Every day the Palestinian civilian death toll is rising dramatically as Israel continues with its genocidal bombing and ground invasion of Gaza, and as settler and military violence towards Palestinians in the West Bank intensifies. “It’s a closure, it’s a curfew, in many places in the West Bank,” Issa Amro says. “It’s not normal life these days. Soldiers are everywhere, settlers are everywhere, people are afraid to leave their homes, they don’t go to work, they don’t go to school, they don’t go to universities.” After losing touch with Issa during the day because he was escaping from settlers who were chasing him in Hebron, we managed to reconnect over the phone and record a nine minute conversation about the hell working people in Palestine are going through right now and what their fellow workers in the US and Canada can do to stop the slaughter. Issa Amro is a Palestinian human rights defender living in Hebron, in the Occupied West Bank. He is the co-founder and former coordinator of the grassroots group Youth Against Settlements. Days prior to this recording, Issa was evicted from his home in Hebron and tortured by Israeli troops.
“Soldiers Are Everywhere, Settlers Are Everywhere, People Are Afraid to Leave Their Homes” (w/ Issa Amro)
Tag: Freedom
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From Out of The Memory Hole: NATO’s Eastward Crawl One Inch at a Time
Faina Savenkova: You Can Speak Russian – Without Fear
On Tuesday, I turn 15. Is it a little or a lot? Who knows. This year has been very difficult. If you see bright events on my channels or pages on the Internet, don’t think it means that I am a person for whom everything is always good. But the main thing is that I am no longer a child, I also live on my own land, in my beloved house with my family, cats and dog. I love my loved ones, and they love me. I didn’t go to another city, I didn’t run away. I’m in the same place I’ve always lived. Where there is still a war going on.
Faina Savenkova: You Can Speak Russian – Without Fear – Donbass Insider
We’re Seeing the Calamitous Cost of Ignoring Palestine
The Biden administration thought the Palestine question could be downplayed in pursuit of other objectives. And here we are.
Twenty-six. That is the number of times Wadea Al Fayoume, a Palestinian American child living in the Chicago area, was stabbed in a murderous rampage committed by his landlord. The picture of Wadea in a birthday hat that has gone viral since the attack that killed him and severely injured his mother was taken eight days earlier, when he turned 6.
We’re Seeing the Calamitous Cost of Ignoring Palestine
At Chicago City Council, Gabriel Miller asks ‘why don’t you condemn Israel for its war crimes?’
On October 13, 2023, the Chicago City Council held a meeting to vote on a “Resolution in Solidarity with Israel.” Gabriel Miller was one of the voices who spoke up against the double standard that is being held in favor of Israel and against Palestine.
In the end, Chicago City Council passed the pro-Israel resolution, despite the protests of people like Gabriel.
At Chicago City Council, Gabriel Miller asks ‘why don’t you condemn Israel for its war crimes?’
What Does It Mean to Stand With Israel?
There is a better way to support the Israeli people than unconditionally backing its current government.
What Does It Mean to Stand With Israel?
The US Is Just As Culpable As Israel For The Atrocities Committed In Gaza
The Israeli government dropped thousands of leaflets on Gaza telling everyone who lives in the northern part of the strip that they have 24 hours to evacuate to the southern part, and then bombed the people who were trying to evacuate.
The US Is Just As Culpable As Israel For The Atrocities Committed In Gaza
Stunning State Department Memo Warns Diplomats: No Gaza ‘De-Escalation’ Talk
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Stunning State Department Memo Warns Diplomats: No Gaza ‘De-Escalation’ Talk (archived)
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In December 1982, following Israel’s devastating invasion of Lebanon six months earlier, the United Nations General Assembly passed resolution A/RES/37/43 concerning the ‘[i]mportance of the universal realization of the right of peoples to self-determination’. It endorsed, without qualification, ‘the inalienable right’ of the Palestinian people to ‘self-determination, national independence, territorial integrity, national unity and sovereignty without outside interference’, and reaffirmed the legitimacy of their struggle for those rights ‘by all available means, including armed struggle’. It also strongly condemned Israel’s ‘expansionist activities in the Middle East’ and ‘continual bombing of Palestinian civilians’, both said to ‘constitute a serious obstacle to the realization of the self-determination and independence of the Palestinian people’. In the four decades since then, Israel’s violence against the Palestinian people and its colonisation of their land has not ceased. Up to the present moment, all over historical Palestine, from the Gaza Strip to Sheikh Jarrah, Palestinians are still under that same occupation, subject to suffocating control over virtually every aspect of their lives – and the sadistic, unaccountable violence of the Zionist state.
The Palestinians’ inalienable right to resist
AINDF: Let us break up south Korea-US nexus!
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Let us break up south Korea-US nexus!
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