内容摘要：While resistance against the war has grown both at home and abroad, so too has the intensity of the attacks being protested against.

While resistance against the war has grown both at home and abroad, so too has the intensity of the attacks being protested against.

Israel’s security cannot be achieved at the expense of Palestine’s freedom and sovereignty.That is not peace, let alone the elusive “co-existence”. It is domination – brutal and unforgiving.

This kind of loss, profound and lasting, gives way to clarity born from rejection. It sharpens your appreciation of loyalty and authenticity in relationships.Perhaps the people I thought I knew, I did not know at all. And perhaps the people who thought they knew me, did not know me at all.There is a reckoning under way. Like most reckonings, big or small, near or distant, it can be messy and painful.

We are trying to navigate a pitiless world that, on the disagreeable whole, punishes dissent and rewards compliance.To those friends who have opted for distance, I say this: I am convinced that you believe what you’re doing is right and just. So am I.

I write not to wound. I write to insist.

I insist that Palestinian lives matter.Mapping the Palestinian villages Israel destroyed

Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist military forces attacked major Palestinian cities and destroyed some 530 villages. About 15,000 Palestinians were killed in a series of mass atrocities, including dozens of massacres.On April 9, 1948, Zionist forces committed one of the most infamous massacres of the war in the village of

on the western outskirts of Jerusalem. More than 110 men, women and children were killed by members of the pre-Israeli state Irgun and Stern Gang Zionist paramilitary organisations.Palestinian researcher