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Israeli Apartheid and Genocide – One Step Forward, One Back, for Ontario NDP on Palestine
By Yves Engler The NDP has been even more resistant to challenging Canada’s role in supporting apartheid and genocide. The leader of the Ontario NDP caved to a genocidal Jewish supremacist organization amidst Israel’s horrors […]

When Supporting Israel is a Liability: Is Gaza Changing the West?
By Ramzy Baroud The Israeli war of ‘extermination’ in Gaza, per the words of International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan, has made the cause of Palestinian freedom a global one. Much has been written […]

‘It’s Never Been about Community Standards’: Samidoun Faces Repression on Social Media
By Omar Zahzah In addition to YouTube, Kates describes the severe repression Samidoun faces on the Meta platform Instagram, including the arbitrary nature of “community standards violations.” The explosion of tech suppression of support for […]

A Moral Outrage – Assaulted for Questioning ‘Charitable’ Donations by Billionaire
By Yves Engler Over the past two decades Reisman and Schwartz have put at least $185 million into HESEG. They’ve likely recouped nearly half of that sum through tax credits for “charitable” donations. On Friday I asked Heather […]

Gaza Genocide – Storytelling as an Act of Resistance to Oppression, Ethnic Cleansing
By Benay Blend Storytelling has long been a tactic in the toolbox of colonized people. For survivors of genocide, it validates their experience against those who deny that the horror ever happened. When I taught […]

Abomination of Gaza: The Barbarians Who Built the Gates
By Jeremy Salt It took the abomination of Gaza for many and perhaps most people around the world to conclude that there is no peace to be had with Israel. No one-state solution, no two-state […]

Rekindling the Old Love Affair: Can Trump Save Netanyahu?
By Ramzy Baroud Trump’s politics is abashedly Machiavellian. During his only term in office between 2017 and 2021, he served the role of the American genie, granting Israel’s every wish. Many political analysts believe […]

Removing Shackles from Palestinian Hostages at Israel’s Sde Teiman Black Hole Not Enough – It Must Be Shut Down
By Iqbal Jassat Though a blanket of secrecy has shrouded the settler colonial regime’s notorious black hole known as Sde Teiman, it does not behoove media platforms to allow a conspiracy of silence to prevent […]

We Can Defeat the Lobby – ILAN PAPPE
By Ilan Pappe – The Palestine Chronicle The sight of the children buried under the rubble, salvaged by older children, is enough for me and, I am sure, for anyone who was ever silenced […]

Stolen Land, Stolen Lives: Israel’s War on Palestine
By Dr. M. Reza Behnam Israeli Zionists have always lusted after Palestine but loathed its people. Today is no exception. Ever since the birth of organized Zionism in 1897, its adherents have been bent on […]

Sharon Revisited: Netanyahu’s Ultimate Aim in Gaza and Why It Will Fail
By Ramzy Baroud The current generation of Gazans is empowered and fearless. Its ongoing resistance is only a reflection of a popular reawakening throughout Palestine. Israel never learns from its mistakes. What Israeli Prime […]

‘Who is Worse, Biden or Trump?’ – Gaza Genocide and Elections ‘24
By Benay Blend In 2020, the rallying cry for Democrats was “lesser of two evils,” meant to signify that Biden might be problematic, but Trump was even more so. For those of us who did […]

Zionist Semantics in South Africa: Democratic Alliance Leopard Will Not Change Its Spots on Palestine
By Iqbal Jassat Has Helen Zille emerged as a leading agitator to reverse South Africa’s groundbreaking efforts in solidarity with Palestine’s freedom struggle against Zionism’s illegal settler colonial regime? Her demands on the African National […]

The Start of a New Beginning: Gaza Shakes the World
By Jeremy Salt Its end as a Zionist state would be the start of a new beginning, undoing all the damage done since Balfour: the state can go but the people can survive alongside everyone […]

The Altalena Affair: Is Israel Heading towards a Civil War?
By Ramzy Baroud The story of the potential Israeli civil war is as old as the Israeli state itself, and recent comments by Netanyahu, suggesting otherwise, are yet another false claim by the prime […]

