Hamas deputy head Saleh al-Aruri and leaders in the Qassam Brigades have been assassinated in Beirut’s southern Dahiya neighborhood. Hamas says the “cowardly assassination” will not undermine the continuation of the Palestinian resistance.
Jewish organizations that pride themselves on progressivism have been silent on Israel’s genocide in Gaza. There must be a reckoning with “progressive” Jewish complicity in Israel’s unspeakable crimes, and that reckoning begins from within.
The sort of violence we see in Palestine has happened everywhere people refuse to be dominated. This New Year Day we celebrate the 220th anniversary of Haiti’s independence and are inspired by a revolution that reminds us liberation is possible.
South Africa’s 84 page long Application to the International Court of Justice to begin proceedings against Israel for its genocide in Gaza is a devastating document laying out Israel’s genocidal acts and statements in horrifying detail.
ZAKA is one of the leading organizations alleging Hamas atrocities on October 7. But the organization’s volunteers have systematically given false testimonies, and continue repeating them to journalists on behalf of the Israeli government.
I did everything I could to throw my son Qais the birthday party he deserved, even after we witnessed a bloody massacre on the same day he turned 1.
The family of Farouq Issa, 30, says he was arrested by Israeli forces and thrown into administrative detention as a healthy young man. But four months later, he returned a ghost of himself, and doctors say he has just days left to live.
Benjamin Netanyahu announced his endgame in Gaza: the “voluntary migration” of Palestinians forced to choose between leaving or dying by bombardment and starvation. His goal is to end the Palestinians as a people and as a national movement.
The feelings and fragility of Zionists are used as a rhetorical shield to deflect from the reality of Palestinian genocide. I refuse to provide reassurances to placate and soothe Zionist political anxieties.