Israel: State of Denial
The lies. The packs of lies—deliberate, filthy, and deadly. And they keep going. As if the world owes Israel and its “most moral army in the world” something—after it massacred more than 35,000 Palestinians in six months.
US: Pro-Palestinian Campus Protests Grow; History Repeating Itself – 2 Articles
A massive anti-imperialist movement has returned to US campuses, after decades of absence. In just 2 weeks, thousands of students from at least 140 colleges and universities joined in solidarity with the pro-Palestinian encampments, in the biggest anti-war student movement since Vietnam.
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The Council on Foreign Relations, the Israel Lobby, and the War on Gaza
On the role of the Council on Foreign Relations, the think tank of monopoly-finance capital, in the continuing US military, financial, and diplomatic support for Zionist Israel.
Students Rise Up in the US Against Israel’s Genocide of Gazans – 3 Articles
Opposing the War Machine Is Cool Again, and the Empire’s Getting Nervous; War Culture Hates the Ethical Passion of the Young; The Nation’s Conscience.
Ghosts of ’68
Militarized police raids cannot vanquish the ghosts of ’68. Thanks to student organizers, along with a critical minority of professors, intellectuals and human rights activists, people across the US are mobilizing in defence of first-amendment rights and against Israel’s genocide of Gazans. They are making history, and they know it.
A Middle East Peace That Could Happen (But Won’t)
Chomsky wrote this piece 14 years ago, in April 2010. Its subject was the devastation Israel was causing in Gaza, and on that country’s “criminal siege” of Gaza. Not much different from the situation today.
Why Israel’s War Is Genocide — and Why Biden Is Culpable; Also: ‘The Silence of the Damned’.
Israel has made no secret of it: it has embarked on a genocidal plan to “create conditions where life in Gaza becomes unsustainable.” And Joe Biden is its accomplice. Also: Those refusing to denounce this genocide – history will not judge them kindly.
From Guernica to Gaza
Like today’s Gaza, Guernica was reduced to massive rubble shrouding innocent civilians whose flesh, blood, bones, and sinews cloaked the bleak landscape of rubble, rebar, and crater-size pocked apocalyptic destruction where once high-rise structures, streets, and alleyways existed.
The Only Right That Palestinians Have Not Been Denied Is the Right to Dream
The bombardment of Palestinians in Gaza continues. Amongst the dead are many of Palestine’s painters, poets, writers, and sculptors. One of the striking features of Palestinian life over the past 76 years since the Nakba of 1948 has been the ongoing richness of Palestinian cultural production.
It May be Genocide, But it Won’t Be Stopped
The ruling by the International Court of Justice was a legal victory for South Africa and the Palestinians, but it will not halt the slaughter.