The only way out for us, is to start reading the reality with a critical and observing eye that can bring us a step forward to peace. Not the political peace that is consumed as a notion, but peace for us people. Palestinians, who are so distracted, shattered, bleeding in so many obstructions and frustrations, we no longer realize what we are.
Category Archives: Apartheid
Critics of ‘Military Impunity’ Take On Indian-Administered Kashmir · Global Voices
The Indian writer Arundhati Roy argues that his country is in denial about the Kashmiri people’s freedom—its azadi.While we denounce—as we must—the gunning down of unarmed protesters by the security forces, the attacks on ambulances and hospitals by policemen, and the blinding of teenagers with pellet guns, we have to keep in mind that the real debate cannot only be about the violation of human rights by Indian security forces in the Kashmir valley. Egregious though they are, those violations are the consequence—the inevitable and unavoidable consequence—of the militaristic suppression of a people’s struggle for freedom. Kashmiris are not fighting for the establishment of the rule of law or an end to human rights violations. They are fighting for azadi. For this, they are prepared to face down bullets with stones. For this, they are prepared to die in numbers.
Source: Critics of ‘Military Impunity’ Take On Indian-Administered Kashmir · Global Voices
Israeli Forces demolish home with Palestinian man inside it – PNN



Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Wednesday dawn have demolished a home in Surif town north of Hebron with a Palestinian man in it amid intense clashes that lasted for hours.The Israeli army said that the man who was killed is a Palestinian resistance fighter named Mohammed Al-Faqih, whose body was pulled out of the ruins of his home.Eyewitnesses said that Israeli Forces were calling on Al-Faqih to surrender before they fired 11 anti-tank missiles on the house and demolitshing it.Israeli authorities claim that Mohammed is responsible for the shooting near Otniel illegal settlement which left one rabbi dead and three others injured earlier this month.
Source: Israeli Forces demolish home with Palestinian man inside it – PNN
BMJ study: US police hospitalized 54,000 people in 2012 | Americas | DW.COM | 26.07.2016
One of the more challenging aspects of the research, Miller said, is how little official documentation of police violence can be found in law enforcement databases and how often police involvement in injuries is left out of medical records.”The surprise that had dropped on all of us around the time of starting this was that the data sets that I’ve worked with since I came into the field of injury, from the vital statistics on the number of people killed in the United States and the intent of those deaths, that the coroners and medical examiners were failing to code police involvement in almost half of the police-involved deaths,” Miller said. “And there are two separate reporting systems that the police are supposed to report police-involved deaths to – and both of those had even worse underreporting.””When you correct those firearm accounts, what you find is that one in every 13 people who died because someone else fired a firearm the police pulled the trigger,” he added. “A police officer pulled the trigger. And that’s scary.”
Source: BMJ study: US police hospitalized 54,000 people in 2012 | Americas | DW.COM | 26.07.2016
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License to Kill: Forgery, evidence tampering and two dead teens | +972 Magazine
Usaid and Muhammed Qadus are shot to death in their own village by a major in the Israeli army who claims he only fired rubber bullets. But the bullets were real, and he admitted to lying and committing forgery to cover up his crime. Instead of being charged with a crime, he is promoted. By John Brown and Noam Rotem (Translated from Hebrew by Ofer Neiman) In the “License to Kill” series thus far, we have surveyed eight Military Police investigation files regarding the killing of Palestinians by IDF fire. Despite the fact that none of those killed posed a danger…
Source: License to Kill: Forgery, evidence tampering and two dead teens | +972 Magazine
Palestinian poet at heart of row on Israeli army radio broadcast | World news | The Guardian
ID Card was written in 1964, when Darwish was working as a literary assistant in Haifa on an Israeli communist party publication. Its most famous line – “Write it down! I’m an Arab” – was later borrowed for a documentary of his life. Like many of his poems, it balances complex emotions often within a single stanza: anger, pride in a sense of self, rejection of stereotyping and a warning of the consequences of oppression. It finishes: “Write down on the top of the first page: / I do not hate people / And I do not steal from anyone / But if I starve / I will eat my oppressor’s flesh / Beware, beware of my starving / And my rage.”
Source: Palestinian poet at heart of row on Israeli army radio broadcast | World news | The Guardian
British police report over 6,000 hate crimes in month since Brexit vote | News | DW.COM | 22.07.2016
The National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) said it had recorded 6,193 incidents of hate crime from mid-June to mid-July, figures obtained from police forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.The most commonly reported crimes were harassment, assault and other violence such as verbal abuse or spitting. The second and third most prevalent incidents were public order offences, followed by criminal damage.Since the EU referendum result was declared on June 24, Muslims and Eastern Europeans have said they have been particularly targeted.
Source: British police report over 6,000 hate crimes in month since Brexit vote | News | DW.COM | 22.07.2016
Knesset passes MP-expulsion law | News | DW.COM | 20.07.2016
A spokeswoman for the Association of Civil Rights in Israel, Debbie Gilad-Hayo, described the new law as “one of the most serious legislative proposals in recent years.”It harmed the “very building blocks” of democracy, including freedom of expression, the right to vote and to be elected and the right to representation, she said.The bill was aimed at Arab lawmakers but it would become a “slippery slope” with the potential to affect all Israelis, she added.Last week, parliament drew criticism from the European Union, when it adopted a law requiring non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that receive more than half their funding from abroad to provide details about donors’ contributions.Critics claimed that legislation would be used to target left-wing groups.
Source: Knesset passes MP-expulsion law | News | DW.COM | 20.07.2016
Mossad-linked group sues Facebook for $1 billion | The Electronic Intifada
Lawsuit by Shurat HaDin is part of Israeli effort to control speech on social media.
Source: Mossad-linked group sues Facebook for $1 billion | The Electronic Intifada











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