The Palestinian-Global Mental Health Network calls on clinicians globally and locally to demand that the Israeli state immediately release Ahmad Manasra.

This International Women’s Day, let us affirm that there can be no free homeland without free women, without free queers, and without free children as they rise above binaries, reach out across boundaries, laugh at society’s archaisms, and model the alternative.

Gaza continues to be at a major disadvantage in the pandemic due to the borderline functioning of the health care system after years of siege and repeated Israeli assaults and exhausted medical personnel. According to the World Health Organizations, 61.7% of the target population is fully vaccinated in the West Bank, 32.3% fully vaccinated in Gaza. The rate in Israel is 66 percent.

Ghada Hania responds to CBS correspondent Charlie D’Agata who contrasted life in “civilized” Ukraine to places that have seen “conflict raging for decades” like Iraq, Afghanistan, or perhaps Palestine.

A highlight of the Israel lobby conference held at the National Press Club by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs last Friday was a speech by singer/songwriter Roger Waters in which he read from letters to musicians urging them not to play Israel in line with the call of the BDS campaign. When Australian singer Nick Cave performed in Israel in 2018, he rejected Roger Waters and Brian Eno’s call to respect the BDS boycott campaign, saying it was “cowardly and shameful.” Waters says he responded to the “louche” artist with disbelief, rage and sorrow. “We hurl our glasses in the fire of your arrogant unconcern and smash our bracelets on the rock of your implacable indifference.”

Israeli forces have killed five Palestinians over the past week, and 17 Palestinians since the start of 2022. Of the 17 Palestinians killed, three were children.

Orientalist media coverage of the war in Ukraine reflects the worldview inherent in Western governments’ policies.

Observers are puzzled — and disturbed — at why the ‘Atlantic’ just published a long article that tries to rehabilitate the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.

The mainstream media is openly embracing armed resistance these days, just not for Palestinians.

Doaa Alremeili reports that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is having some unexpected impacts in Gaza.