
“Just Ask Israel”
Donald Trump is selling his border wall by touting Israel’s separation wall — a barrier that even many supporters admit amounts to apartheid.

Donald Trump is selling his border wall by touting Israel’s separation wall — a barrier that even many supporters admit amounts to apartheid.

Benjamin Netanyahu might have taken a hit in the Israeli elections. But whether or not he forms the next government, Israel’s occupation will continue — and Palestinians will have their democratic rights snuffed out.

In a speech last week at the UN, Marc Lamont Hill issued a passionate call for action to achieve justice in Palestine. We reprint his address here in full.

Taking stock of the Democratic field on US empire.

By invoking self-defense, Israel changes the conversation from its colonial crimes against the Palestinians to the injuries it has itself incurred as a result.

For decades, Israel has boasted of “making the desert bloom,” as if Palestinians never even existed. As Israel today pushes Gazans toward mass dehydration, we should remember its longstanding efforts to colonize land through its control of the water supply.

After half a century, the Israeli occupation is as strong as ever. How can we end it?

“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.

For seventy years, Israeli violence has permeated every aspect of Palestinians’ lives. Once again, Palestinians are resisting.
In showing that Palestinians won't submit to Israeli violence, the ongoing youth uprising has given the rest of Palestine hope.

Seventy-five years after the landmark Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Jeremy Corbyn writes that some of its loudest celebrants are showing monstrous hypocrisy by supporting the indiscriminate killing of Palestinians.

Zionism emerged in response to 19th-century European antisemitism — but its aims in Palestine drew upon Western colonial ideologies. To present the current conflict as a timeless feud denies both European responsibility and Palestine’s multiethnic history.

After Israel occupied large swaths of Palestine in 1967, European and American conservatives began to charge critics of the occupation with antisemitism. Recently, politicians have taken advantage of this redefinition to criminalize solidarity with Palestine.

US officials are right to condemn the killing and hostage-taking of Israeli Americans by Hamas. If only they displayed the same indignation at Israel’s killing of Palestinian Americans.
There is no moral equivalence between Israeli and Palestinian actions.

AOC let down the Palestine movement at the Democratic National Convention. But it’s not too late to make up for it.

The US Congress has passed an absurd resolution proclaiming that “anti-Zionism is antisemitism.” It ignores the many Jewish Americans who oppose Israel’s apartheid state and slanders advocates for universal democratic rights as antisemites.

Palestinian leader Mustafa Barghouti talks to Jacobin about why the mass demonstrations of recent weeks are just the beginning of a renewed movement to free Palestine.

Israel has been praised for launching an aggressive coronavirus vaccination drive. There’s just one problem: they’re excluding Palestinians in occupied territories.

A new report details how Islamophobia fuels conflations of criticism of Israel with antisemitism. We spoke with one of the report’s authors about the slanderous attempts to muzzle supporters of Palestinian rights.