“Can you kindly publish the attached stories if I die?” This is what we have been hearing from the young writers we work with from Gaza in the We Are Not Numbers project.
Zionists are weaponizing Jewish identity to unleash “hell” on Palestinians, and the U.S. is sending billions to Israel claiming to have a mandate from American Jews. Now, more than ever, it is uniquely incumbent on us to stand up for Palestinians.
The meager aid convoy of 20 trucks carrying food and medicine will offer Gazans little reprieve. Meanwhile, Israel continues its genocidal bombing campaign while stepping up its arrests in the West Bank and skirmishes with Hezbollah.
Abdelfattah Abusrour shares two poems from Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem inspired by hosting Palestinian workers from Gaza stuck in the West Bank during Israel’s latest onslaught.
Israel bombed a church in Gaza, killing 17 people sheltering inside it. Meanwhile, UN aid through the Rafah crossing stalls, and the Israeli army launched a deadly raid on Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem.
Joe Biden is overseeing perhaps the most spectacular policy failure in Palestine and Israel in U.S. history. His embrace of Benjamin Netanyahu will be remembered as a symbol of how much he weakened U.S. standing in the region.
The events of October 7 have reminded us that resistance to settler colonialism is ever-present. The only way forward is decolonization, and that requires us to foreground a political solution.
500 people, including two dozen Rabbis, were arrested in Washington, DC on Wednesday as thousands of Jewish activists and allies demanded a Gaza ceasefire.
Due to the destruction Israel wrought at the Rafah crossing and to roads, moving humanitarian aid into Gaza is currently impossible. Meanwhile, Israel has renewed its indiscriminate airstrikes with U.S. diplomatic cover.
On Monday, as the number of children killed in Gaza approached 1,000, Knesset member Meirav Ben-Ari declared “the children of Gaza have brought this upon themselves.” Such calls by Israeli politicians for collective punishment are not uncommon.