We’re back! – On Tuesday March 8th, Instagram took down WOL’s main account @wolpalestine after we put up a post highlighting revolutionary Palestinian women on the occasion of International Women’s Day. Our account was kept offline for four days, but we were never really gone because we are not an Instagram page, we are a … Palestine Will Never Be Silenced
Yesterday, February 1st, 2022, Amnesty International released a report supposedly condemning the Zionist state for its apartheid practices against the people of Palestine, almost 74 years since the settler state was established. While Amnesty has been lauded for writing such a report, its publication raises far more questions than answers. Why was this position taken now, after a historic year of international struggle in support of Palestine and material victories for the resistance? Who funded this report, and whose interests do those funders align with? Perhaps most crucially, what exactly is Amnesty condemning?
Today we honor the memory of over 170 Palestinian martyrs who were killed in Gaza eight years ago from November 14-21, 2012 in what was a pre-meditated genocide by the zionist entity. During eight days of bombing from the land, air and sea, occupation forces intentionally targeted residential buildings, carrying out multiple massacres in which entire families were murdered. In … Honoring Gaza’s Martyrs Eight Years After November 2012
After 103 days on hunger strike in protest of his indefinite detention without charge or trial, Palestinian political prisoner Maher al-Akhras announced today that he is suspending his strike and will be released on 11/26 in what amounts to a major victory for the Palestinian prisoners movement. Within Our Lifetime joins Palestinians around the world … Victory To Maher al-Akhras! Free All Palestinian Prisoners!
Tuesday November 3rd marked Palestinian political prisoner Maher al-Akhras’s 100th day on hunger strike for freedom in protest of his indefinite detention without charge or trial. Take action as we continue to uplift the call for his immediate release by participating in Within Our Lifetime’s #FreeMaherAlAkhras photo campaign. 1.Write out your own sign 2. Post … TAKE ACTION: #FreeMaherAlAkhras Photo Campaign
Today we remember and honor the forty-nine Palestinians who were martyred in the Kafr Qassem massacre on October 29th, 1956. On that day, the occupation imposed a curfew on the village of Kafr Qassem in 1948 Palestine while the Palestinian residents of the village were out working in the fields. Zionist forces were then dispatched … October 29th, 1956: Remembering the Kafr Qassem Massacre and Reclaiming Palestinian History
Never Forget The Qibya Massacre! On October 14, 1953, israeli occupation forces led by future Prime Minister Ariel Sharon carried out the Qibya massacre in the West Bank, murdering 77 innocent Palestinians in cold blood, at least half of whom were women and children. Ordered by the highest levels of the government and given the … Never Forget The Qibya Massacre!
On Indigenous Peoples Day we return to Frantz Fanon, who wrote, “For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land.” Today we reiterate the right of indigenous people to defend their land and resist the forces of settler colonialism and capitalism by any means necessary — … Indigenous Peoples Day
Today we uplift the memory of Mohammed Al-Durrah, who was was martyred twenty years ago on September 30, 2000, two days after the Al-Aqsa Intifada began. Mohammed, who was just 12 years old, was shot and killed by israeli occupation forces in Gaza while his father attempted to shield him in his arms. An ambulance … “For Our Homeland, For Palestine”: Remembering Mohammed Al-Durrah
Today we commemorate the start of the Al-Aqsa Intifada (Second Intifada), which lasted from September 2000 – February 2005. The Second Intifada began on Sept. 28, 2000 after the zionist war criminal Ariel Sharon visited the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem under the protection of hundreds of police. In an attempt to provoke Palestinians, Sharon … Commemorating al-Aqsa Intifada
