Beirut protests Israel’s attack on Gaza aid convoy
Thousands take to streets of Beirut to protest Israel’s attack on the Freedom Flotilla
Three more tunnel workers killed today in Gaza
Another three Palestinians were killed today in an Israeli strike on tunnels along the Gaza-Egypt border. The young tunnel workers are paid little to risk their lives and dig tunnels that serve as a lifeline to supply Gaza’s population of 1.5 million with food, medicines, gasoline, and other essential items long denied to them by [...]
"The war in Gaza" multimedia feature
Photos by Stefania Mizara. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYoQu8mtS3w&hl=en&fs=1&]
Photostory: Hip-hop for Gaza
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10464.shtml In the aftermath of Israel’s three weeks of attacks on the Gaza Strip earlier this year, a group of young students, activists, artists and professionals from Chicago formed the Gaza Aid Project (GAP) to support Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. On 12 April 2009 GAP brought together world-renowned hip-hop artists to Chicago’s Logan Square [...]
Interview on worldview
Check out an interview with me on WBEZ Chicago that aired today: http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/content.aspx?audioID=33092
1 April 2009 – University of Chicago event
(This is not an April Fool’s Day joke.) Presentation of exhibit and talk about Israel’s recent attacks on Gaza and their aftermath by Matthew Cassel. WEDNESDAY 1 April 2009 7:00PM University of Chicago Hallowed Grounds 5706 S. University Ave. 2nd floor Chicago, IL
The right to criticize
To little surprise, Jewish groups in the US have immediately organized a campaign bashing a political cartoon relating to Israel’s recent attacks on Gaza as “anti-Semitic.” Nothing better illustrates the problem with mixing religion and politics. The Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist, Pat Oliphant, drew the above cartoon clearly criticizing Israel for its brutality of Palestinian [...]
The truth will emerge
As many Western media outlets try their hardest to tell the story of the “brave” Israeli soldiers who fought the “terrorists” in the Gaza Strip, more and more reports are emerging of war crimes, even stories told by Israeli soldiers of their comrades who killed Palestinian civilians intentionally. Al Jazeera reports: Reports have surfaced in [...]
Four dead in Gaza tunnel collapse
From Yahoo News: GAZA CITY (AFP) – Four Palestinians were killed on Sunday when a tunnel used for smuggling between the Gaza Strip and Egypt collapsed on top of them, medics said. The victims were between the ages of 17 and 25, they said. The tunnels were thought to have collapsed after torrential downpours that [...]
Al Jazeera English investigates Israeli war crimes
From Al Jazeera English: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKzIxXkFvVE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1]
Sonic boom
I had never heard one before my recent trip to Gaza. I have heard plenty of American-made Israeli-piloted F-16s fly over the West Bank or Lebanon, but never the sonic boom. I remember being in Beit Hanoun photographing a group of kids. All of a sudden I heard an F-16 in the distance, I looked [...]
I call on you
“Onadikum” or “I call on you” by the Palestinian poet Tawfiq Zayyad. Translated by As’ad AbuKhalil. I call on you I press your hands I kiss the ground under your feet and I say: I sacrifice myself for you I give you as a gift the light of my eyes and the warmth of heart, [...]
The new anti-semitism
Dozens of mosques were destroyed during the recent Israeli war on Gaza. And meanwhile some punks writing slurs in red marker on the walls of a synagogue in Venezuela is front page news. There is a big difference here. The attacks on the Venezuelan synagogue were carried out by a few people and were condemned [...]
Injuries under siege
This boy was not injured during the attacks. After the attacks he fell and hit his head and went unconscious. He was recovering in the ICU at Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital. Since the Israeli (and Egyptian) siege began, almost 250 Palestinians patients in Gaza have died from illnesses or injuries who would’ve otherwise lived had [...]
I've been injured three times
My friend, let me tell you, I’ve been injured three times by Israel. I’ve been shot twice and injured by shrapnel once. In the latest war a bullet went into the back of my neck and exited the other side. I spent a few days in the hospital and now I’m fine. Look at my [...]
"Open-air prison"
This term is often used to describe Gaza. It always make me stop when I hear it, “open-air.” Even though the word “prison” follows, it still makes it sound nice somehow. It makes you just want to take a deep breath when you say it out loud and feel calm and relaxed. If you think [...]
You cannot defeat us
We are youth. You have made war on us as long as we’ve lived. This is nothing new. Continue to destroy our homes, shoot our children, drop bombs from your planes. You are cowards, and we are youth. As long as we’re alive we will always smile. It must surprise you, but you will learn, [...]
This is my house
This is my house. I am ten years old. Every day I used to play in the area around my home. I used to run home after school and throw my bag in the front door to meet my friends and run around in the streets and then go home when I wanted to rest [...]
My heart remains…
Today I left Gaza, but my heart remains… It remains with the children who couldn’t look me in the eye when they quietly replied “yes” to when I asked them if they were scared during the attacks. It remains with the policemen forced to push back the crowds of storming people waiting for days just [...]
I am the resistance
I am a farmer. My family’s home lies in the Ezbat Abed Rabu neighborhood in Jabaliya town in the Gaza Strip. Israel invaded our neighborhood and we were forced to flee our homes. When the soldiers came, our neighbors were the first to leave their homes carrying white flags. Three of the neighbors young daughters [...]