Category Archives: Palestinian art & culture

The World’s Shame: How Global Leaders Chose Silence Over Gaza’s Children

Posted on October 8, 2025 by Admin

Phalapoem editor, 8/10/25 As of this writing, over 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza. Among them are 1,000 infants — babies who never had a chance to take their first steps or speak their first words. This is not … Continue reading →

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In Handala’s Playground: Season 2, Episode 5a: Handala and the Mirror of Silence

Posted on October 8, 2025 by Admin

S.T. Salah, 08/10/25 Scene: A cracked mirror under a red sky. The faint hum of drones replaces birdsong. A barefoot boy — Handala — stands with his back turned, arms folded, forever ten. Before him stands the reflection of Israeli … Continue reading →

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7 Palestinian Artists You Need To Know About

Posted on October 7, 2025 by Admin

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

Posted on October 7, 2025 by Admin

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

Posted on October 7, 2025 by Admin

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

Posted on October 7, 2025 by Admin

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 

Posted on October 6, 2025 by Admin

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

Posted on October 6, 2025 by Admin

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

Posted on October 2, 2025 by Admin

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

Posted on October 1, 2025 by Admin

S.T. Salah, 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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