Category: Analysis

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Khawaja take a back seat: Palestine speaks

By Tariq Shadid – Every nation with a colonial history is burdened by it to some extent: the ‘white savior complex’. So far, very few have emerged from their state of Western colonial subjugation into a phase of nationwide prosperity, peace and stability. Apart from the many factors that lie at the heart of these post-colonial challenges, including ‘neo-colonial’ corporate...

Report on Palestinian prisoners in Israeli Occupation Prisons

Palestinian Prisoners’ Club – Ramallah – Report published April 15 –  Palestinian prisoners’ nationalism is intimately associated with the long struggle of the Palestinians with the Zionist movement and subsequently the State of Israel that was created on the historical land of Palestine and resulted in displacement of one third of the Palestinian people on the hands of Zionist militias...

Mariam Barghouti

International solidarity with Palestine: personal observations by Mariam Barghouti

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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Open Letter to Roger Waters: Don’t Drop Your Boycott Call

Dear Roger,   I feel fortunate that I don’t need to explain to you what the devastating effects of Israel’s expansionist policies have been, and continue to be. You are very well informed, and quite aware of the extensive misery that has befallen our people since the ethnic cleansing of our land in 1948 by Zionist terror organizations, the occupation...