On March 30, thousands of Palestinians attended the yearly commemoration of Land Day in Gaza. Tareq Hajjaj walked through the crowd and asked attendees – “What does Land Day mean to you?” Answers varied, but most included the statement: “the land means our existence.”

There is one angle of the Ukrainian crisis that may turn out to boost Israel’s legitimacy and bolster its international impunity – weapons.

Today on Palestinian Land Day, the NDN Collective uplifts the ongoing struggle of their Palestinian relatives for liberation of their homeland and full return for all Palestinian people.

There is a hegemony that regards the European holocaust as more tragic and horrific than any other experience that people have had to endure. That is simply not true.

In a highwater mark of mainstream opposition to the unending Israeli occupation, 50 members of Congress have signed a letter to Secretary of State Blinken urging him to try to stop Israel’s demolition of 38 Palestinian houses in al-Walaja, a village in the occupied West Bank, because the demolitions will undermine “Palestinian dignity” and “long-term Israeli security.” The demolitions are also an issue in a Michigan congressional race between two Democrats, with Rep. Andy Levin calling them “unjust.”

Madeline Albright’s Berkeley commencement speech drew massive protests in May, 2000, but it was University Medalist Fadia Rafeedie’s speech which would win the day.

Rafael Silver is a Jew, Israeli citizen and a veteran of a combat unit in the Israeli army. He left Israel in 2001 because he could no longer be a part of a system that practices apartheid against the Palestinian people.  “I do not use the word apartheid lightly but instead reluctantly,” he writes. “I choose to use this word to describe the reality the Palestinian people have been enduring for generations because I have seen it in action with my own eyes.  I have enforced it during my military service in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip and supported it as an Israeli taxpayer.”  

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds has signed legislation to expand the state’s anti-BDS law, and adopt the controversial IHRA definition of antisemitism.

The rightwing Israel lobby is enraged by the new report by the Special Rapporteur to the U.N. accusing Israel of “apartheid”– a “landmark moment of recognition of the lived reality of millions of Palestinians,” says Amnesty International. But J Street has had nothing to say about the report. It surely hopes it will go away, because these reports foster demands among progressives to actually do something about human rights violations beyond acknowledging their existence.

Madeleine Albright’s honest appraisal of Iraq sanctions highlighted the brutality of U.S. foreign policy