Lexicon (The Way It Looked in 2003)

By politicide I mean a process that has, as its ultimate goal, the dissolution of the Palestinian people’s existence as a legitimate social, political, and economic entity…. Politicide is a process that covers a wide…

Disobedience

U.S. historian Howard Zinn once said, “The Holocaust might serve a powerful purpose if it led us to think of the world today as wartime Germany — where millions die while the rest of the population…

Lexicon/21

Sumud, Arabic, noun, state of perseverance; samid (masculine form): the steadfast, the persevering, samdeh, feminine form; samidin, plural. Sumud is watching your home turned into a prison. You, Samid, choose to stay in that prison…

A Journalist/3

When this conscience wakes And speaks out in thunder tones as it must It will need facts to use as a weapon Against injustice, barbarism and wrong It is for this reason that I carefully…

Children

Children in Albany, Georgia A small Deep South town Where the atmosphere of slavery still lingered Mass demonstrations took place In the winter of 1961 And again in 1962 Of twenty-two thousand black people in…

Righteous Israelis (Resisters [Torah])

Stephen Langfur was born in the U.S. and was a Conscientious Objector during the American war of destruction in Vietnam. When he moved to Israel, he joined the Israel Defense Forces but later refused to serve…