BDS, Palestine & Zionism

Akela Lacy and Ali Gharib debrief the 2024 Democratic National Convention, from Democrats’ support for Israel’s war on Gaza to Kamala Harris’s speech.

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In her first major TV interview during her campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris signaled no change from Biden on Israel policy.

AOC let down the Palestine movement at the Democratic National Convention. But it’s not too late to make up for it.

Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytVice President Kamala Harris made history Thursday as the first Black woman and the first person ...

At the DNC, progressives and moderates came together to support Kamala Harris by largely ignoring the most pressing moral issue of our time.

Group says Harris campaign denying a Palestinian speaker at the Democratic convention is a ‘terrible message’

The ACLU is ringing the alarm bell over S.B. 1287, which the group alleges will chill school speech on Israel.

The official toll represents roughly 2 percent of Gaza’s population killed by Israel.

From what is read and what is said, Iran is the major sponsor of international terrorism — creating turmoil, preventing peace, and wanting to dominate the Middle East. One problem with the accepted scenario is that the facts do not coincide with the assumptions. Except for revenging terrorist attacks by Iranian dissidents and Israeli intelligence

A new Israeli human rights group report shows that Palestinians held in Israeli prisons and detention centers during the war on Gaza are subjected to torture, sexual abuse, violence, humiliation, starvation, sleep deprivation, and denial of medical care.

Having painted itself into a corner by launching a war that has killed 40,000 Palestinians and failed to defeat Hamas, Israel has doubled down, provoking a wider war with Iran and Hezbollah to bring in the US against enemies it cannot vanquish alone.

A coalition of individual journalists, news outlets, and press freedom organizations sent a letter Thursday imploring U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to immediately halt all American weapons sales to the far-right Israeli government.

A new Israeli human rights group report shows that Palestinians held in Israeli prisons and detention centers during the war on Gaza are subjected to torture, sexual abuse, violence, humiliation, starvation, sleep deprivation, and denial of medical care.

Past solidarity movements teach us that organization is just as important as mobilization.

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“Make no mistake: this event is a celebration of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians,” Tlaib said.

Pro-Palestine groups lauded the move, but said Labour leaders must go further to end the UK’s complicity in genocide.

Walz allows for Harris to “turn a corner” in her policy on the war in Gaza, said James Zogby, president of Arab American Institute.

Ahead of the recent French elections, pundits widely expected voters to punish France Insoumise for its strong pro-Gaza stance. It didn’t happen. Around Europe, left-wing voters are galvanized by parties who defy the pro-Israel mainstream.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s reckless assassination of Ismail Haniyeh undermines the prospects for a peace deal and the release of the hostages.

The U.N. report found evidence of sexual violence, waterboarding, and the use of dogs against detainees, many of whom were deprived of food, water, sleep, and toilet access.

Constant Israeli evacuation orders and attacks on humanitarian zones in Gaza have forced  2.1 million people into 14% of the strip's land. At the same time, restricted border crossings and the targeting of aid workers makes it even harder for NGOs to carry out life-saving work.

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The confidential report is the first to detail the toll faced by the families of UN workers in Gaza

The Israeli army committed another massacre against displaced Palestinians in tent encampments, this time in the coastal Mawasi area, which Israel had designated as a “safe zone.”

Thousands of protesters plan to demand a “citizen’s arrest” of Netanyahu for committing crimes against humanity.

"We are seeing frequent allegations of Palestinian children being detained on their way home from school, or shot while walking on the street," said the U.N. agency.

Some of us didn't need an ICJ ruling to figure that out