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Palestine’s Resistance Has Already Won In Gaza

The Notion Of Israel’s Invincibility Was Always A Sham. By Susan Abulhawa, The Electronic Intifada [Excerpts] No matter the outcome of Israel’s genocidal invasion of Gaza, the Palestinian resistance fighters have already won. They were victorious from that first day when they executed a successful military raid of Israeli targets. It was a devastating blow to Israel’s very presence in the world, which depends heavily on military prestige and ability to strike [...]

By |2023-12-03T15:34:58-05:00December 3rd, 2023|Humanism & FreeThought, In Memoriam, Iran, Palestine, Palestinian, Peace, Peace and War, Peace Vigils|0 Comments
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War Against the Fleas

© 2023 by Mumia Abu-Jamal Perhaps Israel’s most respected statesman, former diplomat, Abba Eban, once said, “Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its right to exist.” That was then, in 1981. The now is a new age, a new era. A time of Israel’s swing to the far right wing. It is once again a time of war, but to say it’s a war of Hamas versus Israel is somewhat disingenuous. [...]

By |2023-12-03T15:20:09-05:00December 3rd, 2023|Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Commentary, Justice/Injustice, Movements, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Palestine, Palestinian, Peace and War|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner: Because of Us

Because of Us by Em Berry / @skinhungry   This morning I learned The English word gauze (finely woven medical cloth) Comes from the Arabic word […] Ghazza Because Gazans have been skilled weavers for centuries   I wondered then   how many of our wounds have been dressed because of them   and how many of theirs have been left open because of us   Emily Berry was born in London [...]

By |2023-12-03T15:12:27-05:00December 3rd, 2023|Historical, Palestine, Palestinian, Peace and War, Poetry Corner|0 Comments
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Can US Threats Prevent a Wider War in the Middle East?

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies While Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has been frantically shuttling around the Middle East trying to stop the Israeli con b flict in Gaza from exploding into a regional war, the United States has also sent two aircraft carrier strike groups, a Marine Expeditionary Unit and 1,200 extra troops to the Middle East as a “deterrent.” In plain language, the United States is threatening [...]

By |2023-12-03T14:57:55-05:00December 3rd, 2023|Africa, Asia, Biden, Commentary, Historical, Iran, Iraq, Israel and Palestine, Medea Benjamin, National Security, News, Nicolas Davies, Palestine, Palestinian, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Security and Insecurity, Syria, War|0 Comments
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Free, Free Palestine! Stop the Genocide – Cease Fire Now -End the Occupation

Israeli Intelligence, Think Tank Lay Out Plans for Ethnically Cleansing Gaza by Robert Inlakesh https://www.palestinechronicle.com/leaked-documents-israeli-intelligence-think-tank-lay-out-plans-for-ethnically-cleansing-gaza/ On the first day of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, offered a provocative warning to some 2.3 million civilians in the besieged coastal enclave: “Leave now”, he said, knowing that the people were trapped and could not. However, as time goes on and documents are leaked, there appears to be a [...]

By |2023-11-08T02:30:13-05:00November 8th, 2023|Activism, Drones, Indigenous, Iran, Israel and Palestine, Justice/Injustice, Movements, National Security, News, Palestine, Palestinian, Peace, Politics, Protests and Rallies, Security and Insecurity|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner: Palestine’s Trail Of Tears

Palestine's Trail Of Tears (2023) by Kevin ''Rashid'' Johnson   Joe Biden pronounced Amerika stands with Israel; that the US supports genocidal plans is real   cuz it still exists as a land built by exterminating natives and Afrikans killed by   being kidnapped and forcibly enslaved like the survivors of the holocaust we're amazed   that any Blacks and Indians are left at all worse still Israel has border walls   [...]

By |2023-11-08T02:24:19-05:00November 8th, 2023|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Biden, Human Rights, Indigenous Nations, Ken Rashid Johnson, Palestine, Palestinian, Peace and War, Protests and Rallies, Solidarity|0 Comments
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US is Isolated in Backing Gaza Massacre

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies [Photo credit: canada talks israel palestine - Life in Gaza under Israeli bombardment.] On Friday, October 27, the nations of the world voted in the UN General Assembly, by a vote of 120 to 14, for an “immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of hostilities” in Gaza. The resolution was sponsored by the government of sometime U.S. ally King Abdullah [...]

