Category Archives: Palestinian art & culture

Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: Ending Israeli Apartheid and the Occupation of Palestine

 By Phalapoem editor, 24/12/2024 Israeli apartheid cannot continue to exist and must be dismantled as a matter of urgency. Its very foundation is built on a system of abhorrent racism and a genocidal approach toward the indigenous Palestinian people. This … Continue reading →

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In Handala’s Playground: Season 1, Episode 11: The Children Who Never Had a Chance: Handala at Al-Basma IVF Centre

Phalapoem editor, 25/11/25 December 2023 — Gaza. Night hung low over the city, trembling with distant explosions. Hospitals glowed in the dark like last surviving stars — fragile, flickering — and then, one by one, they began to go out. … Continue reading →

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A People Under Siege: The Moral Collapse of a 21st-Century Occupation

Phalapoem editor, 22/11/25 In the 21st century—an age that celebrates progress, law, and human dignity—it should be impossible for an occupying power to imprison an entire population of six million people behind walls, checkpoints, and fascist policies designed to break … Continue reading →

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Letter 3 to the Olive Tree: The Hands That Harvest

Phalapoem editor, 22/11/25 Dear Olive Tree, When the autumn sun begins to soften over the hills of Palestine, your branches grow heavy with blessings. The valleys of Jenin, the terraces of Nablus, the slopes of Hebron, all come alive with … Continue reading →

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This match between Palestine and Australia is older than Israeli apartheid

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Smotrich: The  Terrorist Settler

Phalapoem editor, 17/11/15 Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right Israeli terrorist minister, has become one of the most controversial figures in Israeli politics — and a symbol of an increasingly aggressive and terrorist settler ideology. His rhetoric and policies pose a serious … Continue reading →

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How Much Longer Can the World Ignore Palestinian Suffering?The Consequences of Israel’s Unstoppable Crimes  — and the West’s Complicity

Phalapoem editor 16/11/25 For more than seven decades, Palestinians have lived under fascist policies of ethnic cleansing, brutal occupation, dispossession, and recurring military assaults. Yet the devastation unleashed on Gaza in the past two years has pushed the crisis into … Continue reading →

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In Handala’s Playground: Season 2, Episode 6: Conscience Under the Rubble

S.T. Salah, 15/11/25 *[Scene: A grey, bombed-out landscape. Rubble and silence. Handala stands with his back turned, barefoot as always, facing the ruins of Gaza. Piers Morgan appears, looking weary, holding a microphone that no longer broadcasts lies but trembles … Continue reading →

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Betrayed by Promises, Starved by Genocide: The Human Tragedy of Ceasefire Violations

Phalapoem editor, 15/11/25 In a genocide  where humanity is already hanging by a thread, one side continues to trample on every fragile hope for peace. Ceasefires—a sliver of relief for civilians—are being shattered, and the cost is horrendous: 246 innocent … Continue reading →

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The Security of a Thug: How Smotritch Twists “Illegal Settlements” Into a Weapon

Phalapoem editor, 14/11/25 In the long, tortured history of political doublespeak, few statements sink lower than the recent declaration by a belligerent political strongman—let’s call Smotritch what he is: a thug—who claimed that “without illegal settlements there is no security.” … Continue reading →

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Can an Occupier Claim the Right to Security? The Paradox of Power and Oppression

Phalapoem editor, 12/11/25 For decades, the word security has served as a political shield—invoked to rationalise walls, raids, land theft, assassinations, torture, imprisonment, blockades, and discrimination. Yet when the state demanding security is also an occupying power, its claim deserves … Continue reading →

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Letter 2 to the Olive Tree: The Seasons of Struggle

Phalapoem editor, 10/11/25 Dear Olive Tree,How many storms have passed over your branches, how many seasons of silence have you endured? Your bark bears the story of centuries — carved by wind, scarred by fire, yet still you rise against … Continue reading →

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