Students from UPenn, Drexel, and Temple at the encampment are demanding that UPenn discloses its investments, divests from corporations that profit from Israel’s genocide, and defends Palestinians students and their allies.
Faculty members are calling on Morehouse College to rescind its invitation to Joe Biden to speak at its 2024 commencement: “Any college or university that gives its commencement stage to President Biden in this moment is endorsing genocide.”
An student organizer with Columbia’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment talks to Mondoweiss about the importance of centering Palestine, the campus movement exploding across the U.S., and what happens next.
“Unprecedented terror” continues to haunt Palestinians in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the northern West Bank, two days after the Israeli army concluded a 52-hour-long invasion which killed 14 residents.
Rep. Summer Lee easily won her primary in Pennsylvania’s 12th district. Israel lobby groups stayed out of the race as support for Palestine surges among Democratic voters. “Opposing genocide is good politics and good policy,” Lee said after winning.
I cannot help but be moved by the wave of protests taking over college campuses across the country. But the protests aren’t the story. Gaza is.
Bakeries are finally re-opening in northern Gaza for the first time since October. “The enemy has tried killing, death, starvation, and destruction and has not succeeded,” Omar Jundia tells Mondoweiss, as he waits for his first fresh bread in months.
As Passover begins, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is once again using the bible to justify genocide in Gaza as he compares Hamas to “Pharaoh” and promises to “land additional and painful plagues” upon the Palestinians.
As the number of Palestinians killed in the Israeli assault on Gaza nears 35,000, the House of Representatives voted to send an additional $17 billion in unconditional military aid to Israel by a vote of 366-58.
Zionism threatens political freedom in the United States and international order. There is only one way to fight this ideology. Those who oppose it must explain the truth to Americans: Zionism is racist.