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After the Gaza “Ceasefire” — What Happens Now?

October 21, 2025 Jeff Klein

by Jeff Klein It was always hard to be optimistic that the Trump “peace plan” would permanently end Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza – never mind offer a path to self-determination and justice for Palestinians. Still, any respite, even a temporary one, from Israeli bombardment […]

Ireland Shows That Divesting From Israeli Crimes Is Possible and Necessary

October 8, 2025 Richard Solomon

by Richard Solomon In the 1840s, a million people in Ireland died of starvation in a famine called the An Gorta Mór aggravated by British colonial policies and a providential ideology that preached the poor deserved their fate. Nearly a million others fled to the United States, […]

Landmark UN Report on Israeli Genocide

October 8, 2025 Susan Nicholson

by Susan Nicholson On September 16, 2025, the UN published a landmark 72-page report concluding that Israel has committed, and is continuing to commit, genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. The report, entitled “Legal analysis of the conduct of Israel in Gaza pursuant to the […]

Why I’m On Hunger Strike

September 30, 2025 Jeannie Connerney

by Jeannie Connerney The author participated in The People’s Prescription, and this is a statement she read at the Theodore Parker Unitarian Universalist Church in West Roxbury on September 13. My name is Jeannie, and today is the third day of my hunger strike. I’m […]

Members of the State Commission on Antisemitism at Sept 25, 2025 hearing. Frame from State Legislature webcast

Antisemitism Commission Targets Israel Critics

September 25, 2025 Cole Harrison

by Cole Harrison The following is a transcript of the author’s testimony at the State Commission on Combatting Antisemitism (SCCA) hearing, September 25, 2025. My name is Cole Harrison. I’m a staff member for Massachusetts Peace Action, which represents 2400 members in the Commonwealth who […]

Israel Divestment Rally Speech

September 24, 2025 Paul Shannon

by Paul Shannon Below is a transcript of a short speech given by Mass. Peace Action member, Paul Shannon, at a rally in front of the Massachusetts State House on September 19, 2025, in support of Bill H.2984 which would divest the state pension from […]

The People’s Hunger Strike is Underway in Boston

September 23, 2025 Jeannie Connerney

By Jeannie Connerney The Peoples Hunger Strike began in Boston at the beginning of September in response to a group of Palestinians calling for an international hunger strike in solidarity with Gaza and as a means of escalating political pressure to end the genocide. The […]