Israel & Palestine

“We Need You to Stand Up”: Bernie Sanders’ Former Staffers Call on Him to Back Cease-Fire in Palestine and Israel

Hundreds of former staffers of the democratic socialist senator have signed a letter urging him to back a peaceful resolution to the war in Palestine.

Eloise Goldsmith

The Democratic Party Has an Israel Problem. These Progressives Are Trying to Solve It.

As the brutal attacks on Gaza continue, cracks are beginning to show in the Democratic Party’s unequivocal fealty to Israel.

Daphna Thier

Starbucks Is Exploiting the Violence in Gaza and Israel to Attack Its Union

The president of Workers United writes that Starbucks is endangering its own employees and appears to even endorse a boycott of its own stores. “I am afraid,” said one worker. “My mom doesn’t want me to go to work.”

Lynne Fox

The Mounting Onslaught of Censorship and Suppression

"A failure to stop this new McCarthyism would be to surrender to the forces of reaction that tragically are carrying the day."

Dylan Saba

A group of protestors wearing all-black stand in the middle of a road. They hold a large black banner that says "CEASEFIRE" in white writing.

Unions and Workers Are Increasingly Demanding a Cease-Fire and an End to Gaza Siege

“The rising escalation of war and arms sales doesn't serve the interests of workers anywhere.”

Luis Feliz Leon and Alexandra Bradbury

The U.S. Labor Voices Opposing Military Aid to Israel

“U.S. military aid going in is pouring gasoline onto a fire. It encourages that there be military solutions, and military solutions will get more people killed.”

Jeff Schuhrke and Sarah Lazare

Israeli Apartheid Is at the Heart of the Brutality in Gaza and Israel

The only answer to the horrifying violence is to change the conditions from which it sprang. The first step is an immediate cease-fire.

Phyllis Bennis

"We Call It a Policy of Slow Killing”: Why so Many Called for the Release of Walid Daqqah

Daqqah, a Palestinian who spent almost four decades in an Israeli prison, served his full sentence but it was extended. He was terminally ill and denied adequate care. News broke of his death on April 7. These are some of his writings.

Dalia Taha and Walid Daqqah

From Palestine to the Black South, Abolition Journalism is Exposing Injustice

Scalawag editor-in-chief, Sherronda J. Brown, on love, Palestine and the liberatory promise of horror

Natascha Elena Uhlmann

Depicted is an oil on canvas painting, where a mother is shown embracing her son. Her head leans to the right and lies on top of his, which leans to the left.

Art Against Occupation

Malak Mattar's London show examines the U.K.' s role in Palestinian colonization.

Matt A. Hanson

In The Face of Lifelong Terror, Gaza Speaks Truth To Power

A Palestinian asked how many deaths will be enough. He was recently killed.

Refaat Alareer