Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abudaqa was killed after being hit by an Israeli airstrike. He was left to bleed out for hours after being targeted, with medics unable to reach him due to Israeli fire.
More than 60 national organizations are demanding Congress back a bill to require the FBI to publicly report details of Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing.
Eyad al-Hallaq was the flower of his loving family, but an Israeli court said this week that the autistic man’s killing in 2020 was an “honest mistake.” The case demonstrates the bankruptcy of Zionism, which always privileges Jews over Palestinians.
The Israeli military announced the soldiers involved in the death of Palestinian American Omar Asaad would not face criminal charges. Less than 1% of Israeli army probes result in the prosecution of soldiers.
On the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, the violent eviction of Palestinians from their homes and their land, we must reaffirm that freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.
The Israel lobby group ADL tried to stop the Nakba commemoration at the Capitol by saying that Rashida Tlaib had slandered Israel. The historic ceremony was carried off thanks to Bernie Sanders.
Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by the same Israeli bullets directed against her fellow Palestinians. Those bullets have continued to fly, and the Israeli war machine has taken the lives of nearly 300 Palestinians in the past year. Shireen’s was one of them.
If you ask me how I feel a year after Shireen Abu Akleh’s assassination, I would tell you that I feel angry because both Shireen and I died under the tree that day. Shireen awaits justice from heaven, while I wait for it down here on earth.
Nakba survivors, activists, and Rashida Tlaib addressed an overflowing event to commemorate the Nakba despite Kevin McCarthy and pro-Israel groups’ attempts to cancel it. “Let the headlines read ‘McCarthy tries to erase Palestine but fails’,” Tlaib declared.
A new report from the Committee to Protect Journalists shows the Israeli military has killed 20 journalists since 2001 and not one soldier has been put on trial.