Next week I will send you a newsletter about our institutional work (palestinenature.org) since there were a lot of developments. But for now, this week's newsletter (on day 802 of the ongoing genocide in Gaza) focuses on human rights. Again open the links only if they intrigue you
Everyone now with minimal education knows there is a propaganda onslaught to bury the truth of genocide, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and crimes of aggression. Most people though now instinctively and based on data now know the level of "fog" and obfuscation issues when it comes to Israel and Zionism and its hold on western "democracies". But everyone also now knows that the Zionist narrative is collapsing (see West in panic as Israel loses narrative war https://youtu.be/m5CR42Yht8Q ). The mazing work for Palestine done in thousands of new organizations created in the past two years to not only respond to the genocide and ecocide and medicide and veriticide but also build a new global system away from wars and oppression. This global system is for sustainabiity of human and natural communities (enriching human and biological diversity. This is inherently decolonial global effort. I give now on average one to two talks every day. I also stay connected and attend events and activities with many of these organizations that occasionally I speak to like the Elders (for peace), Palestinian Social Fund, Saeel, Kairos Palestine, Rebuilding Alliance, Forensic Architecture, Buld Palestine and hundreds more. We only wish there were more than 48 hours in a day to get caught up!.
The new Zionist colony in my peaceful village of Beit Sahour, the Shepherds' field
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/
Palestinian Civil Society Organisations Expose Israel’s Systematic Torture of Palestinians before the UN Committee against Torture https://www.alhaq.org/
Is peace a pipe dream https://johnhorgan.org/cross-
[based on an excellent talk I attended and plan to give a followup on this with a talk to the same group]
Australians Being Massacred Shouldn't Bother Us More Than Palestinians Being Massacred
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/
Questioning the simplified version of the attack https://youtu.be/f42ocurgm7U
The theft of archeology-- another form of ethnic cleansing
https://youtu.be/WsstYNQ1T24
https://truthout.org/articles/
https://israelpalestinenews.
This is the oldest temple in Lebanon…once a synagogue, then a church, and then a mosque. IsHell bombed and destroyed it after the ceasefire.
https://youtu.be/gdzuMn_mGMQ
This is what they do…steal everything Pali so as to fake that they’re from the land. Excellent short report! https://youtu.be/K-RLNgzYzf4
Tucker Carlson explains things well
https://x.com/tuckercarlson/
Zionism is pure evil. We MUST eradicate it. https://youtu.be/naP1JAEXCTs
Hundreds of Santas march into the British Parliament to end the genocide and for Palestine https://x.com/SuppressedNws1/
The Trump-UN Gaza plan is no path to peace. Here’s a better way.
https://thehill.com/opinion/
Non-Eurocentric Non-Orientalist Interdisciplinary Knowledge is Crucial to Liberation https://www.youtube.com/watch?
London conference on attacks and killings of Journalists (what is becoming an epidemic of silencing) https://www.londonfreelance.
They're driving Europe crazy for a reason
https://youtu.be/yVZkf3-NxxU
LULLABY - TOGETHER FOR PALESTINE
https://youtu.be/G957oaAZwhc
Finally a short poem "Purpose"
We can help without interfering
In the fate unfolding
Not to fashion a destiny
neither to act in enmity
But to enjoy and aid
nature's evolving cascade
not to breach
neither to beseech
to act without destroying
to build without obstructing
Looking inward is key
to future living free
aid the natural blooming
of life's miracles growing
and planting a better future
for every living creature
from Qumsiyeh, Mazin 2025. “Purpose” pp 199-200 in International Bilingual Poetry: Poems and Bengali translations of contemporary 147 English poets from 62 countries. Edited and Translated by Md Ejaj Ahamed Published by Nasrin Sultana, Dream Raft Publication Mahendrapur, Suti, Murshidabad, West Bengal, India.
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December 24
We received many messages in response to our (Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability or PIBS) holiday greeting. We are grateful to all especially those who did a year end donation (pallestinenature.org/
Think of Others by Mahmoud Darwish Translated by Mohammed Shaheen
As you prepare your breakfast, think of others - do not forget the pigeon’s food
As you conduct your wars, think of others - do not forget those who seek peace
As you pay your water bill, think of others - those who are nursed by clouds
As you return home, to your home, think of others - do not forget the people of the camps.
As you sleep and count the stars, think of others - those who have nowhere to sleep
As you liberate yourself in metaphor, think of others - those who have lost the right to speak.
