In his latest blog, scientist and activist Professor Mazim Qumsiyeh, founder and Director at the Palestine Museum of Natural History and author of numerous books including Popular resistance in Palestine : a history of hope and empowerment explains the current Israeli/Palestinian conflict thusly: “It is really very simple: we have 15 million native Palestinians, 8 million of us are refugees or displaced people (2/3rd of Gaza’s 2.2 million are refugees). Israel cannot be allowed to get away with stealing lands and resources and setting up a racist apartheid regime. Even besieged, starving, blockaded people in Gaza manage to break through their prison walls.”

He talks with Jan Miyasaki about the current situation in Gaza.

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