In a rare move, five pro-Palestine direct-action defendants dismissed their lawyers and delivered impassioned speeches about Britain’s role in the Gaza genocide, John McEvoy reports.
Palestine Action Defendants Address Jury Directly
Category: Protest
Israel Attacks Gaza Flotilla Near Greek Waters
Israeli military boats travelled more than 700 miles on Wednesday night to attack a 54-ship flotilla that was headed for Gaza to attempt to break the illegal Israeli naval blockade, Ann Wright reports.
The Cuba Convoy Breaking the US Blockade
Alan MacLeod reports on the internationalist convoy that traveled by land, sea and air to arrive in Havana on Saturday carrying dozens of public figures, including Hasan Piker, Greta Thunberg, Jeremy Corbyn and the Irish hip-hop band Kneecap.
AS`AD AbuKHALIL: The Anti-Semitism Trap
The Trump administration sued Harvard University on Friday for supposedly tolerating anti-semitism in a serious confusion between protesting genocide and hating Jews. Here is a look at the history of this phenomenon.
Chris Hedges: The World According to Gaza
The events of the last few years: Gaza, the Epstein files and more, have revealed that the new order of things is the open predation of the powerful on the rest of us.
Crushing the Right to Conscientiously Object
Elizabeth Vos on the social-media suppression of information that could help U.S service people refuse to join the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran as fears grow that Trump will send ground troops into the conflict.
How Minnesota ‘Nice’ Turned Against ICE
Ann Wright reports on how Minneapolis neighborliness is organized, block-by-block, to mobilize and defend communities from a deadly immigration crackdown.
High Court Rules UK Terrorism Ban on Palestine Action Unlawful
The judgment on Friday is a major blow for former Home Secretary Yvette Cooper as well as the Israeli arms companies who lobbied for a crackdown on the group, John McEvoy, Dania Akkad and Martin Williams report.
Call Trump ‘Detention Camps’ by Their Real Name
History shows us that once a nation builds a mass detention apparatus, it never remains limited to its original targets. History isn’t whispering: it’s shouting, says Thom Hartmann.
WATCH: Protecting a Genocidaire
Sydney police unleashed a torrent of violence against citizens who were protesting the presence in their city of a man who leads a nation condemned for ongoing genocide.