{"id":287494,"date":"2025-02-10T12:01:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T12:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=287494"},"modified":"2025-02-04T08:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T08:53:07","slug":"dialogue-with-2024-right-livelihood-awardee-issa-amro-on-palestine-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/02\/dialogue-with-2024-right-livelihood-awardee-issa-amro-on-palestine-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Dialogue with 2024 Right Livelihood Awardee Issa Amro on Palestine\/Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_287495\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-right-livelihood-award-2024-palestine.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-287495\" class=\"wp-image-287495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-right-livelihood-award-2024-palestine-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-right-livelihood-award-2024-palestine-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-right-livelihood-award-2024-palestine-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-right-livelihood-award-2024-palestine-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-right-livelihood-award-2024-palestine.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-287495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Issa Amro photographing a group of Palestinian women, hosts and international visitors at his community centre in Hebron.\u00a0 (Photo: Zarni Jan 2025)<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><em>Hebron\u2019s Palestinians Resist Israel\u2019s Evil Occupation, Violent Settlers, Daily Humiliations &#8211; \u201cIsrael is the only apartheid in the Middle East, defending its occupation (not its existence),\u201d said the 45-year-old Issa Amro, an engineer and creative nonviolence resister in the Old City of Hebron. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>2 Feb 2025 <\/em>&#8211; This dialogue with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dkdsnuv9uhI\" >Issa Amro<\/a> is the second in the FORSEA Solidarity Series on the <a href=\"https:\/\/forsea.co\/category\/forsea-solidarity-series-on-voices-of-resistance-from-occupied-palestine\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Voices of Resistance from Palestine<\/a>. Our inaugural episode was with the renowned Palestinian liberation theologian and activist Dr Munther Isaac. He discussed Israel and its settler colonial project of building a state on Palestinian land by ethnic cleansing and proceeded to characterises it as a \u201cterrorist entity.\u201d In this second dialogue the well-known non-violence resister Issa from Hebron articulated what it means to live under Israeli military occupation and the apartheid state.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the dialogue here at FORSEA YouTube Channel:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hebron\u2019s Palestinians Resist Israel\u2019s \u201cEvil\u201d Occupation, Violent Settlers &amp; Daily Humiliations\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hoFmV7LjQ0Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As part of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sabeel.org\/\" >Sabeel-organized<\/a> delegation of international scholars, writers and activists, I travelled from Jerusalem to the Old City of Hebron in early January. The city is historically important and considered holy to all three monotheistic religions \u2013 Judaesim, Christianity and Islam. It also bears a global recognition as a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-40530396#:~:text=Unesco%20has%20designated%20Hebron\" s%20Old,situation%20every%20year%2C%20they%20said.\">UNESCO World Heritage site<\/a>, that is, a place of significance belonging to humanity at large.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10084\" class=\"wp-caption no-underline alignnone\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10084 lazyautosizes lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-2.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-2.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-2-300x160.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-2-768x410.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-2.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-2.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-2.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"481\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10084\" data-attachment-id=\"10084\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/forsea.co\/hebrons-palestinians-resist-israels-evil-occupation-violent-settlers-daily-humiliations-a-dialogue-with-issa-amro-winner-of-2024-right-livelihood-award\/issa-amro-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-2.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,534\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Issa Amro 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Issa and his band of Palestinian resistance brothers hosted us at their community centre, a formerly Israeli Occupation Force-occupied building on a hilltop in The Old Hebron, (photo: Zarni, Jan. 2025)&lt;\/p&gt; \" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-2-300x160.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-2.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;fit=900%2C481&amp;ssl=1\" data-src=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-2.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-2.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-2-300x160.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-2-768x410.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-2.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-2.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-2.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-eio-rwidth=\"1000\" data-eio-rheight=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-10084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Issa and his band of Palestinian resistance brothers hosted us at their community centre, a formerly Israeli Occupation Force-occupied building on a hilltop in The Old Hebron. Photo: Zarni\u00a0 Jan 2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/tomb-of-the-patriarchs-ma-arat-hamachpelah\" >the Jewish Visual Library,<\/a> Abrahim and his kin were (<em>believed to be<\/em>) buried in the cave or <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/tomb-of-the-patriarchs-ma-arat-hamachpelah\" >Tomb of the Patriarchs<\/a> some 3,700 years ago. Muslims believe that Prophet Mohamad stopped in this city before he ascended the Heaven at the Dome of Rock, now Al-Aqsa Mosque. This sacred site, known to the Muslims as Ibrahimi Mosque, became blood-soaked when a Brooklyn-born American terrorist Baruch Goldstein, a medical doctor by profession, massacred 29 Palestinian Muslims and left 125 injured before he himself was captured and beaten to death by the Palestinians who survived his terrorist attack, in-between the US-brokered Oslo Accords I and II (signed between the Palestinian Liberation Organization and Isreal in 1993 and 1995 respectively).