My beloved mother passed away on December 1, 2023. She was unable to receive the intensive care she needed because Gaza’s hospitals had been rendered unusable. I hold President Joe Biden responsible for her death.

Since October 7, there have been protests across India in support of the Palestinians and Israel, with much different responses from authorities. Palestine solidarity activists have faced a brutal crackdown, while Israel’s allies have had a free hand.

Diana Buttu discusses the experience Palestinians are sharing of watching a genocide of their people play out on their mobile phones.

Palestinian resistance is a decolonial struggle against Israeli settler colonialism and U.S. imperialism. This resistance is also confronting the brutal nature of colonial modernity, which is exemplified in Zionism.

Despite proceedings at the International Court of Justice, Benjamin Netanyahu made clear Israel has no intention to relent in its genocidal attack on Gaza: “Nobody will stop us – not The Hague, not the axis of evil and not anybody else.”

A central claim by Israel’s advocates is that supporting Israel is in the U.S. interest. There can be no greater farce when our country has bombed another Arab country to support Israel’s genocide.

Watching Mother Emanuel AME congregants shout down pro-Palestine demonstrators showed that Zionism is alive and well in the Black church. It was one of the most despicable and heartbreaking things I’ve ever seen from my own people.

Irish barrister Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh made international headlines for her stirring presentation to the International Court of Justice on the urgent need to protect Palestinians from Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza. Read her full speech here.

Many Palestinians have been stranded in Egypt since the start of the war and suffer from poverty as they struggle to contact their loved ones. “Whenever I watch TV, I die a hundred times a day,” says Amnah Alshimbari, whose family remains in Gaza.

Presenting its case before the International Court of Justice, Israel argued that South Africa’s request to end the assault on Gaza was “unconscionable” and a “transparent attempt to abuse the [Genocide] Convention.”