Video and Articles about Journalist Faten Elwan
Faten Elwan is a fearless journalist and storyteller known for her work in conflict zones, particularly in war-torn Palestine. As a correspondent for AJ+ Arabic and TRT World, she brings untold stories to light, amplifying the voices of those impacted by conflict. Faten's passion for storytelling aims to bridge gaps and inspire change, emphasizing the human cost of war and the resilient spirit of Palestine. She was a colleague and friend of the journalist Shireen Abu Akleh (whom Israeli troops murdered in 2022).
On TRT World Remembering Nakba 76 on May 15 (Video)
https://www.instagram.com/fatenelwan/reel/C6_o7v9tusr/
'My friend Shireen Abu Aqla was the sound of courage
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0c6c619
On the airdrops
https://www.tiktok.com/@pulseofpal/video/7343353227091463456
(says 10% of IDF dead in war on Gaza were U.S. citizens)
As protests grow, the PA turns its repression on Palestinian journalists
https://www.972mag.com/journalists-palestinian-authority-protests/
Inside a Jerusalem Post article in 2021
Mara Horowitz
Dr Mara Horowitz (Assistant Professor at SUNY Purchase) is an anthropology-trained archaeologist using worldwide ancient history and archaeology to teach a Global Studies curriculum organized by the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. With a professional focus on the Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age (Cyprus, Turkey, Syria), she is also committed to public outreach, museum studies, decolonization, and human rights. Many of her projects and classes employ interdisciplinary studies with materials sciences, philology, art history, zooarchaeology, and geology. She was living in Istanbul during the Arab Spring and spent ten years at a project on the Amuq Valley plain. In addition to twenty-five years of fieldwork in the Mediterranean and New York, she is now founder and director of the Kalavasos-Laroumena and Arkhangelos Archaeological Research Project (K-LAARP) in Cyprus
Pastor Anthony Bennett
Anthony L. Bennett is lead pastor at Mount Aery Baptist Church in Bridgeport Connecticut. He took part in the Tree of Life Education Foundation trip to Palestine in 2019. He spoke forcefully in favor of the ceasefire resolution that ultimately was passed in Bridgeport, the first in any Connecticut city.
For much more about him click here.
Jacqueline Guzda
Dr. Jacqueline Guzda, Professor of Media at Western Connecticut State University, is a radio/TV commentator and hosts the award-winning podcast, Behind the Curtain (https://soundcloud.com/user-401857763). She comes from a family of journalists and has traveled the West Bank with the Palestinian-American Research Center.
Reject the Bill to Destroy UNRWA and Starve Palestinians
The Israeli government knew there would be a devastating decision against their actions in Gaza by the International Court of Justice. So it had an anti-UNRWA propaganda campaign ready for a counterattack. The Israelis accused 12 members of UNRWA of taking part of the Oct 7 attack from Gaza. It sent the charges and names of the 12 to Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA’s commissioner general. He tried to appease the Israelis by acting before any evidence behind the charges was given. Instead of cooling things down this caused the charges to seem more credible leading to Biden's suspension of aid. (Or maybe this was choreographed with Secretary of State Blinken and Biden.)
This seems quite boneheaded on the part of Lazzarini, but he was between a rock and a hard place. According to an interview in The Guardian "He said an Israeli bank account belonging to UNRWA had been frozen and the agency had been warned that its tax benefits would be cancelled. Lazzarini added that a consignment of food aid from Turkey, including flour, chickpeas, rice, sugar and cooking oil, that would sustain 1.1 million people for a month had been blocked at the Israeli port of Ashdod. He claimed the contractor said the Israeli authorities had instructed the company not to move it or accept any payment from a Palestinian bank." So his heart was in the right place, but his actions helped the produce the disaster.
Now we have the "Revive Act" which includes a section which forbids any money to go to UNRWA from the U.S. government (its biggest contributor). The lead negotiator for the Democrats was Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut. On February 2nd he had called UNRWA "indispensable". Yet just days later he made the deal to cripple it. On PBS he said he did it to appease Republicans, to get them to keep humanitarian aid in the bill. He also made and made the far-fetched claim that other agencies could do UNRWA's work.
