It was never about eliminating antisemitism. It was always about silencing Palestine By Patrick Lawrence / Consortium News Some people worth citing this week. They speak of different matters, but when we put all their apples and oranges into a basket we discover they belong together, their bright colors confronting us with a challenge: It is… Read More American Freefall
Editorial After 18 months of slaughter, it is still possible to be shocked by events in Gaza. More than 50,000 people have been killed, according to Palestinian health authorities. More are starving because Israel has cut off aid. The offensive is intensifying again – with 100 children killed or maimed each day since Israel resumed… Read More Israel’s killing of paramedics: a new atrocity in an unending conflict
NB: The lecherous drunkard Hegseth recently said ‘Zionism & Americanism are the front lines of Western civilisation and freedom in our world today.‘ If that is so, both are doomed, and will take ‘western civilisation’ crashing down with them. Israel and the USA now stand forth as the greatest danger to humanity; led by pathological… Read More Top 5 Ways Netanyahu kept Hamas in Power
Dr Ramzy Baroud Explaining Arab political failure to challenge Israel through traditional analysis—such as disunity, general weakness, and a failure to prioritize Palestine—does not capture the full picture. The idea that Israel is brutalizing Palestinians simply because the Arabs are too weak to challenge the Benjamin Netanyahu government—or any government—implies that, in theory, Arab regimes… Read More Arab Failures: The Unspoken Complicity in Israel’s Genocide
Rasha Abou jalal GAZA CITY—Wael al-Masri sits on the rubble of a demolished building watching his teenage sons struggle to secure a plastic sheet to create some kind of meager shelter. Amid Israel’s resumption of its scorched earth campaign that began on March 18, the 52 year-old was forced to flee with his family from… Read More Israel’s Systematic Destruction of Life Essentials in Gaza Has Forced Palestinians into a Hunt for Survival
Mahmoud Khalil, who has been detained and targeted for deportation by the Trump administration for speaking out about the atrocities in Gaza, dictated a letter to the public from his detention cell in Louisiana. Jacobin publishes the letter here in full. Mahmoud Khalil during a press briefing at Columbia University in New York City on June… Read More Mahmoud Khalil’s Letter From an ICE Detention Center
Alice Speri Last week, Columbia University announced that it would cave to demands by the Trump administration and adopt sweeping measures against pro-Palestinian activity on campus, including new restrictions on protest and the takeover of an academic department from faculty control. The news sent shock waves across higher education institutions nationwide for what appeared a stunning capitulation to attacks… Read More ‘Canary in the coalmine of totalitarianism’: how Columbia went from a home for Edward Said to a punching bag for Trump
Entire generations of families wiped out during deadly attacks on Tuesday, as Israel appeared to deliberately target suhoor meal during Ramadan By Rayhan Uddin Published date: 19 March 2025 17:22 GMT Something that separates Ramadan from other times of the year is a change of routine. That includes waking up for suhoor, a pre-dawn meal which Muslims… Read More 18 March 2025: The day 183 children in Gaza were massacred by Israel
By Sharon Zhang / Truthout Israeli forces killed two Palestinian journalists in Gaza on Monday in separate strikes, bringing the total number of Palestinian journalists killed to at least 208 since October 7, 2023, according to a count by Gaza officials. Hossam Shabat, a journalist for the Al Jazeera Mubasher channel, is pictured. @AnasAlSharif0 via X Mohammad Mansour, a… Read More Israel Kills Journalist Hossam Shabat, Known for His Reports From North Gaza
Jonathan Steele For a man who once told his friend Beatrice Webb that he “disliked the profession of diplomacy”, Ivan Maisky was an unusually brilliant practitioner of the art of being an ambassador. Spending 11 years as Stalin’s representative in London, between 1932 and 1943, Maisky not only had his hands full in trying to… Read More The Maisky Diaries review – Britain’s high and mighty in conversation with Stalin’s man
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