We were honored to be a part of the Deep Truth online conference in mid September 2018. We were part of a panel discussion called "Triple Blockade: The Israeli Attack on Gaza, Free Speech, and Democracy."
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by Kathryn Shihadah
“Learn to discern” is a mantra to take very seriously in the age of Fake News. Sometimes bias is subtle.
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by Kathryn Shihadah
Will good news ever come out of Gaza? All indications are heart-breakingly grim.
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by Kathryn Shihadah
This is Abdullah. He is 13. He lost a leg to an Israeli sniper bullet. This not a human interest story about a cute kid determined to beat the odds after a tragic accident. This is a story of the horror that Gaza has become for nearly every family.
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by Kathryn Shihadah
Supporters of Israel, take off the blinders and see the truth for what it is. Israel is shooting and killing Gazans, and then blaming the Gazans for it.
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Israel was only “protecting its borders,” which is “the right of any sovereign state.” Let us recall that there are other ways of protecting borders besides snipers and exploding bullets - especially against unarmed protesters who have not breached any borders.
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by Kathryn Shihadah
Resistance is legal. Prolonged occupation is illegal. These young resisters are paying a high price to make their voices heard - over the noise of guns.
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by Kathryn Shihadah
War crimes. Disproportionate force against unarmed demonstrators. With our money. We need to be enraged, and we need to tell Congress NO MORE.
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by Kathryn Shihadah
The topic of Israel finds almost all mainstream media spinning in the same direction, making it hard to recognize omissions, half-truths, and downright lies. Learn to discern.
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by Kathryn Shihadah
Let us weep with this man for his loss. The people who destroy olive trees can not love the land. They don't even understand it. How can you say "this is mine," and then destroy living things, especially if you claim to be a person of faith?
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by Kathryn Shihadah
I’m so done with hearing “the most moral army in the world,” when hardly a day goes by without a story of some innocent young Palestinian man dying. Spare me. What moral army accompanies and defends illegal squatters as they attack indigenous people?
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by Kathryn Shihadah
Killing of Palestinians is not new. It has been going on for decades, unabated, uncriticized, and bankrolled by the US. We have laws on our books – the Leahy Laws – that enable us to withhold aid to countries that commit such human rights abuses, but in spite of overwhelming proof of abuse by Israel, our politicians refuse to cut off military support.
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According to the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, Article 26, every person has the right to an education. In the occupied Palestinian Territories, education is under constant threat.
Officials say 95 West Bank schools were attacked in 2017 as intimidation, demolitions and occupation take high toll on Palestinian children.
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by Kathryn Shihadah
It's been a long time since Israel and Palestinians exchanged roles as David and Goliath. American mainstream news has yet to get the memo.
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The UN enabled the creation of Israel in 1948 against the will of the Palestinians, and has struggled ever since to bring the state in line. An inordinate number of resolutions have been critical of Israel. Is that because the UN is anti-Semitic, or because Israel owes its existence to the UN, and has a responsibility that it is not fulfilling?
Israel: if the shoe fits, wear it. Never mind how many other feet it fits on besides yours.
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Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked may look sweet and innocent, but behind that veneer churns hatred. Shaked has not been shy about her feelings toward Palestinians, African refugees, and the idea of stomping on human rights to keep Israel Jewish. Here's a case in point: she wants to make Twitter compliant, as Facebook was, with Israeli demands for censorship of anything that Israel is uncomfortable with.
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Palestinians have used nonviolent protest as a form of resistance for decades, and always some died, whether through bullets or tear gas canisters or physical attack. Too often, young men with pent-up anger at a lifetime under occupation have thrown stones or pulled a knife, which never ends well. But this - this has the potential to be a Big Deal. No doubt parallels will be drawn to Civil Rights marches. Will the IDF be able to contain itself, or will shots "have" to be fired? Does Israel even know how to do that?
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From Zionism’s earliest days in the late 1800s until the present, Israel’s battle has always been about land, but for some the issue goes much deeper—literally. What is underground is as valuable as what is above ground, and the battle has been raging for years.