Five years ago today, Palestinians in Gaza launched the Great March of Return. Israel brutally suppressed the demonstrations, leaving many of its participants amputated. But those who joined the March would do it all over again.
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Benjamin Netanyahu temporarily halted reforms he sought to make to Israel’s judicial system, but critics say Palestinians will pay the ultimate price as the far-right continues to consolidate power.
It has never been politically safer to be “tough” on Israel, but so far the Biden administration is working overtime to avoid a diplomatic crisis with Israel.
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Five years ago today, Palestinians in Gaza launched the Great March of Return. Israel brutally suppressed the demonstrations, leaving many of its participants amputated. But those who joined the March would do it all over again.
The pro-Israel group StandWithUs accused GWU professor Lara Sheehi of antisemitism. A third-party investigation found the accusations were “inaccurate or taken out of context and misrepresented.”
Benjamin Netanyahu temporarily halted reforms he sought to make to Israel’s judicial system, but critics say Palestinians will pay the ultimate price as the far-right continues to consolidate power.
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On The Brink:
Jenin's Rising Resistance
The Israeli campaign to quash armed resistance in the West Bank continues to intensify. However, a new generation of fighters says they will continue to resist due to the reality of living under occupation.
It has never been politically safer to be “tough” on Israel, but so far the Biden administration is working overtime to avoid a diplomatic crisis with Israel.
The protests roiling Israel represent a struggle over its future. The traditional elite is in an existential fight to maintain power, while the ascendant religious-nationalist majority seeks to redefine the state.
Since entering office, Israel’s new government has dramatically increased the repression of Palestinian prisoners, moves which reflect its hostile agenda toward Palestinians as a whole.
After doing all he can to avoid confronting Netanyahu, Joe Biden called on him to halt judicial overhaul and said he’s not invited to Washington. Biden knows major Jewish groups have his back.
For the Palestinian people to achieve justice, Zionism must be dismantled. And for Jewish Israelis to achieve peace, we too must free ourselves from this project of Jewish supremacy.
Students across Britain are taking action as part of the 17th international Israeli Apartheid Week as the UK government increases its repression of Palestine activism.
The recent high-profile cases of Kenneth Roth and Jim Cavallaro were just the latest anti-Palestinian actions taken against students and scholars who challenge Israeli settler-colonialism.
Eِِِxcluding Palestinian voices and firing journalists who want to speak out about Israeli apartheid makes the mainstream media complicit in Israel’s “system of silencing.”
Netanyahu once said that America is “a thing that you can move, very easily.” But maybe those days are over? The media are finally paying attention.
The U.S. media has missed one key part of the anti-Netanyahu protest story: the shockingly different ways Israeli police and military treat Jewish and Palestinian protests.
We hear about the 12th annual Students for Justice in Palestine conference, and the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta and its connection to the Palestine solidarity movement.
Israeli demonstrations have been Zionist-only. If Israeli liberals cannot make common cause with Palestinians, they will go extinct and have only themselves to blame. They will have thrown in with a rampaging society in the name of Jewish supremacy.
If one wonders how the nickels, dimes, and dollars collected in churches across the U.S. shape politics in Congress and Israel, director Maya Zinshtein’s film, ‘Til Kingdom Come, is required viewing.
Susan Abulhawa responds to the campaign to ban her from the 2023 Adelaide Writers’ Week festival.
Veteran journalist Deiaa Haj Yahia explains the ongoing crisis of violent crime in Palestinian communities inside Israel.
