Geography Archives: Gaza

The co-founder of Palestine Action writes about her and fellow activists’ acquittal by a UK court for attempting to close down the Israeli arms firm’s operations in Britain.

Anti-imperialist groups across Europe will observe January 13 as the Day of Action for Gaza, to mark the 100th day of Israel’s ongoing genocidal war.

Hundreds flee Al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza amid a deteriorating humanitarian situation across the enclave as Israel presses its assault.

The horror of the past has returned in a new guise, and the comparison of the Jewish ghetto under Nazism with the Gaza ghetto under Israel’s current fascistic authority must cease to be sacrilegious.

For the record, I believed Israel was guilty of serious war crimes–but not genocide—during the first two months of the war, even though there was growing evidence of what Bartov has called “genocidal intent” on the part of Israeli leaders.

Anti-Black racism and Zionism are two cornerstones of Harvard’s flawed foundation. We should mourn Claudine Gay’s tenure at Harvard because she was both a victim and an agent of white supremacy.

On December 6, it was announced with much fanfare that the 10/7 Project, a new “centralized communications operation to promote continued U.S. bipartisan support for Israel; push for accurate, complete coverage of the Israel-Hamas war,” and achieve a “stronger” media “focus” on the victims of October 7’s Al-Aqsa Flood would be launched, by a quintet […]

In Gaza City, Israeli soldiers shoot Palestinians at point blank range, killing them in front of their families.

The outcome of U.S.-led conflicts in Ukraine and West Asia will have a profound impact on the developing world order. Washington has already lost the former, and its major adversaries are vested in making sure it loses the latter too.

I did everything I could to throw my son Qais the birthday party he deserved, even after we witnessed a bloody massacre on the same day he turned 1.

Reports show that Israeli forces are executing Palestinian civilians in Gaza in front of their families and keeping detainees in open air concentration camps in violation of international laws on warfare.

The desperate smear campaign to defend Israel’s crimes highlights the toxic brew of lies that’s been underpinning the liberal democratic order for decades.

Open letter from students and non-tenured academics

At least seven bodies of displaced Palestinians, including women, children and babies ‘shot point-blank’ were recovered at the Shadia Abu Ghazala School.

Clare Daly criticizes this individual for endorsing a genocidal apartheid regime, and concludes her statement with “Nein danke” (German for “No, thank you”).

The World Health Organization (WHO) says northern Gaza has been left with no functional hospital, and only four operate at a minimum level, providing limited care.

Control of Mediterranean gas fields is not the reason for the current attack on Gaza, but the theft of Palestine’s natural resources has long been a goal of the Zionist settler-colonial project and its Western sponsors.

Russia is negotiating with the Houthis of Yemen to protect Russian oil cargoes moving through the Red Sea for delivery to India and China, the principal destinations of Russian oil currently traversing the waterway, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and the Gulf of Aden.

The danger signals of a wider war breaking out in the Middle East are now flashing red.

His efforts to open space in global literature for Palestinian writers were a contribution to the struggle against apartheid.