Image created by ChatGPT. I'm pleased to share this LinkedIn post by Miral Askar, whose tagline is Building Products by Day, Advocating for Justice by Passion. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y9qZPAsDZYw Remember that young Palestinian teenager who slapped an Israeli soldier (in 2017), her curls flying as the cameras rolled? That was Ahed Tamimi. She was 16 then, a … Continue reading The Liberation of All of Us
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Revisited: Genocide in Gaza/الإبادة الجماعية في غزة/רצח עם בעזה
Click on this image to view my video slideshow set to Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings. Elchanan Poupko is a self-described New England-based eleventh-generation rabbi, teacher, and author. Poupko has nearly 29,000 followers on LinkedIn. Below is a recent LinkedIn post followed by some comments. These screenshots are from a 27.10.24 LinkedIn post I knew … Continue reading Revisited: Genocide in Gaza/الإبادة الجماعية في غزة/רצח עם בעזה
Genocide in Gaza
I created a slideshow of injured, dying, displaced, and dead Palestinians set to Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings. It’s my way of reflecting on and processing the Israeli-planned and -executed carnage that is occurring in Gaza. Click on the image below to access the video. Follow this link to access the video on my Vimeo … Continue reading Genocide in Gaza
Rhetorical Checkmate
Source: Wikipedia LinkedIn is becoming like Facebook except I reserve non-business posts and comments for truly serious and literally existential issues like the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza. You can start with my comment followed by Johanna's indignant response, and my response to her response. Crickets after the latter. Like many, you'll notice she trots … Continue reading Rhetorical Checkmate
I Had a Dream: From Vietnam to Gaza
A boy carries a humanitarian aid package provided by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees: UNRWA) in central Gaza City [Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP] “There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.” – Cornel West I recently … Continue reading I Had a Dream: From Vietnam to Gaza
Bystanders No More.
Helping people speak up about human rights in Palestine. Screenshot Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what’s the use of seeing? -Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926-2022) To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed, never with the oppressors. -Marek Edelman (1919/1922-2009) – last surviving leader, Warsaw ghetto uprising I love this … Continue reading Bystanders No More.
Saigon woman ISSUED visa to visit dying father in US
The title of this post is the positive version of the title of a heartbreaking article I read on US Thanksgiving Day. I can't say it's a happy ending because a daughter's father is going to die very soon but it is good news for both father and daughter. Here's the sad story in a … Continue reading Saigon woman ISSUED visa to visit dying father in US
An International Educator in Vietnam 
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