Capitalism & Neo-Colonialism

At a military base that now doubles as a detention center in Israel’s Negev desert, an Israeli working at the facility snapped two photographs of a scene that he says continues to haunt him.

Both the police crackdowns at Columbia University and elsewhere, and the propaganda that enabled it resembled scenes from an authoritarian foreign country. So we wrote about them as if they were.

Protesters believe they cannot change Hamas, but they might be able to change their own government.

Palestinians have long warned that Israel's blockade and repeated aggressions would eventually lead to an explosion. But few of us in Gaza expected this.

Comrades, For the time being, my writing on here will be entirely free. If you have the means, and believe in paying for good writing, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Below, an essay on the manipulation of truth and Gaza. For most of us, telling the truth means making a statement which fits the facts. If I say, “I am now on the island of St Helena observing Napoleon’s residence” - this statement is true if I am in fact really there, observing Napoleon’s residence. The so-called postmodernists proceed in a different way: they reduce truth to a discursive “truth-effect.” For example, Michel Foucault’s notion of truth can be summed up by the claim that truth/untruth is not a direct property of our statements but, in different historical conditions, alternative discourses produce their own specific truth-effects, i.e., they imply their own criteria of what values as “true”:

A call from the families of hostages contains the seed of true safety.

Dr. Keren Yarhi-Milo, the Columbia dean at the center of the university’s student purge, is a former Israeli military intelligence officer. Now, she stands accused of helping orchestrate the deportation of a Palestinian student leader and silencing campus dissent against Israel’s war on Gaza., academic institutional bias Israel, Columbia University protest deportation, free speech suppression universities, ICE political arrests academia, Israeli military ties academia, Keren Yarhi-Milo Israeli intelligence, Mahmoud Khalil ICE detention, pro-Israel donor influence Columbia, Robert Kraft Leon Cooperman donations, Trump administration campus crackdown,

It’s illegal to deport people for political speech, but that’s exactly what ICE is trying to do to this Palestinian Columbia student.

The use of human shields in war is not a new phenomenon. Militaries have forced civilians to serve as human shields for centuries. Yet, despite

One year after Oct. 7 attacks, Netanyahu is on a winning streak.” So reads the title of a recent Axios article describing the Israeli prime minister

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

The terrorism allegations were false, but the nonprofit still lost access to banking and financial tools.

Saturday was a gloriously beautiful spring day in Chicago, and as I wandered into the “Liberation Zone” which has taken over DePaul University’s quad, a kind lady asked me if I would like some lunc…

A Kibbutz Be’eri official said the New York Times's story of sexual violence against two girls is “not true”: “They were not sexually abused.”

Social media is awash with misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war, which was triggered by an unprecedented attack by Hamas militants on October 7. In one example, fabricated Forbes magazine covers that denounce two Hamas leaders for allegedly becoming billionaires through crime have been widely circulated. The American business magazine told AFP the covers are fake, and an analysis shows they contain publishing errors.

How is it that journalists are not pausing to question the outrageous improbability of so many of the evidence-poor rape stories being advanced?

How can something be headline news and also nearly invisible? Mainstream media are accomplishing that in Gaza

The current outpouring of sympathy for Israel should make anyone with half a heart wretch. Not because it is not awful that Israeli civilians are dying

The Palestinian reporters in Gaza who fill the void often pay with their lives. At least 128 journalists and media workers in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, have been killed and 69 have been imprisoned, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, marking the deadliest period for journalists since the organization began collecting data in 1992.

As negotiators from Israel and Hamas continue discussions in Qatar about a possible Gaza ceasefire, we speak with Palestinian journalist Abubaker Abed, who spoke at a press conference of Gaza media workers last week urging the international press to speak up for their Palestinian colleagues. The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate says nearly 200 journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks since October 2023. “The world just keeps turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to what is happening,” says Abed from outside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah. “It’s completely enraging and unacceptable.” His recent article for Drop Site News is headlined “What It’s Truly Like to Sleep in a Damp, Frigid Tent: A Report From Gaza.”

Grammy-nominated R&B singer Kehlani just had her June LGBTQ+ pride concert in Central Park canceled after Democratic Representative Ritchie Torres shrieked a...

Khalil's lawyers "have reason to believe" the White House is involved.

Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytIn his first live interview since his release from ICE detention, Columbia University student and...

Writer and activist Arundhati Roy has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2024. This is an annual award set up by English PEN in the memory of playwright

Nine health care workers at UCSF report punishment for speaking out about human rights for Palestinians, or simply wearing a pin.

Palestinian news outlets have suffered a drop in audience engagement after being hampered by Facebook, research has found. BBC News Arabic compiled engagement data on the Facebook pages of 20 prominent Palestinian-based news organizations in the year leading up to the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel and in the year since. The data showed a 77% decline after the attacks. Meanwhile, journalists at Palestine TV have shared statistics showing a 60% drop in the number of people seeing their posts.