Category: 6. Opinion

When the ceasefire began in January, we felt lost between a haunting past and an uncertain future. We were teetering between painful memories holding us back and incessant life demands pushing us forward. Crying over the unspeakable while creeping among the ruins of our lives. We were exactly in the middle of two lives: one still bleeding and another eerily blurred. We wouldn’t want to go back, yet we are unable to move forward.

And yet, we cherished that moment of quiet and…

Since I was a child, Ramadan wasn’t just about fasting. It was about taraweeh prayers, long nights of making dua (prayers of supplication), and warm family gatherings. My father would take us to visit our relatives — our aunts, uncles, and to my grandfather’s house. Every year, we rode in his car, and I always sat by the window, not just for the view but to capture every moment in my mind, as if saving pictures that would never fade.

I loved watching the crowded streets, the…

After more than 500 days of Israeli mass bombardment, starvation, destruction of civilian infrastructure and thousands of housing units, and after two weeks of its most recent renewed assault following the breakdown of the ceasefire, Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip witnessed the first protest by Palestinians demanding Hamas to unconditionally release the remaining Israeli captives and give up control of Gaza.

The Palestinian protesters’ cries that they “want to live”…

The United States and Israel have increased pressure on the people of Gaza in their pursuit of ethnically cleansing the Strip. The renewal of Israel’s full-scale assault on the civilian population of Gaza is particularly devastating after the weeks of lower scale Israeli operations, during which Gazans returned to their destroyed villages and cities in the north and began to dig their lives out of the rubble.

As it becomes clearer that the American and Israeli plan is one of…

On March 18th, Israeli warplanes resumed their ferocious bombardment of Gaza—killing more than 800 Palestinians in a matter of days. After nine days of the renewed assault on Gaza, protesters in Beit Lahia took to the streets. Holding signs that read “No to genocide,” some among them also directed blame at Palestinian armed factions, particularly Hamas. In Israeli media, this footage was instantly seized upon and repackaged: proof, it claimed, that Israel’s campaign was…

The Israeli war cabinet approved the creation of a special agency to organize the “voluntary emigration” of Palestinians from Gaza on Sunday. It was in line with the announced plan of U.S. President Donald Trump to expel Palestinians from the Strip, even though the U.S. has since backed down from it. Israel’s Channel 12 reported that the cabinet was briefed on the “international dimensions” of creating the special agency and that Israel’s Defense Ministry under Israel Katz…

Today, the Israeli government will begin hosting a two-day conference on antisemitism. Ironically the affair has begun to fall apart over charges too many people attending it are antisemites. 

This week’s conference is headed by Israel’s Diaspora Ministry, which is headed by Amichai Chikli (Likud). The conference titled “International Conference on Combating Antisemitism” is a culmination of Israel’s “Diaspora week”, but it is really meant to garner further support…

On March 24, 2025, we witnessed the deliberate killing of yet another Palestinian journalist. Hossam Shabat, a 24-year-old reporter for Al Jazeera Mubasher and contributor to Drop Site News, was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike targeting his vehicle in northern Gaza. Hours earlier, Mohammad Mansour, a correspondent for Palestine Today, was also killed in Khan Younis.

These were not accidents. These were not casualties of “crossfire” or “clashes.” These were targeted…

Editor’s Note: The following article originally appeared in Chris Hedges’s Substack newsletter The Chris Hedges Report.

This is the last chapter of the genocide. It is the final, blood-soaked push to drive the Palestinians from Gaza. No food. No medicine. No shelter. No clean water. No electricity. Israel is swiftly turning Gaza into a Dantesque cauldron of human misery where Palestinians are being killed in their hundreds and soon, again, in their thousands and tens of…

The national crackdown against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) was inevitable. After racial progress, there is often retrenchment.

DEI programs were the institutionalized response to the Black Lives Matter movement. They reshaped conversations around representation, missing perspectives, and ultimately who belongs, whether in universities, boardrooms, or other institutions of power. 

So when President Donald Trump terminated these programs in the public and private…