The Western political class has used all tools at its disposal to support Israel’s genocide while criminalizing solidarity.
Vijay Prashad: Elites Afraid to Talk About Palestine
Category: Protests
Risking Jail in Egypt to Advocate for Gazans
Fatma Khaled reports on Cairo Gaza, an activist group that is pressuring the el-Sisi government to keep the Rafah crossing open to let aid into Gaza without Israel’s permission.
UK Rebrands Protest as Extremism
For years, people who support Palestine have been targeted: Anita Mureithi on a cabinet minister’s move Thursday to further restrict activism.
Legal Bullying Aims to Silence Campus Critics of Israel
Title VI was designed to end discrimination and harassment on campus, but the law can also be misused, as partisans of Israel have done, writes Michael Schwalbe.
John Pilger: The Coming War — It’s Time to Speak Up
Silences filled with a consensus of propaganda contaminate almost everything we read, see and hear, warned the late John Pilger last May. War by media is now a key task of so-called mainstream journalism.
ADL Deems Pro-Palestine Protests ‘Anti-Semitic’
The ADL’s CEO said the group’s new report highlights a threat to Jews that’s “unprecedented in modern history.”
Chris Hedges: Israel’s Genocide Betrays the Holocaust
The Nazis shipped their victims to death camps. The Israelis will ship their victims to squalid refugee camps in countries outside of Israel.
AS`AD AbuKHALIL: Zionism Has Lost Young America
Nobody really believes there’s a threat to Jewish students on campuses or that pro-Palestinian students are subjecting their Jewish classmates to abuse or harassment.
The ‘Cop City’ Mass Arraignment Circus
Hannah Riley describes the scene in the Atlanta courthouse last month when dozens of political activists faced criminal enterprise charges for trying to save a forest from becoming a massive police-training center.
Georgia Frames Cop-City Protest as Criminal Conspiracy
Rachel McKane and David Pellow see Georgia’s RICO indictment as an attempt to repress social movement activity, using the state’s tools of legal interpretation and enforcement.