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LaborIsrael & Palestine

The Labor Movement's History of Backing Israel—and the Changing Climate Amid the War on Gaza

The U.S. labor movement has a decades-long history of supporting Israel wholeheartedly, punctuated by moments of pro-Palestine actions by rank-and-file activists. As Israel wages its war on Gaza, those pro-Palestine moments are becoming increasingly common.

Jeff Schuhrke

Hundreds of people of different backgrounds stand shoulder to shoulder in a crowd.

ViewpointIsrael & PalestineThe Right-Wing Issue

The Right's Persecution of Palestine Supporters Looks a Lot Like a New Red Scare

Workers have been fired. Students have lost job offers. Activists have been harassed. But you can’t bully a movement into silence.

Nashwa Bawab

A person holds up a sign that reads "JEWS SAY: CEASEFIRE NOW". Behind them is another sign that reads "NO TO WAR NO TO APARTHEID". The U.S. Capitol Building is seen in the background, behind the crowd of protestors.

ViewpointIsrael & Palestine

Israel’s Violence Will Never Bring “Safety” to Anyone, Including Jews

We need to confront the violence of Israel’s ethnonationalist militarism.

Sarah Lazare and Maya Schenwar

DispatchClimate

Pollution is Displacing Black Midwesterners. White Homeowners are Profiting.

Black people in the Midwest are 33% more likely to receive lung cancer diagnoses than those living in the country's 38 other states.

Adam Mahoney

LaborInterviewPodcastIsrael & Palestine

The New York Supreme Court Just Blocked a Union From Voting on a Pro-Palestine Resolution

In a seemingly unprecedented move, the NY Supreme Court just granted a temporary restraining order preventing members of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys – UAW Local 2325 from even voting on a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Maximillian Alvarez

CultureEn EspañolIsrael & Palestine

Carta de Gaza: "El canto de los pájaros en un momento; los misiles al siguiente."

"Esto es Gaza, una existencia amarga, en la que cada día nos acercamos más al borde del abismo."

Eman Ashraf Alhaj Ali

ViewpointThe Right-Wing Issue

The Rise of the Far Right Is a Global Phenomenon

Facing a planetary wave of far-right authoritarianism, from Italy’s Giorgia Meloni to Argentina’s Javier Milei, the Left must learn to “organize despair.”

Alberto Toscano

ViewpointIsrael & Palestine

The ADL Is Making It Less Safe to Be a Progressive Jew

In our topsy-turvy reality, the organization most associated with fighting antisemitism, the Anti-Defamation League, has cast its lot with antisemites.

Ben Lorber

ViewpointIsrael & Palestine

Celebrated Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha Reportedly Seized in Gaza

One may wonder why Israel would kidnap a poet. The answer, though painful, is simple. In its genocidal war against Palestinians, Israel seeks to erase not only Palestinian lives but also their culture and heritage.

Jehad Abusalim