On Monday, the UN Security Council voted to endorse the Trump administration’s “International Stabilization Force” in Gaza. Palestinians in Gaza say it is just a new face of the same Israeli occupation.
Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in New York City shows that the Gaza genocide has permanently shifted Israel’s role in U.S. politics.
Catherine Hodes was taken hostage by the PFLP at age 13 while traveling from Israel to the U.S. The experience sparked a lifelong commitment to Palestinian liberation.
The breakdown of the mainstream consensus on Israel is an opportunity for the left, specifically anti-Zionist Jews, to get their message across. We must seize it, and welcome those who are finally seeing the light.
Iranians know the logic of Zionism, underwritten by the American empire, is what has naturally led to the devastation they are now experiencing. Palestinian liberation from Zionism can bring the entire region, including Iran, closer to freedom.
Today, most Muslims would be surprised to learn that Palestine was once a central part of the Hajj journey for Muslims around the Middle East and Asia. After the Nakba and Israel’s occupation of Palestine, the Hajj pilgrimage was changed forever.
Whether it’s total conquest or managed containment, Israel doesn’t have a single grand strategy for Gaza, but it uses the possibility of both to prolong the war.
I met Louis Theroux to share my story as a Palestinian under the constant threat of displacement. While the film is an important look into the Israeli settlers trying to erase us, there is one crucial part of our story that was left out.
A linguistics course I proposed to teach at MIT on decolonization in Haiti and Palestine was censored and attacked by the university. My story is just one small window into the broader crisis and repression unfolding in higher education.
The fight to free Mahmoud Khalil is not merely about preserving First Amendment rights, it is about whether we will allow our government to criminalize resistance to its complicity in human rights abuses and genocide.