India Palestine Solidarity Forum (IPSF) condemns the invasion of Rafah and takeover of its border crossing by Israel, and demands the immediate Israeli withdrawal from Rafah and unhindered access to…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies On May 8, 2024, as Israel escalated its brutal assault on Rafah, President Biden announced that he had “paused” a delivery of…
The serious humanitarian situation in Gaza has been at the center-stage of worldwide concerns for several months now. Many senior leaders of world and top UN officials have been repeatedly…
It truly is pushing the envelope of lunacy to assume that this latest revelation was revelatory. US weapons, the wonks in Washington find, are being used by the Israeli Defense…
Hundreds of thousands of people are being forced to flee, once again, after more than half of Gaza's population took sanctuary in the border town of Rafah. This is part…
One of the more frustrating debates I’ve seen on Gaza in the last few months - and I’ve seen a lot of them - was between Bassem Youssef and Konstantin…
I am disgusted by those who frame conflicts in a religious context, and even contribute to fuel them, whether through clear language or sometimes through cunning language. These people do not possess…
Reflecting on the unprecedented number of journalists killed in Gaza by the Israeli military along with their intentional killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh two years ago, the Arab…
People have become a pawn on the ‘bloody’ chessboard, being ordered to move around according to the whims of the Israeli army The Israeli troop onslaught on the eastern part…
“I find it rather difficult to make it clear to my children why we are not eligible, for from one point of view it isn’t quite clear to me.” X,…
Global Mankind vs. Political Wickedness Rationality requires objective reasoning and it is not coming for an impending cataclysm of the Israeli onslaught on Rafah and the United States - the complicit friend in making…
The Gaza Strip is the most difficult battlefield in the world and the ongoing military operation in Rafah will not guarantee that attacks on Israel will stop, says Danial Hagari,…
Means of return: “Our weapons are the means of our return/And (they are) our constant companions until the liberation of Palestine”, Arab Liberation Front (circa 1975). Artist: Hassib al-JassemIsrael has…
Despite being described in some circles as such, the latest vote in the United Nations General Assembly on Palestine’s status is hardly extraordinary. For one, it does not vest the…
by Ellen Cantarow & Jennifer Loewenstein All of us—and we are legion across the world must keep our eyes on the genocide in Gaza, as well as on the vicious pogroms…
As the UN General Assembly on May 5 announced its adoption of a resolution in support of full-member status for Palestinian Statehood, activists from Code Pink and others were visiting…
The slaughter of Gaza has shown the world that Israel, those circle around Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, no longer function rationally. Their daily acts of ordering mayhem and destruction on…
Identity is fluid, because concepts such as culture, history and collective self-perceptions are never fixed. They are in a constant state of flux and revision. For hundreds of years, the…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be committing suicide if he orders his army to enter Rafah. This is because the military objectives would be too high and nefarious. This…
The Australian Labor Government is racist, militarist, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish anti-Semitic, holocaust-denying, genocide-complicit, cowardly, ignorant, mendacious, corrupt, traitorous, child-abusing, mother-abusing, women-abusing, anti-Indigenous, nuclear terrorist, climate criminal, ecocidal, speciescidal, Humanity-betraying, and…
A banner and a name remind student protesters for whom they are fighting. On April 30, when Columbia University student protesters took over Hamilton Hall, they renamed it “Hind’s Hall,”…
On Monday, Israel launched its long-planned assault on Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza, issuing orders for the population to evacuate and initiating an intense bombardment of the city. More…
What is taking place in occupied Palestine is not a conflict, but a straightforward case of illegal military occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and outright genocide. Those who insist on using…
Editor’s Note: Hamas has agreed to a ceasefire deal through Egyptian and Qatari mediators with the backing of the United States CIA Director William Burns who extended his stay in…
The International Criminal Court is a dusty jewel, a creation of heat, tension and manufacture in the international community. Various elements have gone into its creation. As with any international…
Israel's army on Monday ordered roughly 100,000 people living in eastern Rafah to evacuate ahead of an imminent military assault on the area, terrifying families who have been forcibly displaced to the…
United Nations World Food Program Executive Director Cindy McCain said Friday that Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip are experiencing "full-blown famine" after nearly seven months of Israeli bombardment and invasion—and that…
One of the most popular and anticipated annual events in Washington is Passport DC when embassies in the city open their doors to the public for one day to showcase…
Over the past week, police forces throughout the United States, working in coordination with the Biden administration, have beaten and arrested hundreds of students and faculty on university campuses for…
The office of International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan issued a statement Friday denouncing threats of retaliation after Israel's prime minister and U.S. lawmakers attacked the intergovernmental body over reports…
