Refaat Alareer, a professor of English literature at the Islamic University in Gaza, was tragically killed in an Israeli air strike on December 6, 2023, along with his brother, sister and four of his nephews and nieces.
OR Books has put out a collection of his writings, If I Must...
While many people are deeply saddened by the escalation of violence in the Arab-Israeli conflict, what’s commonly under-reported is the origin and funding of Hamas.
The Hamas attack on Israeli non-combatant civilians was not at all a blow to Israel’s ruling elite, but, on the contrary, an attack that strengthens...
A Palestinian boy living on Israel’s West Bank rolled a rubber truck tire toward an already burning fire. Wearing a mud-smeared T-shirt and a determined expression, he dumped the tire and ran for another.
“There’s my column,” I said to my wife, Stephanie, pointing to the TV screen as we...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. was working to “gather the facts” about the killing by Israeli military forces of U.S. citizen Aysenur Eygi.
They Know
Blinken does not need time to “gather the facts.” The facts are already known to the Israeli military, the U.S. military and the U.S....
Fake stories about Hamas ripping babies from women’s stomachs and committing mass rapes were similar to those told about German troops in Belgium—and U.S. adversaries in Vietnam
After October 7, 2023, the U.S. media went into high gear promoting stories about Hamas atrocities, claiming that Hamas had ripped babies...
Responses to the current violence in, and from, Gaza vary as follows:
Israeli leaders, much of the Israeli public, and Zionists in the West, thirsting for vengeance, call for genocidal mass murder and/or wholesale ethnic-cleansing operations against the people of Gaza.
Israel and its Western imperial allies (U.S., et al.) evade...
“HUNGER CATASTROPHE IN GAZA—DONATIONS NEEDED” cries Mercy Corps.
“URGENT: STARVATION IN GAZA: ALL GIFTS MATCHED FOR GAZA” shouts Rescue.org.
These and many other appeals from international relief organizations have motivated untold numbers of compassionate and generous souls to open their purses. You may be among them. If so, you may have...
On October 9, Israel and Hamas announced the adoption of a cease-fire agreement involving the release of all hostages held by Hamas.
Israel, in exchange, agreed to allow for the entry of humanitarian aid, to release Palestinian prisoners, and to withdraw its forces to a so-called “yellow line” from which...
As Israel began its unprovoked attacks on Iran on June 13, the last three of the twelve volunteers of the Gaza Flotilla ship Madleen were still in Israeli prisons.
Marc van Rennes, a Dutch citizen, was in the detention cell at Ben Gurion Airport when Israeli authorities closed the airport expecting Iranian...
The buildings and the people in them are burning while the soil, sea, air, and groundwater are being poisoned in Gaza.
Joshua Frank’s article, Making Gaza Unlivable ought to be read by everyone. Frank is the managing editor of CounterPunch. He describes the collapsing infrastructure and dire circumstances of Gaza...
