Khalil Rayyan

Absorbed in the search for beauty… driven by emotions and impressions… revealing optimism and hope… this is Khalil Rayyan, a veteran artist who has been spared pretentious grandeur and narcissism. His work is always a reflection on simple themes, content, and lineament, and he shows passionate sensitivity and awareness of the reality faced by Palestinian artists living inside Israel. Read More

Mazin Qumsiyeh

[HumanRights] Update before I return home

    Below is an update including action calls, interviews by several languages,
and more videos of civil resistance actions being persecuted by occupation
authorities.

Many people have been injured and killed in the past few weeks as both the
local population and the occupation authorities realize we are in the birth
pangs of a new uprising against the occupation focused on civil resistance
in villages and towns impacted by the colonization policies.  A 14-year-old
Ehab Afdal Barghouthi was critically injured after Israeli occupation
soldiers shot him in the head earlier this week during one of these
demonstrations. The concern that hundreds of you showed to my situation with
a potential arrest upon return home moved me. Of course, I am more protected
and privileged than most Palestinians who engage in civil resistance and we
must not forget about them.  But in discussion with many hundreds of friends
via my appearances in the US in the last few days and via the internet, we
come to the conclusion that it might be good to use my story as a way to
draw attention to these other cases.  If the Israeli army is allowed to
persecute a Palestinian American academic and professor who always advocated
civil and nonviolent resistance, then obviously they would have more freedom
to do far more against others…

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