Susan Abulhawa’s response to PEN America’s complicity with genocide
Read Susan Abulhawa’s scorching letter to the head of PEN America where she takes a blowtorch to the organization’s continued complicity with Israel's genocide in Gaza.
View ArticlePalestine beyond the colonial logic of international law
The colonization of Palestine is not an anomaly in the liberal global order but its most glaring indictment. It exposes the hypocrisy of an international system that decries colonialism while...
View ArticleNetanyahu is using the war on Gaza to consolidate power
Netanyahu is replacing officials in key state positions with his own loyalists in a bid to consolidate power — and he is using the escalating war on Gaza to do it.
View ArticleThe Jewish community cannot center fears about ‘Jewish safety’ while...
Because the Jewish community has not shown the minimal moral capacity to call out genocide I cannot take concern around alleged pro-Palestine antisemitism seriously as it appears to just be a strategy...
View ArticleTrump is playing a dangerous game with Iran
Recent aggressive moves by the Trump administration have clearly been meant to threaten Iran. While this pressure might be an attempt to intimidate Iran into nuclear concessions, the threat of all-out...
View ArticleGaza is a graveyard of the Muslim world’s conscience
Gaza’s blood stains not only the hands of Israel, the U.S., and the West — but also those of 2 billion Muslims who remain silent witnesses.
View ArticleAn ode to Rafah, as Israel orders the city to evacuate once again
Last week Israel ordered the evacuation of Rafah, the very place that has been a refuge for millions of Palestinians, including myself. As I read the news, the memories of my displacement to Rafah came...
View ArticleTrump must continue to move toward Iran talks, even as Netanyahu tries to...
Donald Trump's surprising announcement that talks are starting with Iran gives the White House a pivotal choice: follow pro-Israel hawks calling for a military confrontation with Iran, or chart a...
View ArticleGaza is not Deir Yassin, and it never will be
77 years ago today, my family's history was forever altered by the massacre in Deir Yassin. Because of it, I see everything through the filter of the Nakba — and the Gaza genocide through the lens of...
View ArticleTrump’s Iran talks can succeed if the administration embraces reality rather...
The talks between Iran and the U.S. set to begin today have a chance to succeed if the Trump administration grounds its policy in the realities of Iran's nuclear program, not fearmongering promoted by...
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