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Dramatic video shows Palestinians, Syrians entering Israeli-occupied Golan Heights

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 21:10

A dramatic video published by the website baladee.net shows the moment when hundreds of Palestinian refugees and Syrians break through the border fence from Syria into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights (part of Syria occupied by Israel in 1967 and illegally annexed in 1981).

Interactive map of Palestine villages destroyed in Nakba

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 15:01

The Electronic Intifada has produced this interactive map that allows you to see information about any of the more than 400 Palestinian cities, towns and villages depopulated and destroyed during the Nakba – the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Zionist and later Israeli forces from late 1947 into 1948.

Ethan Bronner's Nakba denial in The New York Times

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 18:08

New York Times bureau chief Ethan Bronner promotes Israeli propaganda that Palestinian refugees were forced from their homes only after Arab armies intervened on 15 May 1948, ignoring the reality that hundreds of thousands had been forced out since December 1947.

Palestine Papers whistleblower revealed and Saeb Erekat responds

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 11:54

In an article on Al Jazeera English and in The Guardian today, Ziyad Clot, a former legal advisor to Palestinian negotiators has revealed that he was one of the key sources for thousands of pages documents called the Palestine Papers, published in January by Al Jazeera which detail 10 years of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, and US and European intervention, including minutes of conversations with top Israeli, Palestinian, American and other officials.

Nakba Survivor: new website highlights testimonies of the Nakba

Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 18:15

A new website was launched today that lets Palestinian refugees who fled (or whose parents and grandparents fled) Israel’s ethnic cleansing project that began in 1948, talk about their experiences in time for the 63rd annual commemoration of the Nakba. 

NakbaSurvivor.com, a multi-media initiative of the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU), features short, personal testimonials of refugees and their direct descendants. 

World premiere of film "Hip Hop is Bigger than the Occupation" May 30 in NYC

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 01:23

Hip Hop is Bigger than the Occupation documents a crew of artists who traveled throughout the occupied West Bank for ten days. The group stayed at Balata refugee camp near Nablus, getting a taste of life under Israeli occupation:

Annual Houston Palestine Film Festival opens tomorrow night!

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 00:20

The fifth annual Houston Palestine Film Festival opens tomorrow night with a screening of Jaffa, The Orange’s Clockwork with guest appearance by filmmaker Eyal Sivan. The screening will be accompanied by a photo exhibition by Khalil AbuSharekh.

Watch: Omar Barghouti speaks about his new book on BDS

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 20:16

An interview with Omar Barghouti, a founder of the boycott, divestment sanctions movement, speaks about his new book which was recently reviewed by The Electronic Intifada: BDS: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights.

WATCH: Long trailer for "The Wanted 18: A True Story of Bovine Resistance"

Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 17:55

A brilliant new documentary film is being produced in Palestine, focusing on a story that took place during the first intifada in the late 1980s in Beit Sahour near Bethlehem. As Palestinians rebelled against lethal Israeli policies across the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Israeli military attempted to quash popular uprisings through unmitigated violence, repression and long-term curfews.

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