Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

In Waging War on the UN Refugee Agency, the West is Openly Siding with Israeli Genocide

by Jonathan Cook, published on Substack, January 30, 2024 There is an important background to the decision by the United States and other leading western states, the UK among them, to freeze funding to the United Nations’ Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the main channel by which the UN disseminates food and welfare services to the most desperate and destitute[…]

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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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The World Court: A Glimmer of Hope and a Cloud of Doubt

by Paul Larudee, published on Dissident Voice, January 7, 2024 If the International Court of Justice rules that Israel has committed, and is committing, genocide, will it save Gaza? On January 11-12 the ICJ (AKA the World Court) will hear the petition  brought to it by South Africa. Specialists in International law Francis Boyle and (independently) Daniel Machover firmly believe[…]

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Time for Israel to Pay: This is How to Prevent a New Nakba in Palestine

by Ramzy Baroud, published on Palestine Chronicle, November 22, 2023 The ‘Gaza Nakba’ must be rejected, not just by words, but through solid Arab and international action, to prevent Israel from taking advantage of the war to expel Palestinians out of their homeland, again. It is simply inaccurate to claim that the ongoing Israeli attempt to displace all, or many[…]

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I saw Israel’s ‘Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem’ in Lebanon 41 Years ago, and I See it Again Today

by Rev. Dr. Don Wagner, published on Mondoweiss, June 13, 2023 Forty-one years ago, I was in Lebanon leading a group of ten U.S. relief and development directors hoping to introduce them to the extensive needs of impoverished Lebanese and Palestinian refugees.  On June 4, 1982, around 3:00 p.m., we were on our way to the crowded Fakhani district of[…]

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Israel is Failing to Force Palestinians Into Submission

by Rima Najjar, published on Countercurrents, May 18, 2023 In the image above, the three martyrs on the poster held up by Charlotte Kates, the international coordinator of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, are Khalil Al-Bahtini, Jihad Ghannam and Tariq Izzedin, three Islamic Jihad leaders killed during Israel’s latest strike on the Gaza Strip. News sources generally describe Islamic Jihad[…]

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Zionism’s ‘Three State Solution’

by Vijay Prashad, published on Consortium News, February 2, 2023 Netanyahu’s governmental partner, the Jewish Strength Party, is willing to conduct Palestinicide in order to create a Jewish-only society in the Levant, writes Vijay Prashad. A two-state solution, is simply no longer factually possible. Israel calls its latest military campaign Operation Break the Wave, a lyrical description of a brutal reality. This year,[…]

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Israel And 75 Years of Land Theft in Palestine

by Makram Khoury-Machool, published on Al-Mayadeen, November 19, 2021 In this article, the continuous history of land theft by Israel from the indigenous Palestinian population over the long years is laid out by a Palestinian from a leading family of Orthodox Priests in Jerusalem, now living in exile in London. If this reality disturbs you, please encourage your organization to[…]

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Israel-Palestine: The Missing Link… The Solution to the Nakba (Catastrophe)

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, May 19, 2021 In great detail the unfolding Palestinian freedom struggle against the racist, Zionist, colonial, apartheid settler capitalist state of Israel has captured headlines worldwide and won the solidarity of humanity’s finest democratic and human rights fighters. That apartheid Israel receives $3.8 billion annually in U.S. military aid – exceeding all other[…]

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Free Palestine; End the Israeli Zionist Occupation

United National Antiwar Coalition Statement Update: The latest casualty figures I could find were 181 dead in Gaza, including 41 children and hundreds injured.   15 protesters murdered in the West Bank with more than 100 injured.  8 Israelis have been killed by Hamas rocket fire in retaliation, initially for Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah and Al-Aksa, and now[…]

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