“The ‘civil death’ of Hüseyin Doğru.”
A 21st century narrative of dread. 7 April—It will be a year ago next month that Hüseyin Doğru, a German journalist residing in Berlin, has lived under European Union sanctions. He is the first German citizen to find his name…
“The defense of Palestinian culture.”
In conversation with the director of the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit. “They want to erase our memories.”—Amer Shomali 31 March—I will always remember my first sight of the Palestinian Museum. Its austere geometry and dazzling white limestone is arresting in every…
“The ‘empire of pretend’ goes to war (again).”
A podcast exchange with Patrik Baab. 16 MARCH—“The information age is actually a media age,” the late John Pilger once observed. “We have war by media, censorship by media, demonology by media, retribution by media, diversion by media—a Surreal assembly…
“Iran as ‘the evil one.’”
The return of the ‘end time.’ 11 MARCH—It is remarkable—and there are stronger words for this—how Americans swoon into states of religious fervor in times of crisis, or when their character or national identity, or their conduct toward others, is…
“The not-to-be-forgotten.”
The war as it is in the West Bank. 10 MARCH—It is 11 days into the U.S.-Israel war on Iran and there are no reports in corporate media on the impact of this aggression in the West Bank even as…
“Radical trust.”
Kindergarteners get a playground in al–Mughayyir. First thought, best thought.—Allen Ginsberg 8 MARCH—My first thought as Marwa, my guide and interpreter, drove us away from a tiny two-room kindergarten in the remote West Bank village of al–Mughayyir was one I blurted…
“‘He who sows injustice.’”
Poisoned minds, poisoned land. He who sows injustice will reap sorrow.—Proverbs 22:8 25 FEBRUARY—When Thomas Friedman tells readers of the Zionist-aligned New York Times that Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the West Bank and Gaza—altogether its unhinged nationalist messianism—threatens to destroy Israel, you know the…
“An award for one of our own.”
In the name of a correspondent who paid the highest price. Recognition does not grow so plentifully at our end of the garden. This is simply the way it is in the media terrain of the Western post-democracies. Independent media…
“Hope, ‘an act of resistance.’”
A ‘West Bank Alert.’ Hope is not in plentiful supply these days, not among those with their eyes open, those taking the time to pay attention to events in West Asia and elsewhere. Personally, I have long considered hope the…
“Winter blankets for refugee children.”
A brief appeal to our subscribers and readers. Amid the cold of another West Bank winter, the Development and Rehabilitation Association of New Askar refugee camp, also known as the Awdeh Center, has begun a “Warm Winter Campaign.” This is an…
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