Author: Doc Jazz

Free Samer Issawi t-shirt

Tools for your protests for Samer Issawi: t-shirt and poster

To enable you to express your support for Samer Issawi and the other Palestinian hunger strikers, we have made a few handy tools available for you. We hope that you are either in the process of organizing such a protest, or that you are at least thinking of doing so! Needless to say, the situation is urgent enough.   First...

V.l.n.r.: Tariq Shadid, Abbas Hamideh, Zaid Tayem

Waarom ieder jaar een Palestina-evenement van de Musical Intifada in Nederland?

Misschien is het je ontgaan. Sterker nog, er is een best grote kans dat dat het geval is. Sinds 2011 is er elk jaar in Nederland een Palestina evenement dat door de Musical Intifada wordt neergezet. In 2011 werd het gekenmerkt door een relatief sterke media-aandacht (maar liefst 3 radio-optredens erover) en een relatief lage opkomst op het evenement zelf....

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Palestine Youth Orchestra: a Bridge to the World

By Tariq Shadid – Palestine Chronicle – Not everything in the Middle East, or more specifically in Palestine, is about politics. In this occupied nation, people are not only struggling for liberation and independence, but also to live a life that is as normal as possible under the difficult circumstances of Israeli oppression, persecution and segregation. People who are politically...

Mother of Samer Issawi holding his picture

Samer Issawi has stopped taking vitamin supplements

RAMALLAH, PALESTINE – The president of the legal union of the Palestinian Prisoner Society, lawyer Jawad Boulos, today announced that a session would be held on Thursday March 21 in Ofer Military Court concerning the case of Palestinian political prisoner Samer Issawi, on an uninterrupted hunger strike since 243 days. Boulos explained that the doctors of Kaplan Medical Center had...