The Pro-Palestine Protests Must Continue Off Campus
College students are right to raise hell about the genocide in Gaza. But the momentum can’t stop when the semester ends.
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Benjamin Netanyahu’s Political Future May Be Over
Rather than bolster Benjamin Netanyahu in a “rally around the flag” effect, the October 7 attack on Israel has destroyed his standing with voters. Netanyahu's political career, which has fundamentally reshaped Israeli society, may be effectively finished.
Socialist Melat Kiros Is Running for Congress in Colorado
Democratic Socialists of America–backed challengers for Congress have already notched three wins in primary elections this year. In Colorado’s elections tomorrow, Melat Kiros is hoping to join the growing bloc of socialists on Capitol Hill.
Unions Must Seize the Moment to Organize the South
After a victory in Tennessee and a loss in Alabama, the UAW is pressing onward in its fight to organize the notoriously anti-union South. The fate of Southern workers — and all workers — depends on the movement’s willingness to think big.
Gaza’s Destruction Has Discredited the Global Moral Order
Western states have not merely supported Israel’s devastating attack on Gaza as if it were a just war of self-defense. They have also sought to repress those demonstrating for the right of Palestinians to live in dignity — or simply to live.
Biden’s Support for Genocide May Cost Him Key Swing States
A new poll reports that 20% of voters in five key swing states are less likely to vote for Joe Biden because of his support for Israel’s war on Gaza. It suggests that his policy has been not just morally monstrous but maybe politically disastrous too.
People Who Kill Children
Palestinian children face violence at all turns, yet their hardship is not deemed worthy of attention.
Albanians Are Against Jared Kushner’s Israel-Linked Venture
Albania’s government is one of the most toadyish allies to Donald Trump and Israel. Yet as Jared Kushner seeks to tarmac a protected nature reserve in the country, Albanians are saying no to their cronyish government and its international allies.
In the Shatila Refugee Camp, Palestinians Have Little Hope
Since 1949, the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut has been home to thousands of Palestinians. Visiting the camp last week, Jacobin found its population in dire conditions, with the cutting of Western aid to UNRWA further aggravating its bleak poverty.
It’s Not Just the Lobby
The US supports Israel because it furthers American interests in the Middle East — not just because of pressure from the Israel Lobby.
The Pessoptimist Turns Fifty
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.
Free Speech Means Free Mahmoud Khalil
Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest is a cut-and-dry free speech issue that makes two things clear. First, the Right was always disingenuous when it claimed to care about free speech. Second, the Left should never have ceded the issue.
Noam Chomsky: Fight the Class Struggle or Get it in the Neck
As Noam Chomsky puts it in a recent interview, “unless working people take part in the class struggle, they're going to get it in the neck.”
Our American Zion
The racism and red-baiting of Bari Weiss’s latest book, How to Fight Anti-Semitism, isn’t an accident. It reflects her deep conflation of her own Judaism with American exceptionalism and the US global empire.
US Teachers Are Kicking the ADL Out of Schools
The National Education Association, the United States’ largest teachers’ union, has voted to cut all ties with the Anti-Defamation League over the group’s weaponization of antisemitism and attacks on supporters of Palestinian rights.
The Terminator’s Vision of AI Warfare Is Now Reality
Forty years after The Terminator warned us about killer robots, AI-powered drones and autonomous weapons are being deployed in real-world conflicts. From Gaza to Ukraine, the dystopian future of machine warfare isn’t just science fiction anymore.
Israel Is Brazenly Defying the Order to Prevent Genocide
Last Friday, the International Court of Justice directly ordered Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza and allow humanitarian aid. With its attack on UNRWA, Israel is blatantly violating that order, and the Biden administration has also put itself in the dock.
Why Is Nancy Pelosi Slandering Democrats’ Own Voter Base?
This week, Nancy Pelosi suggested that supporters of a cease-fire in Gaza were foreign government “plants.” But the demand for a cease-fire is wildly popular among Democratic voters — and party leaders are playing a dangerous game by insulting them.
Non-Jews Banning Jewish Texts to Protect Jews
Hunter College’s announced hiring for a Palestinian studies professor led New York governor Kathy Hochul to order the listing’s removal for “hateful rhetoric” like “settler colonialism.” By that logic, Zionist Jewish texts themselves would be banned.
The Fight Over Israel’s Judicial Reform Neglects Palestinian Rights
In July, Israel’s far-right government pushed through a law undermining the power of the country’s Supreme Court. Israeli protests against the law have scarcely mentioned one of its key features: making it even easier for Israel to trample the rights of Palestinians.