There aren’t many in Hollywood who have stood up for Palestine, but those who have are facing consequences.
A window of respite opens on Friday with a hostage swap due to take place in the afternoon, after Israeli forces hit Indonesian hospital and an UNRWA school. Israeli forces kill a 12-year-old Palestinian boy in the occupied West Bank, and settlers continue to harass Palestinian communities.
Israel has larger war aims than Hamas, and is deliberately provoking a regional war to draw the U.S. into the fray. Biden has made halfhearted efforts to cool the situation, but he needs to be bolder in reining Israel in before it’s too late.
Workers from Gaza who were stranded in Israel after October 7 were summarily arrested, interrogated, beaten, and tortured, before being declared illegal by Israeli authorities.
Israel is taking the opportunity to heavily bomb the Gaza Strip before the temporary ceasefire takes effect, forcibly evacuating the Indonesian hospital, arresting hospital staff, and obstructing ambulances.
The Israeli justice system has been marshalled to criminalize any expression of public protest in Palestinian communities in ’48 Palestine. This week, Palestinians from Umm al-Fahm and Haifa were on trial.
The genocide in Gaza is being committed in our name as Jews. Thus have a duty to organize as Jews against the Jewish Zionist institutions aiding and perpetuating the annihilation of the Palestinian people.
As we sit down to Thanksgiving feasts, people in Gaza struggle to find enough food to stay alive. What we eat in a day is likely what you’re able to find in Gaza in a week.
The outsized fascination of the American political class with university campuses is indicative of a wider denigration of intellectual life and academic freedom in this country, which has come under assault.
According to the Qatari-mediated agreement, Hamas would release 50 Israeli captives in exchange for 150 Palestinian children and women prisoners. Meanwhile, Israel airstrikes on Gaza Strip continue, killing at least 200 people overnight.