Benay Blend“Don’t Mourn. Organize”: May Day 2020Written shortly before his execution in 1915 for a crime he mostly likely did not commit, Joe Hill’s words are more relevant today than…May 2, 2020May 2, 2020
Benay BlendW(h)ither the Women’s March: On the Attempted Silencing of Zahra BillooOn the morning of September 19, 2019, Twitter was alive with responses to the decision of the national Women’s March to remove Zahra…Oct 1, 2019Oct 1, 2019
Benay BlendWhen will MLK’s “Arc of the Moral Universe” Bend in the Direction of Palestine?Israeli police fired tear gas, rubber bullets and sound grenades to clear Palestinian worshippers from the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound [Ahmad…Aug 19, 2019Aug 19, 2019
Benay BlendIs Quora the New Battlefront for Israel? — A Case StudyBelow is a case history that focuses on being banned, along with my co-writer Rima Najjar, from Quora. In the words of one of their Top…Jun 15, 2019Jun 15, 2019
Benay Blend“We Teach Life, Sir”: Post-#Nakba71 What Lessons Are There to Learn?Palestinian children in Europe 2015: the refugees do not forget their expulsion from their homeland and younger generations carry on the…Jun 5, 2019Jun 5, 2019
Benay BlendArtwashing Eurovision: Madonna, Hatari, and their FlagsAs soon as Israel was confirmed as host to Eurovision 2019, pro-Palestinian groups began calling on performers to boycott the contest…May 22, 2019May 22, 2019
Benay BlendThere is only one narrative of the Nakba, the defining moment in Palestinian historyThe late historian Howard Zinn said that there are not always two sides to an event in history. This is certainly true of the Nakba, a…May 7, 2019May 7, 2019
Benay BlendApologies: What are they good for? Sometimes absolutely nothingPeople show support for professor Steven Salaita at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Quad on Sept. 9, 2014. The university…May 6, 2019May 6, 2019
Benay BlendOn the Hijacking of “Palestine Today”: The Drive for “Normalization” on QuoraSeveral days ago both Rima Najjar and I were banned from Quora, where we were co-administering two “Spaces”, sites Quora is experimenting…May 4, 20192May 4, 20192
Benay BlendCensorship on Quora: A Palestine Case StudyFor the past several weeks I have been co-administering with Rima Najjar, who is currently banned from Quora, two “Spaces” on Quora…May 2, 20196May 2, 20196