constant companions until the liberation of Palestine”, Arab Liberation Front (circa 1975). Artist: Hassib al-JassemIsrael has…
An art event staged in front of Tel Aviv Museum of Art in January 2024 called on the crowd to perform a sustained scream in unison to dramatize Israeli pain…
Image: “Holding on to the occupied territories will turn us into a nation of murderers and murder victims.” Declaration published in Haaretz in 1967 signed by a minority of Israelis…
It is beyond me how Israel has failed to figure out that a martyred Palestinian leader exerts a vastly more powerful hold on his people’s imagination and will to resist…
Only a short time prior to listening to Abu Obaidah’s press statement of Dec 21, I had been watching a news report that included a view of the installation of…
Ismail Haniyeh’s statement yesterday (Dec 13, 2023) was eloquent and powerful. Haniyeh is the senior Hamas leader and former prime minister of the Palestinian Authority (2006–07) and of the Hamas…
I am betting on Hamas and the resistance of the Palestinian people to win, if not immediately in the next few weeks, then definitely in the near future. I think…
Throughout these historic days since Oct 7, I have sat transfixed before my laptop screen flipping among three live continuous TV news streams, namely Al Jazeera Arabic, Al Jazeera English…
Even though the airwaves have long been agog with the voices of the Israeli government, the US and other so-called leaders of the free world about the war on Gaza,…
If it is ultimately up to individuals to form their own opinions about Israel and if it’s all a matter of interpretation and debate, there are now millions of individuals…
On the day after Abu ‘Obaidah, the spokesperson for Hamas’ Al-Qassam Islamic Brigade, mentioned the death of the 19-year-old Israeli soldier, “originally from Morocco” as she had described herself in…
The Palestinian Islamic resistance forces are waging a religious, cultural and social war against Israel and its western allies. This war is not simply “anticolonial” or “anti-apartheid.” It is not…
In a speech in 2019, General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, declared: “We are unique among militaries. We do not take an oath to a king…
Image [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor] found in a 2018 article titled “Israel counts on Saudi ‘fatwa’ to discourage protests” The amazing phenomenon the world is largely unaware of is that the more…
Charlotte Kates, international coordinator of Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, discussing the challenges facing Palestinian prisoners on the occasion of the Palestinian prisoners’ Day, April 17, 2020 There is history and…
Intensive hasbara aimed at obscuring Palestine’s history and stifling criticism of Israel also obscures Zionist fascism in Germany Caption| Image: Mohammed Alkhatib for InfoMigrants: “The situation of Palestinian refugees in…
Ron Prosor’s diatribes ought to be flagged by Twitter as incitement, misleading information and hate speech Caption: Samidoun Poster on a tree in Berlin’s Neukölln district showing a sketch of…
Caption: The Palestinian flag next to the American flag at the Flag Raising Ceremony hosted by AMP-Chicago on Friday, May 26th, 2023 at the Daley Plaza Center [Rima Najjar] As a…
Caption: Charlotte Kates on the steps leading to the Vancouver Art Gallery on May 14, 2023, during a rally commemorating 75 years of Palestine’s Nakba. She is holding a poster…
Caption: A young Palestinian holds a sign that says “Support Palestinian Resistance” at a rally commemorating 75 years of Nakba in Toronto (Yonge and Dundas Square) on May 13, 2023 On…
Caption: Kevin Shimmin, Union Organizer at UFCW Canada (left) and Rima Najjar protesting Tel Aviv University’s “Changemakers” event at the Marriott Hotel in Toronto, May 7, 2023 At the Marriott Hotel…
Caption: Masar Badil — Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Liberation Movement and Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and Neturei Karta leading the May Day Liberation March in Ottawa, April 30, 2023 With the successful completion…
Both Networks are challenging Zionist manufactured smears and their power to twist governments as they like Caption: Demonstrators chanting in front of the American Embassy in Ottawa: “Israel is a…
Rabbi David Feldman (NK) speaking at the May Day Liberation March organized by Masar Badil-The Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement (masarbadil.org) on May 30, 2023 in Ottawa, Canada I’ve seen them…
Caption: Left: Helyeh Doutaghi of People’s Tribunal on US imperialism, Sanctions, Embargoes and Economic Coercive Measures | Right: Nina Farnia, legal historian and scholar of Critical Race Theory at Albany…
Caption: Left: Charlotte Kates, the international coordinator of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network (https://samidoun.net/) | Right: Khaled Barakat, Palestinian writer and researcher and co-founder of Masar Badil-The Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary…
“We don’t feel desolate on a path because of the scarcity of travelers.” Caption: Left: Sheikh Khader Adnan / Right: The Sheikh’s wife Randa Musa (Umm Abdel-Rahaman), carrying a poster…
