Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

Resistance Grows as West Asia War Widens

by Martha Grevatt, published on Workers World, November 20, 2024 For over a year, the capitalist media has falsely portrayed Israel’s genocidal war against the people of Palestine as a war between Israel and Hamas, the resistance group that launched the Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023. The Flood was a heroic challenge to apartheid conditions imposed on Palestinians since[…]

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Exterminate, Expel, Resettle: Israel’s Endgame In Northern Gaza

by Idan Landau (in Palestine), published on Countercurrents, November 3, 2024 Debates over the details of the ‘Generals’ Plan’ distract from the true brutality of Israel’s latest operation — one that drops the veneer of humanitarian considerations and lays the groundwork for settlements. Look at these two photos, which were both taken on Oct. 21, 2024. On the right, we[…]

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The West Buries a Genocide – by Making Victims of Israel’s Football Thugs

Jonathon Cook, Middle East Eye – 11 November 2024 If the West was really worried about Europe’s Nazi past, it would be better advised to stop stoking an all-too-real new antisemitism: incitement against Arab and Muslim minorities There has never been a harder time to do political and media analysis than right now. Each day, the western establishment unmoors itself[…]

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Delcy Rodriguez in the World Anti-Fascist Parliamentary Forum

by Delcy Rodriguez, published on Tortilla Con Sal, November 6, 2024 Long live the Free Peoples of the World! Long live this Great Anti-Fascist Parliamentary Forum, convened in Caracas, Venezuela, where, on behalf of President Nicolás Maduro, of the Venezuelan people, we have welcomed all the Parliamentary Delegations that have gathered in this capital city to raise their voice against[…]

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Dozens Killed by Israeli Air Strikes and Ground Assaults Across Gaza and Lebanon

by Kevin Reed, published on World Socialist Website, November 12, 2024 Israeli air strikes across Gaza and Lebanon killed dozens of people on Sunday, including at least 20 children, as the Israeli regime intensified its genocide of Palestinians and expanded its wider war in the Middle East. Health officials reported at least 30 people were killed in northern and central[…]

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Five Things We’ve Learned Since October 7

by Noura Erakat, Published on Mondoweiss, October 8, 2024 Editor’s Note: This is the transcript of a speech delivered by Noura Erakat on August 30, 2024 in Chicago as part of a panel titled, “All Eyes on Palestine,” at the Socialism conference in Chicago. It is being repurposed here as part of the Mondoweiss Reflections on a Genocide series. It[…]

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The Year After Al Aqsa Flood

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, October 2, 2024 The maniacal alliance between the U.S. and Israel has exposed the sham of western democracy and the illusion of international law. Iran’s missile attacks on Israeli military targets were the result of a year of provocation. Months of restraint ended when Israel escalated its war on the rest of[…]

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How Can The UN Save Palestine From US-Israeli Genocide?

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, September 15, 2024 On September 18th, the UN General Assembly is scheduled to debate and vote on a resolution calling on Israel to end “its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” within six months. Given that the General Assembly, unlike the exclusive 15-member UN Security Council, allows all UN members to vote[…]

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An Arms Embargo on Israel is Not a Radical Idea — It’s the Law

by Youana Tchoukleva, published on Mondoweiss, August 31, 2024 As Israel launches its largest military assault in the West Bank in twenty years, I cannot stop thinking about the people I met in the occupied territory. I think of the mother in Jenin who was on the phone with her two sons seconds before their house was burned in an[…]

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Ceasefire Negotiations as a Weapon of War

by Malik Hijazi, published on Mondoweiss, August 25, 2024 I have lost count of how many times I have clung to the hope of a ceasefire, only to watch it crumble into dust. As the war in Gaza stretches into the summer of 2024, the promise of ending this suffering has become nothing more than a cruel illusion. Every time[…]

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