About one hour ago, Shireen Issawi – Samer’s sister – posted the following on her Facebook page – on day 276 of Samer Issawi’s hunger strike: “The head of the Legal Unit of the Prisoners Society, the lawyer Jawad Boulos, declared today from Kaplan Medical Center that political prisoner Samer Issawi has decided to stop taking nutritional supplements...
“Tariq Shadid’s music video Hungry is a great political rap song, reiterating and expanding the notion of hunger and the first to rhyme people with sheeple. It is marred by a refrain ’never charged, never tried by the damned fourth reich’. Israel is not comparable to the Third Reich. The Third Reich was powered by an annihilatory drive that began...
Here is some really good news to report. Roger Waters has published a response on Facebook, clarifying misunderstandings that had arisen after his Huffington Post interview. Read the open letter here, if you want to have an idea of how the interview was interpreted. This excellent post, however, sets the record straight: In response to all the misinterpretations of my...
As regular readers of the Musical Intifada know, this website usually only published original material. Sometimes, however, a piece is written which is considered to be having such particular value, quality and importance, that an exception is made. Such is the case with this challenging piece by Palestinian activist Mariam Barghouti, which addresses some very important issues concerning international solidarity....
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