The Revive Act passed the Senate and is going to the Far-Right controlled House where the Republican "moderates" hope to take out all the economic and humanitarian aid. Will they also take out the language on UNRWA? Not a chance.
For a sample letter to send to members of the House who are now considering the "Revive Act" see this page from Promoting Enduring Peace.
On These Dates in History
January
7 Palestinian Martyr's Day
8 Birth of radical pacifist A.J. Muste (1885)
9 Birth of Simone de Beauvoir, feminist, author of The Second Sex, (1908)
10 Peoples Peace Treaty between people of the US and Vietnam (1971)
11 Zionists of the Stern Gang offer Nazi German an alliance (1941)
15 Birth of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929)
16 The Palestinian girl Abir Aramin, 10, shot dead by an Israeli soldier while she was coming home from school. Anata, Jerusalem (2007)
16 A playground "Abir's Garden" dedicated in front of a school in Anata (2008)
20 Syria and Amal militia lifts siege of Palestinian camps in Lebanon (1988)
20 Yasser Arafat elected president of Palestinian Authority(1996)
22 US Supreme Court legaltizes abortion in Roe vs. Wade (1973)
25 United Mine Workers formed (1890)
27 Holocaust Rememberance Day - United Nations
27 Paris Peace Accords supposedly end Vietnam war. US promises payments (1973).
29 Tet Offensive (1968) show US is not winning the Vietnam War
February
1 Sit in movement begins in Greensboro, NC (1960)
2 Foreign slave trade outlawed (1807)
4 Birth of Rosa Parks (1913)
5 Birth of Hank Aaron, homerun champ (1934)
6 Uprising against Lebanese fascist government (1984)
13 al-Amariya bomb shelter blown up by US in Baghada. 400 incinerated. (1991)
15 Birth of Shaden Abu-Hijleh martryed Palestinian peace activist (1941)
15 Millions protest coming U.S. invasion of Iraq (2003)
16 Birth of Leonora O'Reilly, union leader, co-founder NAACP
18 Birth of Sholem Aleichem, Jewish writer (1859)
19 Birth of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473)
20 Thousands of Jews attack Nazi Bund rally in New York City (1939)
21 Malcom X shot to death (1965)
21 First Indian language newspaper published (Cherokee) (1828)
21 Israeli Air Force shoots down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight #114 over occupied Egypt 98 deaths(1973)
23 Birth of African-American scholar and educator W.E.B. DuBois (1868)
25 Hebron Massacre by American born Israeli settler Dr. Baruch Goldstein (1994)
26 Birth of Victor Hugo, novelist, penned "Les Miserables" (1802)
26 Birth of Honore Daumier, sculptor, satarist (1808)
27 American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, SD (1973)
27 Birth of Ralph Nader (1934)
27 Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel meets with President Bush and urges "intervention" in Iraq as a "moral imperative" (2003)
27 Birth of Meena, martyred leader of RAWA, Revolutionary Association of Afghan Women (1957)
28 Israeli commandos kill 39 Egyptians in Gaza - Nasser turns to Soviets (1955)
28 Birth of Linus Pauling, won Nobel Prize for science and peace (1901)
March
1 Birth of Harry Belafonte, singer (1927)
2 Birth of Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss), children's book writer (1904)
2 Anne Sullivan began to teach Helen Keller (1887)
5 Birth of Rosa Luxemburg, revolutionary socialist leader (1871)
7 Singer Billie Holiday born (1915
8 International Women's Day
10 Plan Dalet adopted by Haganah - to conquer and expel in Arab Palestine (1948)
10 U.S. Bombers devastate Tokyo - 100,000 killed (1945) the most ever in one 24-hours
11 Fukushima-Daiichi Japan nuclear power plant melt-downs (2011)
16 Rachel Corrie murdered by an Israeli using an American-made Caterpillar bulldozer(2003)
16 Over 500 murdered by US troops in the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam
19 Yusuf abu Akar Shawamreh killed after he went through apartheid fence as he tried to pick wild edible plants (2014)
22 the DC 9 ransack offices of Dow Chemical, makers of napalm (1969)
