Make your year-end donation either to Gaza (see ongaza.org for suggestions) or the West Bank (also undergoing attack). If you chose to donate to our Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (to help sustainability of human and natural communities), please go to palestinenature.org/donation
Why I am optimistic about 2024 despite the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip largely absent from Western media coverage? Just the two bits of news yesterday could be enough to depress us: that about 1000 children had undergone amputations without anesthesia and that Israeli trafficking business in Palestinian organs is flourishing. Well, let me explain my optimism despite the horror. .... more with links and photos here Click Here
For the new year we should all pledge to redouble our efforts. See: http://qumsiyeh.org/whatyoucando/ Click Here
My (?prophetic) words in May 2021 that are still true: Tormented dance of the colonizers Click Here
Vanessa Beeley: Christmas like no other Click Here
Saree Maqdisi: How can a person make up for seven decades of misrepresentation and willful distortion in the time allotted to a sound bite? Click Here
Our friends at the International Middle East Media Center ( https://www.imemc.org) are in need of volunteers. Volunteers would provide online support for the longest-running fully independent English language news website in Palestine (began in Beit Sahour in 2003). They ask that volunteers be available for at least 2 - 4 hours a week (or more) consistently to help summarize and edit news reports (no journalism experience or Arabic language necessary). The editor-in-chief is a veteran Palestinian journalist who got his start documenting the first intifada in 1989 for print news outlets. Please email news@imemc.org if you are interested and have availability.
Our Institute (palestinenature.org) plans to redouble our efforts to serve people and nature: watch for our upcoming annual report, plans for our tenth year anniversary which we celebrate in June, and plans for the future (all coming in January). From our institute we wish each of you (friends, colleagues, donors, volunteers, activists) a productive, healthy, human-friendly, and eco-friendly 2024.
Stay Human and keep Palestine alive
Mazin Qumsiyeh
A bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home
Professor, Founder, and (volunteer) Director Palestine Museum of Natural History
Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability, Bethlehem University, Occupied Palestine http://qumsiyeh.org http://palestinenature.org
facebook pages Personal Click Here; Institute https://www.facebook.com/PIBS.PMNH.
