As she did last year, Gerri has organized a Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility delegation of doctors and other health care providers to work in hospitals and clinics in Gaza in an effort to directly help the people there and to bring attention to the ongoing humanitarian crisis that the Israeli blockade has created. She […]
For the next 9 days, Gerri Haynes will be sending back reports from inside blockaded Gaza. As she did last year, Gerri has organized a Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility delegation of doctors and other health care providers to work in hospitals and clinics in Gaza in an effort to directly help the people there […]
For the next 10 days, Gerri Haynes will be sending back reports from inside blockaded Gaza. As she did last year, Gerri has organized a team of doctors and other health care providers to work in hospitals and clinics in Gaza in an effort to directly help the people there and to bring attention to […]
(The background on this letter is that the Seattle-based group, Living Judaism, is bringing wounded Israeli soldiers to Seattle in May as part of an ongoing “Hope for Heroism” program.) I don’t know much but I know this . . . if the cause is not good, then all these guys with their arms and […]
There is good news. The University of Washington’s Odegaard Undergraduate Library and Amineh Ayyad, the curator of the “Global to Local: Narratives of War, Resilience and Peace” exhibit, have come to an agreement on getting it back up on the library walls starting Wed., April 21st. Also, I’m happy to report that there was nothing […]
The art exhibit I wrote about on Wednesday that is, for the most part, about Gaza has been abruptly removed from the University of Washington Odegaard Undergraduate Library. The exhibit curator, Amineh Ayyad, wrote me in an email this afternoon: “Confirming that the UW library has taken down the entire exhibition… . I will be […]
An art exhibit featuring photos about the Gaza war and blockade by award-winning Palestinian photojournalists, paintings from refugee children of different countries and Jewish & Palestinian artists, a photo-essay about medical relief and peace building efforts in Palestine, and a sculpture created by an Iraqi-American artist is now on display at the University of Washington’s […]
I’ve been posting a lot about Gaza and Israel lately, and, yes, I do know there are many more issues out there worthy of consideration. But I just can’t seem to help myself. It is, after all, one of the most important conflicts the United States is involved in, along with Iraq and Afghanistan. And, […]
The news out of Gaza and the West Bank usually focuses on major events – visits by U.S. dignitaries, rocket attacks from Gaza into Israel or major air raids or other attacks from Israel into Gaza or the West Bank. The daily struggle is rarely mentioned. This note from Huwaida Arraf, an American lawyer with […]
Israel gets a lot of bad press these days, and rightfully so given, among many other things, it’s refusal to seriously move forward on a negotiated peace settlement with Palestinians. But sometimes we need to be reminded that Israelis, like a lot of us, don’t necessarily agree with their government. Today, I found a great […]
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