24 Archbishop Romero assassinated in El Savador by US supported rightists (1980)
25 Birth of Artouro Toscanini, brilliant conductor and anti-fascist (1867)
28 Three Mile Island nuclear accident
30 Land Day - Commemoration of the Ongoing Seizure of Palestinian Land
31 Birth of Cesar Chavez, farmworker organizer (1927)
April
3 Israeli attack on Jenin refugee camps. 70 killed. (2002)
4 Martin Luther King speaks out against the Vietnam War (1967)
4 Birthday of Thaddeus Stevens, Radical Republican congressman (1792) 5 Palestinian Child's Day
8 Al-Jazeera camerman Tarek Ayyoub assassinated by US military 2003
9 Deir Yassin Massacre 1948
9 Birth of Paul Robeson, actor, singer (1898)
10 Birth of Rachel Corrie (1979)
10 Fanatic Allan Goodman storms the Dome of the Rock firing randomly, killing one (1982)
11 Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan infamously calls Hitler a "very great man". On June 24 he calls Judaism a "gutter religion" (1984)
13 Liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp 1945
14 Vittorio Arrigoni killed in the Gaza Strip (2011) 16 Start of first Palestinian Intifada 1936
17 Prisoner's Day - Palestine
18 Qana Massacre in 1996 in Lebanon
19 Jews in Warsaw ghetto Poland begin revolt against Nazis
22 Earth Day
23 Vietnam veterans throw down their medals on the steps of Congress "Dewey Canyon III" (1971) 24 Over 1,000 killed in Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh (2013)
26 The Basque city of Guernica was leveled by the German Condor Legion allied with Franco (1937)
27 South Africa's first mult-race election puts Nelson Mandela in office (1994)
28 American soldiers kill 15 peaceful demonstrators in Falluja, Iraq. This formerly peaceful city became a hotbed of resistance. (2003),
28 Chernobyl disaster begins 1986
28 US Workers Memorial Day
28 Afghan Mujahadeen conquer Kabul and usher in a reign of terror, civil war and extreme attacks on women. (1992) Replaced by Taliban in '96. Restored to power by Bush in '01
30 Vietnam is reunited after 121 years of domination and colonial rule (1975)
May
1 International Worker's Day
4 Kent State Massacre 1970
5 Karl Marx born 1816
6 Anarchist leader Camillo Berneri murdered by Stalinists in Spain (1937)
8 Setif Masscre in Algeria, VE celebration turned into a protest march calling for independence, French soldiers kill between 15,000 and 45,000 people (1945)
12 US Ambassador to the UN, Madeleine Albright declares on "60 Minutes" that the killing of 500,000 Iraq children was "worth it" (1996)
13 firebombing of MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia 1985
14 British withdraw from Palestine - Israel declares independence
15 Al-Nakba (Catastrophe) Day
18 Entire Crimean Tatar population deporated by Stalin/Beria Communist Soviet Union 1944
19 Birth of Malcolm X (1925), and Ho Chi Minh (1890)
19 The Matewan Massacre, battle between coal miners and corporate thugs in WV (1920).
20 Rishon Le Zion massacre of Palestinian workers (1990)
21 birth of Johan Sabastian Bach
22 Birth of Harvey Milk martyred gay rights activist (1930)
30 Memorial Day Massacre - Cops kill 10 striking workers at Republic Steel in Chicago (1937)
31 Amal overruns Sabra camp in Lebanon - 700 Palestinans disappear (1985)
June
1 International Children's Day
1 Mohammed Tamimi shot dead by an Israeli sniper. He was two years old (2023)
2 Palestine Liberation Organization founded (1964)
3 Israeli planes bomb Lebanon killing 200 after attack on Israeli ambassador (1982)
5 Israeli-Arab War leads to Occupation of West Bank and Gaza (1967)
6 Begin and Sharon start the Israeli invasion of Lebanon (1982)
8 Israeli jets and torpedo boats attack the USS Liberty murdering 34 and injuring 172 (1967)
10 Geronimo Pratt released from prison after 27 years - judged innocent
12 Birth of Anne Frank, author of famous diary, murdered by Nazis
19 London Sunday Times issues first comprehensive report about "routine" torture in Israeli prisons (1977)
20 World Refugee Day
21 Three Civil Rights Workers Disappear in Mississippi - Schwerner, Goodman and Young Later Found Dead (1964)
