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Via @blklivesmatter: Today, delegates from the Movement for Black Lives join organizers and activists in #Bil'in, a territory in occupied Palestine where resisters are engaged in nonviolent protest. In the fight for dignity, justice and freedom, the Movement for Black Lives is committed to the global shared struggle of oppressed people, namely the people of occupied #Palestine and other indigenous communities who for decades have resisted the occupation of their land, the ethnic cleansing of their people, and the erasure of their history and experiences.

In this violent, political climate, it is urgent that we make clear the connection between violence inflicted on Black people globally that is encouraged and permitted by the state and the profiling, harm, and genocide funded by the United States and perpetrated by Zionists vigilantes and the Israeli Defense Forces on Palestinian people. Our collective oppression mandates that we work together across geography, language and culture to decry and organize an end to capitalistic, imperialist regimes.

We commit to global struggle, solidarity, and support of the Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) movement to fight for freedom, justice and equality for #Palestinian people and to end international support of the occupation. #FreedomNow #BlackPalestinianSolidarity

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The life of a young person was taken last night. We are deeply saddened by this tragedy, and wish that this had not happened.

There are so many of us who need TREATMENT and not punishment for mental health issues, who should be treated not as threats but as important and valuable human beings and members of the community. 

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Someone at UF submitted this poem to UF SJP and it is the most beautiful thing

Tell Netanyahu I’ll read this at his funeral submitted to us by Chupin

I lost my voice today I hope God heard my roar As I screamed for what I feel is just

I won’t shed tears because not even those whose lives were stolen from them could Instead I take their place in this fight

But not showing my tears makes the pain any easier to cope with I want my brothers and sisters to sleep peacefully at night I want them to grow old after having raised the most beautiful children

I want freedom for all I want this worlds burdens to be taken off their shoulders

I want those mothers to not have to cry Because their young boy is still alive rather than dead

I’ll happily give my voice to fight this fight I’ll give a leg and arm to see the daughters of the river rejoice The sons of the trees beaming beautiful smiles

My friend would get to see his family without having to float over soil

From the mountains to the sea we chanted From the valleys to the beach we chanted

They’ll be given their home

Kill the children and then kick the mother when she weeps Tell the father his son is a terrorist when all he did was protect his family A clock became a bomb And made a rock sound like a grenade

This is no way for anyone to live

Tell the parents of the bride their daughter will be safe tonight Because I’ll protect her and her husband on their wedding night

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Victory for the Palestinian people and political activists facing repression from the state!

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#breakingupwithwendys #swipeleftonwendys

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#swipeleftonwendys #breakingupwithwendys

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When asked recently about his proudest Royal Court moment, [Rickman’s] answer was not about him: he said it was when he took Rachel Corrie’s parents outside the front of the theatre to show them their late daughter’s name in neon lights.

My friendship with the great actor and director Alan Rickman did not have a particularly auspicious start.

It was March 2003 when Alan turned up at London’s Royal Court theatre, clutching an edition of the Guardian’s G2 section featuring the powerful last emails of Rachel Corrie, the American activist killed by a bulldozer in Gaza. Alan had recognised that Rachel’s voice could work brilliantly on stage, and I was commissioned to help him turn her words into a play. (…)

But the play we edited together, My Name is Rachel Corrie, had a greater impact than we ever imagined, with two runs at the Royal Court, a West End transfer, and productions around the world, from New York to Haifa. And on the opening night we each admitted that we couldn’t have done justice to Rachel’s words without the other. We’d been a partnership, we agreed, however crotchety. A friendship was born.

Alan Rickman: the most loyal, playful and generous of friends

(via stay-human)

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My Name is Rachel Corrie

by Rachel Corrie and Alan Rickman, may they both Rest in Peace.

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A Palestinian boy harvests strawberries in a field in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, on 10 December. Photo by Mohammed Asad.

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SJP’s across the West coast express solidarity and support for student activism in response to anti-Black racism at the University of Missouri (Mizzou). http://bit.ly/1ONHcjd

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On Friday, November 13, 2015, twelve members of the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) at the University of Texas at Austin disrupted a public event hosted by UT's Institute for Israeli Studies titled "The Origin of a Species: The Birth of the Israeli Defense Forces' Military Culture."

We were met with physical force and intimidation. A UT Austin professor (the picture from yesterday was from this video) as well as an attendee escalated what was supposed to be a reading of a prepared two-minute statement, culminating in professor Ami Pedahzur physically pressing his body against a PSC member, nose-to-nose in a move to physically intimidate the student. Pedahzur had to be restrained by 3 people (5:15).

After the video ends, we left the building immediately and were detained by police for 40 minutes. One of our members received a trespass warning because he was no longer a student. He is banned from returning to our campus though he was attending a public event. Pedahzur and the other man were not detained or questioned though we informed the police, including filing a police report, and our Dean of Students.

Please share this video widely and contact our Dean of Students, the Dean of College of Liberal Arts, and the UT Administration generally letting them know that physical assault of peaceful student protesters will not stand.

Contact information: Dean of Students: deanofstudents@austin.utexas.edu 512-471-5017

Dean of the College of Liberal Arts: diehl@psy.utexas.edu 512-471-4141

Chair of Department of Government rmoser@austin.utexas.edu 512-232-7260

You can also file a report with our Campus Climate Response Team here:

https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form…

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Hi everyone,

So my SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) chapter is hosting its annual fundraiser luncheon on November 14th. A bunch of Arab food, activity booths, etc. and we’re going to have Remi Kanazi (Palestinian poet) so like #bigdeal. 100% of the proceeds go towards Palestine Children’s Relief Fund which provides life-saving surgeries to children across the Middle East, so it’s for a good cause. Unfortunately, it’s also super expensive so we’ve been trying to raise money to afford the venue, Remi’s honorarium, etc. If you’re at all willing to donate or at least share with others, please feel free. We’d really appreciate it. Thank you!

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Palestinian liberation fighters study the works of Mao Zedong in the late 1960s

via reddit

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Voices of Nakba Interview with survivors of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe), where over 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes. They now reside in Yibna refugee camp (named after their home town) in the southern Gaza Strip. The film was produced by the Palestine UK twinning group Islington Friends of Yibna.

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in 1974, the Israeli Air Force bombed the Palestinian Refugee Camps in South Lebanon, destroying Nabatieh Refugee Camp and partially destroying Ein El Helweh Refugee Camp. Meanwhile, the Israeli authority were denying the very existence of the Palestinian people among which the refugees forced to exile during the outburst of the Nakba and the launch of the ethnic cleansing campaign also know as Plan D (Dalet) in 1948. This denial is to be linked to the memoricide of the Nakba, designed to prevent Israel from any form of accountability regarding its crimes and destruction of Palestine, a once multi-ethnic territory turned into a borderless state forever expending in compliance with the settler colonial ideology that is Zionism. These snapshots are exerpts form “They Do Not Exist” a 1974 Palestinian film by Mustafa Abu Ali : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WZ_7Z6vbsg To know more about the early years of Palestinian cinema that gave Palestinians a plateform to voice their struggle for justice, read this article, “Coming Home: Palestinian Cinema”, by the brilliant Palestinian poet and filmmaker, Annemarie Jacir : http://electronicintifada.net/content/coming-home-palestinian-cinema/6780