<\/p>\n<p>Goldstein was a follower of <strong>Kahanism<\/strong>,a\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Religious_Zionist\" >religious Zionist<\/a>\u00a0ideology which portrays most\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arab_citizens_of_Israel\" >Arabs living in Israel<\/a>\u00a0as the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anti-Arab_racism\" >enemies<\/a>\u00a0of Jews and Israel itself, while advocating for a\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Halakhic_state\" >Jewish theocratic state<\/a>, where non-Jews have no voting rights. The leader of the Jewish Party, a key proponent of this outrightly Messianic Fascist agenda, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who until 2 weeks ago, was minister of national security in the far-right coalition government of Netanyahu, came from the surrounding settlements in Hebron.<\/p>\n<p>Very understandably, our main host \u2013 and his fellow nonviolence resisters \u2013 described the settlers \u2013 and the Israeli occupation force troops as \u201creally evil\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10087\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter no-underline\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10087 lazyautosizes lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-3-1024x364.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-3-1024x364.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-3-300x107.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-3-768x273.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-3-1536x546.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-3-1300x462.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-3.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1639w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-3.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=655&amp;ssl=1 655w\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"320\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10087\" data-attachment-id=\"10087\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/forsea.co\/hebrons-palestinians-resist-israels-evil-occupation-violent-settlers-daily-humiliations-a-dialogue-with-issa-amro-winner-of-2024-right-livelihood-award\/issa-amro-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-3.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1639,583\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Issa Amro 3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;asdasdasd&lt;\/p&gt; \" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-3-300x107.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-3.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;fit=900%2C320&amp;ssl=1\" data-src=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-3-1024x364.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-3-1024x364.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-3-300x107.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-3-768x273.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-3-1536x546.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-3-1300x462.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-3.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1639w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-3.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=655&amp;ssl=1 655w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-eio-rwidth=\"1024\" data-eio-rheight=\"364\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-10087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterextremism.com\/extremists\/baruch-goldstein\" >https:\/\/www.counterextremism.com\/extremists\/baruch-goldstein<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10086\" class=\"wp-caption no-underline alignnone\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10086 lazyautosizes lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-4-1024x540.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-4-1024x540.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-4-300x158.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-4-768x405.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-4.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1207w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-4.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=241&amp;ssl=1 241w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-4.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=482&amp;ssl=1 482w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-4.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=965&amp;ssl=1 965w\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"475\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10086\" data-attachment-id=\"10086\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/forsea.co\/hebrons-palestinians-resist-israels-evil-occupation-violent-settlers-daily-humiliations-a-dialogue-with-issa-amro-winner-of-2024-right-livelihood-award\/issa-amro-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-4.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1207,637\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Issa Amro 4\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;asdasd&lt;\/p&gt; \" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-4-300x158.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-4.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;fit=900%2C475&amp;ssl=1\" data-src=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-4-1024x540.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-4-1024x540.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-4-300x158.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-4-768x405.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-4.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1207w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-4.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=241&amp;ssl=1 241w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-4.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=482&amp;ssl=1 482w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-4.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=965&amp;ssl=1 965w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-eio-rwidth=\"1024\" data-eio-rheight=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-10086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israeli propaganda narrative on one of the closed Palestinian shop, which typically mis-frames Palestinians as \u201cArab jihadists\u201d, consistent with the Messianic Fascist view of the Jewish Power party of Itamar Ben-Gvir, a settler himself in Hebron, guided by of \u201cKahanism.