22 Tal Az-Za`tar massacre in Lebanon (1976)
22 British Judge Lord Mansfield freed slave James Somersett. Mansfield recognized this slave had habeus corpus rights(1772)
25 Wobblies founded (1905)
27 Birth of Emma Goldman, anarchist, feminist, labor organizer
28 Israel's illegal annexation of Jerusalem (1967)
28 Gays fight back at Stonewall bar in Greenwich Village (1969)
30 Anti-Semite Henry Ford signs apology to Jews for publishing vile attacks on Jews in his paper the 'Dearborn Independent' (1927)
July
3 Children strike for an 11 hour day in Paterson, NJ (1835)
3 Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden tour Lebanon, supporting Israeli invasion (1982) Hayden apologized in 2006
3 The US cruiser Vincennes shot down Iran Airflight 655, a civilian plane, with the loss of 290 lives
4 Anti-Semites in Poland slaughter 42 Jews, 100,000 Jews flee country (1846)
8 Poet Ghassan Kanafani assassinated (1972)
14 Birth of singer Woody Guthrie (1912)
15 Israel declares "Law of Return" (1950)
17 Franco starts rebellion against Popular Front government of Spain
18 Birth of Nelson Mandela, South African anti-apartheid fighter (1918)
19 London Sunday Times issues first major report on Israeli torture (1977)
19 Sandanistas overthrow US supported dictatorship in Nicaragua (1979)
22 Jewish terrorists blow up the King David Hotel (1946)
22 Israel assassinated Hamas military leader Salah Shehadeh by blowing up an apartment building - 15 dead including 9 children
26 Americans with Disabilities Act becomes law (1990)
28 FDR gets eyewitness evidence of effort to exterminate the Jews (1943)
30 Anti-Semite Henry Ford receives the Grand Cross of the German Eagle (1938)
August
1 Albert Einstein urges scientists to refuse all military work (1931)
6 Massacre of 22 Catholic immigrants in Louisville, KY. Bigots feared Pope would rule U.S. (1885)
8 Israeli soldiers kill 22 at Al-Aqsa mosque (1990)
8 MECC first publishes the print edition of "The Struggle" (1984)
9 Richard Nixon resigns
11 Reagan fires the PATCO strikers and labor does virtually nothing
12 First woman (Hattie Carraway) elected to the US Senate (1932)
12 Tel Al Za'tar massacre of Palestinians in Lebanon (1976)
13 Israeli Foreign Ministry brings chief minister of KwaZulu, the biggest puppet South African Bantustan to Jeruslam (1985)
14 Slaves brought to the future U.S. for the first time (1619) NYT collection of articles
14 Henry David Thoreau jailed for protesting US invasion of Mexico (1946)
15 Israel announces plans to put Stern Gang leader on stamp (1977) - Avraham Stern tried to interest Nazi Germany in an anti-British alliance in 1941
20 Bill Clinton uses cruise missile to destroy the El Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, Sudan eliminating an estimated 60% of the country's phamaceutical production. The charge that the plant was producing VX gas for Ossam Bin Laden was found to be totally unfounded. (1998)
. 21 Nat Turner leads bloody slave rebellion (1831)
21 George Jackson killed Soledad prison, CA (1971)
23 Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti executed, framed for two murders
28 250,000 people march in civil rights, "I Have a Dream" speech (1963)
29 Naji Al-Ali assassinated in London (1987)
31 Al-Bureij Refugee Camp massacre (1953)
31 Palestinian fighers leave Beirut and are betrayed by Reagan (1982)
September
1 Military Train drives over the legs of Brian Wilson during protest of arms deliveries to Central America (1987)
9 Over 1,000 inmates rebel at the Attica prison in New York. Governor Nelson Rockefeller puts it down brutally. 39 deaths including 10 guards killed by friendly fire. (1971)
11 Nearly 3,000 killed in 9/11 attack by al-Qaeda
11 Government of Chile overthrown, thousands murdered by fascist friends of Nixon/Kissinger (1973)
11 Mohandas Gandhi calls for a campaign of mass disobedience to South African pass laws (1906)
11 Appela Huebmeyer, Barbara Huebmeyer and Anna Schnelling burned as "witches" in Waldsee, Germany (1589)
