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Demonstrators gather to call for an end to Israel's war on Iran.

Israel’s Unprovoked War on Iran Threatens All of Us

June 16, 2025 Sam Levine

By Sam Levine Early in the morning of June 13th, Israel launched missiles at Iran in an unprovoked attack— targeting not only military targets but civilian infrastructure. Current numbers show hundreds have been killed in repeated Israeli attacks, the vast majority of them civilians. Israel’s […]

“The World After Gaza”: A history for our times

April 23, 2025 Jeanne Trubek

by Jeanne Trubek Pankaj Mishra’s book, The World After Gaza, a History, addresses questions many of us have: How did Israel become what it is? How did a people who had experienced such suffering and persecution become the persecutors of the Palestinians? How does this […]

Israel Renews Extermination Efforts while Internal Ruptures Threaten Civil Strife

April 1, 2025 Liam Noble

by Liam Noble On 18 March, Israel broke the ceasefire, ended negotiations, and launched simultaneous bombings in the North, Central, and South of Gaza that killed more than 400 people, mostly women, children, and the elderly. The purpose was to avoid moving to the second […]

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 […]

MAPA Voices: “God in Gaza?” by Peter Kakos

December 18, 2024 Peter Kakos

God In Gaza? Look: There, on that hospital floor demolished by OUR bombs, crowded with patients with no place to flee; Look: in tents of the displaced masses, fire-bombed at night, children -clinging to IVs- burned alive, (MAY IT HAVE BEEN INSTANT!!!); […]

What is that thing we call Terrorism?

October 2, 2024 Lux H.

by Lux H. The 2024 Israel-Lebanon conflict is now in full force following the events on September 17th and 18th, during which Israel remotely detonated thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies across Lebanon belonging to members of Hezbollah, a Lebanese paramilitary group. This was one of […]

Najla Said’s Story is the Palestinian-American Story

August 20, 2024 Merri Ansara

By Merri Ansara MAPA cosponsored Najla Said’s one-woman play “Palestine” at Easthampton CitySpace on August 7. Merri Ansara presented the following introduction and ending statement at the event. When I saw Najla Said perform her play Palestine in Boston in March, my overwhelming thought as […]