Unions in the US have a long history of supporting Israel and suppressing rank-and-file solidarity with Palestine. Israel’s brutal war on Gaza, and the targeting of US workers who oppose it, is starting to change that.
Yesterday pro-Palestine protesters staged a massive, historic march in Washington DC, the culmination of weeks of demonstrations in the US calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. We’re seeing perhaps the largest US antiwar movement since the invasion of Iraq.
Israel is mounting an indiscriminate assault on Gaza. To stop more deaths of Israelis and Palestinians alike, we must demand an end to the US government’s support for Israeli apartheid and occupation.
Israel is fast turning Gaza into a wasteland, the result of decades of occupation and apartheid. Israeli journalist Amira Hass explains what life was like for Palestinians before the current genocide.
Joe Biden convinced himself he could rescue his legacy by securing Palestinian statehood. His blank check to Israel could now make him the leader who killed it for good.
The assassination of Ismail Haniyeh was part of a long pattern of Israel killing Hamas leaders when they offer cease-fires.
To maintain his hold on power, Benjamin Netanyahu is pursuing a brutal forever war against Palestinians. But the costs aren’t just in human lives: Israel’s economy may not be able to sustain this war.
Last month's deal between Turkey and Israel will do little to help Palestinians in Gaza.
The United States’ strikes on Yemen are threatening to spark a wider regional conflict. To prevent further violence, the US must demand an end to Israel’s criminal assault on Gaza.
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.
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.
Just when we thought we couldn’t see anything more heinous in its genocidal war on Gaza, Israel has plumbed greater depths of savagery by bombing Rafah, killing dozens. When will this madness end?
Today an international group of activists is setting sail for Gaza, hoping to deliver badly needed aid to Palestinians there. The effort follows a similar voyage to breach Israel’s blockade 14 years ago — which the IDF met with deadly force.
Democratic voters increasingly view what Israel is doing in Gaza as genocide. Don’t be surprised if Joe Biden’s support for it tanks his reelection chances.
Over the years, the Israeli historian Avi Shlaim and his fellow “New Historians” have punctured a long series of Zionist myths about the country’s past and present. Now, Shlaim — once a supporter of the Oslo “peace process” — is adding the two-state solution itself to that list of dispelled myths.
The Palestinian general strike of May 18 fits into a much longer history of mobilization by Palestinian workers. From the British colonial years to the present, those struggles have faced harsh repression, but kept a spirit of resistance alive.
The war in Gaza has split Kurdish opinion, marked by often strong hostility to Islamism as well as Zionism. But Kurds’ responses also draw on their experience of statelessness — and point toward a democratic order not based on rival nation-states.
Palestinian children face violence at all turns, yet their hardship is not deemed worthy of attention.
A look back at the subjection of Tasmania shows that while Israel’s settler colonialism is brutal, it’s hardly without precedent.
Since October 7, the US Department of Education has opened at least 40 investigations into K-12 schools for “discrimination based on shared ancestry,” including alleged antisemitism — many of which appear aimed at stifling criticism of Israel.