“But… did he say it on a college campus? Otherwise, it’s just not news. Sorry, them’s the rules,” said one journalist sardonically. In just the latest example of a top Israeli official openly calling for the elimination of Gaza and the 2.3 million Palestinians who live there, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Tuesday demanded the destruction of Continue reading »
Israel / Palestine
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, 1905. In the summer of 1968, I was assigned to the Central Intelligence Agency’s task force on the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. The task force met around the clock in the CIA operations center, which was outfitted with myriad television screens. Continue reading »
Australian university students are setting up encampments in universities across Australia. They are not only calling for an end to the war on Gaza and freedom for Palestinians, they are calling for key changes needed in Australian universities’ relationships with Israel, including divestments in weapons research and development and sales and the cessation of links Continue reading »
The world would be a better place if US politicians exercised the same conscientiousness over Palestine as they have over the Chinese autonomous region. While American politicians have been busy sending weapons to Israel to slaughter Palestinians, they still find time to fret about freedom for Tibet. Just now, the US Senate Committee on Foreign Continue reading »
For the past seven months, life as I knew it has stopped. The enormity of the genocide in Gaza inhabits me. My short nights of interrupted sleep are bookended with hours at the computer combing the news of Gaza. Meal times are now brief moments to gulp tasteless food. A sentence or a photo triggers Continue reading »
Israel: Hey Joe, just letting you know Hamas has retaliated to our decades long Occupation and repression and have broken through the prison gates and attacked Israelis. Go figure. US.: Here’s your chance. It’s going to be a tough media manipulation, but we’ll do our best. Good luck. Israel: We’re going to bomb the shit Continue reading »
From Columbia University in New York to the University of Texas at Austin, from Emory University in Atlanta to the University of Califiornia at Berkeley, American students are protesting the genocide in Gaza. They are scorning the moral bankruptcy of governments which supply arms to Israel which simultaneously pretend support for humanitarian aid. These significant Continue reading »
Ruling institutions — the state, the press, the church, the courts, universities — mouth the language of morality, but they serve the structures of power, no matter how venal, which provide them with money, status and authority. This is a sermon the author gave Sunday, April 28 at a service held at the encampment for Continue reading »
He is by far the most popular Palestinian leader alive today – and yet few people in the West even know his name. Everyone one in Gaza or the West Bank knows him. That difference speaks volumes about who dominates the media narrative that we are spoon-fed every day. Marwan Barghouti – known to many Continue reading »
Day 200 on the Gaza strip with still no end in sight to Israel’s genocide, while our country continues to support Israel. Continue reading »