Noura Erakat, in a screenshot from the film

Review: new short film ‘Gaza in Context’

Gaza, the continuing human tragedy, caused by fellow humans. Undoubtedly, we are all aware of the disastrous conditions of life there under the continuing blockade. Surely, you have also witnessed its devastating destruction of war, through the media and through your social media network. Repeated military campaigns by the Israeli army, aimed largely at its civilian population consisting mostly of...

New WordPress site up, improvements continue

Hi, this is Doc Jazz on WordPress. Guess what? This is actually the first post that I am writing on this new site. The previous site used Joomla as its content management system, but as time passed I became convinced that WordPress was a better option. In fact, I realized that quite a while ago, but who likes to rebuild...

Dutch Zionist lobby exposed – fraudulent financial support for settlers

By Tariq Shadid – A major political scandal is unfolding in the Netherlands: politician Lodewijk Asscher has made sure over the years that AOW-pension payments to Dutch Jewish settlers in the Occupied Territories were kept at their original levels, while all other AOW-pensions of Dutch expats’ were decreased significantly. His astonishing defense, when he was confronted over this discriminatory conduct...

Palestinian artist Lina Abojaradeh releases new poem and painting about the Intifada

Lina Abojaradeh, who was featured on this website before, is a multi-talented Palestinian artist. Not only is she a gifted painter and graphical artist, she also writes poems and produces videos, some of which are speed tutorials that explain how a painting is made. In her latest release, she has combined a few of these talents into a striking production...