As you think of others far away, think of yourself say: “If only I were a candle in the dark”
“You give but little when you give of your possessions; it is when you give of yourself that you truly give. For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them tomorrow? And what is fear of need but need itself.” Kahlil Gibran, “The Prophet” 1923
We had our staff and volunteer gathering yesterday (see pictures at https://www.facebook.com/PIBS.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently boasted that Israel is the guardian of Christianity in the Middle East. To test this claim Peter Oborne travelled to Bethlehem to learn how Palestinians are surviving this Christmas in the birthplace of Christ.
https://youtu.be/iajob-0fLDA
here is Sabeel's statement: https://sabeel.org/category/
and Kairos Palestine: https://www.kairospalestine.
I was honored to be a speaker in this (great conversations): "Land and Resistance: Cooperativism from Palestine to Turtle Island" https://youtu.be/xfrqgHyAdbI
and at this Elders for disarmament and the cultures of peace meeting 15 12 25. Recording here: https://youtu.be/OzVTJ4Kk6lA
My latest book readings in the past two weeks
1) Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (echos of our own experience with indigenous knowledge and nature)
https://www.joycerain.com/
2) Warsaw 1944 : A city raised to the ground Alexandra Richie (Echos of what is happening in Gaza Strip- remarkable similarity but Gaza was worse in degree)
Review: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~
[I could not locate an online PDF to share- I have the paper book itself , 738 pages]
Greta Thunberg arrested under the Terrorism Act for holding a sign which says "I support Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide.' Supporting prisoners on hunger strike unjustly held for months is a crime in the land of Lord Balfour!
Christian treatments by the Jewish state https://www.instagram.com/
A Holiday Circle For the Love, Protection and Freedom of the Palestinian People with Music, Poetry, Prayers, Praise and Messages for Liberation and Courage! https://youtu.be/qqtqZw7Yah0
Message from Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh & Meditation by Stephen Fulder
https://youtu.be/fJFkpZBHjrs
A new year's message and concert https://youtu.be/D-z-5BRY9HY
"And I’ve come to a stage where I feel humiliated to have to discuss it, because what is there to discuss? What is there to discuss when you’re murdering children, destroying hospitals, destroying universities, murdering journalists, and boasting about it, boasting about it? And everybody’s sort of ambiguous — I mean, what we are witnessing also is, I think, there are surveys that say that almost 90% of the population of the world wants this to stop, but there is no connection between democratically elected governments and the will of the people. It’s ended. So, the whole charade of Western liberal democracy is as much of a corpse under the rubble as the tens of thousands of Palestinians.“ Arundhati Roy
Rev. Munther Isaac: Christmas is not a Western story – it is a Palestinian one
https://www.aljazeera.com/
Our friend Muhammad Bakri died age 73. Here is a link to his documentary film Jenin, Jenin https://www.youtube.com/watch?
And here, thanks to zochrot, is the documentary by Bakri entitled Nakba 1948 https://www.zochrot.org/
What the Zionist managed western media ignores: Epstein and Israel https://mondoweiss.net/2025/
Behind the zionist think tank curtain – The Hidden Influence of U S & European Policy Groups https://youtu.be/bjsy2h2jnr0
Tucker Carlson https://youtu.be/yPggL9uarjg
false flag? Https://youtu.be/f42ocurgm7u
The result is clear: NSW passes protest ban (you cannot oppose genocide), Premier ducks questions on armed CSG on Sydney streets https://michaelwest.com.au/
Petition from Jewish Council of Australia to the Australian government
https://jewishcouncil.good.do/
Deal with the devil that Saved Zionism from Bankruptcy
https://youtu.be/ZyTjJZsJihI
This brilliant woman looked into the rumors that the "ballroom" Trump says he is building to replace the East Wing of the White House isn’t really a ballroom, and what she finds out, with evidence, is shocking. Seems they’ve hired an IsHell “architectural” firm to build an underground data center and bunker. She even proves the donors are fake. It starts at minute 1.19. https://youtu.be/VbJ4ilDvGyc
Watch soon, because her TikTok video had over 8 million views when they shut it down. They might do the same on YouTube.
Think of Others by Mahmoud Darwish Translated by Mohammed Shaheen
As you prepare your breakfast, think of others - do not forget the pigeon’s food
As you conduct your wars, think of others - do not forget those who seek peace
As you pay your water bill, think of others - those who are nursed by clouds
As you return home, to your home, think of others - do not forget the people of the camps.
As you sleep and count the stars, think of others - those who have nowhere to sleep
As you liberate yourself in metaphor, think of others - those who have lost the right to speak.
