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Elin Boman introduced the Arise & Resist conference, March 15, 2025, Cambridge

Sources of the Current Crisis

March 22, 2025 Elin Boman

Introductory remarks presented by Elin Boman at Arise & Resist: Our Time to Act is Now conference, March 15, 2025 Welcome everyone. Thank you for coming to this follow up to our January 19th conference. Today we intend to develop organizing strategies and strengthen our […]

Israeli Blockade of Humanitarian Aid

March 19, 2025 Lila Li

by Lila Li On Sunday, March 2nd, Israel blocked the entry of all humanitarian aid into Gaza. A week later, energy minister Eli Cohen announced his decision to shut down Gaza’s electricity supply. Without true leadership, external support, and now essential supplies, the people of […]

Slaughter, Shock, and Betrayal: Israel’s Surprise Siege on Gaza Kills 400 and Ends Ceasefire

March 19, 2025 Lila Li

by Lila Li On the morning of March 18, Israel launched a surprise siege on the Gaza Strip, killing over four hundred people and putting a unilateral end to the ceasefire not even two months after it began. Over the past two months, even before […]

Ireland Stands with Palestine, but Does the Taoiseach?

March 18, 2025 Jeannie Connerney

by Jeannie Connerney *Taoiseach is the Irish word for head of government or prime minister “Two psychopaths sitting in front of an open fire in the White House.” That’s how Ruth Coppinger, a member of Ireland’s People Before Profit party, described Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu […]

Columbia Graduate Student Mahmoud Khalil is Disappeared to Notorious Private Prison in Louisiana

March 18, 2025 Liam Noble

by Liam Noble At 8:27 pm on March 8th, 2025, Mahmoud Khalil was abducted from Columbia University housing by men who refused to disclose their affiliation, saying, “We don’t give our names.” Filmed by his eight months pregnant wife, Abdalla, Mahmoud was handcuffed and hauled […]

Belgium just had its biggest protest in history – why?

March 12, 2025 Carrie Hou

by Carrie Hou On Thursday, February 13, over 100,000 people in Belgium took to the streets of Brussels to protest the new coalition government austerity plans. Led by unions, who called for a general strike, the protest was one of the biggest in Belgium’s history, […]

Slow Motion Ethnic Cleansing in Hebron

March 12, 2025 Ken Jones

by Ken Jones This article was originally published in CounterPunch. “Tell our story!” the man in the checkpoint cage yelled, in English. He and a crowd of Palestinian Muslim men were jammed together waiting to be checked out, one at a time, by an Israeli […]