A new song celebrates the mood of collective Palestinian defiance in 2021, and pays tribute to all those who have fallen.

2021 was a watershed year for Palestinians. The struggle for Palestinian freedom and liberation saw unprecedented levels of global solidarity and unity amongst Palestinians despite their forced fragmentation. The year did not come without its challenges, however.

Zionists are working hard to decouple the struggle for racial justice in the United States from Palestinian liberation, but the movements are intertwined through shared experiences of state violence and a legacy of joint struggle.

The conflict over Iron Dome funding in congress is undeniably a result of the Unity Intifada and the global solidarity it engendered with Palestinians. As we come to the end of 2021, it is important that we seize the opportunity to disrupt the business as usual of unbridled US military support for Israel.

A new song celebrates the Sumud (steadfastness) of the people of historic Palestine following the latest horrific Israeli onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip.

Testimonies from Palestinians detained at the Nazareth police station during the May uprising reveal graphic reports of extreme psychological and physical abuse at the hands of Israeli special forces. “It was a madhouse, there is no other way to describe it,” detainee Carlo Roushroush tells Mondoweiss.

Wesam Sharaf, an advocate with the Civil and Political Rights Unit at Adalah talks with Yumna Patel about the impact of the “Unity Uprising” on Palestinian citizens of Israel.

Palestinian Christians are calling on community leadership to reflect on their failure to support the broader Palestinian uprising, and to “stand up for our own dignity and the dignity of those we share our lives and pain with.”

Since May 9th, Israel has detained more than 2,000 Palestinian citizens of Israel. None have been more dramatic or notable than the detention of Sheikh Kamal al-Khatib.

Israel commonly uses administrative detention against Palestinians in the occupied territory. Now, the Israeli government is also indefinitely detaining Palestinian citizens of Israel following the recent uprisings in solidarity with Sheikh Jarrah and Gaza.