The US public, particularly younger Americans, is becoming more skeptical of unconditional support for Israel. In a brand-new poll, a majority of Democrats say the US should not send more weapons to Israel.
At its core, the movement calling to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel is about defunding apartheid and military occupation. It’s a movement that’s worth supporting.
President Gustavo Petro’s efforts to halt the genocide in Gaza have brought Colombia into conflict with the neoliberal order. To hold Israel accountable, nations will have to challenge their free-trade agreements and reclaim their economic sovereignty.
For weeks, pro-Palestine protesters physically prevented the unloading of Israeli-operated cargo that had entered the Port of Seattle. It finally took a violent crackdown by Seattle police to get the ship unloaded.
In 1974, Emile Habibi published The Pessoptimist, an irreverent novel that interpreted the Nakba as a tragicomic fable. Fifty years later, it still speaks to the dilemma facing Palestinians fighting to pull liberation from the jaws of defeat.
The Jerusalem Post has proposed that Germany pay off its remaining Holocaust reparations in military hardware for Israel. No financial compensation can make up for history's greatest crimes — but it shouldn’t be used against Palestinians in the present.
Our new issue is slightly delayed, but only for the best of reasons. We're getting bigger and better.
Don't blame recent bloodshed in Jerusalem on religion. The incitement is Israeli policy.
Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro is perhaps the top contender to be Kamala Harris’s running mate. But Shapiro would be an awful selection, with a history of alienating and antagonizing core party constituencies and caving to pressure on major issues.
Pro-Israel groups claim that the First Amendment doesn’t protect the boycott, divest, and sanctions movement. A Kansas court just ruled against them.
German politicians often boast of having atoned for their ancestors’ crimes — but then claim that antisemitism is an ill imported by migrants. Far from a model, German memory culture has created an exceptionalist myth that Germans understand racism best.
Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza has made it incredibly difficult for many Muslims to celebrate Ramadan this year. In place of cloistered ritual, we must redouble our efforts to win a cease-fire and an end to the occupation of Palestine.
The new party announced by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana shows that Gaza has become a key fault line in British politics. Keir Starmer’s Labour Party can no longer rely on silencing the Left.
Once a hawkish supporter of Israel, Elizabeth Warren has recently adopted a more balanced stance. That's undoubtedly a good thing — but she’ll have to go much further to truly support Palestinian rights.
Theodor Bergmann, the last surviving member of the pre–World War II German Communist movement, spoke to Jacobin.
The mutually beneficial relationship between Israel and apartheid South Africa was not just about the arms trade. It was an ideological affinity about how to treat unwanted populations.
An NYPD spokesperson waved a scholarly book about terrorism around on TV in an attempt to associate Columbia University protesters with terrorists. Well, we actually read it. The claim is as absurd as you might guess.
Israeli historian Amos Goldberg has been a leading critic of Israel’s war in Gaza, which he calls genocide. In an interview, he told Jacobin why the term applies — and why the international community needs to wake up to this reality.
Israel’s brutal attack on Gaza has already killed over 24,000 Palestinians. But the environmental effects of the war — from pollution of groundwater and soil to destruction of Gaza’s olive trees — will have devastating impacts long after the bombing stops.
New York Democrats: stop trying to make “socialists are antisemitic” happen. It’s not going to happen.