https://znetwork.org/author/mazinqumsiyeh/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:21:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/mazinqumsiyeh/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-to-think-about-boycotts/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-to-think-about-boycotts/#respond Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:45:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1292239 Zackie Achmat is a veteran South African political activist and a leading authority on the role of boycotts in the anti-apartheid movement. Mazin Qumsiyeh is founder and volunteer director of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem University and the author of Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment, which chronicles non-violent protest in [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-to-think-about-boycotts/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/palestine-recognition-can-diplomacy-end-the-conflict/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/palestine-recognition-can-diplomacy-end-the-conflict/#respond Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1289055 France and Saudi Arabia have led unprecedented diplomatic efforts at the UN to formally recognise Palestinian statehood and outline a post-war plan for Gaza. Months of diplomatic work have culminated in a rare moment of international unity, with 156 nations now recognising Palestine. The plan includes an international force to stabilise post-war Gaza and calls [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/palestine-recognition-can-diplomacy-end-the-conflict/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-are-grateful/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-are-grateful/#respond Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:46:03 +0000 This poem below was inspired by a meeting 6 Sept 2025, #62 of our monthly meetings with friends and supporters. Usually the first hour is about what our institute (palestinenature.org or see this short video https://youtu.be/qt8OTGoS198) has done that month and the second hour about reality in Palestine and globally. Those attending inspire and energize [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-are-grateful/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/island-of-hope-in-a-sea-of-oppression/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/island-of-hope-in-a-sea-of-oppression/#respond Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:54:34 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1286918 You have to laugh to keep from crying sometimes. Two years into Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza — bloody slaughter and mass starvation live streamed on TV screens — the old blues lyric rings true. For tears of joy, not rage, friends of Palestine should consider visiting Bethlehem. Clinging to the walls of a fertile [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/island-of-hope-in-a-sea-of-oppression/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/resist-genocide-ecocide-build-democratic-socialism/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/resist-genocide-ecocide-build-democratic-socialism/#respond Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1286773 Ecocide and genocide are two faces of empire. Fossil-fueled capitalism drives both ecological collapse and violent repression. From Gaza to the Amazon, genocide and ecocide are tools to secure land, resources, and power for imperial core economies. An internationalist, ecosocialist perspective reveals that endless growth for the few means destruction for the many. We must [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/resist-genocide-ecocide-build-democratic-socialism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israel-locks-down-west-bank-ghettos-as-war-with-iran-rages-on/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israel-locks-down-west-bank-ghettos-as-war-with-iran-rages-on/#respond Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1285220 When Israel launched its criminal war of aggression on Iran, it placed the occupied West Bank under total lock-down. To examine current conditions in the West Bank, Dimitri Lascaris speaks with Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, who resides in the ghetto of Bethlehem.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israel-locks-down-west-bank-ghettos-as-war-with-iran-rages-on/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-choice-is-ours/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-choice-is-ours/#respond Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1278784 Both Netanyahu and Trump have visions of building empires and discarding the remnants of international law and the UN. Will they succeed to lead us to a World War or will we have peace? Trump immediately acted with executive orders to dismantle the US’s connection to the world with a triumphalist inaugural speech full of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-choice-is-ours/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-path-forward/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-path-forward/#comments Sun, 11 Aug 2024 15:54:45 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1270677 Over the past 45 years, I have been active on the streets and on the internet for our people struggle for return and self-determination in the face of a most brutal and merciless colonial regime. I read thousands of books and wrote a few myself. I read tens of thousands of research and analytical papers [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-path-forward/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/if-i-must-die-a-letter-from-palestine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/if-i-must-die-a-letter-from-palestine/#respond Sat, 15 Jun 2024 17:25:06 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1267859 Dear friends (read, disseminate, and act), It is hard to sleep these days especially in besieged bloodied Palestine…the scenes of horrors in the Gaza Strip (and increasingly spreading in the West Bank) are far too graphic, too disturbing.  Friends are mistreated in jails of colonizers, the few released look physically wasted (skeletons traumatized physically and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/if-i-must-die-a-letter-from-palestine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/destroyed-ecosystems/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/destroyed-ecosystems/#respond Thu, 07 Mar 2024 16:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1263276 The effects of armed conflict in Palestine, since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, are devastating and long-lasting. The post-conflict impact of the ongoing attacks against the Gaza Strip and the West Bank has yet to be investigated. In reviewing the data on these effects two things become apparent: While there is [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/destroyed-ecosystems/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-palestinian-led-initiative-intends-to-prosecute-public-officials-in-europe-over-complicity-in-israels-crimes-in-gaza/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-palestinian-led-initiative-intends-to-prosecute-public-officials-in-europe-over-complicity-in-israels-crimes-in-gaza/#respond