It’s been a year since students at Columbia University launched the first Gaza Solidarity Encampment. The suppression has increased, but their fight continues.
Israel has completely wiped out Rafah, turning a fifth of Gaza’s territory into a giant buffer zone. This is part of Israel’s plan to permanently remain in Gaza and ethnically cleanse its people.
A linguistics course I proposed to teach at MIT on decolonization in Haiti and Palestine was censored and attacked by the university. My story is just one small window into the broader crisis and repression unfolding in higher education.
The FBI and other law enforcement agencies raided multiple homes in Michigan, reportedly targeting a number of student activists connected to Gaza solidarity protests at the University of Michigan.
The Left Palestinian movement Abnaa el-Balad is calling for international solidarity in calling for the release of Raja Eghbarieh, an elder movement leader currently being held in administrative detention for his political activity to end the Gaza genocide.
Ibrahim Abu Mahadi lost all six of his sons in a single Israeli airstrike. His mourning voice was the voice of all fathers clutching at their children in their tents, afraid to close their eyes and sleep for fear of what they might wake up to.
On March 30, a lynch mob led by neo-Nazi paramilitaries flew the Israel flag as it demanded Haitian workers be expelled from the Dominican Republic. The episode reveals the disturbing connections between the Dominican right-wing and Israel.
Palestinian Christians in Gaza remember Pope Francis and his daily calls to the Catholic church in Gaza. “Gaza was among his last words,” one member of the parish told Mondoweiss. “His voice made us forget the sound of the planes and the bombs.”
The Middle East Studies Association’s Laurie Brand speaks to Mondoweiss about the history of attacks on the field of Middle East Studies, the current designs of the Trump administration, and the capitulation of universities.
Pope Francis telephoned a church in Gaza nearly every night since October 2023. But the New York Times didn’t include that fact in its obituary.