Palestine Blogs

For the first time in the University of California history, the UC Berkeley Student Senate has approved a bill to divest from two US companies in response to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian...

The IAW debate on Al-Jazeera pointed to accusation of an anti-Semitic plot as a conspiracy theory hurled at the ethnically, religiously, and generationally diverse group of broke solidarity activists...

Rush Limbaugh vows to move to Costa Rica if health care reform legislation passes. Goodbye Rush! America is better off without Limbaugh. The radio talk show host has been trash talking the president...

The latest round of false US indignation over continued Jewish-only settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank masks another criminal Israeli policy that has the full support of the Obama...

Colleen "Jihad Jane" LaRose is a 47 year old Michigan Native who's blonde with beautiful green eyes. Irshad "Suck on This" Manji is a 42 year old Canadian with caramel skin and impressively pointy...

Harvard students put together a coalition of sixteen campus groups calling on the university to terminate Martin Kramer's fellowship for his highly problematic suggestion that humanitarian aid to...

His holiness, the fourteenth Dalai Lama risked the ire of Chinese Authorities when he came out explicitly in support of the Muslim Uyghur minority yesterday, Uighurs have fought for equal rights and...

According to the US federal government, this guys is white: Yes, if following the categorization of race in the upcoming Census, which directly takes its taxonomy cues from the Office of Budget...

Minutes after Joe Biden sang Israel’s praises for willingness to reengage in ‘peace talks’ and promised to confront Iran on it’s behalf, the Israeli government rebuffed the VP with an announcement to...

In the thriving and exciting world of usul ul-fiqh - Islamic jurisprudence - comes another unbinding legal opinion (fatwa) that is gaining publicity. Pakistani Islamic scholar Dr. Muhammad Tahir...

One year after the first anniversary of the war on Gaza during which the Israeli Defense Forces [IDF] murdered 1,400 Palestinians including 400 children, the IDF and war criminal Lt. General Gabi...

The Israeli Criminal Army has imprisoned 12-year old Alhassan Muhtasib of Hebron for the past 9 days. Alhassan, was arrested with his younger brother, Alameer, 7, who was severely beaten by the...

After watching Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker I felt it was necessary to write about what I found to be a careless use of sacred sound design. The Hurt Locker is an Oscar nominated film about a US...

Al-Jazeera, English featured a nice little discussion on Israeli apartheid week. I love that we finally have a channel where the debate is two-to-one against the pro-Israel position. In US...

Perhaps to prove Jay Z right about the death of auto-tune, the last minute release of a campaign theme song by the Farouk Shami campaign failed to convince democratic party members to give the...

Open Letter to Rabbi Doug Kahn by Omar Barghouti, a leader of the international movement to boycott Israel

A news report by Falasteen Alyoom "فلسطين اليوم" reports that now one can buy a functioning Gaza tunnel for $20,000 instead of $150,000, the ongoing price. It seems that the laws of supply and demand...

Early Thursday morning, Hamas spokesman Ayman Taha announced the establishment of a fat camp in the Gaza Strip. “We are reaching out to America,” Taha stated. “We’ve witnessed its First Lady’s quest...

To be of the South Asian persuasion means there are several cultural observations you must oblige to, ideally without much verbal protest: spicy foods, medical degree, a severe lack of emphasis on...