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  • Palestine Uncensored: Testimonial 1

    Palestine Uncensored: Testimonial 1

    This is the first testimonial in our blog series, Palestine Uncensored: Diaries of Censorship. Hannah Elsisi documents the impossibility of keeping up with the levels of censorship in the West and Israel's mounting atrocities in Gaza in an email.
  • From the River to the Sea

    From the River to the Sea

    No words can fully express Palestine’s seventy years of catastrophe, no words except: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
  • Death in the Air

    Death in the Air

    The Gazan writer Asmaa al-Ghoul, with around 20 others scattered across the globe, is on a hunger strike with just one goal and one demand—to stop the war. Here, Ben Ehrenreich writes on al-Ghoul's life and work, and her campaign to end the Israeli assault on Gaza.
  • Our strength, our pain and our solidarity

    Our strength, our pain and our solidarity

    "Why should the Palestinians be the perpetual refugees of this world, and forced to pay for this continent's horrific crimes?" Palestinian philosopher Yasmeen Daher's spoke at a November 4 rally in Berlin, denouncing the German government's Islamophobia and abuse of collective Holocaust guilt.
  • Gaza One Month Later: An Interview with Norman Finkelstein and Mouin Rabbani

    Gaza One Month Later: An Interview with Norman Finkelstein and Mouin Rabbani

    One month into Israel's siege on Gaza, Mouin Rabbani and Norman Finkelstein discuss the political dynamics underlying the war. Rabbani and Finkelstein argue that the Biden administration's support for Israel's decimation of Gaza stems not only from its strategic support for Israel, but from a perception that Hamas's October 7 attacks were also an assault on US hegemony in the region.
  • The Politics of Insecurity

    The Politics of Insecurity

    The dissonance between people’s personal behaviour and their political choices ought not to be under-estimated.

  • "Zionists don't speak for me": On Jewish action for Palestinian Liberation

    "Zionists don't speak for me": On Jewish action for Palestinian Liberation

    Jewish organizations like Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow have been staging highly visible and disruptive protests calling for a ceasefire across the United States since Israel began its horrific siege in Gaza. In this essay, Mindy Isser writes about being an anti-Zionist Jew and organizing for a free Palestine.
  • Will this new comet of protest persist?

    Will this new comet of protest persist?

    It’s a frighteningly long road just to reach the starting points of earlier attempts to build a new world. But a new generation has at least bravely initiated the journey.