– Benay Blend earned her doctorate in American Studies from the University of New Mexico. Her scholarly works include Douglas Vakoch and Sam Mickey, Eds. (2017), “’Neither Homeland Nor Exile are Words’: ‘Situated Knowledge’ in the Works of Palestinian and Native American Writers”. She contributed this article to The Palestine Chronicle.
By Benay Blend Not all Palestinians share the same experience and voice, but they are united under the commonality of multiple displacements. This theme exists in recent literature written for children and young adults, a […]
By Benay Blend According to Samidoun, there are over 1,100 Palestinians currently incarcerated without charge or trial, nearly one-fourth of all Palestinian prisoners. On August 17, 2023, at least 75 Palestinian prisoners in all prisons […]
By Benay Blend Gorenberg’s case for Israel’s “democracy” is a good example, and is itself a contradiction, because the Zionist state was established by the Nakba (catastrophe), during which military forces expelled at least 750,000 […]
By Benay Blend Presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis has gained national attention for directing new African American history standards adopted in 2023 by the Florida Board of Education. Henry Giroux, who currently holds the McMaster University […]
By Benay Blend Herzog’s visit comes a few weeks after the Israeli military attacked Jenin, murdering at least 12 Palestinians, injuring many others, and leaving destroyed homes, buildings, and infrastructure behind. In America, and other […]
By Benay Blend Kanafani’s ability to transform the suffering of the Palestinian people into resistance literature proved a serious threat to the Zionist state. Assassinated in Beirut on July 8, 1972, by Israeli agents, Ghassan […]
By Benay Blend Every two years American voters begin searching for the perfect candidate who will return the country to its alleged former greatness. On the left, that means to its Democratic principles, on the […]
By Benay Blend Without the inclusion of a “genuine and engaged” Palestinian perspective, Baroud explains, conversations will focus only on what benefits Zionist and US interests. On August 15, 2017, former President Donald Trump commented […]
By Benay Blend When they are met by Palestinians and their supporters who speak their own language of liberation, Zionists revert to long-held tactics of divide and conquer. In December 2021, Palestine Chronicle editor and […]
By Benay Blend In a podcast several days ago on YouTube former Senator from Minnesota Al Franken explained that Israel was the original Jewish homeland, but “of course, it wasn’t a perfect solution because the […]
By Benay Blend On the evening of May 9, 2023, Zionist warplanes attacked the Gaza Strip, killing at least 14 Palestinians, including three resistance leaders and their families. Mainstream media reported the strikes using the […]
By Benay Blend Among some circles, there is the sentiment that activists in America should focus only on what is going on in their own country, as there are enough problems here, why put their […]
By Benay Blend Several years ago, at an event in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a Palestinian activist visiting from California told me about his torture during detainment in Israeli prisons. The marks on his back resembled […]
By Benay Blend On March 30, 1976, Israeli police murdered six Palestinian civilians while they were protesting further expropriation of Palestinian land. Since that date, March 30 has been commemorated as Land Day, in honor […]
By Benay Blend (Finding Melody Sullivan. Alice Rothchild. Cune Press, Seattle, 2023) Alice Rothchild’s long career as a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and human rights activist enabled her to write this book. In medical school she began […]
By Benay Blend On March 8, 2021, several days after being fined and imprisoned by Israel, Palestinian politician Khalida Jarrar sent a letter to Palestinian women commemorating International Women’s day. A member of the Popular […]
By Benay Blend Repatriation is a term used to describe the process whereby human remains and various types of cultural items are returned to “lineal descendants” and Indigenous people, including Palestinians. As of December 2022, […]
By Benay Blend Shortly after Israel’s recent elections, tens of thousands of Israelis took to the street to protest the new government. Discontent focused on the government’s plan to weaken the Supreme Court which Netanyahu […]
By Benay Blend In the past few days, Palestine has witnessed heightened aggression by the Zionist government, while in the United States, five Memphis policemen brutally beat a young man to death after a routine […]
By Benay Blend In August 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote a letter in response to a public statement of concern and caution by eight white religious leaders from the American South. January 16, 2023, […]
By Benay Blend (Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity, by Tahrir Hamdi, I.B. Tauris, 2022) “The words ‘imagining Palestine,’” writes Tahrir Hamdi, do not refer to a Palestinian people who never existed, but […]
By Benay Blend “Fear works if you cave in,” writes Ilan Pappé on Israel’s attempt to silence solidarity by using the International Holocaust Memorial Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, a document that claims it’s antisemitic […]
By Benay Blend Upon hearing of her death, Mawusi Ture, sister of the late Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), lamented: “I’m saddened that I just learned in the past hour our beloved sister and comrade, Ethel […]
By Benay Blend Since the Russia/Ukraine war began in February 22, there has been ongoing debate over whether Russia’s invasion was unprovoked. There has also been conflict over use of the term “invasion” since NATO […]
By Benay Blend In “Palestinians are Native Americans: Time to Correct the Language of History,” Dr. Ramzy Baroud traces the historic bonds between Palestinians and Native Americans, both participants in international Indigenous struggles across the […]
By Benay Blend There is a small but problematic sentiment among some internationals that Palestinians in the Diaspora should play a minor role. Underlying this belief there is the notion that Diasporic Palestinians are allegedly […]
By Benay Blend On October 24, 2022, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network international coordinator, Charlotte Kates, and one of the founders of the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement (Masar Badil), Khaled Barakat, arrived in Amsterdam […]
By Benay Blend From October 22-29, the Palestinian Alternative Path Movement (Masar Badil) will host a popular march centered in Brussels to commemorate its launch, a landmark in the struggle for return, liberation, and victory […]
By Benay Blend On Sunday, September 25, 2022, 30 Palestinian prisoners under Israeli “administrative detention” announced an open-ended hunger strike to #EndAdministrativeDetention. According to Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, over 740 prisoners are currently jailed […]
By Benay Blend “Marvel’s new superhero is actually a monster,” explains the writer/activist Susan Abulhawa, “just like the powerful Zionist propagandists doing all they can to normalize their horrendous colonial project.” Included in a forthcoming […]
A recent New York Times made many claims about the ‘mass rape’ of Israeli women on October 7. But two leading Palestinian media organizations, The Palestine Chronicle and Friends of Palestine Network, conducted a joint investigation, the outcome of which resulted in the ‘The Black Dress’, a groundbreaking 18-minute documentary looking into allegations and the possible falsification of evidence.
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