As we sit down to Thanksgiving feasts, people in Gaza struggle to find enough food to stay alive. What we eat in a day is likely what you’re able to find in Gaza in a week.
Ever since October 7, Israeli prison authorities have unleashed a brutal campaign of repression against Palestinian prisoners, including severe beatings, humiliation, and the deprivation of food, health care, and basic amenities.
The Anti-Defamation League’s call for the FBI and IRS to surveil, investigate, and possibly prosecute student activists is a new level in its McCarthyite campaign to silence any and all criticism of Israel.
I have known the Tamimi family for 13 years and have seen how Israel systematically targets non-violent activist and movements. Ahed and Bassem Tamami are currently being detained because they stand for Palestinian freedom.
Despite their mandate to “do no harm” and advocate for the health of individuals and communities around the world, it is clear that U.S. public health institutions are complicit in the genocide in Gaza.
Since October 7, there have been five elements that indicate we may be seeing a paradigm shift in the hundred years’ war waged against the Palestinian people.
The heart of the American liberal aches for fairness in all things yet responds to every invocation of Palestinian freedom with excuses. Luckily, progress has never relied on a liberal’s courage to recognize that change is necessary.
Slogans are never just statements etched in stone and “From the River to the Sea” is no exception. Its history, use, and the controversy it generates, reflects the liberatory aspirations, and backlash against, the movement for Palestinian freedom.
Too often Palestinians are forced to prove their humanity but last Saturday the atmosphere among the 800,000 people marching in London for a ceasefire and a free Palestine felt something almost like hope.