11 Steve Biko, black South African activist, dies from multiple injuries caused by torture in prison (1977)
11 Norweigan trade union newspapers arrange the printing of thousands of letters rejecting Nazification (1941)
13 Oslo Accords signed between Arafat and Rabin (1993)
15 Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon, 1300 murdered (1982)
17 1948 Count Folk Bernadotte assassinated by Stern Gang
28 Alaqsa Intifada (uprising) starts (2000)
October
2 Massacre at the Haram ash-Sharif in the old city of Jerusalem (1990)
7 Revolt at Auschwitz death camp led by Jews. Several SS killed. Crematorium burned. (1944)
7 Birth of Joe Hill, labor organizer and song writer (1879)
11 Shaden Abu Hijleh murdered by Israeli soldier in Nablus (2002) while sitting on her porch doing embroidery
14 Ariel Sharon's Unit 101 massacred 60 in the Jordanian village of Kibya (1953)
14 Revolt at Sobibor death camp (1943)
16 John Brown leads anti-slavery raid (1859)
17 French police massacre demonstrators supporting Algerian FLN in Paris (1961)
23 First national women's rights convention (1850)
28 Massacre of Palestians in the village of Dawaymeh (1948)
29 Kafr Qasem massacre (1956)
31 Balfour Declaration - British establish Jewish "homeland" (1917)
November
2 Balfour Declaration. British empire starts giveaway of Palestine to Zionists. (1917)
5 Birth of Eugene Victor Debs, labor leader, socialist, anti-war activist
5 Artouro Toscanini, brilliant conductor and anti-fascist premieres "Adagio for Strings"
8 Birth of Dorothy Day, radical, pacifist, Catholic Workers founder (1897)
9 Nazis smash 200 synagogues, kill 90Jews and send 25,000 to concentration camps in Germany (1938)
10 UN recognizes Zionism as racism (1975) [Eventually revoked]
11 Death of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (probably murdered) (2004)
15 Palestinian declaration of independence (1988)
20 Native Americans and AIM occupy Alcatraz Island (1969)
22 President Kennedy announces blockade of Cuba - Demands Soviet nukes out (1962)
29 UN General Assembly votes Partition Plan for Palestine(1947)
29 International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
30 Birth of Mark Twain, writer, anti-imperialist (1835)
December
3 Union Carbide Bhopal disaster kills 2,000 in India 1984
3 Three Marynoll Nuns and a lay missionary murdered in El Savador (1980)
7 David Ben Gurion speech saying history of the People of Israel more important than saving all the lives of Europe's Jewish children (just after Kristallnacht 1938)
8 UNWRA established to help Palestinian refugees
9 First Intifada (uprising) erupts (1987)
10 International Human Rights Day
11 UN Resolution 194 passed (1948) recognizing Palestinian right to return
14 UN indentifies Puerto Rico as a colony (1973)
14 New York Times reveals Israeli Defense Minister Sharon had visited Apartheid South Africa for 10 days and reported that South Africa needed more weapons (1981)
16 President Clinton orders concentrated bombing campaign against Iraq "Desert Fox" (1998)
17 U.S. cruise missile strikes in al-Majala, Yemen kill 40, mixing the body parts with hundreds of sheep and goats (2009)
25 Birth of Isaac Newton, scientist
26 members VVAW (Vietnam war veterans) "capture" Statue of Liberty (1971)
26 Abraham Lincoln had 38 Dakota Indians hanged in Mankato, Minnesota, in the largest mass execution in US history (1862)
27 "Gaza Massacre" begins. Over 300 children and 1,000 other Palestinians killed (2008)
29 Massacre of 200 Sioux at Wounded Knee by US troops (1890)
American Federation of Teachers Israel Bonds Investments
2009. On December 8, Antonia Cortese, Secretary-Treasurer of the American Federation of Teachers wrote back in answer to a letter from AFT member Stanley Heller noting that the AFT has two bonds of $150,000 each invested in the State of Israel Bonds.
In response to arguments that the AFT shouldn't be helping a government that is so vile in its human rights record she wrote, "The delegates to the AFT convention have consistently passed resolutions is support of the State of Israel".