Mobilizing global support for Gaza’s mental health emergency
A new Gaza Community Mental Health Programme report paints a stark picture of the severe mental health crisis unfolding in Gaza due to the ongoing Israeli genocide.
View ArticleNetanyahu’s speech to Congress will seek to maintain support for genocide
Benjamin Netanyahu will use his upcoming speech to a joint session of Congress to consolidate political support for the genocide in Gaza from both Republicans and Democrats. The leadership of both...
View ArticlePalestinian Christians challenge the World Council of Churches on Gaza
Palestinian Christians are criticizing a World Council of Churches statement for ignoring the context of the October 7 attacks and refusing to call out the unfolding Gaza genocide.
View ArticlePolio and the destruction of Gaza’s health infrastructure
Polio had been eradicated in the Gaza Strip but was detected this past week. While it is unclear how it has suddenly reappeared it is beyond doubt how it’s spreading: Israel's systematic destruction of...
View ArticleRemembering Eman Qamom
My best friend, Eman Qamom, was martyred in December by an Israeli attack. She had told me she didn’t want “to be killed and forgotten.” I am here to remember Eman. I hope she has found peace in a...
View ArticlePalestinian factions strike a reconciliation deal – will this time be any...
The new reconciliation deal between rival Palestinian factions could not come at a more critical time. As Palestinians face the Gaza genocide, the political survival of the Palestinian leadership might...
View ArticleLiving in a nightmare
In Gaza, night is not peaceful. Going to sleep means not knowing if you'll wake up in the morning.
View ArticleCongress applauded the genocide in Gaza, but Netanyahu’s speech showed the...
Benjamin Netanyahu's call for continued support for the Gaza genocide may have received rapturous applause from Congress, but the speech revealed uncertain political terrain for Israel among both...
View ArticleNetanyahu’s willing executioners: how ordinary Israelis became mass murderers
After ten months of relentless genocidal war, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that both the Israeli state and society are partners in the genocide. The picture that emerges is a genocide from...
View ArticleThe real reason Israel is assassinating Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, and why...
Israel’s assassination of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders doesn’t aim to weaken the resistance. Israel’s real motive is to restore the image of military and intelligence superiority in the eyes of the...
View ArticleHarris threatens to further alienate Muslim voters with Shapiro VP pick
Support from some Pennsylvania Muslim leaders for Josh Shapiro has revealed rifts within the community and highlighted Muslim and Arab-American voters’ desire to center Palestinian rights this election.
View ArticleAfrican attitudes to, and solidarity with, Palestine: From the 1940s to...
Kribsoo Diallo reviews African perspectives on Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, the rise and fall of Zionist influence in Africa, and the state of African grassroots solidarity with Palestine.
View ArticleLiving remotely: an Palestinian expatriate’s struggle from Gaza to Beirut
The sun rises over Beirut and the city stirs to life. For many, it's a new day filled with promise and potential, maybe hope or pain. But for me, a Gaza-born expatriate who spent 25 years in Gaza, each...
View ArticleThe fallout from Israel’s assassination of Ismail Haniyeh demonstrates the...
The Biden administration wants a ceasefire deal but is not prepared to put pressure on Israel to make it happen. Netanyahu knows this and is pushing forward with the genocide of the Palestinians, and...
View ArticleIsraeli rape of detainees is the result of a society that sees Palestinians...
Israel has claimed that it is fighting “human animals” in Gaza. But now, Israeli society's own monstrous sadism, deriving from a deep hate of Palestinians, is on display for the rest of the world to see.
View ArticleThe World Court has ended the Oslo ruse
The ICJ’s ruling that international law protects the rights of Palestinians, and they need not negotiate with their oppressors for those rights, dealt a definitive blow to decades of Western efforts to...
View ArticlePromising signs that Palestine advocacy is building political power in...
The Israel lobby built its strength on the fact that its opposition was politically weak. Kamala Harris's choice of Tim Walz over Josh Shapiro and the massive cost it took to defeat Jamaal Bowman and...
View ArticleEnd Israel’s system of economic apartheid in Palestine
Often overlooked, Israel's intentional system of economically fragmenting and dispossessing Palestinians is an essential part of its plan to ethnically cleanse the land and deny Palestinian liberation.
View ArticleCampus protests and the battle over ethical universalism
The campus protests for Gaza and their critics both claim to be upholding universal human rights. But only the protesters are upholding a true ethical universalism, while their critics are engaged in a...
View Article‘Maybe a war will lessen the pressure on Gaza’: Dispatch from Beirut
During the past week, Israeli jets have been flying very low over Lebanon, a constant reminder of the looming threat of war. "If they want to wage war on us, so be it. Perhaps it could lessen the...
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