Category Archives: Palestinian art & culture

7 Palestinian Artists You Need To Know About

Art can change the world, and as these Palestinian artists are proof, it can also unravel the path to healing, transformation and greater understanding By Maghie Ghali  October 31, 2023 With the humanitarian crisis that has engulfed Gaza for decades, it’s … Continue reading

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The Death of Empathy: How Israeli Society Turned Away from Genocide in Gaza

Phalapoem editor, 07/10/25 After nearly two years of relentless Israeli bombardment, genocide, siege, and starvation in Gaza, much of Israeli society and media appear trapped in a bubble of selective empathy. News outlets and public discourse remain overwhelmingly focused on … Continue reading

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In Handala’s Playground: Season 2, Episode 4: Meeting in Downing Street

Phalapoem editor, 07/10/25 Handala (the small boy with his back turned, bare feet on cold marble): Two years of children buried in rubble, two years of mothers digging with their hands. Twenty thousand little bodies. And now—only now—you recognise my … Continue reading

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Germany’s Dark Legacy: From Namibia to Gaza, Complicity in Atrocity

Phalapoem editor, 24/09/25 Germany presents itself as a global defender of human rights, a nation that learned the lessons of its bloody past. Yet its actions tell a far different story. From the colonial genocide in Africa, to the Holocaust … Continue reading

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Israeli Occupation: The Serial Animal Killer 

The zoo, part of the Al-Bisan recreational park in Jabalya, was hit multiple times during Israeli airstrikes. The three monkeys were some of the few lucky animals to survive the blitz in Gaza as many were killed in explosions or … Continue reading

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The Normalization of Israeli Killing in Palestine: How Daily Massacres in Gaza Became the World’s Indifference

Phalapoem editor, 07/10/25 In Gaza, the unthinkable has become daily life. Reports indicate that approximately 100 Palestinians are being killed by Israeli occupation army every day, yet this staggering loss of life seems to barely ripple the consciousness of the … Continue reading

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Israeli Apartheid Held Hostage: How Netanyahu and the Far Right Have Turned a Nation into Their Property

Phalapoem editor, 21/09/25 For decades, Israeli apartheid has been a country of sharp political divisions, and has always been captured by a radical majority . Under the iron grip of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition of ultra-nationalist, religious-right … Continue reading

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In Handala’s Playground: Season 2, Episode 3: Selective Morality, Deadly Consequences

Phalapoem editor, 1/10/2025 Handala: (still with his back turned, voice calm but piercing) You call yourself a chancellor of peace, Olaf, yet your hands are drenched in the blood of children. Gaza bleeds, and you supply the knives. How do … Continue reading

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Lowkey: Palestine will never die

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Israeli Genocide  in Gaza and International Inaction

See slides below Phalapoem editor, 27/09/25 Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and B’Tselem, have concluded that Israel’s system of governance in the occupied Palestinian territories meets the international legal definition of apartheid—a term derived from the 1973 U.N. Convention on … Continue reading

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