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Letters from Palestine
Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh's work is regularly published in Axis of Logic's Letters from Palestine. He teaches and does research at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities in occupied Palestine. He previously served on the faculties of the University of Tennessee, Duke and Yale Universities. He is now president of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People. He published several books of which the most acclaimed "Sharing the Land of Canaan: human rights and the Israeli/Palestinian Struggle" which was also translated to Spanish. He also has an activism book published electronically on his Website. His main interest is media activism and public education. He published over 200 letters to the editor and 100 op-ed pieces and interviewed in TV and radio extensively (local, national and international). He is currently finishing a book on Palestinian civil resistance going back to the beginning of the Zionist project in the 19th century until today.
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic
June 20, 2010
Israeli occupation forces today in Beit Jala engaged in beatings, burning of
fields, and attacking peaceful demonstrators, bystanders, and reporters. Two young Palestinians: Mohammed Masalma and Thaer Mahmoud were injured after severe beatings with hands and clubs (they were both near their homes and not participating in... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic
Note: I am available this summer from June 26-July 10 for talks in Southern Europe especially on issues of popular resistance to Israeli apartheid and direct stories from under the colonial occupation. Invitations to speak to groups, universities, and conferences would be considered depending on the tour schedule and first... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic
A short description and a 7 minute video on a two-day trip to the Galilee, North Palestine.
It was strangely uplifting to spend two nights and three days in the Galilee, North Palestine. We visited good friends, made new friends, saw 3000 year old olive trees, walked in the... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic
They finally released our 10 friends yesterday from Israeli jails on bail pending “trial”. Those kidnapped from the peaceful march in Bethlehem area on Palm Sunday attended a press conference in Ramallah and passed by Beit Sahour late last night. Each is to appear in front of a military judge... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic (Submitted by the author)
(Includes 5 videos)
The olive young leaves and flower sprouts are denser than ever before. It promises a great season not only of bountiful agricultural harvest but of bountiful harvest on the activism front. It is true that, as the Palestinian poet stated, if the olive tree knew the suffering... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic
I just arrived in the US to give a series of talks on Palestine as part of the 6th International Israeli Apartheid Week (my schedule is below*).
The day I left Palestine was a bizarre/strange day to say the least. The second Sunday in Beit Sahour to hold events to protest... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic
Editor's Note: The video below was published and subtitled by Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD. Mazin is the man who asks the soldiers, "Why are you shooting at them? They are unarmed! This is their village! If you go away, there won't be any problem."
- Les Blough, Editor
Settlers come... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic
ANNOUNCING:
6th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week in March, 2010
Israeli Apartheid Video Contest
PACBI - 2009 BDS Campaign Year In Review
The Sixth Annual Israeli Apartheid Week
Solidarity in Action: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions
March 2010
Apartheid Week
Mark your calendars - the 6th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) will take... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic
This is a 9 Minute video I just put out on life in the Bethlehem area during Christmas, 2009. It starts with a Jewish guy who joined the demonstration in Al-Masara asking that the soldiers disobey orders and not join in oppressing the Palestinians. In addition to the usual struggles... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic
Editor's Note: Noone I have ever read, tells the story of the Middle East with honesty, compassion and humanity equal to that of Mazin Qumsiyeh. Mazin leaves the trappings of his impressive intellect behind when writing his first hand accounts, allowing us to see the humanity of those - who alone - really... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic
It is not easy to remain a racist oppressor and it is getting harder to keep deflecting the critics by asking them to focus on nonexistent threats (like Iran). The Human Rights Council accuses Israel of war crimes in Gaza and the Israeli government panics and deals with it as... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home. Axis of Logic. , Axis of Logic
On 16 October 1935, a barrel marked “cement” fell as it was being unloaded from ships at the port in Jaffa. The broken barrel contained guns, grenades, and ammunition and was one of many secret shipments to the underground Zionist terrorist militias in Palestine. That incident among others (including the... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic
In the last two days, I attended two conferences, one in An-Najah National University in Nablus on American Studies in Palestine and one at AlQuds University on the future of Palestine.
The first was an interesting conference that showed there are so many Palestinians in different universities here who were... » read this article
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