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FreedomWaves to Gaza!

Submitted by Jalal Abukhater on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 17:22

In the latest attempt to challenge Israel’s heinous, inhumane, and unjustified blockade over the Palestinian Gaza strip, two boats carrying Palestinian and international activists and journalists have set sail towards Gaza. Israel has used filthy tactics to foil last summer’s Gaza-bound flotilla.

Palestinian ex-prisoners harassed by Jewish extremists

Submitted by Jalal Abukhater on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 13:54
Not one day did the two liberated Palestinian prisoners Khuweiled and Nizar Ramadan enjoy being out of Prison. A Jewish Settler family from the illegal settlement Yitzahar has declared that it will reward $100,000 to whoever murders Khuweiled or Nizar. The ad for this ugly bounty has appeared on the Hebrew daily Maariv.

"A Message from Palestine"

Submitted by Jalal Abukhater on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 14:58
A new video titled “A Message from Palestine” has surfaced on the internet and is being shared by many Palestinian youth who agree with its message.

Israel censors Palestinian textbooks in East Jerusalem

Submitted by Jalal Abukhater on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 04:27

In this article previously published on +972 magazine, I discuss the censorship of material in Palestinian textbooks in East Jerusalem schools — a clearly illegal and dangerous move by the Jerusalem Education Adminstration (JEA).

Palestinian Model United Nations

Submitted by Jalal Abukhater on Thu, 10/13/2011 - 23:36

Education served through school is never enough; it does not define a student’s character and personality. What defines a student is his/her level of awareness of the environment they live in, the knowledge they gain by reading, learning about, and exploring the world around them. That is what motivated us to organize Palestine’s first high school Model United Nations conference, PalMUN.

Watch: Israeli police brutalizing Palestinian man

Submitted by Jalal Abukhater on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 22:33

This video caught my attention this afternoon, but it sure isn’t an isolated incident against Palestinians in Israel.

In the video, Israeli police appear to be attacking and brutalizing a Palestinian man in Jaffa in order to evict him and his family from a vacant property in which they sheltered.

Thousands rally in West Bank for statehood bid

Submitted by Jalal Abukhater on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 19:35

While Palestinians are defenseless and under attack in villages and cities around the West Bank, thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in Ramallah, Nablus, Bethlehem, and Hebron to show support for the United Nations bid for Statehood and express their full support for their leader, Mahmoud Abbas.

Mounting settler violence forces Palestinian youth to postpone first ever Model UN

Submitted by Jalal Abukhater on Tue, 09/20/2011 - 17:40
The first ever Model UN conference in Palestine has had to be postponed due to the rising threat of violence by Israeli settlers.

My BBC radio and TV talks today

Submitted by Jalal Abukhater on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 19:45
Jalal Abukhater discusses Abbas’ speech and the UN statehood bid on the BBC.

Egyptian people's power

Submitted by Jalal Abukhater on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 23:02
Hundreds of thousands gathered in Tahrir Square today, demanding an end to military trials and the military rule. In the afternoon, Egyptians moved to different locations including the Ministry of Interior and the Israeli embassy in Cairo. Those who moved to the Israeli embassy in Cairo went holding sledgehammers aiming to destroy the wall built around the Israeli embassy; they succeeded.

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