Tag Archives: illegal
The Tale of 3 Palestinian Villages
Every year since June 1967, Israelis celebrate the Jerusalem Day. To Palestinians, it is a day to commemorate, to unite, and continue the fight for a free Palestine and a free Jerusalem. To Palestinians, Al Quds is not only the … Continue reading
Palestinian Villages Destroyed during the Nakba
61 Years of On-Going Nakba: the Old Still Live through Us and the Young Never Forgot
On 18/07/1948 David Ben-Gurion wrote in his diary: We must do everything to ensure they (the Palestinian refugees) never do return…. The old will die and the young will forget.” (1) Today, 61 years after the Nakba of 1948 and … Continue reading
Get up, stand up for Palestinian Rights on May Day and Every Day
Every morning, thousands of Palestinians say goodbye to their families and go to work. Teachers, doctors, farmers, labourers, fishermen, etc… They go to school to teach children, defying the Israeli tank standing outside the school. They go to their fields … Continue reading
Jerusalem: the heart, soul and home of Palestine
In 1929 Ben-Gurion said: “Jerusalem is not the same thing to the Arabs as it is to the Jews”. While he meant to say that Palestinians were not part of Jerusalem and are not attached to it as the Jews … Continue reading
They can’t take that away from me: “settlers” stealing Palestinian land from under our feet
Commemorating 60+ Years of the Systematic Murder of Palestinian Land. As I stood on the roof and watched Jerusalem stretch in front of me, with the sun reflecting on the golden Dome, I felt angry and felt how unfair the … Continue reading
Despite all odds, Palestinians carry on with living in the Heart of Hebron
Hebron, or Al-Khalil, lies 30 km south of Jerusalem and is the second largest Palestinian city with a population of 163,000 Palestinians. Hebron is one of the commercial centres of the Occupied Palestinian Territories and several industries emerged in Hebron … Continue reading
Our Cultural Heritage
As Palestinians all over the world commemorate the Nakba and 60 years of on-going zionist ethnic cleansing, murder and apartheid, there is one aspect of our Palestinian identity that survived despite all zionist attempts of elimination: our cultural heritage. The … Continue reading
East Sawahreh and the Apartheid Wall
Last week I got my new “Palestinian Passport”. Palestinians need to renew their passports every three years, and it was time for me to renew mine. Living in Germany the next step for me would be to get my “residency … Continue reading




