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Items by Sayid Marcos Tenorio
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Israel’s terrorism against human rights NGOs
Since its founding in 1948, the “State of Israel” has promoted an intense campaign to erase Palestinian history, culture and resistance on all its fronts. Human rights organisations such as the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) and activists around the world are the constant targets of this onslaught. Recently,…
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The Balfour Declaration: 104 years since the start of the Palestinian tragedy
The date of 2 November marks an event directly linked to the root of the conflict in Palestine and the suffering, deterritorialisation and apartheid experienced by its people. On this date in 1917, British Foreign Secretary James Balfour wrote a letter, known as the Balfour Declaration, to the leader of…
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Palestinian resistance poetry by Mahmoud Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish is the most internationally-renowned Palestinian poet and writer, although still little-known in Brazil. He is the author of 30 poetry books and eight prose books, translated into more than 40 languages, and winner of the Cultural Freedom Prize, the Lannan Foundation (US), the Lenin Peace Prize (former the…
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Palestine forever
“Land of divine messages revealed to humanity, Palestine is the home country of the Palestinian Arab people. They have grown, developed and expanded there. Their national and human existence was asserted there in an uninterrupted and unaltered organic relationship between the people, their land and their history.” This excerpt expresses…
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Israel’s terror against Gaza’s children on Netflix
The celebration of Children’s Day on 12 October made me remember and rewatch the documentary Born in Gaza (2014) on Netflix by Italian-Argentinian war correspondent, writer and filmmaker Hernán Zin. The documentary was shot during the 2014 offensive on the Gaza Strip and portrays the daily lives of ten children…
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Lies and fears in the Israeli premier’s speech at the UN
On 27 September, the world watched as the war criminal and Prime Minister of Israel, Naftali Bennett, before the General Assembly of the United Nations gave a speech full of lies and which configured an unmistakable demonstration of fear concerning the future of the Zionist colonial occupation in Palestine. For…