By |2023-11-08T02:21:35-05:00November 8th, 2023|Asia, Biden, Commentary, Human Rights, Israel and Palestine, Medea Benjamin, National Security, News, Nicolas Davies, Palestine, Palestinian, Peace, Peace and War, Protests and Rallies, United Nations, War|0 Comments
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Six Tropes to Look Out for That Distort Israel/Palestine Coverage

Lara-Nour Walton [Excerpt] https://fair.org/home/six-tropes-to-look-out-for-that-distort-israel-palestine-coverage/ “This is quite something,” remarked Nadi Abusaada in a May 8 tweet. As many of us have done, the Palestinian academic found himself experimenting with the seemingly boundless powers of OpenAI’s ChatGPT software. But during this activity, he uncovered something disturbing. “I asked @OpenAI whether Palestinians deserve to be free,” he said. The natural-language processing tool responded to Abusaada’s query ambivalently: As an AI language model, I do [...]

By |2023-09-03T16:31:34-05:00September 3rd, 2023|Activism, Historical, Human Rights, Indigenous Nations, Israel and Palestine, News, Palestine, Palestinian, Peace and War|0 Comments
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MA’AN and the Protests for Democracy in Israel

Questions and Answers by WAC-MAAN      The MA'AN Workers Association/Workers Advice Center, based in Israel, fights for worker rights and has joined the protest movement for democracy with the slogan "Without democracy there are no workers' rights". They have spent more than a decade organizing Arab workers in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank as well. More here, in Hebrew: www.wac-maan.org.il MAAN Workers Association joined the Israeli protest movement for democracy [...]

By |2023-06-02T18:26:22-05:00June 2nd, 2023|Israel and Palestine, Movements, News, Palestine, Palestinian, Peace and War, Politics, Security and Insecurity|0 Comments
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Zionism and the Nakba at 75

Zionism and the Nakba by Donna Nevel   As Israel and many of its supporters prepare to celebrate the 75th anniversary of its settler colonial foundaing, and Palestinians mark the anniversary of the Nakba (atastrophe and ethnic cleansing), we are reprinting excerpts from this Jewish critique of Zionism as a contribution to international solidarity with the just struggle to free, free Palestine. See calendar listings for pro-Palestine actions around May 15. The [...]

By |2023-04-29T01:35:30-05:00April 29th, 2023|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Historical, Indigenous Nations, Movements, News, Palestinian, Peace and War, Peace Vigils, Security and Insecurity, United Nations, Veterans, War|0 Comments
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Israel, Rwanda and the African Union

by Ann Garrison, Black Agenda Report Contributing Editor https://blackagendareport.com/israel-africa-0  On February 18, at the annual summit of the African Union, AU security personnel removed an Israeli delegate who had arrived without an invitation. In 2021, the AU granted Israel observer status, but outcry among members led to suspension of the decision and formation of a committee to review it. Israel, with colossal arrogance, sent its envoy, Sharon Bar-Li, to the 2023 annual [...]

By |2023-03-02T01:38:08-05:00March 2nd, 2023|Africa, Ann Garrison, Anti-Racism/Racism, Historical, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Israel and Palestine, Movements, News, Palestine, Palestinian, Peace, Politics, Security and Insecurity, Solidarity, United Nations, War|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner – Questions for “Shomrim” by Leonard Cohen

Questions for Shomrim By Leonard Cohen And will my people build a new Dachau And call it love, Security, Jewish culture For dark-eyed children Burning in the stars Will all our songs screech Like the maddened eagles of the night Until Yiddish, Arabic, Hebrew, and Vietnamese Are a thin thread of blood clawing up the side of Unspeaking steel chambers I know you, Chaverim The lost young summer nights of our childhood [...]

By |2023-03-02T01:31:12-05:00March 2nd, 2023|Anti-Racism/Racism, Human Rights, Movements, Palestine, Palestinian, Peace, Poetry Corner|0 Comments
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