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The Curious Case of the Freedom Flotilla
The departure of the spectacular “Freedom Flotilla” to Gaza carrying 5,500 tonnes of aid has been postponed (again), because the flag state of the major vessels, Guinea Bissau, has withdrawn their...
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City University of New York Workers Announce Wildcat Sickout After NYPD...
CUNY workers announced a wildcat sickout after NYPD raided City College’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment. It’s the first known job action in the PSC union’s 52-year history. In the evening of Tuesday,...
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American Intifada for Gaza: What Should We Expect?
The mass protests at dozens of US universities cannot be reduced to a stifling and misleading conversation about antisemitism. Thousands of American students across the country are not protesting,...
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“People Could Have Died”: Police Raid UCLA Gaza Protest, Waited as Pro-Israel...
We get an update from the University of California, Los Angeles, where police in riot gear began dismantling a pro-Palestinian encampment early Thursday, using flashbang grenades, rubber bullets and...
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“Workers Have Power”: Thousands Rally in NYC for May Day, Call for Solidarity...
Workers around the world rallied Wednesday to mark May Day, with many calling on the labor movement to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian cause. In New York, Democracy Now! spoke to demonstrators...
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‘Unshocked’: Naomi Klein vs the “ideological shackles of Zionism”
In a conversation with Mehdi for her new contributor segment at Zeteo, called “Unshocked,” Jewish activist, academic, and author Naomi Klein calls for an “exodus from the ideological shackles of...
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Antisemitism: The Big Lie Smearing Campus Protesters
Mainstream journalists and politicians have engaged in a campaign of mass slander against US college students protesting the Gaza genocide. Their “antisemitism’ Big Lie echoes the racist hate campaigns...
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War, Money and Universities
Peaceful protest, violent response – that says it all. Human politics – from global to local – remain mixed with hatred, dominance and . . . well, dehumanization. We’ve organized ourselves across the...
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A War Against Humanity Itself
Amidst the ongoing, unfathomable slaughter, hunger, maiming, razing in Gaza at the hands of Israel’s “voracious death machine,” its leaders now openly vow “total and utter destruction” by what they...
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The Uncommitted Campaign in New Jersey: The Fight To End Genocide Continues
A sense of urgency loomed over Fatima Mughal, one of the leading organizers behind the uncommitted campaign in New Jersey. Some emotional containment was necessary in the midst of an ongoing genocide....
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House Passes Bill That Defines Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitism”
House lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to approve legislation directing the U.S. Department of Education to consider a dubious definition of antisemitism, despite warnings from Jewish-led...
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How Labor Can Aid the Student Movement for Palestine
Since April 18, over one thousand students, faculty members, and community supporters have been arrested at college campus protests across the country. Despite fierce repression from university...
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Student Demands for Divestment Are Not New
The student-led movement against the genocide in Gaza that is sweeping college campuses across the United States, has made “divestment” from Israel central to its demands. It’s what the “D” in BDS...
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The Pro-Palestine Protests Must Continue Off Campus
In 1968, Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall was occupied by student activists protesting both Columbia’s complicity in the Vietnam War and the university’s plan for a de facto segregated building. It...
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Inside The ‘Student Intifada’: A Roundtable With Campus Organizers
Seven months into Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, a student-led grassroots movement is spreading across the US and beyond, hearkening back to the student protests of the ‘60s that played a pivotal role...
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Opposed to Genocide in Gaza, This Is the Conscience of a Nation Speaking...
Common Dreams Editor’s Note: This is a transcript of remarks made by Professor Rashid Khalidi just outside the gates of Columbia University on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, just hours after NYPD officers...
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UN Food Chief Says Northern Gaza Suffering ‘Full-Blown Famine’
United Nations World Food Program Executive Director Cindy McCain said Friday that Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip are experiencing “full-blown famine” after nearly seven months of Israeli...
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Courageous Students—and You—Should Aim Demands for Peace at Congress This Summer
At many college campuses, students are protesting in opposition to the Biden Administration’s unconditional backing, with weapons and diplomatic cover, of Netanyahu’s continuing serial war crimes...
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Let Israel’s Leaders Get Arrested for War Crimes
One may, of course, reply in the negative to the first question – Israel is not committing any war crimes in Gaza – thereby rendering the rest of the questions superfluous. But how can one answer in...
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Congress’s Antisemitism Bill Is an Insult to Jewish History
Over the past two weeks, student protests over the US-Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza have been met with brutal police crackdowns. Meanwhile, the campus demonstrations have provoked hysteria...
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