"A House is not a Home"; WCK Used by US & Israel; Google, & Israel's "Hit List"; Arab Christians Lost in Orientalism

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April 9, 2024

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"A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME"

Iman Fayyad teaches architecture at the U of Syracuse, and participated in ICAHD’s 2012 rebuilding of Salim and Arabiya Shawamreh's home northeast of Jerusalem.

A House is not a Home

Illustration by Shoshana Schultz for NYT

“My definition of ‘home’ is a complex one. Despite the nostalgia I feel whenever I visit my birthplace — Reston, Va., a suburb of Washington — or any of the American cities I have lived in as an adult, they are not places I ever called home. When someone asks me where I am from, I say I am from Jerusalem.”

How World Central Kitchen serves Israel’s genocidal agenda

 ... Israel’s relationship with World Central Kitchen is more complicated – and gives rise to a great deal of reasonable suspicion among Palestinians. The key question is why Israel – despite killing its staff – has favored World Central Kitchen and its staunchly pro-Israel founder, celebrity chef José Andrés, even as Tel Aviv sabotages other aid efforts, particularly those of UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees.

Google Won’t Say Anything About Israel Using Its Photo Software to Create Gaza “Hit List”

Google prohibits using its tech for ‘immediate harm,’ but Israel is harnessing its facial recognition to set up a dragnet of Palestinians. … It is an understatement to say that aiding and abetting a genocide constitutes a violation of Google’s AI principles and terms of service.

Lost in Orientalism: Arab Christians and the war in Gaza

Centuries-old misconceptions compel Western Christians to ignore the plight of Palestinian Christians and Muslims.” Thank you for your continuing support

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