Geography Archives: Gaza

Representatives of Cuban LGBTI activism and friends from other countries joined the parade calling for “All rights for all people”, organized by the National Center for Sex Education (Cenesex) as part of the Cuban Days against Homophobia and Transphobia, May 3-18.

Police arrested more than 2,300 protesters in at least 58 crackdowns at 44 colleges or universities between April 18 and May 3 as pro-Palestinian encampments spread like wildfire across the U.S. It can reasonably be argued that university administrators themselves provoked students into taking action, and it can certainly be proven that they fanned the flames of defiance after the protests began—by forcibly repressing the protests.

According to the whistleblowers, the beatings inflicted upon detainees were said to be done out of spite and not intended for intelligence gathering.

Dutch Universities are waging war on their own students and Palestine activists.

As an extension of U.S. imperial power, U.S. tech corporations are eager to support Israeli atrocities.

After six year-old Hind Rajab was killed by the Israeli army, Britain’s national media failed to unequivocally pinpoint Israel as responsible, refused to follow up the story and cover important new information, and then moved on.

The loss of Western authority as a result of Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza has merely sped up changes already underway for a generation.

Below is the full proposal for Gaza ceasefire and prisoners exchange, which was accepted by Hamas on Monday.

A banner and a name remind student protesters for whom they are fighting.

The Venezuelan government also condemned Israel’s latest assault on Gaza following Monday’s invasion of Rafah.

Seven hospital mass graves have been discovered so far across three Gazan hospitals.

As U.S. lawmakers’ agitation over TikTok culminates in a law that threatens a nationwide ban if the social media platform isn’t sold to a U.S. buyer within nine months, an emergent media narrative finds a silver lining.

An emerging complaint the corporate media have against the nationwide—and now international—peace encampments is that many student protesters won’t speak to them.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams may well be the very worst of the Black misleadership class.

American rapper Macklemore has released a single titled “Hind’s Hall”, the name given to Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall by anti-genocide protesters in honor of the six year-old Hind Rajab who was murdered in Gaza by Israeli forces.

The crackdowns on pro-Palestine protesters recast protected speech as harassment, and have little to do with protecting Jewish students from antisemitic threats.

Antony Blinken says Israel is losing the PR war because of social media.

This blatant political chicanery would penalize political speech protected by the First Amendment.

As peace activists occupied common spaces on campuses across the country, some in corporate media very clearly took sides, portraying student protesters as violent, hateful and/or stupid. CNN offered some of the most striking of these characterizations.

It was May 10^th in Germany’s terrible year 1933, Hitler had been in power for hardly three months, when students and staff emptied the university libraries of forbidden books and threw them, an estimated 20,000 books by over a hundred authors, into the flames of a giant bonfire.… No books were burned this time in early May. But there were ironic parallels, some all too alarming!