Tue, 23 Jan 2024 17:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1261131 The Justice and Accountability for Palestine Initiative has issued a stark warning to European public officials of the Austrian, French, German and Dutch governments that they could be individually liable for their role in aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of Genocide through their involvement in providing military, economic, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-palestinian-led-initiative-intends-to-prosecute-public-officials-in-europe-over-complicity-in-israels-crimes-in-gaza/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/south-africa-presents-case-against-israel-at-the-icj-highlights-and-what-you-can-do-next/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/south-africa-presents-case-against-israel-at-the-icj-highlights-and-what-you-can-do-next/#respond Fri, 12 Jan 2024 16:23:09 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1260607 On Jan 11, South Africa presented its case against Israel at the ICJ. Here are two important clips from the case: Notable quotes from Jan. 11 hearingFrom South African attorney Tembeka Ngcukaitobi: “There is an extraordinary feature in this case: that Israel’s political leaders, military commanders, and persons holding official positions have systematically and in [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/south-africa-presents-case-against-israel-at-the-icj-highlights-and-what-you-can-do-next/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/analysis-for-fear/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/analysis-for-fear/#respond Thu, 21 Dec 2023 17:31:46 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1259601 Golda Meir (previous Prime Minister of Israel) was reputed to have said “wewould rather be feared than loved”. This is actually in short a sum of thecolonial Zionist mentality. They wanted the remaining indigenous people ofPalestine to fear them. That is why in April 1948 after committing themassacre of Deir Yassin, the Zionist militias paraded [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/analysis-for-fear/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/christmas-greetings-from-bethlehem/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/christmas-greetings-from-bethlehem/#respond Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:18:12 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1259326 We have been writing annual Christmas messages of peace, for human rights,and relating sometimes what happened in the passing year for decades. SinceI returned to Bethlehem in 2008 these messages have been special. Sincefounding the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (PIBS)in 2014, we also added greetings from PIBS.  This year writing seemstougher than ever [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/christmas-greetings-from-bethlehem/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/are-we-being-duped-to-focus-only-on-gaza-suffering/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/are-we-being-duped-to-focus-only-on-gaza-suffering/#respond Sun, 12 Nov 2023 17:13:48 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1257374 Israel’s genocide of Gaza is intentional, planned and ongoing with no sign of slowing down. The contrary, with no water, food and medicine it is accelerating. Israel leaders boast openly that they do not care about what the UN says or what world leaders say. Israeli fascist leaders say they do not care what statements [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/are-we-being-duped-to-focus-only-on-gaza-suffering/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/optimistic-day-16/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/optimistic-day-16/#respond Mon, 23 Oct 2023 15:39:14 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1256200 I remain optimistic on day 16 of the horrific onslaught on the people of Gaza; optimistic that we can stop large scale US/Israeli genocide in Gaza. So far 1750 children killed but now, water, food run out and thousands will start dying. Why am I optimistic? Gaza people have little more to lose (70% are [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/optimistic-day-16/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-do-we-individually-cope-keep-our-sanity-in-a-spiraling-crisis-and-help-others/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-do-we-individually-cope-keep-our-sanity-in-a-spiraling-crisis-and-help-others/#respond Sun, 15 Nov 2020 09:01:50 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1040337 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-do-we-individually-cope-keep-our-sanity-in-a-spiraling-crisis-and-help-others/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/status-of-palestine-in-2015/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/status-of-palestine-in-2015/#respond Wed, 10 Jun 2015 09:00:37 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=974487 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/status-of-palestine-in-2015/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/echos-of-history-paths-to-the-future-by-mazin-qumsiyeh/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/echos-of-history-paths-to-the-future-by-mazin-qumsiyeh/#respond Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:57:58 +0000 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/echos-of-history-paths-to-the-future-by-mazin-qumsiyeh/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/visiting-the-galilee-and-north-palestine-by-mazin-qumsiyeh/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/visiting-the-galilee-and-north-palestine-by-mazin-qumsiyeh/#respond https://znetwork.org/zvideo/visiting-the-galilee-and-north-palestine-by-mazin-qumsiyeh/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/bushs-visit-to-the-middle-east-triumph-of-form-over-substance-by-mazin-qumsiyeh/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/bushs-visit-to-the-middle-east-triumph-of-form-over-substance-by-mazin-qumsiyeh/#respond Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/bushs-visit-to-the-middle-east-triumph-of-form-over-substance-by-mazin-qumsiyeh/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-public-interest-and-the-palestinian-elections-by-mazin-qumsiyeh/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-public-interest-and-the-palestinian-elections-by-mazin-qumsiyeh/#respond https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-public-interest-and-the-palestinian-elections-by-mazin-qumsiyeh/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-and-palestine-2006-by-mazin-qumsiyeh/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-and-palestine-2006-by-mazin-qumsiyeh/#respond https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-and-palestine-2006-by-mazin-qumsiyeh/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zmagazine/marching-in-washington-by-mazin-qumsiyeh/ https://znetwork.org/zmagazine/marching-in-washington-by-mazin-qumsiyeh/#respond Sat, 01 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/zmagazine/marching-in-washington-by-mazin-qumsiyeh/feed/ 0