Palestine

Palestine

My Name is Mahmoud Khalil and I Am a Political Prisoner

A letter dictated by Mahmoud Khalil over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana.

Mahmoud Khalil

PalestineCultureComics

A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji al-Ali

With urgency and wit, this political art remains a bastion for Palestinian liberation and as pertinent as ever.

In These Times Editors

Palestine

A Love Letter to the Student Movement

Repression of the Palestine movement is now here, so what must be done? Four practical steps for the next phase.

Carrie Zaremba

Palestine

As ICE Jails Palestinian Protester, Universities Must Commit to Academic Freedom

Universities may sow their own demise if they continue to aid the suppression of pro-Palestine campus movements.

Heba Gowayed and Jessica Halliday Hardie

Palestine

My Search For Refaat Alareer’s Body

"I never imagined that searching for a friend’s body would become part of my daily routine for more than two weeks."

Asem Alnabih

PalestinePolitics

Sanders Moves to Block Weapons Sales to Israel

The Vermont Senator filed resolutions that would block $8.5 billion worth of offensive weapons from being used in the genocide of Palestinians.

Sharon Zhang

PalestineCulture

Poetry as a Unifying Weapon

There is no breath, no poem long enough to say the solidarity we, Black American people, feel ancestrally for our brothers and sisters in Palestine.

Julia Wright

Palestine

Trump's Executive Order Targets Pro-Palestine Students And Free Speech on Campuses

"It's a dangerous authoritarian attempt to scare students from speaking out against Israel's genocide in Gaza by threatening them with prosecution and even deportation for non-citizens. It really strikes at the heart of students’ free speech rights."

Fatima Jalloh and Jane Houseal

PalestineInterview

Our Fight Doesn’t End at Cease-Fire

A conversation with pro-Palestine organizers looking towards the next phase of struggle: disrupting the flow of U.S. weapons to Israel.

Nashwa Bawab

ViewpointPalestine

The Gaza Cease-fire Is a Major Step—But the Fight for Palestine Must Continue

After 15 months of carnage, a cease-fire agreement offers a desperately needed respite. There are many obstacles, yet the movement to stop U.S. support for Israel goes on.

Phyllis Bennis and Khury Petersen-Smith

ViewpointPalestine

A Cease-fire in Gaza: Healing Wounds Will Take Years—and Much More

A cease-fire in Gaza is hope, and hope will help Gaza heal and rebuild.

Yousef Aljamal

ViewpointPalestine

Has the Fire Ceased?

We will not stop until Palestine is free.

Eman Abdelhadi

Palestine

The Unseen Battle for Food in Gaza

"We are not only suffering from bombs, starvation is used as a weapon against Gazans."

Iman Al-Haj

PalestineDispatch

Two Parties, One Genocide

Palestinians in Chicago reflect on a year of genocide and an election where Democrats supported policies that fuel violence against them while asking for their votes.

Nashwa Bawab

ViewpointPalestineElection 2024

The Election Is Over and the Bombs Are Still Dropping. We Have to Stop Them.

We must recommit to the fight for an arms embargo.

Saqib Bhatti

ViewpointPalestineElection 2024

We Resigned Over U.S. Support for Genocide—But Are Voting for Harris

"We are not defending the two-party system whose shortcomings are blindingly clear—but in this election, if Kamala Harris loses, then Donald Trump wins."

Lily Greenberg Call and Harrison Mann

PalestineElection 2024Video

Video: Can Kamala Harris Find Voters In Dearborn?

"People here have families that are originally from the exact towns and villages that are being bombed with American weapons."

Afeef Nessouli

PalestineElection 2024

Pro-Palestine Student Activists at HBCUs Are Divided on How to Vote

In North Carolina and Georgia, some say they are casting a vote to save our democracy while others say they are withholding theirs to save the world.

Alexis Wray

ViewpointPalestineElection 2024

It's Not Too Late for Kamala Harris to Earn Votes Like Mine

Harris can win thousands of votes across the country, including in key swing states, by calling for an arms embargo.

Saqib Bhatti

PalestineElection 2024

Uncommitted Co-Founder Says Trump Is "Preying on the Pain of Arab and Muslim American Voters"

Abbas Alawieh says he will vote for Harris "as a Democratic strategist and as someone who’s in a swing state," but is "still terrified by the vacuum that she’s leaving."

In These Times Staff

PalestineElection 2024

Project for the Old American Century

What Harris’ embrace of the Cheneys tells us about Democrats’ worldview.

Alberto Toscano

ViewpointPalestine

“The Children,” James Baldwin Wrote, “Are Always Ours, Every Single One of Them"

Saqib Bhatti laments the unbearable task of parenting during genocide—from the United States to Gaza.

Saqib Bhatti

ViewpointPalestine

Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Challenging the Cognitive Dissonance of Pro-Israel Liberalism

Coates is taking critiques of Zionism into the mainstream, chipping away at Israel’s increasingly dubious liberal self-image.

Adam Johnson

ViewpointPalestine

Eric Adams Allegedly Took Bribes to Erase the Genocide That Killed My Ancestors

The mayor’s silence on the Armenian genocide mirrors his refusal to condemn Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Jesse Hagopian