Sam Abu Haikal was riding in his parents’ car through Hebron when Israeli soldiers opened fire. His mother is in intensive care, and his father, wounded in the hand, buried him alone the next morning. He was only seven months old.
I was arrested with four other students and Greta Thunberg during a protest advocating an academic boycott of Israel, and we now face up to six years in prison. This is about criminalizing dissent amid a genocide, not upholding the law.
Pro-Israel smear campaigns have ended many political careers in the past, but they’re now falling flat. This shift is one of the clearest signs that Israel’s standing in U.S. politics has changed, likely permanently.
New York State’s Common Retirement Fund holds more than $367 million in Israel Bonds, which provide financial support for Israel’s ongoing brutality against the Palestinian people. The state of New York must end its complicity in genocide.
This week, Dr. Adam Hamawy, a surgeon who volunteered in Gaza amid the genocide, won New Jersey’s 12th District primary. The win is obviously another loss for the Israel lobby, but it goes beyond simply adding another critic to Congress.
Health officials in Gaza say Israel is waging an aggressive campaign against Gaza’s healthcare system by deliberately calibrating restrictions on fuel and supplies to keep hospitals on the brink of collapse.
In May, the New School’s Student Senate sanctioned its Hillel chapter for its ties to Israeli war crimes and violations of international law. With 850 chapters worldwide, students everywhere should join the campaign to “Drop Hillel.”
A new Israeli digital registry imposes de facto sovereignty over 60% of the West Bank. Palestinians must register under Israeli authority or risk losing their land, but Israeli legal loopholes are designed to invalidate their claims either way.
As Israel indefinitely withholds Palestinian customs revenues, public hospitals have cut hours and slashed healthcare workers’ salaries. Patients are left to navigate a system running on interns and half-capacity labs.
The IHRA definition of antisemitism is being used in a coordinated offensive across Latin America to criminalize solidarity with Palestine. The targets are not only Palestine activists but also the backbone of Latin America’s social movements.