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President Donald Trump visited three of the Persian Gulf monarchies last week, receiving adulation, praising the feudal regimes, making deals, and accepting bribes while also carrying out a significant shift in U.S. Middle East policy. Amidst beautiful palaces and mosques, surrounded by Arabian (…)
Harvard is conflating Jewish identity with political loyalty to Israel. That’s a dangerous mistake
‘The implication is clear : Jewish students who come to critical conclusions about Israel are not independent thinkers.’ Photograph : Faith Ninivaggi/Reuters
When I first saw the Harvard (…)
“Because I care about the humanities, I am compelled to call this organization to account, to consider the costs of Modern Language Association’s shilling for the Israeli state, its capitulating to racial capitalism and the turn in the United States to authoritarianism. The capitulation makes (…)
On the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the United States under the Trump administration is now pushing negotiations for a “peace” settlement. The Ukraine Solidarity Network-U.S. (USN) opposes any attempt to impose a settlement that is not acceptable to the Ukrainian (…)
In a highly confrontational speech delivered at the Munich Security Conference opening on 14 February, US Vice President JD Vance declared that the “internal threat” facing Europe was more serious than that posed by Russia and China. He criticised the annulment of a recent election in Romania, (…)
Jewish creatives and activists also sign New York Times ad after US president’s proposal to ‘take over Gaza’
More than 350 rabbis, alongside additional signatories including Jewish creatives and activists, have signed an ad in the New York Times in which they condemn Donald Trump’s proposal (…)
As an erratic president imposes his international doctrine, countries are forging more stable alliances. His US will be weaker, not stronger
One of the ways in which Donald Trump’s regime obscures and distracts is by drawing our eyes constantly to the US – its raw power to intimidate and bully (…)
On his return to the presidency on January 20, Donald Trump rescinded his predecessor Joe Biden’s short-lived removal of Cuba from the State Sponsor of Terrorism (SSOT) designation. The SSOT designation will further isolate Cuba diplomatically and economically.
Biden only removed Cuba on (…)
THE UKRAINE SOLIDARITY Network (U.S.) wholeheartedly celebrates the liberation of Syria and its people from the half-century murderous Assad family tyranny. Like so many others, we are profoundly inspired by the scenes of people celebrating in the streets, the return of refugees who had fled (…)
There are a number of certainties about the coming Trump administration. One is that it will be bad for the climate. Another is that it will be bad for American democracy. A third is that it will be largely bad for minorities and for women.
But when it comes to many other matters, like (…)
Foreign policy played a minor role in the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in September. The vice presidential exchange between J.D. Vance and Tim Walz on October 2 barely touched on it. Yet less than a month before the US elections on November 5, it is foreign policy (…)
A months-long investigation found even the smallest hints of dissent are often met with unemployment.
Dan Fischer had been working as a Hebrew and Jewish ethics teacher for three years at Sinai Synagogue in South Bend, Ind., when a television reporter asked him for comment during an “All Out (…)
In Ohio and around the U.S., pro-Palestine activists alienated by the presidential race are redoubling their efforts in local elections.
In Ohio, a state that has voted for Donald Trump in the last two U.S. presidential elections, a staunchly pro-Palestinian congressional candidate may seem (…)
SEATTLE (AP) — For her 26th birthday in July, human rights activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi gathered friends for a bonfire at one of her favorite places, a sandy beach in Seattle where green-and-white ferries cruise across the dark, flat water and osprey fish overhead.
On Wednesday night, hundreds (…)
Only a few hours separated Antony Blinken and Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting in Jerusalem and the moving, impressive speech by the U.S. president at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. But the distance between Joe Biden’s sublime remarks and the capitulation of his secretary of state is (…)
While Congress cheered Netanyahu, grassroots mobilizations of the Democratic base marked a sharp break from the party’s support for Israel.
Pro-Palestinian protesters in Washington demonstrate against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his speech to the U.S. Congress, July 24, 2024. (…)
Shame on you, senators and congressmen. Last week, you held one of the most shameful sessions ever held on Capitol Hill. You cheered a politician who is persona non grata in almost every democratic capital in the world, affording him royal treatment.
sraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (…)
We often say that none of us will be free until all of us are free. This is solidarity.
By acting in solidarity, we learn how our struggles are intertwined. Being part of something larger cuts through our isolation. Solidarity encourages us to share resources and knowledge, which keeps our (…)
Omar Barghouti, who attended Columbia University in 80s, says student solidarity with Palestine has educated the world
Omar Barghouti speaks in Derry, Northern Ireland, on 27 January 2024. Photograph: George Sweeney/Alamy
The student-led protests demanding universities cut financial and (…)
IN A DEED worthy of the Theater of the Absurd, the University of Michigan (U-M) administration inaugurated its much-vaunted 2024-25 “Year of Democracy and Civil Engagement” program by pepper-spraying its most politically committed students in the face. This gratuitous act was part of a violent (…)
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