Dems, Libs & Complicancy

By: Martin Olsen, Syndicated Columnist The images coming out of Gaza are horrendous. Mothers holding starving babies, children crying out for food, people collapsing in the street from hunger. They are so powerful they have compelled me to, at long last, say Israel has gone a smidge too far and should really stop it. Through […]

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Israel’s backers in the US and Western Europe claim to be opposed to violence. But they’ve done everything they can to shut down or criminalize nonviolent action by Palestinians and their supporters, from international legal cases to the BDS movement.

For the first time in decades, a shift is emerging in how some Western nations approach the question of Palestine. It’s visible in a wave of diplomatic

More than 600 days into its genocidal war in Gaza, some of Israel's closest allies have begun to condemn its actions. Alongside the changing global narrative...

Women's Marches are being planned across the country ahead of Election Day to "show the strength of our feminist movement." However, curiously missing from the talking points around the strength of the feminist movement is the women of Palestine - who have endured the brutality of anti-feminist policies for decades under the illegal occupation by Israel.

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.

When workers send emails including words related to Israel’s war on Gaza, messages are delayed as much as 45 minutes or never arrive at all.

Internal Google documents show that the tech giant feared it wouldn’t be able to monitor how Israel might use its technology to harm Palestinians.

Leaked documents shed light on how Israel integrated the US tech giant into its war effort to meet a growing demand for cloud and AI tools

“It’s interesting that there’s so little discrepancy between the candidates in this race.”

The critically acclaimed feature-length documentary ‘Israelism’ investigates a movement of young American Jews who are campaigning to redefine Judaism’s rela...

Time is running out for Kamala Harris to distance herself from U.S. policies enabling mass murder in Gaza. Polls show a pivot towards moral decency could boost her chances against Trump. Will she continue to echo Biden's unconditional support for Israel's atrocities, or will she take a stand for justice and humanity?

Kamala Harris won the debate. People being bombed in Gaza did not. The banner headline across the top of the New York Times home page -- “Harris Puts Trump on Defensive in Fierce Debate” -- was accurate enough. But despite the good news for people understandably eager for Trump to be defeated, the Harris debate performance was a moral and political tragedy.

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.

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’

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

Human rights lawyers warned Biden that his unconditional support for the war on Gaza may implicate the U.S. in Israel’s crimes.

Democratic socialist politicians like Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib are right about the violence in Israel and Palestine: we should both be mourning civilian deaths and calling for an end to the Israeli occupation.

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While rallying support for Kamala Harris, Clinton echoed some of Israel’s most eliminationist talking points.

More than half a year into Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough was reflecting on the campus protests against the US-backed war

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Nine progressive House members endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders' resolutions to block U.S. weapons sales to Israel over Gaza.