Say It Ain’t So, Maggie!

01.06.2019 ________________________________________ Protest, if you will, Chinese incarceration of more than 1 million Uighurs in “re-education” camps, the destruction of Continue reading →

Mahmoud Darwish: A Person Can Only Be Born in One Place

09.16.2018 ________________________________________  ”I see no other way than to begin now to speak about sharing the land that has thrust Continue reading →

Amritsar.Sharpeville.Gaza: Will It Never End?

05.20.2018 _________________________________________  Gaza is red with blood, dark in grief, mired in poverty and dysfunction, yet not without dignity. In Continue reading →

Black Swans Resist: It’s Their State, Too

04.28.2018 ________________________________________ ‘What? You’ve never seen The Maltese Falcon? I’ll lend it to you – you have to see it Continue reading →

Gaza: We Need to Let Suffering Speak

04.15.2018 _________________________________________ “We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn’t stop with Hiroshima Continue reading →

Embracing BDS’s Non-Violent Struggle Against Occupation

02.18.2018 ________________________________________  In 1947, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), together with the British Friends Service Council, accepted the Nobel Continue reading →

Indeed, ‘The World is Watching! #IranProtests’

01.07.2018 ________________________________________  As we ease ourselves into 2018 let us resolve to contextualize, to learn and remember:  That on April Continue reading →

Speak Tenderly to Jerusalem. Cry to Her…*

12.10.2017 ________________________________________ In 2002 I attended a conference In Washington called to discuss the Middle East “After 9/11.” At one Continue reading →