False! Well, not everywhere, but at Daily Kos it sure is.

It has been nearly a month since I decided to start cross-posting most of what I write in my blog to my diary at Daily Kos. The diaries at Daily Kos are more or less make for a personal blog, where members can publish their [...]

Despite gains made to make ‘occupation’ the frame of reference in understanding what is going on in the Occupied Palestine, to a large extent the occupation continues to remain “invisible”.

The occupation’s invisibility is mainly credited to propaganda-influenced media reports. Repeated studies of the media’s coverage of Palestine/Israel have highlighted the prevalent pro-Israeli bias. A bias [...]

This is quoted from Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project:

For the last three years, community members in Olympia, WA, and Rafah, Palestine, have been working together to create a lasting, sincere partnership to better foster understanding between people who have not traditionally had a chance to get to know one another. It is our belief that by [...]

VIGIL and showing of THE IRON WALL
Vigil for Palestine in St. Mark’s May 18
Vigil: 5:00 - 6:00 soup: 6-6:30

Film: THE IRON WALL, produced in Palestine

THE IRON WALL provides graphic evidence of the intentions of Zionist leaders: “Zionist colonization must . . .proceed regardless of the native population . . . which means putting them behind [...]

The Palestinian refugee problem was created as the result of two wars (Al-Naqba of 1948 and Al-Naksa of 1967), massacres, and other aggressions perpetrated by Jewish underground and terror groups such as Haganah, Irgun, and Stern. After the War of 1948, the UN Conciliation Commission estimated that 726,000 Palestinians (75% of the Arab population of [...]

Washington, DC, June 10-11

JOIN US IN PROTESTING THE 40th ANNIVERSARY OF THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION

Tens of thousands to mobilize for protest rally and lobbying day on June 9th and 10th in Washington, DC.

The Council for the National Interest Foundation invites its supporters to Washington, DC, to attend The World Says NO to Israeli Occupation, a two-day [...]

Where on earth would you expect to see a military forces going out at 5:30 AM to throw out ‘handicapped children’ to the cold streets after snatching the kids out of their beds?

ISRAEL, no where else!

Believe it or not, the Israeli forces went out to demolish a centre for disabled children in east Jerusalem before [...]

The Doha Debate, hosted by Tim Sebastian, took place amid mounting controversy over the role of the pro-Israel lobby in the United States and accusations that it has suppressed criticism of Israel - a charge that the lobby vigorously denies.

The motion of the debate was: “This house believes the pro-Israel lobby has successfully stifled Western [...]

A report released today by two Israeli human rights organizations (B’Tselem and HaMoked) charges Shin Bet security service in regularly torturing almost all Palestinian detainees. Despite Israel High Court of Justice ruling from 1999 limiting the use of force in investigations, B’Tselem and HaMoked reported torture methods includes beating, painful binding, back bending, body stretching [...]

This is not the first time that Israeli society is repairing the blunders of a past war by means of a new war. People remember Menachem Begin’s observation that the first Lebanon War came to heal the trauma of the Yom Kippur War. That will be the case this time, too. The third Lebanon War [...]