“Palestinians shouldn’t be blamed for not being good victims. Israel’s military aircrafts, tanks, and warships can destroy Palestinians’ houses, but not their homes; their bodies, but not their spirits.”
Global leaders must move beyond non-binding votes and symbolic gestures to boycotting Israel and making it a pariah state on the world stage. That is what will halt the genocide in Gaza.
Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abudaqa was killed after being hit by an Israeli airstrike. He was left to bleed out for hours after being targeted, with medics unable to reach him due to Israeli fire.
Recent attacks on solidarity with Palestine and the witch hunt against free speech on campuses have become so widespread and draconian that they threaten to criminalize any support for Palestinians, not to mention advocacy for their rights.
The University thinks that they can crush us by sanctioning students and banning our organization, but this movement is much larger than one organization or individual. Our growing movement is evidence of the futility of their tactics.
Many in Gaza are faced with difficult choices that aren’t choices at all. We know that the price of our survival is flight, and the loss of our homeland. When the world calls this displacement “voluntary,” it makes a mockery of the term.
A lack of sanitation in Gaza’s overcrowded shelters is contributing to the rapid spread of infectious diseases, with the situation only expected to worsen. A three-day Israeli raid on the West Bank city of Jenin kills 12 Palestinians, 500 detained.
In a wide-ranging interview, Craig Mokhiber reflects on his time as Director of the New York Office of the UN’s High Commissioner of Human Rights after he stepped down in protest over the UN’s failure to prevent a “textbook case of genocide” in Gaza.
Rutgers has become the latest university to suspend its Students for Justice in Palestine chapter.
The situation in Jenin “continues deteriorating” as it enters its third day under Israeli military siege; meanwhile, in Gaza, displaced Palestinians face frigid temperatures under heavy rainfall.