The Wretched of Palestine: Frantz Fanon Diagnosed the Pathology of...
“The colonized took up arms not only because they were dying of hunger and witnessing the disintegration of their society,” wrote the Frantz Fanon in his incendiary book The Wretched of the Earth. “But...
View ArticleHow Israel Facilitated the Guatemalan Genocide
It was on the streets of Guatemala City in 1987 that I began awakening to Israel’s partnership with the United States in facilitating genocide. Today we are “seeing genocide” — a decades-long...
View ArticleLabor’s 2024 Political Dilemma
As the Israeli assault on Gaza continues moving into ever-more harrowing phases of death and displacement, progressive organizing around the 2024 election and domestic criticism of President Joe...
View ArticleBombs Away!
I turned on my computer this morning and was greeted by this headline in the Washington Post: “Six months into Gaza war, Biden confronts the limits of U.S. leverage.” It was all I could do to keep from...
View ArticleLanguage in the War on Gaza
Israel’s political and military leaders have produced so many outright lies regarding Gaza and Hamas that it might seem there is no point in wasting one’s breath on them. Consider the following...
View ArticleNicaragua Sues Germany at Int’l Court of Justice to Halt Weapons to a...
Nicaragua’s opposition online newspaper, La Prensa , reported Monday that proceedings began at the International Court of Justice in Managua’s complaint against Germany for abetting Israeli genocide...
View Article“Killing People Around the Clock”: Dr. Mustafa Barghouti & Muhammad Shehada...
Israel’s war on Gaza hit the six-month mark on Sunday, a grim milestone. Over 33,100 Palestinians have been killed, including 14,000 children. Nearly 76,000 have been injured, and tens of thousands are...
View ArticleThe Many Ways Canada Could Send A Message To Israel
In a first, Parliament spent a full day debating a motion on the Israel/Palestine conflict. The March 18 opposition day motion presented by the social democratic NDP called for Canada to recognize...
View ArticleArmenia’s Escape From Isolation Lies Through Georgia
For the second time this year, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met with his Georgian counterpart on March 24. The meeting, held in Armenia’s capital of Yerevan, saw both leaders reaffirming...
View ArticleIsrael’s Ultimate Goal Is to Make Gaza Unfit for Human Habitation
President Biden called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies in Gaza a “mistake” and urged Israel to call for a temporary ceasefire to allow in more aid in a televised interview on...
View ArticleThese Stunning Images Show Palestinian Life Before the Nakba
Review of Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba edited by Teresa Aranguren and Sandra Barrilaro; foreword by Mohammed El-Kurd (Haymarket, 2024) The photograph almost...
View ArticleA Victory For Anti-Zionists In The UK
On February 5, the Bristol Employment Tribunal handed down a judgement [PDF] that I had long been waiting for. It ruled that my October 2021 sacking from Bristol University, where I’ve been working as...
View ArticleIsrael’s Killing Of Aid Workers Is No Accident. It’s Part Of The Plan To...
The isolation of Gaza is almost complete. The laws of war have been torn up and the enclave is now completely at Israel’s mercy After six months – and many tens of thousands of dead and maimed...
View ArticleThe “State Of Palestine” Between Liquidating The Cause And Continuing The...
In the face of the current catastrophe that exceeds the 1948 Nakba in awfulness, atrocity, lethality, destruction and displacement, the “Palestinian Authority” (PA) has come up from Ramallah with an...
View ArticleKilling Humanitarian Workers as a Strategy: Israel’s Endgame in Gaza
Israel described its clearly deliberate killing of seven humanitarian aid workers on April 1 as a “grave mistake”, a “tragic event” that “happens in war”. Israel is, obviously, lying. This entire...
View ArticleBella Ciao, Bella Ciao… Hope Comes from the Young for a World-Weary Socialist
An Invitation and a Conundrum! When the announcement and the invitation reached my inbox, I read it in a state of contained excitement. The Academy of Democratic Modernity (ADM) had invited me (and...
View ArticleZionism Killed the Jewish-Muslim World
Born in Israel, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, a filmmaker, curator, and academic, rejects the identity of Israeli. Before becoming an Israeli at age nineteen, her mother was simply a Palestinian Jew. For much...
View ArticleState Department Has Seen Historic Amount of Internal Dissent Over Gaza
The State Department is seeing a potentially historic amount of internal defection over the Biden administration’s policies on Gaza, with at least nine dissent memos and two high-profile resignations...
View ArticleTikTok Exposed Youth to Genocide in Gaza — Is That Why Electeds Want It Banned?
On March 13, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act by an overwhelming 352 to 65 margin. If legislated, it would ban the...
View ArticlePalestine Congress: Yanis Varoufakis’ Banned Speech
Friends, Congratulations, and heartfelt thanks, for being here, despite the threats, despite the ironclad police outside this venue, despite the panoply of the German press, despite the German state,...
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