Dalal abu amneh biography of martin
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The Genocide War on Gaza: Palestinian Culture and the Existential Struggle
The paper focuses on the role played by Western donor countries after the establishment of the Palestinian Authority in in weakening the resilience of Palestinian culture. This was done, the paper outlines, by flooding Palestine with funding, then withdrawing it progressively, and restricting it with conditions in an attempt to subject Palestinians to the culture of peace and the Oslo path, severed from the culture of resistance and resilience associated with the reality of Palestinians in the occupied territories. When Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza, the role of Palestinian cultural institutions was weak, as was its resilience structure and programmes. Ambiguity still surrounds the role of Palestinian culture in the near future in light of the heavy losses it incurred in Gaza with the martyrdom of dozens of artistic and literary creators and the destruction of cultural and artistic centres, works
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Dr. Cornel West's Post
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Free Palestine
by International Orange
4th - January -
The horror unfolding in the occupied territories of Palestine shows no signs of slowing. IDF bombardment of all areas of Gaza continues to wreak devastation and unimaginable suffering on Palestinian civilians, while military raids and settler violence continue to keep the people of the West Bank under the brutal fist of repression. Here at IO we firmly believe in the Palestinian people’s rights to live free of the inhumane treatment and cultural erasure of the Israeli regime. In the mire of 20th Century colonialism, Zionism, exploitation, capitalist interests and power dynamics that form a backdrop to the escalating aggression from Israeli forces, Palestine’s struggle to exist means something for everyone in a world infected with right wing ideology. Long after the rubble is cleared, the dead mourned and Gaza rebuilt, the actions of Israeli forces during this latest barrage of attacks will be remembered as a ch