Category: Journals

  • Not a happy Mother’s Day

    Not a happy Mother’s Day by Martinez “No, this is not a happy Mother’s Day!” said Fatima Brijea as she pointed to the framed photograph behind me. It was her son. He was assassinated by the Israeli army. I sat in her living room sipping tea. I noticed the strength of Fatima’s hands as she…

  • Existence is Resistance: Challenging the Assault on Ordinary Life in Palestine

    Existence is Resistance: Challenging the Assault on Ordinary Life in Palestine by Anna One week after I left Nablus I found myself again looking out across the city’s majestic sunlit hills, this time from one of the highest mountains in the West Bank. In all my reporting on Israel’s invasion and human rights violations, I…

  • Remembering Rachel, 4 Years and Still No Justice. Dispatch #2

    by Martinez, March 17 It’s been a week since I returned home here to Palestine. And it has been four years since a twenty-three year old American peace activist, named Rachel Corrie, was killed by an Israeli Occupation Forces bulldozer in the Gaza Strip. I never met Rachel. But I can feel what drove her…