
US Labor Leaders Should Stand With Palestine
The American labor movement’s leadership has long sided with the state of Israel’s war crimes and apartheid over the Palestinian people. That has to change.
The American labor movement’s leadership has long sided with the state of Israel’s war crimes and apartheid over the Palestinian people. That has to change.
The only way to stop a bloody and electorally disastrous regional war in the Middle East is for President Joe Biden to do the one thing he wants to avoid: cut off military aid to Israel.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s fiery statements condemning Israel may seem bold, but Turkey's trade relations with Israel tell a different story. In the end, Erdoğan’s bluster is a cynical attempt to shore up eroding support among his base.
Scholar Raz Segal recounts the strange experience of being attacked as an antisemite, despite being Jewish himself and studying the Holocaust and other genocides, for the high crime of opposing Israel’s slaughter in Gaza.
Democratic elites would rather side with Benjamin Netanyahu's racist agenda than give any power to Israel critics like Ilhan Omar.
Addicted to territorial aggrandizement and encircled by enemies of its own making, Israel has freed itself of all moral constraints.
Some European leaders have started to rhetorically distance themselves from Israel — but Denmark’s government hasn’t even gone that far. For all its boasting about its role championing human rights, it turns a blind eye toward Israeli crimes.
The divide between Hamas in Gaza and Fatah in the West Bank dates back to a crucial period in the mid 2000s. The US and its allies sabotaged an effort to achieve national unity for peace negotiations with dire consequences that are still unfolding today.
The foundation of Israel is tied up with David Ben-Gurion, its first prime minister. Through examining his life, we see how Israel’s creation was from its beginnings doomed to create an apartheid-like state maintained by an oppressor nation.
Once again, the media are trying to depict the fighting between Israelis and Palestinians as a round of meaningless violence from “both sides” of an equally matched contest — the reality on the ground be damned.
Mike Huckabee began his confirmation hearings to become Donald Trump’s ambassador to Israel this week. He has a long history of close association with the Christian Zionist movement and its degradation of Palestinian lives.
The Western media discourse gets it all wrong. Israel is not at risk of becoming an apartheid state — it already is one.
Over a year after Israel launched its genocidal aggression on Gaza, many in the antiwar movement are rightly furious. But we can’t let that rage cloud strategic thinking about the best way to stand in solidarity with Palestine, says Bashir Abu-Manneh.
Ilhan Omar is being attacked for telling the truth: the influence of AIPAC on US policy toward Israel has been a disaster.
Following mounting criticism for its inaction, the Biden administration is claiming it is powerless to stop the Israeli onslaught against Gaza. This is a sick evasion, given how much military and diplomatic support the US unquestioningly provides Israel.
A review of Yitzhak Laor's The Myths of Liberal Zionism.
Guerilla armed struggle alone won’t accomplish the goals of Palestinian liberation, says longtime Palestinian leftist Issam Aruri. Strikes, demonstrations, and an organized movement of millions are the key to ending Israeli occupation.
Twenty years ago today, the second Palestinian intifada began in response to a provocation from Israel's Ariel Sharon after the collapse of US-sponsored peace talks. The brutal Israeli response inaugurated a war on Palestinian society that continues to this day.
Israel has no scruples about wantonly slaughtering health care providers like Gazan hospital director Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh. What kind of country declares war on health professionals?
Joe Biden convinced himself he could rescue his legacy by securing Palestinian statehood. His blank check to Israel could now make him the leader who killed it for good.