Over the past week, the Israeli army has ordered a million civilians to evacuate central Gaza, and has bombed two schools sheltering displaced people in Gaza City mere minutes after issuing warnings.
I was catching up on the news when I saw a face I recognized. It was the grieving image of my friend Muhammad, who was holding up the birth certificates of his newborn twins. They were both killed in an Israeli airstrike alongside his wife.
In a resounding victory for the BDS movement, Palestine activists have forced French multinational insurance company AXA to divest from all major Israeli banks and the weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems.
Lara Haddadin, a leader of the DNC protests in Chicago, says if Democrats wanted a ceasefire, they would end military aid to Israel: “We are committed to protesting the genocidal state of Israel beyond the DNC and holding both parties accountable.”
Hamas isn’t blocking a ceasefire in Gaza, Israel is. Netanyahu has systematically sabotaged negotiations at every turn, and his current demands for military control over Gaza ensure they will fail.
Ibrahim Salem was detained by Israeli forces in Gaza and held for 8 months, including 52 days at the now infamous Sde Teiman torture facility. Salem recounts the torture he endured, including physical abuse, starvation, and electrocution.
The Democratic National Convention has hit Chicago amid Israel’s unrelenting genocide on Gaza, and protests are raging outside the convention as activists demand the Biden-Harris administration end its military support for Israel.
A shocking new poll shows that almost two out of three Jewish Israelis oppose criminal prosecution for soldiers suspected of gang-raping Palestinian detainees at the Sde Teiman torture facility.
Antony Blinken arrives in the region to push for a ceasefire. Meanwhile, Israeli settlers commit a new pogrom east of Qalqilya as Israeli forces ramp up raids on Jenin and Nablus.
It is primarily in the hands of Israelis to reject their settler colonial occupation, their apartheid laws, and their current government and nationalist parties. The alternative means the loss of their humanity.