For Joe Biden, arming the massacre in Gaza apparently wasn’t enough. The US has now defunded UNRWA, the UN agency that provides essential humanitarian aid to Palestinian refugees in Gaza and beyond.
A recent successful court case brought by university professors against the Trump administration’s ideological deportations is an important win for supporters of Palestinian liberation and opponents of rising authoritarianism in the US.
Nicolas Grospierre’s photographs of collective farm buildings in Israel and the Baltic states reveal these communities’ utopian dreams — and their uncomfortable colonial underpinnings.
This week, Israel bombed an UNRWA-affiliated school in a central Gaza refugee camp where thousands of Palestinians were sheltering. The attack killed dozens of civilians, mostly children — just one among several civilian massacres in the past 48 hours.
After October 7, Israeli society went into a vengeful genocidal tailspin, carrying out some of the most heinous crimes of this century again and again and again. Two years on, its leaders are unrepentant and baying for more blood.
Being pro-refugee must also mean being antiwar.
Democratic socialist Cori Bush is leading the legislative push for a cease-fire in Gaza. In remarks introducing her congressional resolution, Bush deplored the “collective punishment of Palestinians” and insisted that “all human life is equally precious.”
Ofer Cassif, among the few Israeli MPs to openly reject Zionism, tells Jacobin that Palestinian liberation is indispensable to peace and justice for all people in the region.
BDS opponents are wrong — boycotts are well within the bounds of academic conduct.
Emmanuel Macron is wrong. Anti-Zionism is not “the reinvented form of antisemitism.“
Recently, Chicago city councillor Carlos Rosa's socialist politics cost him in the halls of power. He speaks to Jacobin about why he refuses to "throw a movement under the bus."
The new play "Oslo" disguises colonial domination as savvy conflict resolution.
A year into the genocide in Gaza, we are closer than ever to an all-out regional war. Western governments’ support for the Israeli war machine and indifference to human life has endangered us all.
On the 40th anniversary of his murder, we remember socialist revolutionary Maurice Bishop and his June 1983 trip to New York.
If Israel does not de-escalate its war on Gaza, the conflict risks spilling into neighboring Middle Eastern nations. The humanitarian consequences would be horrific.
With its passage of the “Jewish Nation-State Law,” Israel is no longer hiding the fact that it is not a democracy.
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.
CNN fired Marc Lamont Hill for daring to tell the truth: the Israeli occupation is a brutal, indefensible attack on Palestinians' basic human rights.
Pushed by leftist activists and legislators like Rashida Tlaib, the Democratic Party is finally having it over Israel. It's a long-overdue step toward shifting US foreign policy and challenging Israel's occupation.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won’t be defeated in the polls on April 9. Whether he is indicted for corruption soon or not, his method of repressing Palestinian resistance is popular — and will probably outlast him in Israeli politics.