The longer the ruling elites ignore Israel’s outsized, transparent and often illegal meddling in the American political system and Israel’s brutal oppression of Palestinians and censor and attack those such as Rep. Ilhan Omar who have the temerity to name this interference and the human rights abuses perpetrated by Israel,...
Amazingly, Tamimi used the experience of being jailed, as many colonial subjects in imperial detention cells have–including Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi–to her advantage.
In response to the massacre of civilian protesters in Gaza, our elected representatives in the Senate and House must speak out on behalf of human rights and international law.
One of the country's leading authorities on the Israel - Palestine conflict examines Trump's December announcement on the status of Jerusalem, an announcement that stunned the diplomatic world.
When Trump claimed that recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was just acknowledging reality, he denied the reality of the 320,000 Palestinians living under occupation.
There is no scenario in which millions of Palestinians are kept under martial law and deprived basic citizenship rights and go on being stolen from– there is no scenario in which this story ends well.
The problem of Palestinian statelessness must be solved. They can become Israeli citizens, or Palestinian citizens. But they have to be citizens of something.
The continued expansion of Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international law, continues to “narrow and narrow the capacity for peace,” according to Kerry.
Trump would not easily be able to reverse a UN Security Council resolution that imposed sanctions on Israel for breaking international law by its theft of Palestinian territory.
“Water Protectors,” the opponents of the North Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) are calling for divestment from banks that fund the DAPL and people around the nation are withdrawing their money from these banks, and placing them in credit unions, or smaller banks, not involved in financing the DAPL. The divestment...