Excuse me, may I please speak? I post this blog to honor Nakba Day, May 15, 2024, 77 years of forced removal from homes, villages and communities—The Palestinian Catastrophe of 1948 On May 9, 2024 a group of us, many from Newton, some Palestinian, some Jewish, organized a program at the Newton Free Public library […]
Read More My Missing Talk at the Newton Public Library Nakba ReceptionThese are the things which you should do: speak the truth to one another; judge with truth and judgment for peace in your gates. —Zechariah 8:16, New American Standard Bible. Mainly because of library requirements, the Newton Public Library is exhibiting only half of my intended 24 or so photographs in the series—which in turn is a […]
Read More The Full Exhibit of 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”(The Agape Community published an earlier version in The Servant Song, summer 2021) When passion can’t flow easily into policymaking, it congeals as angry protest, growing wilder and more paranoid. Daniel Immerwahr Climate justice or justice for Palestine? Which for me will take precedence in my activism? With limited energy and time remaining in my […]
Read More How far can outrage carry me?From my journal, interviews, letters, and other writing about internally expelled Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza (once I can enter Gaza), plus their ancestral homelands. These dispatches are based on my latest sojourns in Palestine-Israel from mid-May to mid-July 2019 and more recent writing. Currently, the Covid-19 pandemic prevents me from returning. […]
Read More The Ongoing Nakba: Qasem Ahmad Qasem Abu Qutnah-returning to his olive trees in al-MansiFrom my journal, interviews, letters, and other writing about internally expelled Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza (once I can enter Gaza), plus their ancestral homelands. These dispatches are based on my latest sojourns in Palestine-Israel from mid-May to mid-July 2019 and more recent writing. Currently, the Covid-19 pandemic prevents me from returning. […]
Read More The Ongoing Nakba: Fatima Ali Msaimi (Um Wajeeh) tells her early storyFrom my journal, interviews, letters, and other writing about internally expelled Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza (once I can enter Gaza), plus their ancestral homelands. These dispatches are based on my latest sojourns in Palestine-Israel from mid-May to mid-July 2019 and more recent writing. Currently, the Covid-19 pandemic prevents me from returning. […]
Read More The Ongoing Nakba: AK, of an old illustrious Arab-Palestinian familyFrom my journal, interviews, letters, and other writing about internally expelled Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza (once I can enter Gaza), plus their ancestral homelands. These dispatches are based on my latest work in Palestine-Israel from mid-May to mid-July 2019 and more recent writing. Currently, the Covid-19 pandemic prevents me from returning. […]
Read More The Ongoing Nakba: Zakia Mohammed Theeb Hamad (Umm Al Abed)-her rescued fig treeFrom my journal, interviews, letters, and other writing about internally expelled Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza (once I can enter Gaza), plus their ancestral homelands. These dispatches are based on my latest work in Palestine-Israel from mid-May to mid-July 2019 and more recent writing. Currently, the Covid-19 pandemic prevents me from returning. […]
Read More The Ongoing Nakba: Mohammad Saleh Abu Habsa-Patience is a virtue!From my journal, interviews, letters, and other writing about internally expelled Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza (once I can enter Gaza), plus their ancestral homelands. These dispatches are based on my latest work in Palestine-Israel from mid-May to mid-July 2019 and more recent writing. (With major assistance from Fareed Taamallah, my colleague […]
Read More The Ongoing Nakba: The Lost Paradise-Maryam Abdallah Abu Lateefa from the village of Saris
Skip Schiel & Teeksa Photography 