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1 month ago | 
znetwork.org | Yves Engler |Featured Palestine
Eight hundred and eighty-five to 58. That was the result of a recent Concordia student vote in favour of the university severing ties with Israel. At a Special General Meeting of the Concordia Student Union (CSU) undergraduates voted more than 15-to-1 to adopt two motions in support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). With twice the quorum required for a special CSU meeting, the January 29 assembly drew more students than any room at the university can handle.
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2 months ago | 
znetwork.org | Ramzy Baroud |Featured Palestine
The return of one million Palestinians from southern Gaza to the north on 27 January felt as if history was choreographing one of its most earth-shattering events in recent memory. Hundreds of thousands of people marched along a single street, the coastal Rashid Street, at the furthest western stretch of Gaza.
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2 months ago | 
znetwork.org | Ramzy Baroud |Featured Palestine
The problem with political analysis is that it often lacks historical perspective and is mostly limited to recent events. The current analysis of the Israeli war on Gaza falls victim to this narrow thinking. The ceasefire agreement, signed between Palestinian groups and Israel under Egyptian, Qatari, and US mediation in Doha on January 15, is one example. Some analysts, including many from the region, insist on framing the outcome of the war as a direct result of Israel’s political dynamics.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
znetwork.org | Ramzy Baroud |Featured Palestine
Following every Israeli war on Gaza, numerous narratives emerge. Some claim victory for one side and defeat for the other, while others—knowingly or unknowingly—attempt to exploit the aftermath for their own purposes. The latter is not always nefarious, as the humanitarian calamities resulting from Israel’s actions are undeniable—especially as Israel and its allies often use aid to Palestinians as bargaining chips for political concessions or to exert pressure on the Strip and its leadership.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
znetwork.org | Yanis Varoufakis |Featured Palestine
As the genocide of Palestinians continues, the images and stories coming from Gaza and the West Bank are almost unbearable. Israeli soldiers openly confess to genocidal intent, while Palestinians livestream their own destruction. Despair feels inevitable—but surrendering to it is not an option.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Dan La Botz |Featured Palestine
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced three resolutions in the Senate last week to stop U.S. weapons transfers to Israel. The resolutions to end U.S. support for Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza all received between 18 and 19 votes from Democrats and none from Republicans.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Stan Cox |Featured Palestine
In February, the public health specialist Muna Abed Alah published a paper in the journal Current Psychology titled “Shattered Hierarchy: How the Gaza Conflict Demolished Maslow’s Pyramid of Needs.” The idea of a hierarchy of needs—first published by the psychologist Abraham Maslow in 1943 and subsequently modified in various ways by Maslow and others—has long been pervasive in the world of pop psychology, while some in academia have poked holes in Maslow’s logic.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Oded Goldreich |Assaf Kfoury |Featured Palestine
An incendiary war has been raging for more than a year in the Middle East. It has been indescribably devastating on Gaza and has now extended to the West Bank, to northern Israel and Lebanon, with ominous signs of expanding further into a regional war. This is a war driven by an Israeli government bent on exacting vengeful retribution on all of its perceived enemies, unrestrained by its American benefactor and main purveyor of weapons.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Radha Surya |Featured Palestine
No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere–Emily BrontëFor the millionth time, Palestinians have won the moral victory. Defiant to the very end the Hamas leader died fighting the genocidal occupier. For an entire year the occupier insisted he was skulking in the tunnels and using the hostages of October 7, 2023 as human shields.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Featured Palestine |Ramzy Baroud
“Your lives will continue. With new events and new faces. They are the faces of your children who will fill your homes with noise and laughter.”These were the last words written by my sister in a text message to one of her daughters. Dr. Soma Baroud was murdered on Oct. 9, when Israeli warplanes bombed a taxi that carried her and other tired Gazans near the Bani Suhaila roundabout close to Khan Yunis. Whether she was on her way to or from the hospital where she worked does not matter now.
