On August 5, the Iowa City Council unanimously voted to boycott and divest from Israel bonds and all companies complicit in the Gaza genocide and occupation of Palestine.

The United Methodist Church (UMC) will divest from Israel bonds and from other governments maintaining illegal military occupations, making it the first church in the world to make such a pledge.

We are the eight students, staff, and faculty from across the City University of New York system who started an indefinite hunger strike. We have one demand: that CUNY divest from Israel and companies aiding the genocide in Gaza.

We kick off this week’s newsletter with a dispatch from Deyar Jamil, who is volunteering…

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.