Gaza Genocide: Origin Stories, Liberal Zionists, and the Need for a Palestine-Centered Narrative
By Benay Blend Mainstream history of the United States begins with the American Revolution, an event, the story goes, that initiated the country’s experiment with democracy. There is no mention of enslaved people who built […]

Will and Persistence: The Destruction of Sports Infrastructure in Gaza Won’t Stop Sports
By Issam Khalidi It has been demonstrated throughout history that every time Israel attempts to destroy the Palestinian people, their history and culture, they come back stronger and more resilient than before. There is a […]

Full-Scale War on Hezbollah Will Backfire on Israel and America’s Arab Client-Regimes
By Iqbal Jassat As the Lebanese movement Hezbollah raises the stakes in its battle with the Israeli settler colonial regime, alarm bells are ringing in despotic Arab regimes. After all, many of these reactionary governments […]

Growing up in Nuseirat – Where Massacres Become Routine
By Ramzy Baroud Nuseirat, like Gaza, is a representation of a culture that cannot be broken, no matter the firepower, or the extent of the massacres. I clearly remember my first day at an […]

‘No Justice, No Peace – What Does It Mean in the Context of Gaza Genocide?
By Benay Blend Calling for Palestinians to decide their future is the only suitable form of peace with justice, with an emphasis on the latter to ensure that the former is sustainable and self-determined. In […]

Niki Ashton and Public Expenditure – The Real Scandal is Undermining Discussion of Tax Subsidies for Israel
By Yves Engler The real scandal is how journalists either instigated or allowed themselves to be used to undermine a discussion about unlawful activity that costs taxpayers tens of millions of dollars each year to […]

‘Wishful Thinking’ – Does Israel Have All the Cards in Gaza?
By Ramzy Baroud Netanyahu does not seem to have an actual plan for Gaza, neither for now nor after the war. So, he prolongs the war despite the fact that his army is exhausted, […]

Ignore Race and Religion – It’s Political, Not Ethnic
By Blake Alcott Colonized have been fighting colonizers for millennia. Not because the colonizers were Christian Crusaders or Moslem Tatars, or Buddhists, or French, Belgian, British or German, but rather because of what colonizing is: […]

Unconditional Support – The United States Is the Main Obstacle to Peace in Palestine
By Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies The United States seems determined to share Israel’s self-inflicted isolation from voices calling for peace from all over the world. On June 13, Hamas responded to persistent needling by […]

America Isolated: Why Some Western Capitals Are Shifting Positions on Gaza
By Ramzy Baroud For some in the west, the issue is not just about the Gaza genocide. It is also about the future of the west itself. On June 6, Spain joined South Africa’s […]

Unprecedented in Modern History – After Gaza, what?
By Jeremy Salt After Gaza, what hope can there be for any kind of peace with Israel? What did the 1990s ‘peace process’ do except leave the Palestinians far worse off than before? The news […]

Intruder at Large – The United States in the Middle East
By Dr. M. Reza Behnam The radical and profound change in the region’s social, political and economic order can only come about if the United States departs, Zionism ends and Palestinians return to a free […]

‘Negative Neutrality’ – Palestinian Authority ‘Weak and Irrelevant’
By Iqbal Jassat Abbas, whose four-year term expired in 2009, has stubbornly refused to accept demands for fresh elections. In effect, the general view is that he has shut the door on reform of the […]

Gaza Genocide – On Mainstream Feminism’s Disregard for the Rights of Other Women
By Benay Blend The mainstream women’s movement in the United States has a long history of being less than inclusive of women whose history differs from their own. Several weeks ago I submitted a chapter […]

End of an Era: What the Shifting Discourse on Palestine Teaches Us about the Future of Israel
By Ramzy Baroud Israel now stands in near-complete isolation, due, in part, to its genocide in Gaza but also to the courage and steadfastness of the Palestinian people, and to the global solidarity with […]