Rebuilding the approximately 80,000 housing units, destroyed throughout the Gaza Strip by the imperialist-backed Israeli regime’s bloody assault, would take until 2040, according to an assessment by the United Nations…
Anti-racist supporters of Palestinian human rights call for a Free Palestine that can be accomplished by the World effecting an end to Apartheid Israel, human rights denial, the Gaza Massacre,…
Do you negotiate for a peace deal with a threatening gun in one hand and a bomb in the other? Is this the way to pursue truce and ceasefire? Such…
He’s a funny little chap: a sharp dresser with a sleek grey jacket, a white waistcoat, red shorts, and a small grey crest for a hat. With his shiny black…
The Biden administration Monday condemned an ongoing investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of senior Israeli figures who masterminded the Gaza genocide. Israeli media sources reported in recent days…
In one of the strangest contradictions, while the US's support for Israel has always been unwavering, driven largely by many influential supporters of Israel, a section of the American Jewish…
We, the undersigned, stand in solidarity with members of the Columbia University community demanding that the University divest from Israel’s US-backed genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. We write…
Mass graves, the criminalization of dissent, systematic slaughter glorified as self-defense, resisting students making history. Yes, the current nightmare does seem reminiscent of 1968, the year kaleidoscopic change burst forth…
Daifallah, a one-year-old baby, killed in an Israeli strike on Rafah, is trending on the X platform. Just for posterity, his name is Daifallah Mohammad Taha, one of the countless…
Students across United States in campuses from Columbia to Emory to California are protesting in solidarity with Palestine. Protests expressing anguish Israeli genocide are now spilling over to university campuses…
The Jewish Maariv daily based on senior sources says Benjamin Netanyahu is deeply worried the ICC is on the verge of issuing a warrant for his arrest and other senior politicians in…
This is a sermon I gave Sunday April 28 at a service held at the encampment for Gaza at Princeton University. The service was organized by students from Princeton Theological…
What is conflict about? The Zionist Israeli-Arab Palestinian conflict today is one of if not the most significant global security problems to be dealt with.[1] However, this conflict is historically…
Dear President Shafik, We are a group of scientists and academics based at universities across the world. We are writing to express our dismay at your decision to invite the…
The Israeli authorities, in their campaign of remorseless killing, doctoring and adjusting the numbers of the Palestinian populace for whatever future awaits, have been found wanting on accusations that Hamas…
It was supposed to be a miracle that unfortunately didn’t last for the Gaza baby Rouh (meaning life) Joudeh died four days after the doctors brought her out of the…
Mass pro-Palestinian protests at college campuses across the United States are developing with great intensity. The protests, now in their second week, show no signs of abating despite the bloody…
The outcome of the Palestine vote and the American veto at the United Nations Security Council on April 18 was predictable. Though European countries are becoming increasingly supportive of a…
Students at more than 40 universities and colleges in the United States and around the world have lit a fire under the Palestine solidarity movement by setting up encampments on…
Israel’s conflict with Lebanon is entering a “different phase” of “higher-intensity conflict”, in the assessment of Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr, reporting from Marjayoun in southern Lebanon. She writes that, on Wednesday,…
University students across the country, facing mass arrests, suspensions, evictions and expulsions are our last, best hope to halt the genocide in Gaza. PRINCETON, N.J. — Achinthya Sivalingam, a graduate…
Throughout history, fringe religious Zionist parties have had limited success in achieving the kind of electoral victories that would allow them an actual share in the country’s political decision-making. The…
Israel has constructed tent encampments in central Gaza to warehouse Palestinians displaced by its looming assault on Rafah, according to satellite and ground-based images. The camps are part of far-reaching…
Introduction India and Palestine have a history that begins with decolonization and the creation of sovereign nation-states. Early demonstrations of solidarity and support for the Palestinian cause originated from India's…
By all accounts, the US is a highly policed and regulated state. There are rules, limits and boundaries for everything, including social protests. How to picket on a sidewalk (no…
Gaza and West Bank have been recording one of the highest rate of imprisonments and detentions in the world for several years. However this has increased at perhaps the fastest…
The campuses of many American universities have turned into arenas for escalating protests and demonstrations against the backdrop of Israel's war on the Gaza Strip, causing widespread arrests of students…
The number of bodies discovered in four mass graves at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza rose to at least 310 Tuesday. The horrific discovery over the past…
Zionist-perverted and US-beholden Western Mainstream media are complicit in the ongoing Gaza Massacre and Gaza Genocide by forcing their journalists to self-censor and lie about the unspeakable atrocities being committed by…
Growing up, I heard much about the Vietnam “War” from my parents and brother. Few in the United States know that 6 million Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians were killed in…
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