Geography Archives: Israel

Eighty years ago, on January 27, 1944, people in the street were hugging each other and weeping with joy. They were celebrating the end of a nearly 900 days brutal siege. Soviet forces lifted the siege of Leningrad after ferocious battles. Exactly a year later they liberated Auschwitz.

Right across the Anglo-American mainstream media, the killing of Palestinians is seen as normal. It’s only Israeli lives that matter.

The U.S. is so deeply mired in an unwinnable battle from the Levant to the Persian Gulf that only its adversaries in China, Russia, and Iran can bail it out.

Two brothers were shot dead in front of their family on an evacuation route in Gaza as they were heeding Israeli instructions to flee their home in Khan Younis. The parents have told Al Jazeera they thought a white flag would keep them safe.

TARIQ ANDERSON charts the support Cuba has been offering to Palestine and Palestinians since Che’s visit to Gaza in 1959.

Shipping blockade which the de facto authorities in Yemen have implemented to pressure Israel and its allies into ceasing the genocidal onslaught in Gaza.

Israeli ground forces were besieging the vicinities of two hospitals in southern Gaza on Thursday after ordering the evacuation of those areas days earlier, affecting around half a million people.

The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel must cease its warmaking in Gaza–cease committing and inciting genocidal acts–and that the case charging Israel with genocide must proceed.

On 12 January, the day commemorating the 1904 revolt of the Herero people against German colonialism, Olaf Scholz’s government announced that it would intervene in the International Court of Justice to oppose South Africa’s charge of genocide against Israel.

The Service Employees International Union, which boasts two million members, joined a growing section of the U.S. labor movement in calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

CounterSpin interview with Gregory Shupak on Gaza and genocide.

The racist accusation of misogyny by Julia Hartley-Brewer against Mustafa Barghouti embodies the refusal to see Palestinian men as victims, writes Hebh Jamal.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 25,105 Palestinians have been killed, and 62,681 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

A Palestinian family in Gaza says they witnessed the summary execution of 15 men when Israeli soldiers raided their apartment last month.

This is extraordinary because the states supporting Israel, above all the United States, have claimed the high moral and legal ground and lectured the states of the Global South about the importance of the rule of law.

On 11 January, Adila Hassim, an advocate of the High Court of South Africa, stood before the judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and said: ‘Genocides are never declared in advance. But this court has the benefit of the past 13 weeks of evidence that shows incontrovertibly a pattern of conduct and related intention that justifies a plausible claim of genocidal acts’.

As investors worldwide drop cash on Israeli start-ups for ‘battle-tested’ weapons, defence tech CEOs are poised to be the war’s only victors.

The mother of a now-dead Israeli soldier captured by Hamas militants on October 7 says it was the Israeli military, not Palestinian resistance fighters, who killed her son.

Feeling helpless does not mean being useless. It is possible to support Palestinians from afar.

If this is what the “rules-based international order” looks like, would we not, perhaps, be better off without it?