Rachel Corrie

What is Gaza to us but an Israeli missile, a rudimentary rocket, a demolished home, an injured child being whisked away by his peers under a hail of bullets? On a daily basis, Gaza is conveyed to us as a bloody image or a dramatic video, none of which can truly capture the everyday reality of the Strip — its formidable steadfastness, the everyday acts of resistance, and the type of suffering that can never be really understood through a customary glance at a social media post.

Last month, an investigation by the New Yorker magazine alleged that disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein used private detectives from two different firms to spy on women he had allegedly sexually harassed or assaulted. The New Yorker claimed that a private spy posed as a women’s rights advocate to get actor Rose McGowan to talk and secretly recorded the meetings. McGowan has accused Weinstein of rape although Weinstein has “unequivocally denied” all claims of non-consensual sex.

Wednesday, March 16, 2016, will mark 13 years since American peace activist Rachel Corrie was killed by the Israeli military in the Palestinian city of Rafah.

Snapshot photo: Hoda Darwish, a 12-year-old from Gaza, was shot in the head and blinded by an Israeli sniper’s high-velocity bullet while sitting at her desk in a UN elementary school in Khan Younis in 2003.

A report by Sandra Jordan
If Americans Knew

The Corrie Family | March 16, 2015 Today, the twelfth anniversary of our daughter and sister Rachel’s stand and death in Gaza, we find ourselves back where our journey for accountability in her case began – in Washington DC. We have come for meetings at the Department of State and in Congress and, also, to […]

Art Olivier, former mayor, national political candidate and film producer, was interviewed by Iranian PressTV on a recent visit to Iran to produce a film on the late U.S. peace activist, Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an Israeli military bulldozer. He indicated he had to produce it outside of the U.S. because of Jewish […]

"Eva Bartlett follows in the footsteps of Rachel Corrie." As she continues her US speaking tour about human rights in Palestine, activist and journalist Eva Bartlett joins us for the second episode of Geopolitiks to talk about her years spent volunteering in Gaza documenting the various angles of

Once Upon A Palestine


 
 by Tamerishe          Intifada Palestine

By Greta Berlin | Palestine Chronicle | May 20 2013 

Passengers on the Mavi Marmara were attacked by heavily armed Israeli commandos.