Environmental Racism. Environmental Colonialism. Eco-occupation. These diesel-fired electrical plants exhaust 150 megawatts of toxic waves to indigenous Bedouins in the Naqab region of Palestine- these are pollution-heavy and carcinogenic zones.
Read MoreSpent last night “real camping” in Palestine. The last time I went camping, I said it was the really going to be my last time. I appreciate being bug free at night and having running water. This was different though.
Read MoreToday's focus was physicality — not one other day relied so heavily upon visuals as today in both the Naqab and Hebron. The Naqab — cancer-causing phosphorus plant as an invader; unrelenting heat; dust and desolation; lifelessness.
Read MoreWe approached the checkpoint at 1 pm in the afternoon after an afternoon of learning about apartheid policies and dictates in Khalil (Hebron). We saw the marketplaces that had been shuttered due to settlement expansion because the Israeli settlers above wanted to build a basketball court.
Read MoreWent through another checkpoint today. We pulled up to it, and they had the routine initial questions: Them: “Who is with you?” Us: “Americans.” Them: “We’re going to check.” So they boarded the bus. Machine guns, attitude, and settler colonial privilege.
Read MoreIn Haifa we see Palestinian homes, whose families were displaced in 1948, in process of reconstruction with a colonial face-lift for condos and artist lofts. Metropolitan living for hipster settlers becomes the new sexy.
Read MoreSitting with rage and grief this morning. I couldn’t really sleep last night. I went to bed but it wasn’t restful. Yesterday, we toured the village of a Lifta. All that’s really left of it is a number of buildings which look like this one. In 1947-48, the village was ethnically cleansed by Zionist invaders.
Read MoreThe same technology of settler environmentalism used in the United States, to displace indigenous peoples by creating national parks/reserves, has been a tool for Israel to displace Palestinians from their land.
Read MoreFor my bar-mitzvah, one hundred trees were planted in Israel in my name. Trees dot the landscape on the first part of the drive from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv-Yafo. Forests and clumps of trees are clearly visible from the highway. If you look closer, you can see some stone walls and foundations among the trees.
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