The “Paltire” demonstrates Scottish solidarity with Palestinians. “The British Jewish community have issued a complaint about the combined Palestine-Scotland flags being flown in Scotland.” I can understand their concern, but I stand in solidarity with the people who are being slaughtered en masse. I stand with the people who protest against any government who supports …
LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE – LIVERPOOL – SEPTEMBER 28 Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, introduced the ban after Palestine Action entered the RAF base at Brize Norton and spray painted two military planes red, shining a spotlight on the role of the British military in partnering Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people. It is …
British Gas discovered the existence of natural gas in the Gaza Marine fields, 20 nautical miles off the coast of Gaza in 1999. In 2008, in total contravention of international laws, Israel declared sovereignty over the Gaza Marine area. In 2022 President Joe Biden and Egyptian government officials pressured Israel to pursue the development of …
Sinister Cruelty The Israeli occupation state, forces Palestinians to demolish their homes or face very large fines. Failure to pay the fines results in imprisonment. This is something that has been happening for a long time as part of the Israeli expansion program. Anyone being evicted from their own home by an occupation force is …
The watermelon represents the Palestinians’ public expression, of the struggle against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. The watermelon became a Palestinian symbol after the Six-Day War in 1967, when Israel took control of the West Bank and Gaza, and annexed East Jerusalem. The Israeli government made displaying the Palestinian flag a criminal offence. …
Their lives are like fallen leaves That lay on the ground until They gradually just disappear As if they never ever existed But they are not leaves To be swept away by invaders They are human beings Who are being exterminated It is not a lapse of memory Since the last holocaust It is a …
How can it be possible to feel at peace with the world, when our fellow humans are being slaughtered? The world belongs to all of us, but a minority think it is acceptable to commit mass murder as if it was theirs alone, and they can do anything they like. Imagine waking up in the …
When I was a young boy, I saw a film clip on the television about the Nazi persecution of Jews. Viennese Jews were being publicly humiliated by being made to scrub the street with an audience of jeering people, which included children laughing at them. It was the gleeful participation of the children, that I …
Palestinians are forbidden from collecting rainwater because it’s deemed ‘Israeli property’. Since 1967, it has been illegal for Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank to collect rainwater for any use. Israel pours concrete into well and destroys irrigation system, al-Hijrah, south of Hebron, 26.7.23
Noun: Holocaust 1. A very large amount of destruction, especially by fire or heat, or the killing of very large numbers of people. While mass murder continues to be carried out in Gaza, and atrocities are being committed against men, women and children in other parts of Palestine, Happy New Year is not something that …
Naila @BrownNaila “I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Auschwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Auschwitz being replaced by the boundaries …
Image by Anas Al Sharif This is not a war This is execution This is the final push To exterminate people who have been displaced, imprisoned, abused, and tortured for years. This is not just a crime against the Palestinians, this is a crime against humanity. Who is going to be next? Politicians who support …
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