On one-year anniversary of Gaza’s prison break: forced population transfer (ethnic cleansing) is underway in Gaza; US wants to pay Israel to be selective in bombing Iran; journalist stalked, killed; calls to end Israel’s attack on healthcare in Lebanon, much more.
Former President Jimmy Carter was a pioneer in calling out Israeli apartheid (and being labeled “antisemitic”)
The narrative has finally begun to shift on Palestine. Voices have grown increasingly louder demanding that Palestinians have a right to defend themselves.
The International Court of Justice just handed down a momentous ruling about Israeli occupation and Palestinian rights. Here are the highlights, some helpful analysis, and reactions from key players.
Restrictions on movement, severe shortage of jobs as Israel has shut its labour market in the face of the 400,000 Palestinians it employed, with many families now facing hunger and starvation.
Harvard students have established a Liberated Zone to call for an end to Harvard’s complicity in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. It is a demonstration of their love of justice, their hope for a free Palestine, and their dream of a liberated future for all.
Longtime journalist Chris Hedges offers a partial inventory of Israel’s documented human rights abuses of Palestinians – massive abuses that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. chooses to ignore: the crimes of apartheid, and the targeting and torturing of civilians, to name a few. As Hedges reminds us, to support this Israel is to “justify the unjustifiable”; and to protest Israeli policy is “a political death wish.” (part 3)
The news cycle never ends in Israel and Palestine, but coverage by mainstream can be extremely spotty. Here are a few recent stories from the region.
Just because you don’t see Israel/Palestine in the headlines, doesn’t mean nothing is happening. Every day, Israel finds new & more cruel ways to treat Palestinians (& their allies), and Palestinians continue to resist their oppressors.
Poll: American Democrats who follow the news are growing more and more aware of Israel’s apartheid policies, and supportive of the use of boycott to secure justice for Palestinians.