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Israel on Trial: Historic days in The Hague

by Mahmoud Elenani, published on Peoples Dispatch, January 17, 2024 Egyptian journalist Mahmoud Elenani was in The Hague when South Africa presented its case against Israel to the ICJ, this is his account of those days when history was made With legal precision, South African legal team presented the grounds and evidence for their accusation that Israel is committing genocide[…]

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South Africa’s Case at the ICJ Exposes the U.S. and the West

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January17, 2023 South Africa’s charge of genocide against Israel proves that this very serious word should be used more often instead of being treated as a rarity. The U.S. and the nations of the west have committed countless genocides and their actions must be labeled as such. On January 11, 2024, the[…]

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Israel’s War on Palestine and the Global Upsurge Against It

by Vijay Prashad, published on People’s Dispatch, January 13, 2024 Hundreds of millions of people across the world have been deeply moved by the atrocity of the Israeli war on Palestine. Millions have attended marches and protests, many of them participating in such demonstrations for the first time in their lives. Social media, in almost all the world’s languages, is[…]

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In the Face of Repression, Resistance Thrives

Statement by Students for Justice in Palestine at George Washington University and George Washington University Student Coalition for Palestine, published on Mondoweiss, December 15, 2023 It has been over two months since the beginning of the Zionist regime most recent stage of genocide against the steadfast people of Gaza, in which almost 20,000 of our people have been slaughtered by[…]

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Musings from the Margins #4: Black Lackeys, White Social Democrats, Human Rights and Empire’s Decline

Black Agenda Report Editor and Columnist Ajamu Baraka has thoughts on Black Misleadership, faux Human Rights, the Decline of the Empire, White Social Democrats and other issues. What makes the white supremacy so incredibly dangerous is what I call the psychopathology of white supremacy. It is a racialized narcissistic cognitive disorder that centers so-called white people’s and European civilization and renders the afflicted with[…]

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Kissinger And the Class He Served

by John Catalinoto, published on Workers World, December 5, 2023 When a leading political figure of U.S. imperialism, someone hated by hundreds of millions of people, if not billions, dies — as Henry Kissinger did last week — writing an analysis of their role presents a challenge. This challenge does not regard repeating the details of this individual’s life. It’s[…]

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Black People Won’t Be Silenced About Israel

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, December 6, 2023 “…the Jews were the ones that walked side by side with the Blacks to fight for their rights. And now the Black community isn’t embracing us and saying ‘We stand with you the way you stood with us’? Jews died for their cause. Where’s the history lesson in that?[…]

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54th National Day of Mourning Demands: ‘Land Back, from Turtle Island to Palestine!’

By Workers World Boston Bureau posted on Workers World, November 28, 2023 Plymouth, Massachusetts ~Over 2,000 Indigenous people and their supporters — with thousands more in attendance via live stream — shut down business as usual in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Nov. 23 to commemorate the 54th National Day of Mourning (NDOM). Here — where millions of tourist dollars depend on[…]

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Shame on the US Ambassador to the UN: She Has Forgotten Her Roots

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, November 21, 2023 Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, has refused to ask for a ceasefire in Gaza to save lives, after more than 12,000 civilians have died, and half are children. Thomas-Greenfield’s policy statements suggest Israelis are deserving of human rights, while Palestinians are not. In 2015, Thomas-Greenfield received[…]

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Israeli War Crimes and Propaganda Follow US Blueprint

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, November 13, 2023 We have both been reporting on and protesting against U.S. war crimes for many years, and against identical crimes committed by U.S. allies and proxies like Israel and Saudi Arabia: illegal uses of military force to try to remove enemy governments or “regimes”; hostile military occupations; disproportionate military violence[…]

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