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Opinion: “Past time to end wars in Ukraine, Palestine”

August 13, 2024 John Berkowitz

By John Berkowitz This article was originally published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. I’m Jewish, not antisemitic, and strongly opposed to the Biden administration’s unconditional support for the right-wing government in Israel and its genocidal attack on 2.3 million civilians in Gaza in response […]

Psy-Op Satan’s Speech on Capitalist Hill

August 7, 2024 Irena Kang

by Raymond Nat Turner Squish, squish, squish of blood-soaked jackboots; Red line—red carpet—coagulated on Capitalist Hill. Sharp-tongued choosey beggar. Ethnic cleanser, Psy- Op Satans’s raw sewage rant ran just over an hour … Prince of Polio/Pharaoh of Famine/Psy-Op Satan Stood serpent-like on Capitalist Hill and […]

Protest of Netanyahu speech, Northampton, July 24. Photo: Soren Anderson-Flynn/MAPA

Not in Northampton, Netanyahu

July 31, 2024 Soren Anderson-Flynn

by Soren Anderson-Flynn Despite the political chaos surrounding him, I wish Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could have taken the time during his trip to the United States to visit Northampton, Massachusetts. If he had, Netanyahu would have found a vibrant college town with bustling […]

Action Report: Salem Community Encampment for Palestine

July 5, 2024 Joseph Fandrey

From June 29-30, Activists from across Massachusetts convened in historic Salem for the first Community Encampment for Palestine. The event followed and channeled the energy of the student-led campus encampments that swept the country last spring. Activists set up a dozen tents and canopies and […]

Para-doxing: Publicity and Privacy for activists in the Digital Age

June 26, 2024 Brian Garvey

by Brian Garvey The use of social media has revolutionized the way activism is done. The smartphone gives the ability to every person who owns one, and has an internet connection, to become a journalist. This can have serious benefits. For instance, images of the […]

Campus Tribalism & Intolerance

June 17, 2024 Camille van Vliet

How to Unite Pro-Palestinian Students By Camille van Vliet After the Israeli invasion of Gaza, campus politics have been at the center of protest politics surrounding genocide in Palestine. The many deaths in Gaza have divided campuses ever more. Dialogue on campuses has withered away, […]

Settler Colonialism and Genocide

June 12, 2024 Jeanne Trubek

By Jeanne Trubek In December 1948, the United Nations General Assembly, by unanimous vote, affirmed that genocide is a crime under international law. It is a crime whether committed in times of peace or war. What do they mean by genocide? According to the United […]