9 Palestinians killed on Saturday evening Israeli bombings

1- Ahmed Khalil al-Sheikh Khalil, 36, from Rafah;

2- Mohammed Ahmed ‘Aashour, 26, from Khan Yunis;

3- ‘Abdul Karim Mousa Shatat (al-Masri), 30, from Khan Yunis;

4- Bassem Mohammed Abu al-‘Ata, 33, from Gaza City; and

5- Hassan Mohammed al-Khudari, 27, from Gaza City

6- Suleiman Mahrous Abu Fatma, 21; and

7- Sami Hamad Abu Sabt, 23, both from Rafah.

8- Mardi Nahidh Mohammed Hajjaj, 24; and

9- Suhail Ibrahim Jundiya, 27, both from al-Shuja’iya neighborhood in Gaza City.

Zionist crimes against humanity this week

IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank. Dozens of Palestinian civilians and international human rights defenders suffered from tear gas inhalation. IOF arrested an activist in the campaign against the construction of the annexation wall in Bil’ein village, west of Rammallah. IOF fired at Palestinian workers collecting scraps of construction materials in the northern Gaza Strip. IOF conducted 58 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank. IOF arrested 8 Palestinians. Israel has continued to impose a total closure on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world. Israeli soldiers arrested 4 Palestinian civilians, including a child, at various checkpoints in the West Bank. Israeli has continued to construct the annexation wall inside th West Bank territory. IOF leveled large areas of Palestinian land in al-Walaja village near Bethlehem. Israel has continued measures aimed at creating a Jewish majority in East Jerusalem. A new settlement plan in East Jerusalem was unveiled. The Israeli Municipality of Jerusalem decided to demolish the bridge of Bab al-Maghariba neighborhood. IOF closed offices of a number of NGOs and arrested a staff member. IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property. Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers while cropping olives in the West Bank.
Source: PCHR week of 20-26 Oct 2011

why i hate the word 'humanitarianism'!

"One example of how some local Lebanese communities resisted and refused to inscribe by this traumatized subjectivity can be seen in the failure of humanitarian organizations in providing proper psychological interventions for Lebanese Shi‘a, the Lebanese community most affected by the 2006 war. In a public speech delivered during ‘Ashura’ in December 2009, Hizballah’s Secretary General Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah discussed the role of “global organizations studying the psychological effect of the war in South Lebanon” and their failures in detecting signs of trauma among Lebanese Shi‘a. For Nasrallah “this absence of trauma is a special and unique phenomenon in history.”ⁱⁱⁱ His speech can be seen to express a form of counter-humanitarian discourse and challenged universally legitimate forms of suffering that dismiss the political, historical, and cultural contexts of violence and loss"

never to forget: Zionist crimes against humanity week of 13-19 October

IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.

- Dozens of Palestinian civilians and international human rights defenders suffered from tear gas inhalation.

- 6 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, sustained bruises in Hebron.

· IOF conducted 47 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.

- IOF arrested 12 Palestinians, including two children.

· Israel has continued to impose a total closure on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.

- Israeli soldiers arrested 3 Palestinian civilians, including a child, at various checkpoints in the West Bank

· Israel has continued measures aimed at creating a Jewish majority in East Jerusalem.

- The Israeli government plans to establish a new settlement neighborhood between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, and 950 dunums[1] of Palestinian land will be confiscated for this purpose.

· IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.

- IOF razed 30 dunums of agricultural land to the east of Salfit.

- Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian civilians and property in Hebron.

- Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers while cropping olives in the West Bank

Source: PCHR week of October 13-19, 2011

cleaners at SOAS

Cleaners at the university I am doing my PhD in, SOAS, are paid less than the minimal wage in the UK, because they are not citizens of the UK. SOAS as an amazing student political activism, that supports these workers' rights against the unjust rules of the administration. Ghazzawiyya supports them too and has the privilege of joining them in the strike.

not human beings

"Kuntar refuses to use the word “deal” to describe the recent prisoners exchange between Israel and Hamas, because that word is used when speaking about business, and not about human beings"

14th of March and the Syrian uprising

" it was ironic that the movement known for racist mobilization against Syrians, which resulted in the murder of hundreds of Syrian workers and attacks on hundreds of others, suddenly started to champion Syrian people and their cause."