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Samer Issawi : “I refused water not for love of death but for freedom and dignity”

Shireen Issawi, the sister of Palestinian detainee Samer Issawi who is on a months-long hunger strike against his imprisonment by the Israeli occupation forces, reported on Wednesday that her brother had successfully thwarted Israeli attempts to coerce him to end his hunger strike.   According to Shireen,  an intelligence officer of the Occupation forces on Tuesday threatened Samer inside the...

Roger Waters: my journey to BDS

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Roger Waters: my journey to BDS

In 1980, a song I wrote, “Another Brick in the Wall Part 2,” was banned by the governmen t o f South Africa because it was being used by Black South African children to advocate their right to equal education. That apartheid government imposed a cultural blockade, so-to-speak, on certain songs, including mine. Twenty-five years later, in 2005, Palestinian children...