Category: 6. Opinion

For over two years, Palestinians in Gaza have been declaring: “We are being exterminated.” These declarations did not emerge from official Israeli statements alone, but from lived experience, where Israeli military operations have turned Palestinian bodies into sites of extreme colonial violence. Yet, despite the visibility of mass displacement, bombardment, and starvation, much of the international community remains reluctant to categorize these actions as genocide.

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Tom Friedman has finally reached his limit. The Gaza slaughter is turning Israel into “a pariah state,” so it’s time for the war to stop, he says. The massacre of journalists and other civilians at the Nasser hospital did it. 

Friedman says Gaza is tearing apart the Jewish community and the Democrats. “It is … going to rip apart many, many synagogues around the world… between those who feel the need to stand with Israel, right or wrong, and those who simply can’t…

One of the most shocking and appalling aspects of the Nazi Holocaust was the way the Nazis documented their crimes. Survivors, of course, often told their stories of the atrocities they experienced, but for the sheer scope and scale of the crime, the world—and the Nuremberg trials—were able to rely on evidence amassed by the perpetrators themselves. 

Despite that documentation, Holocaust denial has persisted over the years and is seen as one of the most heinous expressions of…

After twenty-two months of unprecedented carnage, three things are clear: (1) the Israeli regime will not end the genocide in Palestine of its own will,  (2) the U.S. government, Israel’s principal collaborator, as well as the majority of Israelis, and the regime’s proxies and lobbies in the West, are fully committed to this genocide, and to the destruction and erasure of every remnant of Palestine from the river to the sea, and (3) other Western governments like the UK and…

While German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s announcement on Friday, August 8 to halt arms deliveries to Israel grabbed international headlines as a shocking policy reversal, the declaration’s fine print tells a different story. What appeared to be a major shift in Germany’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza may prove largely symbolic, with crucial loopholes that allow German companies to continue to profit from the atrocities in Gaza.

The devil lies in the details that…

For the past three years, a growing group of Palestinian women has been visiting the homes of families who lost their sons to Israel’s occupation, offering support and solidarity to grieving mothers and sharing their own stories of loss. Known as the Mothers of Martyrs and Prisoners League, the group was founded in early 2021 by Wafaa Jarrar, 50. What began as a handful of mourning women in Jenin refugee camp soon expanded into an effort spanning Jenin and several other cities…

Editor’s Note: Over 700 education scholars and practitioners from over 30 countries and 160 universities have signed the open letter below are calling out censorship by the Harvard Education Publishing Group in response to their recent cancellation of a special issue of the Harvard Educational Review on Palestine and Education. Initial signatories include some of the leading educational scholars, academics and practitioners in the U.S. and globally — including Sara Ahmed, Henry…

I had always believed that education was my lifeline. Pursuing higher education is a means to resist, to survive, and to preserve the stories of my people. I have always seen myself in classrooms and libraries, surrounded by professors and peers, working toward a future fruitful of research and education after years of study and dedication. Then, in a single night, everything collapsed.

The sudden shift between February and October 2023 still puzzles me. How can one go from a…

As anyone who studies the crime of crimes knows, genocide is a process not an event. For some NGOs, politicians, and other public figures, concluding that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians has also been a “process.” It has taken months, at times nearly two years, for some to admit that Israel has violated the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

One factor has been decisive in prompting these admissions. That factor is…

In leaked comments that were aired on Channel 12, Israel’s most-watched mainstream news channel, Israel’s former head of the Military Intelligence Directorate, Maj. Gen. (res.) Aharon Haliva has become the latest member of the Israeli establishment to make the case that it is necessary that Israel carry out a genocide in Gaza. 

“The fact that there are already 50,000 killed in Gaza is necessary and required for future generations. OK, you humiliated, slaughtered, murdered…