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Listen: A love story for Palestine told with food

By: Nora Barrows-Friedman Source: The Electronic Intifada Podcast “We didn’t eat for fuel, we ate for pleasure and everything has a memory connected to it and a feeling and a thought,” explains author Joudie Kalla in an interview with Laila El-Haddad, author and contributor to The Electronic Intifada. Kalla’s cookbook, Palestine on a Plate, showcases … Continued

Birzeit University Ranked Among Top 3% Best Universities

  Birzeit University students walking on campus. (Photo courtesy of Birzeit University) Source: IMEMC News & Agencies Birzeit University (BZU), north of Ramallah, was among the top three percent of the best universities in the world, according to the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Rankings, a BZU press release said on Monday. For the first time, Birzeit … Continued

UN Job Posting Lists Location As Jerusalem, State Of Palestine

A Palestinian flag is seen waving in front of the Kotel. (photo credit:REUTERS) By: Danielle Ziri Source: The Jerusalem Post The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) recently posted a job offering on its website, listing the duty station for the position as “Jerusalem, Palestine (State of),” The Jerusalem Post has discovered. UNOPS, headquartered … Continued

404 Not Found: How Silicon Valley forgot Palestine

Above: Panorama of the city of Hebron. Muslim quarters. April 12, 2017 Image Credit: mtsyri / Shutterstock.com By: GISEL KORDESTANI, Source: VENTURE BEAT At times, the most ordinary of occurrences leaves a lasting impact. Such was the case when a student, by simply arriving late to an event, transformed how Google, and I, understand the … Continued

Hanan Ashrawi on Palestine, women, youth and BDS

By: Stepfeed Editors Source: Stepfeed She is a world renowned Palestinian legislator, activist and scholar. She is the voice of many who refuse to be silenced in the face of injustice and a member of parliament who never allows her position to be a burden to calling for political reform. She is hailed by many … Continued

Banned from Boston transit stations, pro-Palestine group drives mobile billboard in city streets

BY: Palestine Advocacy Project (PalAd) SOURCE: Mondoweiss Palestine Advocacy Project (PalAd), a Cambridge-based non-profit supporting Palestinian human rights, has unveiled a high-profile, over-sized mobile billboard trailer to protest the 50th anniversary of Israel’s military occupation of the Palestinian territories. PalAd received widespread attention in Boston following ad campaigns it ran on Massachusetts Bay Transportion Authority (MBTA) trains … Continued

Netanyahu’s Nightmare: Trump Visits Palestine

By: Yousef Munayyer Source: Arab Center Washington DC President Barack Obama, Barack Hussein Obama, that is, never had a chance. From the day he arrived on the national political scene, Israelis were predisposed to distrust him. His middle name, his African ancestry, and his time spent in Indonesia as a child all led Israelis to … Continued

How a Palestinian brewery is taking on the US

By: Lizzie Porter Source: Al Jazeera When it launched in 1994, Taybeh Brewing Company was the Middle East‘s first microbrewery; today, the family-owned business produces 600,000 litres of beer annually and is selling to the United States for the first time. The convoluted journey to the US market involved a 40-foot container, 40,000 bottles of beer … Continued

On Israel-Palestine conflict, bishops say Church cannot stay quiet

Source: Catholic News Agency  In a statement, a commission of leading Catholic bishops in the Holy Land said that though the Church has no particular agenda or party position regarding the Israeli-Palestinian situation, it “cannot ignore fundamental injustice.” The Catholic Church will speak out against injustice and avoid any attempt to normalize the “festering wound” … Continued

Winston Churchill sent the Black and Tans to Palestine

1937: Arab civilians being searched by British Military personnel in Palestine. Photograph: Getty Images British politicians who waged war in Ireland used the same tactics and forces in Palestine – and a Dubliner was in charge during the Naqba By: David Cronin Source: Irish Times Sometimes a fragment reveals more than a tome. Karma Nabulsi, … Continued

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