To anyone who says the situation in Palestine is complex just tell them to spend an afternoon in Hebron.

Being a Palestinian-German means carrying a double-burden: the burden of systemic racism, and the burden of Germany’s dark past.

It was not Naftali Bennett or Avigdor Lieberman who finally dethroned Benjamin Netanyahu, but the Palestinians themselves.

Last week activists successfully stopped an Israeli cargo ship from offloading in Oakland. The Volans is a container ship operated by the Haifa-based Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd (ZIM), a company which has been a target of the BDS movement for years. “It shows what’s possible through BDS work when you can actually disrupt international commerce and build worker and community solidarity”: AROC’s Lara Kiswani tells Mondoweiss.

After the Cornell President, Martha Pollack, issued a statement about rising antisemitism “amid ongoing tensions in the Middle East,” evidently at the urging of pro-Israel students who feel “unsafe” in the light of pro-Palestinian demonstrations, Palestinian students and others sympathetic to the Palestinian cause were angry and demoralized, as she exhibited a lack of recognition for Palestinian suffering and grief in the Gaza attack.

This recent uprising in Palestine is about the interconnectedness of the Palestinian people. Our ancestors have come back for our right of return, to free our people, and they’re doing it through all of us.

“Facing History,” a rich source of teaching materials, tells students that the bigotry and hatred we see today are legacies of past injustices. And systemic racism and indigeneity are the subjects of entire Facing History courses. But the nonprofit’s omission of Palestinian history is intentional. “Facing History” functions as though it is possible to be both anti-racist and Zionist.

Having lived through the Intifada, various escalations and four wars in Gaza, I have realized that what doesn’t kill you does not make you stronger, it makes you more vulnerable.

For decades the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood in Silwan has been the target of a relentless campaign by settler organizations to forcibly expel Palestinian residents of the neighborhood and replace them with Jewish settlers — a process that is entirely legal under Israeli law. As their forcible displacement looms, Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan are asking the world to stand up against Israeli Apartheid, and are calling on people to continue bringing attention to their case

Daniel Jadue is mayor of Recoleta, a municipality of Chile’s capital Santiago, and is running for President. Jadue also traces his roots to the West Bank town of Beit Jala, and has been active in the Palestinian cause since he was 11. “You cannot be for human rights outside Palestine and against human rights for the Palestinians,” Jadue tells Vijay Prashad.