It’s been a year since students at Columbia University launched the first Gaza Solidarity Encampment. The suppression has increased, but their fight continues.
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.
Trump is escalating attacks on free speech, targeting Palestine solidarity activists, as Israel deepens its genocide in Gaza and annexation efforts in the West Bank.
The New York Times reports that Israel was planning to launch air strikes against Iran before the Trump administration called off the move.
On the same day ICE posted a social media graphic saying it is working to keep “illegal” ideas out of the US, a Louisiana immigration judge ruled the Trump administration could deport Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil for opposing the Gaza genocide.
The campus group Hillel has expressed concerns about Trump’s student repression, but it’s impossible to take the organization’s sentiments seriously given its history of attacking free speech on Palestine.
As Israel escalates attacks on Gaza and the West Bank, the Trump administration’s crackdown on dissent provides cover. Mondoweiss reports from Palestine and launches its Spring Fundraising Campaign.
A nationwide day of anti-Trump protests is ignoring Palestine and the Gaza genocide.
Sometimes I wonder if journalism is as pointless as politics. But when I speak to families in Gaza, I am reminded that in the face of global indifference, there is a duty, even if just to my own conscience, to try and change this horrible reality.
“Rather than silence dissent, the government’s actions have only emboldened voices demanding that basic rights be respected here, in Palestine, and beyond,” says CUNY CLEAR attorney Mudassar Toppa.