Geography Archives: Middle East

If the people were actually in charge, there would be some option available to them to end the worst thing happening in the world right now. But the people are not in charge. When it comes to matters of the most importance, they never get a vote.

Behind the efforts of the powerful to unleash chaos against students protesting for Palestine.

Propaganda by omission is a dominant feature of the ‘mainstream’ news media.

Troops open fire indiscriminately at Palestinians amid large-scale incursion in West Bank city.

Deakin University and the Australian National University (ANU) have indicated they intend to dismantle the student camps. Students across the country are protesting in support of Palestinian people and against their institutions’ ties with Israel.

Incredibly the Israeli genocide in Gaza is now reaching new heights of violence.

 The students in short are moved by a pure sense of humanity.

The lies. The packs of lies–deliberate, filthy, and deadly.

Indigenous nations fight for sovereignty in the Arctic regions of North America and Europe. Connecting their struggle to Palestine, they are resisting NATO militarization — as the US Army pledges to “regain Arctic dominance”.

CounterSpin interview with Ahmad Abuznaid on Rafah invasion.

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.

“We want peace, we want freedom,” Palestinian UN Ambassador, Riyad Mansour, told the General Assembly before the vote. “A yes vote is a vote for Palestinian existence; it is not against any state… It is an investment in peace.”

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.

As a former college teacher, one who witnessed the attacks on those who protested against the War in Vietnam and who studied the repression on campuses during the McCarthy period, I became so appalled at what was being done to our brave and courageous college students that I began to write letters to the leaders of what are, in reality, academic enterprises.

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