Activism

As Turkey Freezes Israel Ties, Critics Decry “Whitewashed” U.N. Report on Gaza Flotilla, Blockade

by Haitham Sabbah September 4, 2011

The U.N. report concludes that the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip is legal under international law. Democracy Now! interview with author Norman Finkelstein and Free Gaza Movement organizer Huwaida Arraf.

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Israel’s Operation Summer Seeds

by Stephen Lendman September 1, 2011

Ahead of the General Assembly’s likely granting Palestine statehood recognition and full de jure UN membership in September or early October, Israel is preparing its army and arming settlers for disruptive protests.

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Israel Makes Mahmoud Abu Samra A ‘Shaheed’

by James M. Wall August 29, 2011

What would Israel do without the constant presence of journalists like the New York Times’ Ethan Bronner? Not much in the way of progress, but it is a reminder that Israel cannot depend forever on America’s vetoes to clean up the mess it creates for itself.

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Israel’s Changed Agenda?

by SR Editor August 20, 2011

How to change public agenda and focus?
Attack buses in Israeli Negev, and all at once Israel’s Air Force took off for Rafah and made the hit. Israel in war!

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Author Alice Walker Joins U.S. Aid Ship to Confront Israeli Naval Blockade of Gaza [video]

by Haitham Sabbah June 29, 2011

Speaking about the American boat to Gaza, Walker said, “I am going to Gaza because my government has failed to understand or care about the Gazan people, but worse than that, it is ignorant of our own history in the United States.”

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Jeffrey Goldberg’s Anti-Boycott Bluster & Blunder

by Nima Shirazi December 25, 2010

Clearly, Zionist opposition to morally-justifiable boycott – in service of its ethnocentric ideology – is nothing new. But as history has shown, boycotts can succeed despite libelous opposition and propaganda – it just takes time.

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Ship Of Fools – False Flags On The High Seas

by SR Editor November 12, 2010

Did you hear about the ‘kidnapping’ of passengers on a Flotilla to Gaza? Did you hear about ‘ransom demands’ by the ‘captain’ of the ship?

NO???

Just what I thought…. you know why? It’s all BS!

Nothing but a cheap and slimy way to get the attention of the press… but it does not seem to be working.

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Caught! Mossad Paid By U.S. To Spy On “Dissidents,” Tea Party, Environmentalists

by Gordon Duff September 17, 2010

Taxpayers Funding Israeli Database Of American Citizens By Gordon Duff* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Did you know that attending a meeting to organize a bake sale for new band uniforms can put you on a terrorist watch list? You don’t have to join a peace group or protest oil drilling to be considered dangerous. [...]

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Palestinian nonviolence relies on global non-silence

by Yousef Munayyer May 22, 2010

By Yousef Munayyer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz When will there be a Palestinian Gandhi? I’m often asked this question by people who sympathise with Palestinian suffering but are uncomfortable associating themselves with resistance movements that they see as violent or terrorist. The reality of course is that Palestinian nonviolent resisters are not only active [...]

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Common Activist Errors and Some Proposals to Rectify Them

by Haitham Sabbah January 22, 2010

A Palestine Think Tank Editorial WRITTEN BY Yousef Abudayyeh, Mohamed Khodr, Mary Rizzo, Haitham Sabbah and Saja Activism and activists for Palestine have been getting some media attention recently. This is absolutely great news. It is an opportunity that we need to take advantage of, especially since Palestinians themselves are denied space in almost all [...]

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PTT editorial: It’s a long march to freedom

by Haitham Sabbah January 8, 2010

- Palestine Think Tank editorial Just one year ago, Gaza and its people were subject to the ultimate crime, victims (both living and dead) of the genocide of the Palestinian people. It is a genocide that began 61 years ago, and it’s had moments of escalation, the peak of which was reached with the attempted [...]

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Surround me with songs of deliverance: crossing the borders of solidarity

by Haitham Sabbah January 3, 2010

By Haitham Sabbah | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Activists for Palestine have to have the same goal as Palestinians â€“ the liberation of Palestine. They have to pay attention to not being diverted from this objective or to interfere with a greater geopolitical situation that may have consequences none of us can predict and which [...]

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Gaza Freedom March Wrap Up

by SR Editor January 2, 2010

By Sana (Keffiyeh And Onions) I’m sure its going to take me some time to process everything that has happened in Cairo with the Gaza Freedom March over the past week or so but here are some of my initial thoughts and feelings. Bear in mind, these are my own opinions and reflections and they [...]

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The Gaza Freedom March

by Haitham Sabbah December 2, 2009

On December 31, 2009, up to one-thousand citizens from across the world will gather in Gaza to march from the neighborhood of Iazbat Abu Drabo, a community in which nearly every building was completely destroyed during Israelâ€™s attack on Gaza one year ago, to the Erez border crossing into Israel. The international marchers will be [...]

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The Nicest and Meanest People

by Mazin Qumsiyeh October 30, 2009

By Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh * We see and meet the nicest people but we also see and meet the meanest people in Palestine. Every day here is an experience in extremes. We contrast an activist for peace in her 20s who speaks many languages with a settler who (joined by other settlers) attacks people picking [...]

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