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Letters from Palestine
Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh's work is regularly published in Axis of Logic's Letters from Palestine. He teaches and does research at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities in occupied Palestine. He previously served on the faculties of the University of Tennessee, Duke and Yale Universities. He is now president of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People. He published several books of which the most acclaimed "Sharing the Land of Canaan: human rights and the Israeli/Palestinian Struggle" which was also translated to Spanish. He also has an activism book published electronically on his Website. His main interest is media activism and public education. He published over 200 letters to the editor and 100 op-ed pieces and interviewed in TV and radio extensively (local, national and international). He is currently finishing a book on Palestinian civil resistance going back to the beginning of the Zionist project in the 19th century until today.
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic (Submitted by the author)
(Includes 5 videos)
The olive young leaves and flower sprouts are denser than ever before. It promises a great season not only of bountiful agricultural harvest but of bountiful harvest on the activism front. It is true that, as the Palestinian poet stated, if the olive tree knew the suffering... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic
I just arrived in the US to give a series of talks on Palestine as part of the 6th International Israeli Apartheid Week (my schedule is below*).
The day I left Palestine was a bizarre/strange day to say the least. The second Sunday in Beit Sahour to hold events to protest... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic
Editor's Note: The video below was published and subtitled by Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD. Mazin is the man who asks the soldiers, "Why are you shooting at them? They are unarmed! This is their village! If you go away, there won't be any problem."
- Les Blough, Editor
Settlers come... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic
ANNOUNCING:
6th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week in March, 2010
Israeli Apartheid Video Contest
PACBI - 2009 BDS Campaign Year In Review
The Sixth Annual Israeli Apartheid Week
Solidarity in Action: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions
March 2010
Apartheid Week
Mark your calendars - the 6th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) will take... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic
This is a 9 Minute video I just put out on life in the Bethlehem area during Christmas, 2009. It starts with a Jewish guy who joined the demonstration in Al-Masara asking that the soldiers disobey orders and not join in oppressing the Palestinians. In addition to the usual struggles... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic
Editor's Note: Noone I have ever read, tells the story of the Middle East with honesty, compassion and humanity equal to that of Mazin Qumsiyeh. Mazin leaves the trappings of his impressive intellect behind when writing his first hand accounts, allowing us to see the humanity of those - who alone - really... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic
It is not easy to remain a racist oppressor and it is getting harder to keep deflecting the critics by asking them to focus on nonexistent threats (like Iran). The Human Rights Council accuses Israel of war crimes in Gaza and the Israeli government panics and deals with it as... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home. Axis of Logic. , Axis of Logic
On 16 October 1935, a barrel marked “cement” fell as it was being unloaded from ships at the port in Jaffa. The broken barrel contained guns, grenades, and ammunition and was one of many secret shipments to the underground Zionist terrorist militias in Palestine. That incident among others (including the... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic
In the last two days, I attended two conferences, one in An-Najah National University in Nablus on American Studies in Palestine and one at AlQuds University on the future of Palestine.
The first was an interesting conference that showed there are so many Palestinians in different universities here who were... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic
English following Arabic
لمن يقرأ العربية: الرجاء إرسال رسالة الكترونية إذا أردت أن تستلم منا مقالات وأخبار بالعربية مرة كل أسبوع
وهالك سؤال للتشجيع قد يدهشك-- من كتب وفي أي سنة؟:
مضى علينا 25 سنة ونحن ننبه إلى الخطر الصهيوني, وندعو إلى اتقائه ودفع مضاره بتأليف الرأي العربي والإسلامي.... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic
In this digest:
A call to join a large gathering of students, faculty and staff to promote boycott, divestments, and sanctions (BDS) at academic institutions.
An action call for the release of our friend and nonviolent activist Mohammed Othman.
Why the Goldstone report matters by Richard Falk and a call... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic
In this digest: I report on a 2002 Israeli admission that a pathologist in an Israeli hospital was harvesting organs without authorization, on the hopeful sign of the start of the academic year, the beginning of Ramadan in Palestine, a video on the free Gaza movement, on follow-up to Rafah... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic
Our dear friend Saliba Rishmawi (father of George Rishmawi of Siraj and the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People) passed away of heart failure and we had his funeral yesterday. The church was packed with hundreds of people. After we took his body to the cemetery, I stopped by to... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic
There was this story about a farmer who went to the judge and complained that he and his family of 8 live in a two-room crowded place. The wise judge said I will make it nicer for you but you have to do exactly as I say. Upon agreement, he... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic
Editor's Note: Mazin Qumsiyeh has been sharing his first-hand experiences with our readers for years. Often his letters provide a careful accounting of the sad realities in which Palestinians live. His true stories are more powerful than any polemics, mental exercises and "peace plans" created by the Zionist entity and... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a Villager at Home , Axis of Logic
Families continue to be evicted from Jerusalem for being not Jewish. In this case two Palestinian refugee families (nearly 50 individuals) who lived in these homes since they were evicted from their homes in West Jerusalem in 1948 are made refugees again (see the video). Israeli colonial settlers claim the... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a Villager at Home , Axis of Logic
Bethlehem is a buzz with security preparations for the Fatah conference on Tuesday. The local people I talked to either were indifferent or were worried about inability to reach school or work or do shopping during the days of the conference. The Fatah people I talked to are unsure of... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic
Although the wind
blows terribly here,
the moonlight also leaks
between the roof planks
of this ruined house.
-Izumi Shibiku
And the wind blows terribly in this land of apartheid. But the moonlight is getting brighter as more and more of the lies upon which the racism that... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic
The old Hebron to Jerusalem (now Hebron-to-wall-near Bethlehem) road was lined up with perhaps over 200 armed special forces. These are not Israeli but Palestinian "security". I was going to pick a friend at Dheisheh Refugee camp to eat Knafah (a Palestinian sweet). Every 10 meters (30 ft) for a... » read this article
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