Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
I didn’t think America was a place where bookstores barred people for their viewpoints, until it happened to me, right here in Washington, D.C., the city of my birth.
I was scheduled to speak at Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse last month about my latest book, “Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation.” My appearance was [...]
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
The following is an update to Project Humanbeingsfirst’s public service announcement of May 15, 2008 made on the occasion of Celebrating Israel’s 60th Birthday bash, when the President of the United States along with the First Lady had just arrived in Israel.
[May 20, 2008] It is known to be customary to celebrate independence day [...]
Posted in Censorship, Christianity, Israel, Judaism, Racism, Religion, Zionism | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
If it is true that the power belongs to the people in America, and Congress still answers to the people, then what force prevents the people from rising up to demand that Congress answer to the people’s will? The answer to that question is that the “silent majority” is only silent because they have [...]
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
(A talk given on the First of March 2008 at Invitation to Learn’s weekend retreat) At the left, “Innocent” by Ben Heine
“They (the Palestinians) will bring upon themselves a bigger holocaust because we will use all our might to defend ourselves” (Matan Vilnai, Israeli Deputy Defence Minister, 29 February 2008)
It is clear beyond any doubt [...]
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
All of a sudden, without any warning, YouTube decided that my video called “Gaza Massacre” should be “removed due to terms of use violation.”
This is what you get when you try to visit the video location:
The reasons are obvious. This video got enormous number of visits within no time and the effect of it reflected [...]
Posted in Censorship, Failures, Israel, Palestine, Video, War Crimes, Zionism | 35 Comments »
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
By Remi (via: Poetic Injustice)
You ever wonder why you never see Arabs on news TV?
(No, chanting ‘God is Great!’ during flag burnings doesn’t count)
4 million in the country
Thousands teaching at universities
As many at institutions
And millions ready to speak from Arab cities
(Yes, in English)
We are occupying, not one, but two Mideast nations
Looking at a couple others
Support [...]
Posted in Arab, Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Media, USA | 4 Comments »
Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Today is a ‘Blog Silence Day’ to protest the imprisonment of Fouad Alfarhan.
Fouad Alfarhan is a Saudi blogger who uses his blog, alfarhan.org, to promote political reform and greater freedom of expression in Saudi Arabia. He was forced to stop blogging at the beginning of 2007 after being harassed by government officials, but then resumed [...]
Posted in Blogging, Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Saudi Arabia | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
“You know you are doing well when Zionists and their alike are desperately trying to silence you.”
Image by: Carlos LatuffThis is exactly what is happening to me on Facebook for two consecutive days now.
As you know, beside Sabbah’s Blog, I also run the aggregator, Palestine Blogs - The Gazette.
Yesterday I received an email from Facebook [...]
Posted in Blogging, Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Internet 'n Computers, Zionism | 29 Comments »
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
It’s time of the year for Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2007. With all my reservations regarding Reporters Without Borders neutrality (having doubt after knowing that France is their financial supporter, although they are an NGO!), yet, their report was always a good indicator, if not the closest to reality - at least from my experiences [...]
Posted in Algeria, Arab, Bahrain, Blogging, Breaking News, Censorship, Egypt, Freedom of Speech, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, Yemen | 3 Comments »