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Only a few hours separated Antony Blinken and Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting in Jerusalem and the moving, impressive speech by the U.S. president at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. But the distance between Joe Biden’s sublime remarks and the capitulation of his secretary of state is (…)
While Congress cheered Netanyahu, grassroots mobilizations of the Democratic base marked a sharp break from the party’s support for Israel.
Pro-Palestinian protesters in Washington demonstrate against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his speech to the U.S. Congress, July 24, 2024. (…)
Shame on you, senators and congressmen. Last week, you held one of the most shameful sessions ever held on Capitol Hill. You cheered a politician who is persona non grata in almost every democratic capital in the world, affording him royal treatment.
sraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (…)
We often say that none of us will be free until all of us are free. This is solidarity.
By acting in solidarity, we learn how our struggles are intertwined. Being part of something larger cuts through our isolation. Solidarity encourages us to share resources and knowledge, which keeps our (…)
Omar Barghouti, who attended Columbia University in 80s, says student solidarity with Palestine has educated the world
Omar Barghouti speaks in Derry, Northern Ireland, on 27 January 2024. Photograph: George Sweeney/Alamy
The student-led protests demanding universities cut financial and (…)
IN A DEED worthy of the Theater of the Absurd, the University of Michigan (U-M) administration inaugurated its much-vaunted 2024-25 “Year of Democracy and Civil Engagement” program by pepper-spraying its most politically committed students in the face. This gratuitous act was part of a violent (…)
What an inspiration the student movement in solidarity with Palestine has been. For three weeks students in American universities have organized peaceful demonstrations in support of Palestine, established encampments, and occupied buildings in the biggest movement of its kind in decades. The (…)
Holocaust scholar and pro-Palestine activist Norman Finkelstein expresses his support for the student protests, insisting on the importance of free speech and uniting the majority of Americans around solidarity with Gaza.
Political scientist Norman Finkelstein speaks about his book on Gaza at (…)
In a matter of days, dozens of Gaza solidarity encampments have sprung up on over a hundred university campuses across the U.S. It’s the biggest student movement since the anti-war protests that swept U.S. universities in the 1960s.
As encampments are erected across the country, students have (…)
College administrations across the U.S. have put themselves on the wrong side of history by cracking down on the groundswell of student activism.
Over the past two weeks, American university campuses from coast to coast have seen an explosion of pro-Palestine protests, all with roughly the (…)
Thousands of students at dozens of campuses across the United States participated in April and continue today to join in pro-Palestine protests leading in some cases to brutal police repression, arrests, and suspensions or expulsions from the university.
The protests began at Columbia (…)
With calls for divestment spreading this past week, students share how dozens of U.S. colleges are cracking down on pro-Palestine demonstrations.
On April 17, students at Columbia University formed a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the campus’s East Butler Lawn calling for the school to divest (…)
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, conservative activists led a counterattack against campus antiwar and civil rights demonstrators by demanding action from college presidents, the courts and the police.
Interrogations of university leaders spearheaded by conservative congressional (…)
About 300 people were detained near Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer’s Brooklyn home
Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the (…)
Ever since Israel’s war on Palestinians and increasing destruction of infrastructure and mass killings of the population in Gaza, protests have developed on campuses.
The response of supporters of Israel’s war have charged that campus pro-Palestinian demonstrations are anti-Semitic. As the (…)
How odd to speak of a movement of the uncommitted. But at the moment in states such Michigan and Washington, the uncommitted are the vanguard of a political movement in defense of the Palestinian people from Israel’s genocidal war whose weapons are supplied by the United States. The horror of (…)
No sooner had the preliminary report from the International Court of Jus-tice appeared, finding that South Africa had made a plausible case of genocide against Israel, than Israel charged that 13 members of the the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) had (…)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent remarks reaffirming Israel’s intent on maintaining security control over ’the entire area west of the Jordan’ after the Gaza war, has led to rifts between a growing number of U.S. Democratic lawmakers and the Biden administration
WASHINGTON – All (…)
With tens of thousands marching in American streets to demand a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to U.S. military support for Israel, President Joseph Biden now faces new opposition, including from within his own party in Congress over his undeclared war on the Houthi in Yemen.
Last week Biden, (…)
An education department official resigned this week, and 17 staffers sent an anonymous letter calling for a ceasefire
Dissent inside the Biden administration over the president’s Gaza policy is growing, with a public resignation this week of a Department of Education official, and a letter (…)
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