It's not just al-Quds and Samidoun that are under attack; it's the whole lot of us Palestinians Caption: Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network poster: “Freedom for all of our Palestinian…
Palestinian resistance in the diaspora will not abandon Palestinian prisoners and they will not submit to the Berlin ban on the Prisoners’ Day marches Caption: Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network…
It took some doing, but at long last, Zionism is being denounced openly for what it is, a racist, settler-colonial Jewish regime aided and abetted by imperial forces and delusional…
Caption: No to Zionism! Poster by Marc Rudin (Jihad Mansour) 1980 Marc Rudin | The Palestine Poster Project Archives Arabic says: “There is no solution but to uproot Zionism”. Recently,…
University administrators have yet to engage ethically with Zionism as they do with other socially reprehensible ideologies Caption: Left: Dr. Lara Sheehi; Right: Dr. Steven Salaita I am so happy for…
The Oversight Board has opened public comment on Meta's approach to moderating the Arabic word “shaheed” (martyr), but what we need is an accurate and global definition of "terror" A…
Caption--Left: Gheith Najjar (white t-shirt) at Qatar 2022 World Cup. Right: A screen shot of an Israeli’s mobile captured as he was sharing Najjar’s image at Qatar 2022 World Cup Marco…
Caption: Image shown during the Zoom broadcast of the Palestinian National Conference — Fourteen Million, 5 Nov 2022, while a recorded statement by Palestinian prisoners in support of the Conference was being…
Caption: On Al Mayadeen pan-Arabist satellite news channel being interviewed about the march in Brussels (Left to right): Mohammed Khatib, Europe coordinator of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network; Jaldia…
Caption: The logo on my t-shirt on the left says, “Anti-Zionist Vibes Only”; on the right, the Arabic on top of the map of Palestine says, “Inch by Inch” In preparing…
Caption: Masked youth cadets from the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement, march in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis (Getty) Josep…
Caption: At a joint in California where customers leave notes in the cracks of a brick wall. Note says: “الله اكبر --Free Palestine, assholes.” It’s not wishful thinking; it’s really…
Khaled Barakat and Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network international coordinator Charlotte Kates attending the conference of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle Toronto, Canada 2013 (courtesy: Khaled Barakat) Palestinian writer…
Rima Najjar I have just filled out the form of appeal to the Facebook and Instagram Oversight Board, which describes itself as “Ensuring respect for free expression, through independent judgment.”…
What a humiliating failure for the group of diplomatic missions in Palestine that are now supporting the six Palestinian human rights NGOs that Israel has dubbed “terrorist organizations” and closed…
Let me ask you a question. If you identify as Jewish, what is your reaction when you see a news item such as: ‘Israel settles 50 Ukrainian Jewish families in…
Members of Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement at a gathering for Islamic Jihad commander Khaled Mansour, who was killed on the first day of “Operation…
To me, the purest and strongest expression of Palestinian resistance comes from Al Masar Al Badil (Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement), a movement organized by activists who never accepted the…
“We affirm our support for the Mapping Project out of Boston, and condemn attempts to censor this useful educational tool.” The above expression of solidarity with an independent anonymous collective…
Israeli police attack mourners at funeral for slain journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Image is a capture from a video clip circulating on social media (https://fb.watch/c_28BmgFX9/). Of the hundreds of thousands…
Image: Nadia Mansour/Facebook Sivan Tal has proposed on Twitter a UN resolution on Nakba denial similar to the Israeli-sponsored resolution approved by the UN General Assembly in January of this…
Haaretz, the liberal Zionist Israeli newspaper, along with much of the world, has come a long way since the advent of the BDS movement on the international political scene, and…
Image: From the booklet Ansar III, published by ROOTS and Friends of Palestinian prisoners Every now and then, Haaretz boosts the morale of liberal Zionists by exposing facts and new…
Criticizing the PA and holding it accountable is not anti-Palestinian; it is patriotic and as much a tenet of the resistance movement as criticizing apartheid Israel is. After decades of…
Resistance, as a way of life, can help change the current image portrayed by the political and security elites in all of the Arab countries … Image: “We don’t want…
Without radical action, there is no “reforming” ingrained issues of supremacy and racism in the US Image: Several hundred people march on Flatbush Ave. in Brooklyn on Friday to protest…
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