Palestine & Zionism

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.”

A brief history of the region and some of the roots of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Answers to your questions about what happened, when it happened, and how many people have been killed, injured, or taken hostage as of this writing.

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”:

What’s happening at The Hague isn’t political theater.

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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?

Ethnic cleansing or “transfer” is an intrinsic part of Zionism’s early history, and has remained an essential feature of Israeli political life. More recently, “transfer” has been mainstreamed by billing it as encouraging “voluntary emigration.”

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

Palestinian leaders have responded to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection of a two-state solution, saying there will be "no security and stability" in the region until a fully sovereign Palestinian state is established.

Letter: Nick Moss on the charge of genocide made against Israel by South Africa at the international court of justice

The horror of the past has returned in a new guise, and the comparison of the Jewish ghetto under Nazism with the Gaza ghetto under Israel’s current fascistic authority must cease to be sacrilegious.

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

As the Palestinian death toll from Israel's 10-week annihilation of the Gaza Strip passed 20,000, warfare experts said this weekend that the retaliatory

The US press and politicians are trying to fit the attacks on Gaza into a Zero Dark Thirty mold, but it’s something much simpler—and sinister.

US professors detected unusual trading activity on Tel Aviv and US stock exchanges before 7 October

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

Scholars are torn on whether the current conflict can be yet classified a genocide officially.

On Tuesday morning, October 10, the Associated Press reported that the death toll in the Israel/Hamas War had reached 1600. At least 900 Israelis and 700 Palestinians, according to AP, had died since Hamas' terrorist attacked on Israel on October 7. One of the Israelis who survived was journalist Am...

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.

Thousands of young people were partying at dawn when Palestinian militants opened fire

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.