Paris names square after leading supporter of Palestine and Nazi-era concentration camp survivor Stephane Hessel

File photo of Nazi-era concentration camp survivor and a leading Palestine advocate Stephane Hessel PressTV | Tue Oct 22, 2013 3:23PM GMT A town hall in Paris has named a square after a leading supporter of the Palestinian cause, Stephane Hessel, who died earlier this year. On Monday, Mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoe joined distinguished […]

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Nakba survivor: ‘If you wanted to live, you left’

#NAKBA65  | 65 YEARS NAKBA = ENOUGH! Maan News Agency | May 16, 2013 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Ghatheyya Mifleh al-Khawalda was 15 years old when she fled her home during the Nakba of 1948. Now 80, Ghatheyya was once a carefree teenager who used to live with her mother and sister in the village of […]

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I’m A Cast Lead Survivor ~ by @ImNadz

Every day, Occupied Palestine weblog features an article of the new and very promising Beyond Compromise weblog where the youth from and outside Palestine are bringing you uncensored stories and share their experiences about occupation.  And… no compromise will be made about the rights.  A must follow. Today: Nader Monzer from Gaza aka @ImNadz June […]

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Our Paradise on Earth | A story of the Nakba from A Voice From Palestine

“Yamma, wake up, its morning and we have work to do”. It was the olive harvest season and for over a month the whole family together with the entire village had been spending the day in the olive fields. My father and my elder brothers had left earlier. I went to the storeroom, grabbed a […]

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Nakba Survivor | Rosa Remembers Palestine – video

A rare, in-depth interview with an original refugee/survivor of Al Nakba, which is Arabic for The Catastrophe, referring to when Zionist Jews came to Palestine in 1947, and committed on-going acts of terror against the Palestinian people living there, in order to drive the Palestinians out of their homeland, and create a Jewish state: Israel. […]

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Zionists Are Automatons

By Adri Nieuwhof * | Sabbah Report | http://www.sabbah.biz | May 7, 2011 Hajo Meyer – Photo by Christiane Tilanus Since being interviewed by The Electronic Intifada in 2009, Auschwitz survivor Hajo Meyer has toured numerous countries to speak about his efforts to combat Zionism and his support for the struggle of the Palestinian people […]

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As a Holocaust Survivor, AIPAC Doesn’t Speak for Me

By Hedy Epstein At the end of one of my first journey to the Israeli-occupied West Bank in 2004, I endured a shocking experience at Ben-Gurion Airport. I never imagined that Israeli security forces would abuse a 79-year-old Holocaust survivor, but they held me for five hours, and strip-searched and cavity-searched every part of my […]

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As a Holocaust survivor, AIPAC does not speak for me

by Hedy Epstein on April 28, 2011 | Mondoweiss At the end of one of my first journeys to the Israeli-occupied West Bank in 2004, I endured a shocking experience at Ben-Gurion Airport. I never imagined that Israeli security forces would abuse a 79-year-old Holocaust survivor, but they held me for five hours, and strip-searched […]

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Auschwitz Survivor: “For as long as I can, I will continue”: Hajo Meyer interviewed

Adri Nieuwhof The Electronic Intifada 26 April 2011 Hajo Meyer (Christiane Tilanus) Since being interviewed by The Electronic Intifada in 2009, Auschwitz survivor Hajo Meyer has toured numerous countries to speak about his efforts to combat Zionism and his support for the struggle of the Palestinian people for freedom and equality. In 1939, Meyer had to flee alone […]

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Mavi Marmara survivor says Israel used him as human shield – video

  Published 5 June 2010   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Free Gaza movement: 10.05 am, 6th June, Heathrow Terminal 3, Turkish Airlines Six British citizens, eyewitnesses and members and organisers of the Free Gaza Movement, will return to Heathrow Airport tomorrow morning, Sunday 6th June. A member of Free Gaza, Osama Qashoo, stated that he “was […]

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