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U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs of Anti-Zionists

A months-long investigation found even the smallest hints of dissent are often met with unemployment.

Shane Burley

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June Jordan on Palestine and American Delusions

In these excerpts of "Life After Lebanon" and "Waking Up in the Middle of Some American Dreams," June Jordan insists on the ever-present need for coalition building across difference.

Sherell Barbee and June Jordan

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"We Can’t Arrest Our Way to Liberation"

After the Palestinian Nabala Cafe was attacked, owner Eyad Zeid decided not to turn to police. Instead, he found strength and support in community.

Eyad Zeid

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New York Times Repeats U.S. Government’s Evidence-Free Claim That Gaza Protests Are Part of Iranian Plot

Where is the actual evidence that Iranian operatives “posing as students” are helping organize and fund campus protests over the war on Gaza?

Adam Johnson

ViewpointPalestineElection 2024

The Right Is Increasingly Exploiting the Horror of Genocide

Right-wing operatives are channeling the genocide in Gaza into mainstream antisemitism.

Ben Lorber

ViewpointPalestineDispatch

Displaced in Gaza: Dispatches

We share their dreams and aspirations, to tell them that there will be a day when the Palestinian people will live in freedom and dignity.

Yousef Aljamal

ViewpointPalestineElection 2024

The Democratic Convention Failed the Palestine Movement

The Uncommitted movement made modest demands on the Democratic Party toward ending the agony in Gaza, and the party rejected them. But their demands cannot be ignored by Democratic power brokers forever.

Hadas Thier

PalestineElection 2024

Spurned by the DNC, the Uncommitted Movement Staged a Sit-in

The Democratic Party refused the request to allow a short, vetted speech by a Palestinian on the main stage.

Eman Abdelhadi

ViewpointPalestineElection 2024

Genocide and the English Language

The disjunction between our political language and political reality reveals the vacuum of thought in the U.S. foreign policy establishment.

Alberto Toscano

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It's Not a Question. To Win in November, Harris Needs to Break From Biden and Trump on Gaza.

Harris must immediately break from disastrous policies that put the demands of warmongers and war profiteers over human rights and justice.

Ramah Kudaimi

ViewpointPalestineElection 2024

Democrats Shouldn't Isolate Abortion Access

Democratic leaders appear set on siloing abortion access from other critical issues—including the genocide in Gaza. That’s a mistake.

Anne Rumberger

ViewpointPalestineElection 2024

"And Now They Want Our Votes"

Eman Abdelhadi's speech from the "Bodies Outside of Unjust Laws" demonstration on Aug. 18 in Chicago.

Eman Abdelhadi

FeaturePalestineElection 2024

How to Listen to Michigan at the DNC in Chicago

From Dearborn to Benton Harbor, working people in the Great Lakes State are building progressive power. One of the efforts that emerged transformed into the Uncommitted national movement.

Eman Abdelhadi

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The Grave Cost of Funding Israel's War Machine

To end U.S. support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, cold, hard calculations about war spending versus domestic programs could have greater resonance in an election year.

Sonali Kolhatkar

LaborViewpointPalestine

Why Is the UAW’s Federal Monitor Involving Himself in the Union’s Stance on Gaza?

The monitor tasked with overseeing the union’s compliance with a federal consent decree is inappropriately challenging the union’s call for a cease-fire in Gaza.

Andy Levin and Sanjukta Paul

LaborViewpointPalestine

Unions Demanding an End to Israel Military Aid Is a Welcome Escalation

While the Biden administration uses rhetorical tricks and delay tactics, labor unions are pressuring the White House to end the war by embracing an increasingly popular demand: “not one more bomb.”

Adam Johnson

ViewpointPalestineElection 2024

An Untold History of Joe Biden's Support for Israel

Documents reviewed in Delaware and New York give insight into how, starting early in Biden's political career, his positions appear to have significantly changed as his relationships strengthened with a growing pro-Israel lobby.

Branko Marcetic

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The Congressional Black Caucus Should Boycott Netanyahu's Speech to Congress

Many Black members of Congress boycotted Netanyahu’s speech to Congress in 2015. They should do it again to protest the Israeli-led genocide in Gaza.

Khury Petersen-Smith

ViewpointPalestineElection 2024

Biden, Harris, Gaza and the Student Debt Smoke Screen

President Biden has made appearances to be aligned with left-wing activists on student debt cancelation while holding back on his power to deliver it. How will Vice President Harris now approach the issue?

Braxton Brewington and Yousef Aljamal

LaborPalestine

We Can’t Let the Press Launder Israel’s War

A coalition of movement journalism organizations has come together to form Media Against Apartheid and Displacement, which sets out to uplift urgent reporting on the genocide.

Lara Witt and Maya Schenwar

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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: We Must Understand Israel as a Settler-Colonial State

"Just as the U.S. celebrates itself as 'a nation of immigrants,' Zionists celebrated Palestine as a land without people for a people without land."

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

FeaturePalestineElection 2024

The Crackdown on Campus Protests is Just Beginning

At least a dozen colleges and universities have changed their policies to make it harder to protest the war on Gaza. More may follow this summer.

Adam Federman

LaborViewpointPalestine

Students, Gaza and a New Vision of Safety

"We Keep Us Safe" is more than a slogan at student encampments. It inspires an avenue to protection and community that undercuts a security state bolstered by genocide—and can show us all a path forward.

Sarah Jaffe

Palestine

The Sanctuary Movement Put U.S. Foreign Policy on Trial

What can it teach our movements today?

Natascha Elena Uhlmann