Category: Analysis

Dutch youngsters dressed up as 'Black Pete'

‘Black Pete’: Netherlands under pressure over allegedly ‘racist’ Zwarte Piet tradition

By Tariq Shadid – Towards the end of every year, the Netherlands as well as the Flemish communities in Belgium celebrate Santa Claus with their own version, which is seen as separate from Christmas celebrations. Their version of Saint Nicholas, known as Sinterklaas, comes with the white-bearded elderly man dressed up as a bishop in red clothing, and accompanied by...

Regresaron las Twitterstorms! Alaa Hammad, prisionero político en una cárcel israelí

Traducción por Bea Essedin – Desafortunadamente, las Twitterstorms [avalancha de mensajes enviados por Twitter] por los prisioneros políticos palestinos, no pasan de moda. La razón de esto es que el estado racista sionista sigue violando los derechos humanos de los prisioneros políticos palestinos, incluso los de quienes no están bajo su falsa e ilegítima “jurisdicción”.   Las campañas son ahora...

Alaa Hammad

Twitterstorms are back! Alaa Hammad, political prisoner in Israeli jail

Unfortunately, Twitterstorms for Palestinian political prisoners do not go out of fashion. The reason for this is that the racist Zionist state continues to violate the human rights of Palestinian political prisoners, even including those who do not fall under their false and illegitimate ‘jurisdiction’.   Campaigning is now on for Alaa Hammad, Palestinian Jerusalemite with a Jordanian citizenship, who...

Shahd Abusalama

Coming soon: Gaza youth music video ‘Al Jeel Al Jadeed’

Palestinian artist Doc Jazz’s new Arabic song ‘Al Jeel Al Jadeed’ (‘The New Generation’), which has not been released to the public yet, has a music video in the making that was filmed in Gaza with the participation of many youths from various backgrounds. The video marks the debut of widely known Palestinian artist and blogger Shahd Abusalama as creative...