Nouvelles de Béthléem (prof. Mazim Qumsiyeh)
When I was in the US I co-founded eight service organizations/institutions with support of hundreds of activists and other people of good will. We left (though still support) some of these to co-create other service organizations or networks either in the US or starting in 2008 in Palestine.Those of you who have helped along the way are to be thanked. I know many of you gave of your time and effort (and some in donations) to these or to other excellent organizations and networks. We do not say taink you enough but in my case this is also difficult since there are literally hundreds who directly supported our collective work over the years and thousands who are on my email list who supported other organizations and networks (all to be commended). So individual thank you notes are out of the question. Sometimes I hear of friends and supporters who died. I go back over my emails (because I get hundreds daily) to see what was the last communication with them. In some cases I say I am glad I got to write to them and receive their emails. In other cases I feel very guilty that I did not respond enough or even in one case a last touching email that got lost in the shuffle. For this I apologize to their spirits.I was thinking about this and other challenges at 2 AM (only time I get to think after a long day of work); I thought maybe writing this can help. I will try my best to do more personal responses though do not hold me to this with: 10 projects at Bethlehem University & two outside, a whole institute and laboratories to run (volunteer director!), teaching, writing (research articles, other articles, and books), human rights activism, and charity work. Anyways, as I age and think of my own end, I say to each and every one of *YOU *thank you for all you do but most of all thank you for being who you are: caring fellow human beings.
Announcement: The Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (Bethlehem University) is looking for volunteers, interns and occasionally staff. Past volunteers and interns are usually at an advantage for staff positions due to experience. We are looking for people passionate about nature, about biodiversity. Email us at [email protected] and/or go to https://www.palestinenature.org/volunteer/ & https://www.palestinenature.org/internships/
Inspiring essay (also narration) of a reciprocity and gratitude to nature https://emergencemagazine.org/story/the-serviceberry/
[For the first time a major Israeli human rights group says it is apartheid] A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid https://www.btselem.org/publications/fulltext/202101_this_is_apartheid
How do you say Ku Klux Klan in Hebrew?
Nathan Thrall calls out J St and other liberal Zionists for enabling apartheid https://mondoweiss.net/2021/01/nathan-thrall-calls-out-j-st-and-other-liberal-zionists-for-ennabling-apartheid/
Separate regime delusion
https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n02/nathan-thrall/the-separate-regimes-delusion
Biden Should End U.S. Hypocrisy on Israeli Nukes: For decades, U.S.
presidents have pledged not to talk about Israel’s nuclear arsenal despite pushing for nonproliferation in the region. It’s time for Washington to end the double standard.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/19/biden-should-end-u-s-hypocrisy-on-israeli-nukes/