The tragic scenes unfolding in Palestine and Israel are a chilling reminder of the horrors that occupation creates — and the urgency of dismantling Israel’s blockades and apartheid system.
I’m a historian of US foreign policy. The Biden administration’s effort to muddy the waters about the staggering human toll of Israel’s assault on Gaza is in keeping with Washington’s long history of atrocity denialism on behalf of allies.
“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is not a hateful slogan or a call for violence — it’s a call for democracy and equal rights for all.
Israel’s war has no keener defenders than far-right Hindus spreading fake news on Twitter/X. But their dogged support for Israel isn’t just a matter of inflammatory posts — it goes hand in hand with rising repression against Muslims in India itself.
From the rate and scale of civilian slaughter to the killing of protected groups and the type of munitions, Israel’s war on Gaza is an exceptionally brutal campaign unlike almost anything we’ve seen.
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.
Nothing Joe Biden has done to rein in Benjamin Netanyahu’s brutality against the people of Gaza has worked. Biden has proven too weak, indecisive, and indulgent of Israel to even induce Netanyahu into making small tweaks to his behavior.
Israel has laid waste to Palestinian agriculture for decades. It’s only gotten worse since the war started.
The accusations of abuses by the Israel Defense Forces against Palestinian detainees in Sde Teiman are growing more gruesome. Last month: dozens of deaths. This week: gang rape.
While Israel’s war on Gaza has inflicted immeasurable suffering on Palestinians, its conflict with Hezbollah poses an existential threat to the region. Despite this, Israel is actively courting a wider war.
On Thursday, Israeli forces bombed Jabalia, killing over 150 Palestinians. UN human rights chief Volker Türk warns that the “darkest moment” is unfolding in northern Gaza, as relentless bombing, siege, and starvation make conditions worse by the day.
Nineteen-year-old Sofia Orr was jailed for refusing to enlist in the Israeli military. In an interview with Jacobin, she explains the disturbing authoritarianism of an Israeli society that has rallied behind the massacre in Gaza.
As Israel has resumed its genocidal assault on Gaza in full, so too has it resumed its slaughter of journalists.
In Australia, outdoor dance parties — known colloquially as “doofs” — are billed as progressive events that value peace, love, unity, and respect. So why do organizers keep booking artists who celebrate Israel’s genocide in Gaza?
Historian Omer Bartov spoke to Jacobin about why scholars of the Holocaust are struggling to talk frankly about Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Eighteen-year-old Israeli Tal Mitnick has just been sent to prison for refusing to enlist in the army and participate in what he calls a “war of revenge” in Gaza. He’s a hero.
Nine months into the war on Gaza, Israeli media hardly reports on the death and destruction there. Haggai Matar, executive director of +972 magazine, tells Jacobin about the self-censorship that dominates Israeli journalism.
Apologists for Israel’s bombing spree of schools and hospitals in Gaza say Hamas is using the civilians there as “human shields.” But that justification makes no sense even if we accept the premise — in a hostage situation, you don’t just kill the hostage.
Last month's deal between Turkey and Israel will do little to help Palestinians in Gaza.
Haneen Zoabi has survived insults, death threats, and the vagaries of the Israeli justice system. But the first Palestinian woman to represent an Arab party in Israel’s Knesset wants something more — to be heard.