\u201d Photo: Zarni Jan 2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Over the last few decades in exile, I have been extremely fortunate to have visited dozens of World Heritage sites in Australia, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America and Anglophone N. America. Some are \u201cdark sites\u201d such as killing fields and extermination camps in the Balkans, Cambodia, and formerly Nazi-occupied Europe. Some sites are deemed cultural heritage to the world for their extraordinary natural beauty. Some are noted for their architectural and historical significance.<\/p>\n<p>No other World Heritage site in the world I have visited radiates this impression of manufactured, systematized and sustained \u201cevilness\u201d \u2013 save Nazi death camps \u2013 in the way the ghostly sight and atmosphere in \u201cthe ghost town\u201d of the OId Hebron does.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10088\" class=\"wp-caption no-underline alignnone\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10088 size-large lazyautosizes lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-5-1024x473.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-5-1024x473.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-5-300x139.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-5-768x355.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-5-1300x601.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-5.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1379w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-5.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=551&amp;ssl=1 551w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-5.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=827&amp;ssl=1 827w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-5.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=1103&amp;ssl=1 1103w\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10088\" data-attachment-id=\"10088\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/forsea.co\/hebrons-palestinians-resist-israels-evil-occupation-violent-settlers-daily-humiliations-a-dialogue-with-issa-amro-winner-of-2024-right-livelihood-award\/issa-amro-5\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-5.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1379,637\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Issa Amro 5\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;sdfsdf&lt;\/p&gt; \" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-5-300x139.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-5.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;fit=900%2C416&amp;ssl=1\" data-src=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-5-1024x473.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-5-1024x473.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-5-300x139.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-5-768x355.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-5-1300x601.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-5.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1379w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-5.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=551&amp;ssl=1 551w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-5.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=827&amp;ssl=1 827w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-5.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=1103&amp;ssl=1 1103w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-eio-rwidth=\"1024\" data-eio-rheight=\"473\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-10088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author at the ghostly Old City of Hebron, Occupied Palestinian Territories, from where over 120,000 Palestinians have been forcibly removed by Israel. Photo: Hana Sabeel Jan 2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Issa Amro\u2019s ghostly old city is occupied by 4,000 armed Israeli soldiers, and security officers who guard several hundred extremist, religious Zionist settler families who have moved into the now depopulated Palestine houses \u2013 just like what the Zionist settlers did during and after the Nakba of 1948.<\/p>\n<p>Given its religious significance to Jews, Muslims and Christians \u2013 the children of Abrahim \u2013 one would have thought the place would reek spirituality and evokes awe and admiration in any visitors on a whirlwind visit.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the Old Hebron reflects the Occupation\u2019s aims of making life unsustainable and impossible for native Palestinian residents: \u201cNo physical safety. No social services. No school. No ambulance or health service. No water. No electricity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Issa said, Israeli state does not evict us, but just makes life impossible, so that we would chose to leave our houses and land. The logic is that thus abandoned homes, businesses and neighbourhoods would become <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Lebensraum\" ><em>Lebensraum<\/em>\u00a0(\u2018living space\u2019)<\/a> for Zionist Jews from the United States, Canada and elsewhere in the diaspora would move in.<\/p>\n<p>Ninety percent of the settlers are said to be American Jews.<\/p>\n<p>Issa explained that Palestinians in Hebron are <strong><em>not<\/em><\/strong> allowed to identify themselves as Palestinians when they go through checkpoints, which are ubiquitous throughout Hebron. No outward or visible symbols of Palestinian identity or nations can be seen anywhere in the Old City. Instead, the entire place is dotted with signs of Jewish historical and archaeological sites, blue Israeli flags, images of ultra-Orthodox rabbis, check-points with portable barbed wire road barriers, surveillance cameras and sniper booths.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10089\" class=\"wp-caption no-underline alignnone\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10089 lazyautosizes lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-6.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, 968px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-6.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-6-300x128.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-6-768x329.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-6.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-6.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-6.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10089\" data-attachment-id=\"10089\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/forsea.co\/hebrons-palestinians-resist-israels-evil-occupation-violent-settlers-daily-humiliations-a-dialogue-with-issa-amro-winner-of-2024-right-livelihood-award\/issa-amro-6\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-6.