The City of Cambridge, Massachusetts has the chance to take action against Israeli oppression at its City Council meeting on Monday when it votes on an order to end its contracts with Hewlett Packard.
Israeli provocation inside the Al-Aqsa mosque made the recent fighting in Gaza a war of choice for Israeli leaders. US approval also made it a war of American permission.
Emily Wilder’s firing from the Associated Press exemplifies the system that enables continued US support for Israeli settler-colonial occupation.
Salma Abdelnour Gilman is Lebanese-Christian and her husband is an American Jew who grew up Zionist. They have debated Palestine since their first date, but have finally found a vision for the future they can agree on — equal rights for all.
Over the past three decades, Israel’s main effort to “Judaize” the “mixed cities” inside Israel has been waged through a war of attrition. This has included moving religious settlers into Palestinian communities, as well as using tourism and archeological preservation to take over land. The coexistence model in Israel’s “mixed cities” was always an illusion, and one that the recent protests finally served to smash.
Israeli attacks on Gaza decimated the health sector, which included destroying doctors’ ability to confront COVID-19.
Amira Hass’s charge in Haaretz that Israeli military, as part of its air assault on Gaza, “is wiping out entire Palestinian families on purpose,” cries out for followup by American journalists. So far, no mainstream U.S. media outlet has followed up on her report. Their failure is journalistic malpractice.
On Friday morning, as the dust settled and a sense of calm blanketed the streets of Gaza City, which just hours prior were filled with thousands of people celebrating the ceasefire, Mahmoud al-Qawlaq mustered the courage to return to his neighborhood. “When I stand here and look at what’s in front of me, all I see is loss,” al-Qawlaq tells Mondoweiss. “The loss of my family members, my loved ones, my home, and the loss of my dreams.”
Ed Markey is facing stiff criticism from supporters on his pro-Israel positions. Activists say it reflects the shifting politics on Palestine in the Democratic Party.
Raoul Peck’s “Exterminate All the Brutes” is an awe-inspiring cultural, literary, historical, political and geographic smorgasbord. But to what end?