A Small Battleground in a Large Culture War

A few weeks ago my book Palestine’s Horizon: Toward a Just Peace was published by Pluto in Britain. I was in London and Scotland at the time to do a series of university talks to help launch the book. Its appearance happened to coincide with the release of a jointly authored report commissioned by the UN Social and Economic Commission of West Asia, giving my appearances a prominence they would not otherwise have had. The report concluded that the evidence relating to Israeli practices toward the Palestinian people amounted to ‘apartheid,’ as defined in international law.

There was a strong pushback by Zionist militants threatening disruption. These threats were sufficiently intimidating to academic administrators, that my talks at the University of East London and at Middlesex University were cancelled on grounds of ‘health and security.’ Perhaps, these administrative decisions partly…

You are mine
I found you in this busy world
I nurtured you
I cared you
The way you took me into you
It could never be done by anyone
The magic in you keeps me alive
the love we have is never a mistake
the wait we do is never wasted
the nights I spend awake in your arms is never false
the mornings we wished to wake up in each other’s​ arms are never fake
your hug without a gap, tells me thousands of ‘miss you”
the untold words that flow from our hearts
tells many unspoken words
the words that speak of our love
the life we spend apart tells our tales of unbroken promises
at times death seems easy to accept than this life apart
yet at times life is a sacrifice for a better tomorrow.
we believe hence we lived to fulfill our dreams of…