Remembering Aaron Bushnell
Aaron Bushnell died by self-immolation in protest of the Gaza genocide a year ago today. His memory should stir a fire in our souls, and force us to evaluate our commitment to a better world.
View ArticleAaron Bushnell and the universe of moral obligation
Through his self-immolation, Aaron Bushnell aligned himself with the Palestinian people and joined them outside the universe of moral obligation of the West. One year later we are still struggling to...
View ArticleI am seeking a discharge from the U.S. military over the Gaza genocide. I was...
I am an active duty Air Force lieutenant looking to gain a conscientious objector discharge due to my horror over the U.S. role in the Gaza genocide. Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation a year ago started...
View ArticleIsrael is stepping up its military aggression across the region. But is it...
In the midst of fragile ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon, Israel is escalating its military aggressions in the region, begging the question: is Israel experiencing a moment of unprecedented force, or is...
View ArticleThe Trump administration has no plan for Gaza other than supporting Israel’s...
As the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire comes to an end it is clear the Trump White House has no substantive policy for the region. Israel is filling that vacuum with perpetual war.
View ArticleThe global community must do more to demand justice for Palestinian...
There is a well-established pattern of Israeli forces targeting Palestinian journalists. We must break this cycle of impunity by transparently investigating Israel’s crimes.
View ArticleProminent St. Louis rabbi’s genocidal, anti-Palestinian statements reflect...
Prominent St. Louis rabbi Jeffrey Abraham recently wrote there are "no 'innocent civilians' in Gaza," and endorsed the belief that Palestinians are "animals." The lack of uproar in the Jewish community...
View ArticleMasafer Yatta is still facing imminent danger of ethnic cleansing
Masafer Yatta, the Palestinian community at the center of the Oscar-winning film 'No Other Land', is still at imminent risk of forcible displacement. An activist from the community writes about the...
View ArticleRamadan in Gaza: painful memories of the past, and a lingering hope for the...
For families who lost loved ones, Ramadan is a seat left empty at the Iftar table, and the unbearable weight of being the ones left behind.
View ArticleLiberal Zionism steals the show at the Oscars
“No Other Land” won a well-deserved Oscar, but co-director Yuval Abraham’s speech epitomized liberal Zionist hasbara, centering the needs of Israelis over Palestinian freedom, while undermining the...
View ArticleManifest Destiny and Zionism, a legacy of ethnic cleansing
When Donald Trump proposed turning Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East” by forcefully removing its indigenous Palestinian population, he was not introducing a new idea but following an American...
View ArticleSlight rift between Trump and Netanyahu leaves opening for Arab states to...
While Israel and the United States are working together on a plan for Gaza, they have slightly different interests. This gap is opening space for regional Arab leaders to propose an alternative vision...
View ArticleMaking the bloom a desert
Israel's founding myth of "making the desert bloom" could only work if it eliminated all traces of the society that came before it. That's why Zionism has always sought to erase the Palestinian people,...
View ArticleThe fabricated panic over antisemitism in the U.S. medical community conceals...
False charges of antisemitism in the U.S. healthcare community are spreading anti-Palestinian racism and doing irreparable harm to our work and obligation as healers.
View ArticleWhen speaking up for Palestine becomes a crime
The fight to free Mahmoud Khalil is not merely about preserving First Amendment rights, it is about whether we will allow our government to criminalize resistance to its complicity in human rights...
View Article‘We’re not an agent of Israel’: Unpacking the growing daylight between the...
The Trump administration’s direct negotiations with Hamas have broken precedent and angered Israel. Envoy Adam Boehler defended them to CNN saying the U.S. is “not an agent of Israel,” but how much...
View ArticleSuspended for Pro-Palestine Speech: My statement on Yale Law School’s embrace...
Helyeh Doutaghi was placed on leave by Yale Law School after being falsely accused of “terrorism” over her support for Palestine. She says her case reflects the new era of Zionist McCarthyism and that...
View ArticleMarco Rubio’s diplomatic attack on South Africa is punishment for standing up...
The Trump administration's extraordinary and unprecedented move to effectively expel South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool was done for one reason: South Africa had the audacity to hold Israel...
View ArticleThe ADL’s war on socially conscious investing is in service to Israel and the...
Early this year investment research firm Morningstar caved to a multi-year ADL pressure campaign and exempted Israel from its socially responsible investing ratings. This success in exempting Israel...
View ArticleMiami Beach mayor’s censorship of ‘No Other Land’ is yet another...
Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner's call to strip a local movie theater's funding and lease over showing the film "No Other Land" is just the latest authoritarian example of how the U.S. government is...
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