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Will the Palestinian Groups Create a New Palestinian Political Project?
By Vijay Prashad In Cairo, representatives from Hamas held indirect negotiations with Israel for a ceasefire. The sticking point for...
Michael Laxer
May 7, 20246 min read
Media Freedom Faces Unprecedented Threats Globally, Reports Say on World Press Freedom Day
Image via X By Global News Service Journalists and independent media outlets are facing an unprecedented decline in press freedom and a...
Michael Laxer
May 7, 20242 min read
Israel Invades Rafah
Israeli tanks seize control of Egypt-Gaza crossing in Rafah -- image via X By Global News Service On Monday, May 6, Israel issued...
Michael Laxer
May 7, 20241 min read
Cutting Off Lifeline for Starving Gazans, Israel Seizes Control of Rafah Crossing
"This has devastating impacts for the people of Gaza who are already on the verge of famine," said the UNRWA's director of planning....
Michael Laxer
May 7, 20243 min read
'Unlawful and Catastrophic': IDF Begins Forced Evacuation of Rafah
The head of one humanitarian group called the Israeli military's directives "a serious violation of international law." Smoke from an...
Michael Laxer
May 6, 20243 min read
UN Food Chief Says Northern Gaza Suffering 'Full-Blown Famine'
"And it's moving its way south," she warned. By Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams United Nations World Food Program Executive Director Cindy...
Michael Laxer
May 4, 20242 min read
Hundreds of Cuban students and youth rally in Havana in solidarity with US students and Palestine
All images via the PCC By Katherin Hormigó Rubio, translated from the Spanish The iconic staircase of the University of Havana, which has...
Michael Laxer
May 4, 20244 min read
The Older Generation of Politicians Can’t Stop the American Intifada
Millions of Americans are clearly fed up, with war, with their government’s allegiance to a foreign country, to militarism, to police...
Michael Laxer
May 3, 20245 min read
'Their Blood Is on Gene Block': UCLA Students Injured in Violent Police Raid
Officers in military gear fired flash-bang munitions and used batons to clear a nonviolent encampment calling for an end to Israel's...
Michael Laxer
May 2, 20243 min read
Palestinian Students and Academics Express Solidarity With University Encampments Across the Globe
A message of thanks on the side of a tent in Gaza -- image via X screenshot By Global News Service Since late April, thousands of...
Michael Laxer
May 1, 20242 min read
'All Because Columbia Refuses to Divest': Police Storm Campus, Violently Arrest Dozens
"The U.S. government and institutions like Columbia are showing that they would rather brutalize students than divest from apartheid and...
Michael Laxer
May 1, 20243 min read
Greek youth mobilize for protest at US embassy, 50th Communist Youth Festival
Images via the KKE Youth in Greece mobilized to protest in solidarity with US university students and Gaza at the US embassy and to...
Michael Laxer
Apr 30, 20242 min read
Israel Kills Daughter, Infant Grandson of Slain Palestinian Poet Refaat Alareer
"I have beautiful news for you. I wish I could tell you in person. Do you know you have just become a grandfather?" Shaima Alareer wrote...
Michael Laxer
Apr 29, 20242 min read
Campus Activism for Gaza Ignites
Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University on the night of April 24 -- screenshot image via X By Saurav Sarkar Students at more...
Michael Laxer
Apr 27, 20243 min read
Sabreen, Baby Girl Rescued From Mother's Womb After Israeli Airstrike, Dies
Sabreen's grandmother watching over her clinging to life -- video screenshot via X By Julia Conley, Common Dreams A grieving family and a...
Michael Laxer
Apr 26, 20242 min read
Water Crisis Adds to Women’s Health Burden Amid War on Gaza
A woman holding three small children in Gaza, March 2024 -- image via X By Global News Service Over 34,000 people have been killed in...
Michael Laxer
Apr 24, 20241 min read
Students Launch Encampments in Solidarity With Gaza Across the U.S.
NYU students and faculty stage protest in Washington Square Park, March 23, after NYPD conducted mass arrests clearing their protest...
Michael Laxer
Apr 24, 20242 min read
US unions call for Columbia University to "immediately end the repression of protest"
Protests in the Columbia Quad, March 22 -- image via X With the ongoing Palestine solidarity protests at Columbia University in New York...
Michael Laxer
Apr 24, 20242 min read
UN human rights chief calls for international investigation into Gaza mass graves, deplores the "harrowing killings of children and women in Rafah"
Bodies being exhumed outside of the Nasser Hospital -- image via the Palestinian People's Party In a statement on April 23, United...
Michael Laxer
Apr 23, 20242 min read
Elites in the Global North Are Scared to Talk About Palestine
Professors join students at mass protests at Columbia University, April 22 -- Image via X By Vijay Prashad Israeli bombs continue to fall...
Michael Laxer
Apr 22, 20245 min read
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