Palestinian pastor Munther Issac says “If Jesus was born today, he’d be born under the rubble of Gaza” as Israeli forces flattens entire neighborhoods to create buffer zones in north, east, and south of the Gaza Strip.

A statement by 18 Columbia University deans amounts to a new norm prohibiting Palestinian political aspirations in favor of privileging a politics of feeling to protect those who feel threatened by Palestinian freedom.

It seems almost assured we will not survive the bombings directed at us from every direction. If we don’t, I hope someone will appreciate and comprehend the hell my child and I went through in our last days.

A Palestinian Christian pastor reflects on the message of Christmas during a time of loss and devastation.

The biblical Christmas story is not a fairy tale from the distant past but a highly political story can profoundly identify with in December 2023. It is a Palestinian story par excellence.

While Palestine’s envoy to the UN says that the Security Council resolution is a step in the right direction, others have called it “toothless” and “utterly meaningless” to civilians in Gaza. Meanwhile, Israel continues its military raids into Jenin.

The evidence for Israel’s commission of acts of genocide in Gaza is irrefutable. International law gives states the tools to stop them from happening.

Mohammad, today it has been 32 days since that Israeli artillery shrapnel killed you. The situation in Gaza is getting worse. People who have survived this genocide so far do not feel lucky at all. On the contrary, they envy those killed by Israel.

In order to defend academic freedom we need to challenge groups such as the Pinsker Centre which is working to silence Palestinian solidarity on UK campuses.

Our recent position paper on sex and gender-based violence during the October 7 Hamas attacks was the best possible way to engage with a complicated reality.