Staggering Figure Amounts to 8% of Population of Gaza
August 7 marks the ten-month anniversary of the Israeli attack on Gaza.
A study by The Lancet, the prestigious British peer-reviewed medical journal, warns that the death toll could be 186,000 or more, almost five times the “official” figure of just over 38,000 and...
On November 26, three young Palestinian men were shot in Burlington, Vermont. Hisham Awartani, a junior at Brown University, released a statement that was read at a campus vigil saying, “This hideous crime did not happen in a vacuum. As much as I appreciate the love of every single one of you here today, I am but one casualty in a much wider conflict.” ...
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...
Thousands of people marched through the streets of Austin, TX on February 4th, calling for a ceasefire and for the state government to withdraw all state funding from Israel. According to the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Texas’ share of the annual funding the U.S. gives Israel is $298.367,616...
Another example of the United States, as an empire, fully supporting Israel in its attempted genocide against Palestinians was decided with the vote to censure Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on November 7, 2023.
Tlaib, a Palestinian-American, had the courage to call out Israel for its militaristic debacle in Gaza, as...
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...
Millions of people took to the streets around the world on March 2nd in solidarity with the people of Gaza as Israel is reportedly preparing an invasion of Rafah later this week, just before the start of Ramadan. In New York City, Havana, Albuquerque, Caracas, British Columbia, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul and beyond, the massive day of mobilization shows that the movement against the Israeli genocide in Palestine will not slow down until the attacks are over...
In late August, I traveled to Doha, Qatar, to meet and interview Hamas political bureau members Dr. Basem Naim and Osama Hamdan. After nearly four months of planning and coordinating, I was finally approved to come and conduct the interview at their diplomatic headquarters in Qatar. Given the security...
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...
The chief of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, Exterminator-in-Chief, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu jumped on his plane and jetted from one International Criminal Court (ICC) denier, authoritarian leader, Victor Orban of Hungary, to another ICC denier in Washington,...
