Palestine

Chicago and World-wide Opposition to the U.S. Government-backed Israeli Genocidal Attacks on Palestinians

October 21, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Propaganda, Protest

Statement from Chicago Antiwar Coalition, October 20, 2023 The large mass rallies and marches in Chicago against the U.S. government-backed Israeli genocidal attacks on Palestinians continue, with another to be held Saturday at 1 beginning at Michigan and Ida B. Wells Drive. Yesterday a group from the U.S. Palestinian Community Network and supporters, including from Jewish Voice for Peace, sat[…]

The facts of the Ahli/Baptist Hospital Bombing

October 18, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Colonialism, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine

from Good Shephard Collective Newsletter, October 17, 2023 View web version (The website is currently down due to an attack, but we shall see) Some basic facts: Today marks the twelfth day since the beginning of Al Aqsa Flood and the subsequent Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people. Since October 7, Israeli colonial forces have murdered thousands of Palestinians in[…]

US Vetoes UN Resolution for Ceasefire in Gaza

October 18, 2023 UNAC Editor Imperial Lies and Liars, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, United Nations, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, White Supremacy

from Consortium News, published October 17, 2023 The United States Wednesday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have called for a humanitarian pause in the fighting in Gaza as well as for Israel to rescind its order to 1.1 million Gazans to leave their homes and move to the south of their enclave. The resolution drafted by Brazil[…]

Richmond Turns Out for Palestine

October 18, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Organizing, Palestine

by Phil Wilayto, published on The Virginia Defender Facebook Pg, October 16, 2023 RICHMOND, VA, Oct. 15 — As the Israeli military prepares to launch a massive invasion of the Gaza Strip, where some 2.3 million Palestinians are trapped in what has been called the world’s largest open-air prison, more than 1,000 people marched today in Richmond to demand an[…]

Not Hamas-Israeli Conflict: The Palestinian Cause Belongs to the World

October 18, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, Political Analysis

by Ramzy Baroud, published on Countercurrents, October 17, 2023 At one time, the ‘Arab-Israeli Conflict’ was Arab and Israeli. Over the course of many years, however, it was rebranded. The media is now telling us it is a ‘Hamas-Israeli conflict’. But what went wrong? Israel simply became too powerful. The supposedly astounding Israeli victories over the years against Arab armies[…]

Mobilize to Stop Israeli’s Palestine Genocide!

October 18, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Human Rights, Occupation, Palestine, Resistance

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, October 16, 2023 End All Aid to Zionist, Colonial, Apartheid Israel! For a democratic secular Palestine from the river to the sea with the unconditional right of return of all dispossessed Palestinians – a society, where all people can live in peace as equals! The history of European colonization, not to mention the[…]

Frequently Asked Questions, Answers, and Documentation on Gaza

October 18, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, History, Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Mass action

An evolving document compiled by young Palestinian media activists, published on OnGaza.org, as of October 18, 2023 (Recommended by Mazin Qumseyah) 1. What is the background on Israel/Palestine? Israel was built on top of Palestine through the ethnic cleansing of the native Palestinians, a long-standing Zionist policy that resulted in 8 million Palestinians becoming refugees or displaced people and the[…]

Letter from Gaza: ‘We prefer to die standing than to give up’

October 18, 2023 UNAC Editor Imperialism, Indigenous peoples, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine

by Ahmed Issa, published on Workers World, October 16, 2023 Hello world, I am from occupied Palestine. I live in the Gaza Strip. I am married and have two children, Bassam, five years old, and Adam, two years old. I’m 30 years old. My family has lived in Gaza since 1948 as a result of the forcible displacement of my[…]

With All Eyes on Gaza, Israeli Soldiers and Settlers Kill Dozens of West Bank Palestinians

October 17, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Colonialism, Counter Revolution, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine

by Brett Wilkins, published on Common Dreams, October 13, 2023 While the world watches Israel’s military pulverize Gaza amid anticipation of an imminent ground invasion of the besieged strip, Israeli soldiers and settlers—who are receiving thousands of assault rifles from the government—have killed dozens of Palestinians in the illegally occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem over the past week, officials[…]

The Struggle for Palestine is the Struggle of Working People World Wide

October 17, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Anti-Imperialism, Global South, Imperial Wars, Indigenous peoples, Native American Genocide, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, U.S. Aggression, War on the Poor, White Supremacy

by Shiraz Durrani, published on Countercurrents, October 14, 2023 The attacks by ‘Israel’ on the people and the country of Palestine have increased in intensity in the last month. Palestinian resistance has once again forced the attention of the world on the plight of a people facing another massacre and a country being destroyed. At the same time, the Zionist[…]