Category: Blog

NUI$ance or not, money can’t change the truth

Day in day out, Palestinians all over the world and their supporters are investing their time, resources and energy into getting the word out about the grave injustices that are being perpetrated against the Palestinian people by the Zionist state. The Zionists have now – yet again – decided to respond by reaching deeper into their wallets, as was recently...

Over our dead bodies

Over our dead bodies

by Tariq Shadid – Hypocrisy runs worldwide; it is known as one of mankind’s ugliest traits. However, at some points in time, at certain locations, it takes such wildly ludicrous shapes that it turns human beings into caricatures of themselves. One such example can be found at the official Israeli response to the recent desecration of 15 Muslim gravestones at...

What they told the Palestinian

Do you want to know what they told the Palestinian? First, they told him he did not exist. Then they told him he wasn’t Palestinian, just Arab. In the mean time they were spending a lot of effort on brainwashing the remaining Arabs that they weren’t Arabs, but Jordanians, Iraqis, Saudis, Egyptians, Libyans and Yemenis. Then they told the Palestinian...

Normalization extravaganza: Palestinian artists at the ‘Israeli’ Oud festival

Normalization extravaganza: Palestinian artists at the ‘Israeli’ Oud festival

There are various degrees of what we call ‘normalization’. As indicated in a recent article at the Musical Intifada, in some exceptional cases it can even be described as ‘understandable’, or to a certain degree ‘acceptable’ if not entirely ‘inevitable’. However, at the opposite end of that spectrum there are displays of normalization that are completely uncalled for, and nauseatingly...