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,428\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Issa Amro 6\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;A main intersection in what was once a vibrant open market lined with Palestinian shops, bizarrely adorned with Israel flags (photo by Zarni, Jan. 2025)&lt;\/p&gt; \" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-6-300x128.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-6.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;fit=900%2C385&amp;ssl=1\" data-src=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-6.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-6.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-6-300x128.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-6-768x329.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-6.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-6.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-6.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-eio-rwidth=\"1000\" data-eio-rheight=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-10089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A main intersection in what was once a vibrant open market lined with Palestinian shops, bizarrely adorned with Israel flags. Photo: Zarni Jan 2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Additionally, reminiscent of how degradingly Nazi troops and Waffen-SS treated the Jews in the ghettos in the Nazi-occupied Europe of 1930\u2019s and 1940\u2019s, today\u2019s Israeli security troops in Hebron typically humiliate, physically abuse, throw verbal insults, confiscate cell phone or clothing, strip-search, seek to provoke, arbitrarily detain Hebron\u2019s resident Palestinians, young and old, and simply subject the resident Palestinians, young and old, to numerous degrading treatments. All their misdeeds are carried out routinely with blanket impunity not just in Hebron but all across the Occupied Territories.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinians are subject to the occupier\u2019s military \u201claw\u201d while the Jewish Israelis are subject to normal civil law one finds in functioning democracies around the world. In the <strong><em>categorically apartheid<\/em><\/strong> system which Israel has built, <strong><em>all<\/em><\/strong> Jews, Zionist or not, in Israel and in the diaspora, are accorded incomparably greater rights \u2013 including the right of return \u2013 political and civil rights, and full and equal citizenship rights vis-\u00e0-vis millions of Palestinians, in various zones of occupation in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, as well as Palestinian citizens of Israel, living in the 1948 territories of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>One of Issa\u2019s fellow resisters \u2013 a young Palestinian man in his late 20\u2019s \u2013 we spent the afternoon with, was arrested multiple times since October 7, and tortured in Israeli detention, including deliberate cigarette burns on his body. I expressed my deep admiration for his steely will and resilience.<\/p>\n<p>Such Fascist-like treatment is justified in the discourse of ultra-Zionist extreme religious bigotry officially backed by 4,000 armed Israel soldiers 24\/7, reinforced by settlers armed with the state-issued M-16 automatic submachine guns. In my half-afternoon visit, I saw Israeli teenagers walking, with newly issued machine guns strapped on their shoulders, to and from the Tomb of the Patriarch, a large mosque-cum-synagogue.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10090\" class=\"wp-caption no-underline alignnone\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10090 lazyautosizes lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-7-1024x473.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-7-1024x473.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-7-300x139.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-7-768x355.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-7-1300x601.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-7.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1379w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-7.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=551&amp;ssl=1 551w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-7.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=827&amp;ssl=1 827w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-7.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=1103&amp;ssl=1 1103w\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10090\" data-attachment-id=\"10090\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/forsea.co\/hebrons-palestinians-resist-israels-evil-occupation-violent-settlers-daily-humiliations-a-dialogue-with-issa-amro-winner-of-2024-right-livelihood-award\/issa-amro-7\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-7.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1379,637\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Issa Amro 7\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The Cave or Tomb of the Patriarchs. The far-left corner next to the cylindrical structure wrapped in Israeli flag is a large souvenir shop selling religious Jewish artifacts. Zarni, Jan. 2025&lt;\/p&gt; \" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-7-300x139.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-7.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;fit=900%2C416&amp;ssl=1\" data-src=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-7-1024x473.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-7-1024x473.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-7-300x139.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-7-768x355.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-7-1300x601.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-7.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1379w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-7.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=551&amp;ssl=1 551w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-7.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=827&amp;ssl=1 827w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-7.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=1103&amp;ssl=1 1103w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-eio-rwidth=\"1024\" data-eio-rheight=\"473\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-10090\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cave or Tomb of the Patriarchs. The far-left corner next to the cylindrical structure wrapped in Israeli flag is a large souvenir shop selling religious Jewish artifacts. Zarni, Jan 2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I have also been to several war zones such as Ukraine and Eastern Myanmar. I felt a far greater sense of un-safety in the occupied Hebron, walking past one Israeli checkpoint after another.<\/p>\n<p>In this intense 15-minute-videorecording, you will hear directly from one of the best known, and principled resisters against Israel\u2019s vicious settler colonial occupation.