The House overwhelmingly passed a resolution declaring that Israel is “not a racist or apartheid state.” The final vote was 412-9.

Francesca Albanese’s June report to the UN Human Rights Council says Israel uses physical, bureaucratic, military, and surveillance means to “de-Palestinianize” the occupied territory, threatening “the existence of the Palestinians as a people.”

When Tom Friedman says the possibility of a Palestinian state was always a “fiction,” he shows contempt for Palestinians and reveals his role, promoting support for Israel in the U.S. establishment, no matter what.

Rep. Lori Trahan of Massachusetts visited occupied Hebron in February with a congressional delegation of 15 Democrats and was shocked to see the segregation and persecution of Palestinians. Trahan’s answer? “Sprinkle magic dust.”

Liberal Zionists who are trying to save Israel from itself have adopted a term fashioned by the left– “one-state reality”– and are calling for U.S. pressure against Jewish colonization of the West Bank.

The indivisibility of justice requires that the Palestinian liberation movement support the Black liberation struggle with the same fierce determination as we do our own.

“Inspired by the anti-Apartheid movement that toppled the Apartheid regime in South Africa, we are building an anti-apartheid movement in North America,” says the Apartheid-Free Communities campaign.

If the Nakba was the catastrophe that laid the foundation for Israel’s settler colonial state, the Naksa was the defeat that finished the job, setting off a chain of events that has come to define the reality on the ground in occupied Palestine over the past 56 years. 

The political battle over the future of Israel and Palestine is coming to New York, and that is good news for all who care about Palestinian freedom.

“Americans more and more are opposing the state of Israel. Democrats primarily are moving to a negative place visavis Israel, most related to the Palestinian conflict” –Former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo.