Tag: Gaza

What More Evidence Do We Need? Flotilla Activists Expose Israeli Prisons

May 28, 2026 Jeannie Connerney

People worldwide are reacting to a video released on X by the man who so proudly oversees the system of torture in Israel. Security Minister Ben-Gvir posted himself strutting through a detention facility in Ashdod, where activists aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla were taken after […]

While No One Was Watching: Israel’s Attacks on Lebanon

April 15, 2026 Abigail Greenblatt

As the U.S.-Israeli ceasefire with Iran grows increasingly tenuous under Trump’s threats to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, Israel’s attacks on Lebanon have received little attention. In response to U.S.-Israeli strikes that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on February 28th, Hezbollah joined the […]

The Use and Abuse of Holy Week in Boston, Washington, and Rome

April 8, 2026 Jeannie Connerney

As Christians celebrated Holy Week around the world, messages from activists at Good Friday peace events and statements from Pope Leo contrasted starkly with the shamefully bizarre words coming out of the Trump administration. The imagery drawn from Christianity was used in a manner so […]

Palestinians Commemorate Land Day as Israel Legalizes Their Executions

March 31, 2026 Jeannie Connerney

Fifty years ago on March 30, 1976, six unarmed Palestinians were murdered by Israeli soldiers and police as they protested illegal confiscation of Arab land in the West Bank. Israel had planned to expropriate approximately 7.7 miles of land for Jewish settlements and military use […]

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, […]

Are We Waking Up Fast Enough to the Dangers of AI Militarism?

October 8, 2025 Tom Valovic

by Tom Valovic AI is everywhere these days. There’s no escape. And as geopolitical events appear to spiral out of control in the Ukraine and Gaza, it seems clear that AI, while theoretically a force for positive change, has become has become a worrisome accelerant to […]

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 […]