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10091\" class=\"wp-caption no-underline alignnone\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10091 lazyautosizes lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-8-1024x473.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-8-1024x473.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-8-300x139.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-8-768x355.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-8.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1189w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-8.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=237&amp;ssl=1 237w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-8.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=475&amp;ssl=1 475w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-8.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=713&amp;ssl=1 713w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-8.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=951&amp;ssl=1 951w\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10091\" data-attachment-id=\"10091\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/forsea.co\/hebrons-palestinians-resist-israels-evil-occupation-violent-settlers-daily-humiliations-a-dialogue-with-issa-amro-winner-of-2024-right-livelihood-award\/issa-amro-8\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-8.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1189,549\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Issa Amro 8\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;A cinema room of the Palestinian community centre in the Old Hebron, where the concrete wall is adorned with Article 49 of the 4th Geneva Convention, spelling out the obligations of an occupying military force towards the population under occupation.Photo: Zarni, Jan. 2025&lt;\/p&gt; \" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-8-300x139.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-8.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;fit=900%2C416&amp;ssl=1\" data-src=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-8-1024x473.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-8-1024x473.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-8-300x139.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-8-768x355.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-8.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1189w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-8.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=237&amp;ssl=1 237w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-8.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=475&amp;ssl=1 475w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-8.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=713&amp;ssl=1 713w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-8.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=951&amp;ssl=1 951w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-eio-rwidth=\"1024\" data-eio-rheight=\"473\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-10091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cinema room of the Palestinian community centre in the Old Hebron, where the concrete wall is adorned with Article 49 of the 4th Geneva Convention, spelling out the obligations of an occupying military force towards the population under occupation. Photo: Zarni Jan 2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>You will appreciate what it means to live under the relentless, sadistic and cruel apartheid system aided by advanced surveillance technology and manned by settlers with automatic sub-machine guns and various branches of Israeli police and defence forces.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with such evil system that is utterly devoid of human conscience or compassion, but designed to break the Palestinian will to live on their own land, the Palestinians such as Issa Amro and his band of resisters, deserve every bit of material, financial, moral, diplomatic, and strategic support from the world at large.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10092\" class=\"wp-caption no-underline alignnone\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10092 lazyautosizes lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-9-1024x473.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-9-1024x473.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-9-300x139.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-9-768x355.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-9-1300x601.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-9.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1379w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-9.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=551&amp;ssl=1 551w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-9.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=827&amp;ssl=1 827w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-9.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=1103&amp;ssl=1 1103w\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10092\" data-attachment-id=\"10092\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/forsea.co\/hebrons-palestinians-resist-israels-evil-occupation-violent-settlers-daily-humiliations-a-dialogue-with-issa-amro-winner-of-2024-right-livelihood-award\/issa-amro-9\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-9.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1379,637\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Issa Amro 9\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The community centre, Issa Amro and his band of resisters, both men and women, atop hill overlooking Hebron City, 200 metres away from the nearest Israeli occupation checkpoint. Photo by Zarni, Jan. 2025&lt;\/p&gt; \" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-9-300x139.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-9.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;fit=900%2C416&amp;ssl=1\" data-src=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-9-1024x473.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-9-1024x473.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-9-300x139.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-9-768x355.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-9-1300x601.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-9.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1379w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-9.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=551&amp;ssl=1 551w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-9.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=827&amp;ssl=1 827w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-9.