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The Most Important Thing I Teach My Students
Friends, The most important thing I teach my students is to seek out people who disagree with them. That’s because the essence of learning is testing one’s ideas, assumptions, and values. And what...
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Elites in the Global North Are Scared to Talk About Palestine
Israeli bombs continue to fall on Gaza, killing Palestinian civilians with abandon. Al Jazeera published a story about the destruction of 24 hospitals in Gaza, each of them bombed mercilessly by the...
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‘What Happens in Palestine Won’t Stay There’: Rania Khalek On Why Israel Is A...
BT’s Rania Khalek addressed the World Gathering for a Social Alternative in Caracas, Venezuela on why Israel is a threat to humanity.
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Columbia, NYU, The New School…MIT, Tufts, Emerson… Berkeley, Chicago, Chapel...
I went to MIT, class of 1969, so I was a Senior in 1968. It is now 2024 not the late sixties, but rebellion for change is again in the air. I think it is just getting revved up. I can feel it. I’ll bet...
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An Asterisk
“…what happens to your remembrancewill be of your own doing.” ZNetwork.org presents An Asterisk, a poem written and performed by a Z Community member.For Gaza. And for humanity. A note from the...
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More Than 4 Dozen Unions Demand ‘End of Repression’ of Columbia Protests
More than four dozen labor unions across numerous industries on Tuesday signed a letter expressing solidarity with students who have been suspended and arrested in recent days for protesting at...
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I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia. Don’t Believe What You’re Being Told About...
“Reprehensible and dangerous.” “Terrorist sympathizers.” “It’s not 1938 Berlin. It’s 2024, Columbia University, NYC.” The White House, Congressional Republicans, and cable news talking heads would have...
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Handling — and Mishandling — the Iran Nuclear Program
Trump Blew Up the Deal, Can Biden Still Fix It? One, erratic and often unhinged, blew up the U.S.-Iran accord that was the landmark foreign policy achievement of President Obama’s second term. He then...
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Uprising
Dear Z Community, Things are HAPPENING! (Check out our resource list at the bottom of this message.) Unions have been kicking some major boss-butt up and down the South, including a historic victory...
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Carceral Imperialism
“To this day I feel humiliation for what was done to me… The time I spent in Abu Ghraib — it ended my life. I’m only half a human now.” That’s what Abu Ghraib survivor Talib al-Majli had to say about...
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200 Caring People Are Ready to Sail on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza
Morale is running high among the 200 volunteers from all over the world preparing to sail on the freedom flotilla to Gaza. If anyone has doubts about the motivations of the people taking this...
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Our Leaders Seem Determined To Give War A Chance. Their Thirst For Conflict...
The protagonists of 1914 were sleepwalkers, watchful but unseeing, haunted by dreams, yet blind to the reality of the horror they were about to bring into the world.” Christopher Clark’s The...
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Jews Must Raise Voices for Palestine, Oppose “False Idol of Zionism”
Hundreds of protesters were arrested in Brooklyn on Tuesday when Jewish New Yorkers and allies gathered for what they called a “Seder in the Streets to Stop Arming Israel” on the second night of...
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France: University Sciences Po Calls in Police to Break Up Pro-Palestinian...
France’s Sciences Po, one of the country’s top universities, called in police to break up an unauthorised pro-Palestinian encampment on Wednesday, as Israel‘s siege and bombardment of Gaza sparks a...
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Will the Freedom Flotilla Sail to Gaza?
The non-violence training to join the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ships to Gaza has been intense. As hundreds of us from 32 countries gathered in Istanbul, we were briefed about what we might...
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Hundreds Arrested: Students Across U.S. Protest for Palestine as Campus...
Student protests calling for university divestment from Israel and the U.S. arms industry have rocked campuses from coast to coast. The nonviolent protests, which have been characterized as...
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Worse Than You Can Imagine
Governments cannot take big decisions extremely quickly except in the most extreme of circumstances. There are mechanisms in all states that consider policy decisions, weigh them up, involve the...
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The Ideological Coup: How Disciples of Kahane Became the New Face of Israel
Throughout history, fringe religious Zionist parties have had limited success in achieving the kind of electoral victories that would allow them an actual share in the country’s political...
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Police Attack Palestine Labor Activists In Front Of Chicago Labor Notes...
Labor For Palestine held a rally on April 19, 2024 in front of the 2024 Chicago Labor Notes Conference in Chicago. It spilled into the street and police attacked and arrested labor Palestine activists....
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Trump, Genocide, and Profit Seeking Suicide – The Devil Is No Longer In Disguise
What to do. What to do. Consider our times. Do you feel, like I feel, massive confusion at what is happening out there. Even if I confine myself to considering perhaps the three largest current...
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