Category: 6. Opinion

On August 25, Palestinian journalist Adli Abu Taha called his brother Moaz, also a journalist, minutes after news broke of an Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. Moaz was there. 

“I’m fine, but Hossam Al-Masri was just killed,” Moaz told his brother, who urged him to leave the site. Moaz reassured him that he would leave shortly, but wanted to finish filming the aftermath of the strike, which was on an outdoor stairwell. Minutes later, a second…

We are repeatedly told that the Western political elite, along with their institutional appendages, are cowardly — that they are simply too afraid to say and do more in the face of the Zionist regime’s genocide in Gaza, or that they are too readily influenced by Zionist propaganda and too beholden to the pro-regime lobby. But such accusations don’t stand up to scrutiny.

Biden, Harris, and almost the entirety of the Democratic Party — including its so-called “progressive…

One of the most important declarations in Israel’s history was issued last month: French President Emmanuel Macron said that Israel is fueling global antisemitism through its war crimes.  

Macron spoke out after Israeli PM Netanyahu accused Europe of pouring “fuel on [the] antisemitic fire” with plans to recognize a Palestinian state. Macron wrote Netanyahu a long letter, turning the accusation back on him.  

He said that Israel’s “murderous and illegal permanent…

Israel attacked the Qatari capital of Doha on Tuesday, killing six people. The target was a gathering of Hamas’ leadership who were meeting to consider the latest proposal from the United States for an end to the genocide and the release of the remaining Israeli hostages being held in Gaza.

There is a lot to unpack in this attack. While there is neither evidence nor reason to believe the U.S. was directly involved, Washington’s claim that they were taken completely by surprise…

Editor’s note: the following Op-Ed was written by an ISM volunteer who requested anonymity in order to continue engaging in direct action and the documentation of human rights violations without retribution.

In mid-August, I, along with another international activist, was beaten and robbed by armed Israeli soldiers in the rural village of Ibziq. The assault gave us only a faint, yet utterly incommensurate, glimpse of the imminent danger that Palestinians experience every…

Last week, the U.S. State Department revoked visas for leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), including Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. That effectively blocked them from attending the upcoming United Nations General Assembly session in New York.

Abbas had hoped to address the assembly, where France and Saudi Arabia are planning to co-chair a meeting intended to salvage the long-dead and mythical “two-state solution.” The assembly is also expected to see a…

In the midst of the fighting in the Gaza Strip, two political psychologists from elite American universities conducted a survey among 521 Israelis. Respondents were presented with a hypothetical scenario: an injured Israeli soldier lies in an area controlled by Palestinian forces. To rescue him, interviewees were told, it would be necessary to shell a Palestinian civilian neighborhood. How many Palestinian civilians would be justified to kill for this purpose? The naïve researchers…

Under the urgency of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, many of the public tactics adopted by grassroots Arab movements to pressure their governments to boycott Israel and reflect the will of their people simply aren’t working. After nearly two years of genocide, the conventional tools of the Arab boycott campaign are hitting a wall.

This failure is not only about tactics — it is also about a deeper misreading of where the centers of power lie in Arab countries. This has led to the…

In The Sun Also Rises, Mike Campbell is asked how he went bankrupt. He replies, “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”  I could say the same about becoming an antisemite. The gradual way involved the evolution of my thinking about Israel. The sudden way involved the adoption of a controversial definition of antisemitism by Columbia University, where I am an adjunct faculty member.

All of my life I have considered myself philosemitic, if anything. Growing up in Melrose, a white…

In the wake of Israel’s attack on Nasser Hospital in Gaza on Monday, the world expressed outrage. But the best U.S. President Donald Trump could do was to say that, “he doesn’t like seeing that.”

In typical Trump fashion, he hedged and double-talked through his initial response to the event, and then came up with a meaningless, but headline-grabbing gesture to appease the growing portion of his own base that is tired of seeing U.S. money, weaponry, and diplomatic muscle…