Rana Baker’s blog

“Yes, we are funding the occupation,” Swedish minister glibly tells Gaza youth

Meeting with Swedish politician in Gaza highlights the hypocrisy and double standards of the European Union.

Imagining Palestine through PalFest

The Palestine Festival of Literature was very much about feeling and thinking deeply about Palestine, about ourselves, and surroundings in the context of home from a literary rather than a rigid political eye.

My Palestinian identity: when memory and reality meet

Identity, deeply rooted as it may be in memory, history, and the representations of these, is put at stake once one is finally confronted by its realities.

Intellectuals gather in Gaza to discuss effects and consequences of Israel's November assault

It was agreed that the Palestinian resistance was able to deter Israel from achieving its goals in Gaza and that it emptied Israel of its “military supremacy” myth.

How we made the world hear Gaza, as citizen journalists

By ingenious use of social media, Rana Baker and other citizen journalists were able to reach the world from Gaza as the bombs fell, and influence the way the Israeli attack was reported.

Reflections on Noam Chomsky's visit to Gaza

To have the father of modern linguistics and one of the world’s most celebrated public intellectuals cross into Gaza is a success that deserves to be acknowledged.

"We cannot force Israel to do anything": My talk with Swedish politician highlights EU complicity

It is very interesting that a “leftist” who offers “full support for Fatah” and who strongly believes that the EU must not boycott Israel, would “understand my frustration.”

The Nakba never ceased

Hajj Othman, originally from the ethnically-cleansed village of al-Jura, tells his story to Rana Baker in Gaza.

We exist in a lesser category

The anonymity of the sixteen slain Afghan civilians, nine of whom were playful children a few days ago stirred up every remaining tranquility I have ever possessed.

Israeli Apartheid Week connects Gaza with South Africans, Palestinians in exile

Israeli Apartheid Week in Gaza is still going on despite Israel’s relentless attacks on the civilian enclave.

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