For many days now, Khader Adnan has been waging a principled hunger strike against the treatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. At the time of this blog post, his hunger strike has been going on for 58 days. Khader was imprisoned in December without any charges, a very common practice of the Israeli occupier. After having been subjected to torture and humiliation - which is also standard practice in Israeli jails in these cases - he decided he would no longer accept these humiliations, and went into a hunger strike.

For the majority of this time, the majority of media have been ignoring his brave stance, despite the outcry by Palestinian citizens. Now that his life is in real danger, some media have started to report on it, but more significant than this is the response of Palestinian public opinion. Today, determined protesters braved a rain of rubber bullets and tear gas as they rallied at Ofer prison near the Palestinian village of Beitunia. A large number of other Palestinian prisoners have joined his hunger strike, and more are joining every day. The total number of hunger strikers is now reported to have reached 80, some of them being already on their 20th day of going without food.

Tariq Shadid - Traducción para Rebelión de Loles Oliván - La esencia de la lucha palestina es la batalla contra el sionismo. Es una batalla contra su racismo, contra sus asesinos crímenes de guerra, contra su insaciable apetito territorial, contra de su desprecio por los derechos humanos no judíos, y contra su determinada pretensión de destruir la identidad nacional palestina. Según aumentan las voces a favor de la normalización y los medios de comunicación social se invaden de bloggers pro-sionistas a sueldo, aumenta la necesidad de que los anti-sionistas llamen la atención sobre los crímenes cometidos por “Israel”, de pronunciarse contra el silencio en curso de los medios de comunicación y contra las actividades apologistas de quienes engañosamente se representan como “palomas de la paz”. Echemos primero un breve vistazo a la historia de la lucha anti-sionista y veamos luego dónde nos encontramos hoy en día.