As you think of others far away, think of yourself say: “If only I were a candle in the dark”
“You give but little when you give of your possessions; it is when you give of yourself that you truly give. For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them tomorrow? And what is fear of need but need itself.” Kahlil Gibran, “The Prophet” 1923
We had our staff and volunteer gathering yesterday (see pictures at https://www.facebook.com/PIBS.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently boasted that Israel is the guardian of Christianity in the Middle East. To test this claim Peter Oborne travelled to Bethlehem to learn how Palestinians are surviving this Christmas in the birthplace of Christ.
https://youtu.be/iajob-0fLDA
here is Sabeel's statement: https://sabeel.org/category/
and Kairos Palestine: https://www.kairospalestine.
I was honored to be a speaker in this (great conversations): "Land and Resistance: Cooperativism from Palestine to Turtle Island" https://youtu.be/xfrqgHyAdbI
and at this Elders for disarmament and the cultures of peace meeting 15 12 25. Recording here: https://youtu.be/OzVTJ4Kk6lA
My latest book readings in the past two weeks
1) Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (echos of our own experience with indigenous knowledge and nature)
https://www.joycerain.com/
2) Warsaw 1944 : A city raised to the ground Alexandra Richie (Echos of what is happening in Gaza Strip- remarkable similarity but Gaza was worse in degree)
Review: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~
[I could not locate an online PDF to share- I have the paper book itself , 738 pages]
Have a peaceful week and keep hope alive
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December 30 2025
With my wife and three volunteers we went to watch the film "The voice of Hind Rajab" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Greta Thunberg arrested under the Terrorism Act for holding a sign which says "I support Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide.' Supporting prisoners on hunger strike unjustly held for months is a crime in the land of Lord Balfour!
How long can Starmer ignore the Palestine Action hunger strike?
https://www.youtube.com/live/
https://www.youtube.com/live/
A Holiday Circle For the Love, Protection and Freedom of the Palestinian People with Music, Poetry, Prayers, Praise and Messages for Liberation and Courage! https://youtu.be/qqtqZw7Yah0
Message from Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh & Meditation by Stephen Fulder
https://youtu.be/fJFkpZBHjrs
A new year's message and concert https://youtu.be/D-z-5BRY9HY
"And I’ve come to a stage where I feel humiliated to have to discuss it, because what is there to discuss? What is there to discuss when you’re murdering children, destroying hospitals, destroying universities, murdering journalists, and boasting about it, boasting about it? And everybody’s sort of ambiguous — I mean, what we are witnessing also is, I think, there are surveys that say that almost 90% of the population of the world wants this to stop, but there is no connection between democratically elected governments and the will of the people. It’s ended. So, the whole charade of Western liberal democracy is as much of a corpse under the rubble as the tens of thousands of Palestinians.“ Arundhati Roy
Rev. Munther Isaac: Christmas is not a Western story – it is a Palestinian one
https://www.aljazeera.com/
| 1,115 European financial institutions involved in financing 104 companies contributing to the illegal occupation and crime of genocide https://cihrs.org/1115- |
And here, thanks to zochrot, is the documentary by Bakri entitled Nakba 1948 https://www.zochrot.org/
What the Zionist managed western media ignores: Epstein and Israel https://mondoweiss.net/2025/
Behind the zionist think tank curtain – The Hidden Influence of U S & European Policy Groups https://youtu.be/bjsy2h2jnr0
Tucker Carlson https://youtu.be/yPggL9uarjg
Julian Assange files Criminal Complaint over Nobel prize endorsing
war against Venezuela
https://the307.substack.com/p/
https://file.wikileaks.org/
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire (who nominated me for the prize) supported his action: “I fully support this great action of Julian Assange which speaks truth to power. Indeed Alfred Nobel’s will is NOT for warmaking but peacemaking and the Nobel Committee is actually acting illegally by ignoring Nobel’s wishes”.war against Venezuela
https://the307.substack.com/p/
https://file.wikileaks.org/
false flag? Https://youtu.be/f42ocurgm7u
The result is clear: NSW passes protest ban (you cannot oppose genocide), Premier ducks questions on armed CSG on Sydney streets https://michaelwest.com.au/
Petition from Jewish Council of Australia to the Australian government
https://jewishcouncil.good.do/
Deal with the devil that Saved Zionism from Bankruptcy
https://youtu.be/ZyTjJZsJihI
This brilliant woman looked into the rumors that the "ballroom" Trump says he is building to replace the East Wing of the White House isn’t really a ballroom, and what she finds out, with evidence, is shocking. Seems they’ve hired an IsHell “architectural” firm to build an underground data center and bunker. She even proves the donors are fake. It starts at minute 1.19. https://youtu.be/VbJ4ilDvGyc
Watch soon, because her TikTok video had over 8 million views when they shut it down. They might do the same on YouTube.
