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Our strength, our pain and our solidarity

"Why should the Palestinians be the perpetual refugees of this world, and forced to pay for this continent's horrific crimes?" Palestinian philosopher Yasmeen Daher's spoke at a November 4 rally in Berlin, denouncing the German government's Islamophobia and abuse of collective Holocaust guilt.
Gaza One Month Later: An Interview with Norman Finkelstein and Mouin Rabbani

One month into Israel's siege on Gaza, Mouin Rabbani and Norman Finkelstein discuss the political dynamics underlying the war. Rabbani and Finkelstein argue that the Biden administration's support for Israel's decimation of Gaza stems not only from its strategic support for Israel, but from a perception that Hamas's October 7 attacks were also an assault on US hegemony in the region.
Michel Warschawski: “We have gone beyond war crimes in Gaza.”

In the face of extreme repression of political debate, Israeli writer and journalist Michel Warschawski argues that Israel is in the process of perpetrating “a crime against humanity” in the Gaza Strip.
The Politics of Insecurity

The dissonance between people’s personal behaviour and their political choices ought not to be under-estimated.
"Zionists don't speak for me": On Jewish action for Palestinian Liberation

Jewish organizations like Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow have been staging highly visible and disruptive protests calling for a ceasefire across the United States since Israel began its horrific siege in Gaza. In this essay, Mindy Isser writes about being an anti-Zionist Jew and organizing for a free Palestine.
Publishers for Palestine: Statement of Solidarity

A statement from Publishers for Palestine calling for a ceasefire and denouncing repression of Palestinian solidarity.
Will this new comet of protest persist?

It’s a frighteningly long road just to reach the starting points of earlier attempts to build a new world. But a new generation has at least bravely initiated the journey.
Totalitarian catalysis

The West is burying its head in the sand as Israel decimates Palestinians in Gaza with impunity. Frédéric Lordon writes that in the face of Israel's genocidal campaign, the pro-Palestinian Left is right to resist the demand that they denounce 'terrorism'.
Cryptocracy: Rachel O’Dwyer & Edward Ongweso

Rachel O’Dwyer and Edward Ongweso join Eleanor Penny to talk venture capitalists, Silicon Valley libertarianism, and the reinvention of money in the digital age.
US:UN

“Resistance to American power lies in the alleyways of Fallujah and Baghdad, not the lobbies of the Upper East Side.”
Social media is a warzone: the IDF’s strategy for war as online spectacle

If Gaza is the ‘perfect laboratory’ for Israeli ingenuity, then the internet is its stage.
Tariq Ali on the pattern of Anglo-American attacks on Iraq

"The lesson is not that aggressive territorial expansion is a crime that cannot be allowed to pay. It is that to carry it off a state must act in the interests of the West as well: then it can be astonishingly successful."