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=1103&amp;ssl=1 1103w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-eio-rwidth=\"1024\" data-eio-rheight=\"473\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-10092\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The community centre, Issa Amro and his band of resisters, both men and women, atop hill overlooking Hebron City, 200 metres away from the nearest Israeli occupation checkpoint. Photo Zarni Jan 2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>For they refuse to abandon their homes, lands and olive trees in Hebron and have taken the idea of \u201cnon-violence resistance\u201d to a whole new height.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10093\" class=\"wp-caption no-underline alignnone\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10093 size-large lazyautosizes lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-10-1024x473.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-10-1024x473.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-10-300x139.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-10-768x355.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-10-1300x601.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-10.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1379w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-10.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=551&amp;ssl=1 551w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-10.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=827&amp;ssl=1 827w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-10.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=1103&amp;ssl=1 1103w\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10093\" data-attachment-id=\"10093\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/forsea.co\/hebrons-palestinians-resist-israels-evil-occupation-violent-settlers-daily-humiliations-a-dialogue-with-issa-amro-winner-of-2024-right-livelihood-award\/issa-amro-10\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-10.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1379,637\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Issa Amro 10\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-10-300x139.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-10.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;fit=900%2C416&amp;ssl=1\" data-src=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-10-1024x473.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-10-1024x473.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-10-300x139.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-10-768x355.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-10-1300x601.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1300w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-10.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 1379w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-10.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=551&amp;ssl=1 551w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-10.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=827&amp;ssl=1 827w, https:\/\/eg9dn5hbx3e.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Issa-Amro-10.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;w=1103&amp;ssl=1 1103w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-eio-rwidth=\"1024\" data-eio-rheight=\"473\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-10093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The City of Hebron, with ancient olive trees planted by Palestinians, seen from a hilltop a short walk from Issa Amro\u2019s Palestinian community centre. Photo: Zarni Jan 2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>___________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Maung-Zarni.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-228999\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Maung-Zarni-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> A Buddhist humanist from Burma (Myanmar), Maung Zarni, nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, is a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a><em>, former Visiting Lecturer with Harvard Medical School, specializing in racism and violence in Burma and Sri Lanka, and Non-resident Scholar in Genocide Studies with Documentation Center \u2013 Cambodia.\u00a0Zarni is the co-founder of <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/forsea.co\/\" >FORSEA<\/a><em>, a grass-roots organization of Southeast Asian human rights defenders, coordinator for Strategic Affairs for <\/em>Free Rohingya Coalition,<em> and an adviser to the <\/em>European Centre for the Study of Extremism<em>, Cambridge<strong>. <\/strong>Zarni holds a PhD (U Wisconsin at Madison) and a MA (U California), and has held various teaching, research and visiting fellowships at the universities in Asia, Europe and USA including Oxford, LSE, UCL Institute of Education, National-Louis, Malaya, and Brunei. He is the recipient of the &#8220;Cultivation of Harmony&#8221; award from the Parliament of the World&#8217;s Religions (2015). His analyses have appeared in leading newspapers including the <\/em>New York Times, The Guardian <em>and<\/em> the Times<em>. Among his academic publications on Rohingya genocide are <\/em>The Slow-Burning Genocide of Myanmar\u2019s Rohingyas<em> (Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal), <\/em>An Evolution of Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar: From Strategic Embrace to Genocide<em>, (Middle East Institute, American University), and <\/em>Myanmar\u2019s State-directed Persecution of Rohingyas and Other Muslims<em> (Brown World Affairs Journal). He co-authored, with Natalie Brinham, <\/em>Essays on Myanmar Genocide.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forsea.co\/hebrons-palestinians-resist-israels-evil-occupation-violent-settlers-daily-humiliations-a-dialogue-with-issa-amro-winner-of-2024-right-livelihood-award\/\" >Go to Original -forsea.co<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hebron\u2019s Palestinians Resist Israel\u2019s Evil Occupation, Violent Settlers, Daily Humiliations &#8211; \u201cIsrael is the only apartheid in the Middle East, defending its occupation (not its existence),\u201d said the 45-year-old Issa Amro, an engineer and creative nonviolence resister in the Old City of Hebron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":287495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[865,88,2414,2416,767,427,1025],"class_list":["post-287494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-israeli-apartheid","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-middle-east","tag-palestine","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287494"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287504,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287494\/revisions\/287504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}