In the image above, the three martyrs on the poster held up by Charlotte Kates, the international coordinator of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, are Khalil Al-Bahtini, Jihad Ghannam and Tariq Izzedin, three Islamic Jihad leaders killed during Israel’s latest strike on the Gaza Strip. News sources generally describe Islamic…

On the weekend of the 75th Nakba commemoration, I was in Toronto. A rally in support of Palestine was scheduled down the street from my hotel at Yonge and Dundas Square in the afternoon, not far from Trinity Square, where Canadians have erected a memorial commemorating their “glorious dead” of…

At the Marriott Hotel in Toronto where my brother and I were staying on the 7th of May 2023, we noticed posters advertising an event called “The Changemakers Evening.” The “changemaker” turned out to be Tel Aviv University (TAU) in Canada, which was marketing its Center for Nanoscience and boasting…

With the successful completion of the Palestine Liberation Conference: Envisioning Liberation, Confronting Colonialism in Ottawa (April 28–29), the first such conference in North America (Read the declaration of the conference here), Masar Badil and Samidoun have held the Palestinian flag high in Canada. The predictable pushback from Canadian Zionist Jewish…

It was overcast, rainy and windy when my brother and I arrived at the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Ottawa on Sunday, April 30 at 2:00 pm to join the May Day Liberation March organized by Masar Badil and Samidoun and sponsored by many pro-Palestine organizations in Canada. The…

I’ve seen them often in the United States at protest rallies organized by pro-Palestine groups against Israel — in Washington DC, in New York. Yesterday in Ottawa, they led Masar Badil — The Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement (masarbadil.org)’s May Day Liberation March. They are members of Neturei Karta (NK)…

On the second day of Masar Badil’s Liberation Conference in Ottawa (Mādahòkì Farm, 4420 West Hunt Club Road Ottawa, ON), a speaker (Denis Kosseim), on the panel titled Connecting Struggles, reminded us of Fred Hampton’s declaration, “I am a revolutionary.” In a following panel, Helyeh Doutaghi of People’s Tribunal on…

At Friday’s session of Masar Badil’s Liberation Conference in Ottawa, April 28, 2023 (SAW Gallery, 67 Nicholas St., Ottawa, ON), an anecdote told in consternation by participant Neveen Abu Elula, a young Palestinian woman from Shafa Amr currently studying in St Louis, Missouri, helped me give form to the various…

When Sheikh Khader Adnan of Islamic Jihad first went on hunger strike in 2011, the term “administrative detention” entered the vocabulary of many people around the world for the first time. His action became the longest one-man strike in history. Administrative detention is when a state arrests and detains an…