Staughton Lynd is being remembered for his lifelong advocacy for civil rights, the labor movement, and against militarism. He was also a voice for justice in Palestine.
Suad Amiry’s “Mother of Strangers” is an important book that tells the story of Jaffa and the Nakba. Through sharing the trauma, grief, and creative resilience of the Palestinian people the book also shows why so many embrace the Palestinian cause.
Gaza is mourning 21 members of the Abu Rayya family who were burned alive when a fire ignited the small apartment they had gathered in for a family celebration.
The tragedy is a direct result of the Gaza blockade, as frequent power cuts have forced families to use alternative fuel sources to fight the dark, often in hazardous conditions.
My freedom ticket was not the mere $500 I paid to leave. They charged me 29 years of my life.
Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon. Those are the names of the culprits who slaughtered my childhood. Then Ehud Olmert, Netanyahu again, and Naftali Bennet, are guilty of burying my youth under the rubble.
After months of pressure from activists, human rights groups, progressive lawmakers, and members of her family the FBI is finally launching a probe into the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh. The fact that the announcement was made shortly after the Israeli and U.S. elections can hardly be a coincidence.
In a surprising but welcome development, the United States’ Department of Justice has initiated an investigation into Israel’s killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Almost immediately, Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz declared that Israel would refuse to assist with the investigation.
Although it is unlikely the U.S. investigation will lead to meaningful accountability, Israel’s refusal to cooperate should raise questions about the US/Israeli relationship.
Human rights groups are calling on the Biden administration to cancel plans to build a new US Embassy Compound on stolen Palestinian land in Jerusalem.
Mariam Barghouti introduces Mondoweiss’ Reflections on a Decade series, a collection of personal narratives by Palestinians who participated in a youth movement that attempted to redefine Palestinian politics in the wake of the Arab uprisings.
Abdaljawad Omar on the decade of youth movements that attempted to reshape Palestinian politics: “I choose to believe that despite all that has passed, and all that remains impassable, the relics of an obscure ‘we’ endures. There is at least a ‘we’ that lives within me, until perhaps another ‘we’ emerges yet again.”
18-year-old Muhammad Murad Souf was killed Tuesday after carrying out a stabbing near the illegal Ariel settlement in the occupied West Bank that left three Israeli settlers dead.