Leaked Zionist strategy Paper to counter BDS – MUST READ!

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

an example of changing the context of the issue by appealing to emotions and creating a brand new narrative Here is a leaked copy of the Zionist plan to attack the Boycott and Divestment Campaign Against Israel's Occupation and to strategy to shut down the debate on the Palestinian issue and ...

Nima Shirazi – ‘Néjàd Vu, All Over Again: The Media, ‘Pretext,’ Context, & 9/11

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Despite a nearly endless barrage of reporting on Iran's nuclear energy program, the US government's push for a new round of sanctions, and on-going efforts to foment regime change in the Islamic Republic, all had been relatively quiet on the Ahmadinejad front in the Western press for some time. Until now. The ...

Khalil Nakhleh – How Must We Explain Our Century-old Struggle to a Foreign Audience?

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Personal reflections on my forthcoming lecture  Since the date for my new lecture became fixed, a few months back, at my alma mater university in the State of Minnesota, USA, where I received my first 4 years of higher education, and earned my Bachelor’s degree, I was in a quandary.  Certainly, ...

Ibrahim Hewitt – The Observer, Israel and the language of war

Friday, February 26th, 2010

WRITTEN BY IBRAHIM HEWITT – ALSO IN SPANISH BELOW! A leader writer in the Observer newspaper (“Israel can accelerate peace by exercising restraint” http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/21/observer-editorial-israel-palestine , 21 February) really must be taken to task over the language that was used in the column. In seeking to analyse the Israel-Palestine situation the writer ...

Zahir Ebrahim – Rescuing a Failed Struggle from Its Narrative, A response to Witness in Palestine

Saturday, February 20th, 2010



Palestine Think Tank Editorial, Common Activist Error Series: Following Zionist Discourse and Not Leading Our Own

Friday, January 29th, 2010

The way Israel looked to Zionists by the Zionist Nation Builders Three proposals: Framing our own arguments – ignoring Zionist rhetorical traps – developing strategic thinking and implementing our strategies  While watching most Western mainstream news and current events shows, how many times do we activists for Palestine find ourselves arguing with ...

ISRAELI CHARITIES ‘CASHING IN’ ON PALESTINIAN SUFFERING

Friday, January 15th, 2010

WRITTEN BY STEVE AMSEL January 14, 2010 The above photo (part of an ad campaign) is being circulated throughout the Israeli press. The organisation that sponsored the ad operates (for hungry Jews only) soup kitchens in every major Israeli city. Below is the ad in question…. Feeding the poor is a wonderful deed…..asking ...

What is Anti-Semitism? (part of "The First Word War")

Monday, January 11th, 2010

WRITTEN BY Anait Brutian                        What is Anti-Semitism?  Before attempting to answer the question, we must first define the word “Anti-Semite.”   A dictionary definition describes Anti-Semitism as “hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group”   (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-semite).  Also known as Judeophobia, the term is used to describe “prejudice ...

Deconstructing Simon Wiesenthal

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

WRITTEN BY Lawrence Swaim | January 4, 2010 The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, California, is named after the famed Austrian Nazi-hunter, Simon Wiesenthal, a connection that turns out to be appropriate in disturbing but unexpected ways. That is, both Simon Wiesenthal and the Center named after him have been ...

A Strategy Revolution: A Game Theory Approach to Palestinian Resistance

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Anyone who has witnessed the events in Palestine/Israel has been able to notice a cycle that repeats itself continually between the two groups of people. It can be summed up in two words: action/reaction. Sometimes the action is carried out to elicit a reaction (which we can define then as ...