Good news (let’s hope it continues). The Newton Free Public Library in the Boston area hosts my photographic exhibit, The Ongoing and Relentless Nakba-the Palestinian Catastrophe of 1948. May 2-30, 2024 Reception: May 9, 6:30-8 pm. Unfortunately, all will be onsite only, not zoom. Newton Free Public Library 330 Homer St, Newton Center, MA 02459 […]
Read More The Ongoing and Relentless Nakba at the Newton Public LibraryI devoted a week-long retreat at The Agape Community in central Massachusetts in frigid snowless February 2024 while the war on Gaza continued to explode. After Hamas viciously and without warning attacked Israel on October 7, Israel invaded Gaza three weeks later, beginning the slaughter of the innocents, and continuing to the date of writing […]
Read More Creating my blog series “Dual Loyalty”I’d written to Yeela with some questions. She responded at some length. My earlier blog about her. On February 8, 2024 she emailed me: Skip: i found a photo of destruction in your home presumably caused by hamas. Yeela: yes, Hamas. Yeela’s kitchen after the Hamas attack could you tell me what happened, especially how you […]
Read More Dual Loyalty-addendum to Yeela Raanan (her response to my questions)Overshadowed by the savage destruction of Gaza and the massacre of Israeli civilians (with some Israeli military) on October 7, 2023, Palestinians in the West Bank live under another form of siege and potential expulsion: checkpoints, night raids, demolition of homes, destruction of olive and fruit groves, and theft of agricultural lands—an apartheid region, two […]
Read More Fareed Taamallah in the West BankWhich side are you on, boys, which side are you on? Sahar Vardi Like many observing the violence over Gaza, I’m stunned, frenzied, and outraged. My mind fractures, I feel dizzy, nightmares disturb my sleep. My heart-sick sometimes turns into gut-sick, I feel physically ill. When I shop for food and cook, when I pee […]
Read More DUAL LOYALTY-part 4-Sahar Vardi-Which side are you on, boys, which side are you on?In my 4 part blog series, drawing heavily from my photography during 6 journeys to Gaza (2013 was the most recent; since then Israel has blocked me from entrance), I hope to portray my personal connections with people and issues in Gaza, Israel (especially southern Israel in the Negev/Naqab desert bordering Gaza) and the West […]
Read More Dual Loyalty-part 3-Yeela RaananAs calls for a ceasefire/humanitarian pause, hostage and prisoner release and access to humanitarian aid rapidly develop, as South Africa brings the claim of genocide against Israel to the International Court of Justice, perhaps rendering some of my blog dated, I hope to portray my personal connections with people and issues in Gaza, Israel (especially […]
Read More Dual Loyalty-Part 2-Wesam AmerSpecial edition because of the violence in Gaza. The Peace and Social Justice Committee of Friends Meeting at Cambridge, responding to calls heard for information and action suggestions, offers this resource list. Selected and organized by Skip Schiel with help from others. Feel free to suggest other resources. The American Friends Service Committee invites you […]
Read More Resource list for thinking about the violence in Gaza (human beings at our worst) and what we can do about it (human beings at our potential best)The Palestinian inner layers of psychology go around one single issue: the 1948 uprooting and the destruction of their homes. And what the Israelis are doing, by destroying all these homes every day, they are making the Palestinians relive the trauma, which is very deeply buried into our conscious and our unconscious. The home for […]
Read More Dual Loyalty-part 1HUMAN BEINGS live, work, study, play, fight, raise children and dream in Jenin, a city of 40,000 people in the northern West Bank, 90 driving miles from Jerusalem. They are confined to a little more than 14 square miles. The refugee camp, administered by the UN Refugee Works Administration, houses some 13,000 to 15,000 people, […]
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