Tag: Palestine

Last Saturday, 18th November 2023, I went to Waterloo station, London, UK, to join a sit-in for Palestine. A few days before that we had a Zoom meeting, just about how to prevent ‘hostilities’ at such gatherings. In my opinion, it was no big deal. I attended the meeting to meet the pe...

A Ryanair flight attendant has sparked controversy after announcing the plane’s arrival to “Occupied Palestine” prior to landing in Tel Aviv. The incident has ignited a heated debate over the language used to describe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, highlighting di...

Cheering for your home team is an accident of birth. Those born in New York cheer for the Yankees; those in Manchester for Manchester United. That team represents you and your people. You cheer their triumphs and bemoan their defeats. The other team is the enemy for the same arbitrary reason yours i...

Well, he was in for a surprise, because, as it turned out, anti-Semitism was everywhere in France. As a Jew, Herzel knew all about it. In fact, it was a way of life in his homeland. But in post-revolution France, Herzel expected better. And then came a famous military scandal, the Dreyfus Affair....

I listen or read about the turmoil or whatever nom du jour euphemism that has been unfurled to bully us not to speak truth to power concerning Palestinian civilians being slaughtered by the Israel Defense Forces (“IDF”), all I am told is that this is a complex and nua...

Are you in this for the long haul? Do you want more than just attending protests and calling your State reps in Congress? Here are 5 more everyday, simple actions you can take to be a hero for Palestine all throughout 2024. Feel free to add more to this list of ideas in the comments and share. Af...

I remember how nervous I first felt traveling to the “Arab quarter,” or Palestinian-governed portion of Jerusalem, as a 17-year-old high school senior. All I knew about the place upon my arrival I learned from Sunday School and Fox News (the official and only news channel of the Tanner h...

History will judge the atrocities committed in Palestine and Israel I posted this right after the October 7 Hamas attacks, trying to reflect on the broader meaning behind the horror. I have edited it here a bit for clarity. I am so tired of seeing all these posts that exude the kind of arrogan...

As an English speaker, you might be wondering why the phrase is worded directionally, from right to left. Shouldn’t it be from left to right? I think the river comes first in the phrase because, in Arabic, the written language is read from right to left. I have a theory on linguistics, it migh...

Anthropologists across all our diverse subfields and specialties have long asserted that “the purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.” We declare this to our fellow scholars, instill it in our students, and profess it to the world. Our work spans all corn...

I have been calling upon the public to help circulate, spread, and sign this petition for a while now, in fear that this type of action would start by the Israeli Defense Forces (and now it has). The idea is that, with more signatures, we can use this link’s evidence to pressure our politic...