From Jacobin: “With elections looming and the Democratic base overwhelmingly opposed to Israel’s brutal war on Gaza, Joe Biden seems at times to be feeling the heat and talking peace. On May 31, he claimed that Israel had agreed to a “permanent cease-fire.” But Biden was immediately rebuffed when Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
by Don Pelton For most of my life there has been only one Holocaust, but since the beginning of the current genocide in Gaza (which nominally began on October 7, 2023 but actually began decades ago) I’ve tried to hold two Holocausts in my mind … but hold them how? I don’t believe I’ll…
Reprinted from Informed Comment of 5/24/24 with permission of the author, Professor Juan Cole JUAN COLE Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The House Committee on Education and the Workplace, headed by the increasingly unhinged Rep. Virginia Palmieri Foxx (R-NC), held another Stalin-style show trial on Thursday, grilling the presidents of Northwestern University, Rutgers University,…
Editor’s Note: Here Professor Hudson gives a searing analysis of the reprisals of American university administrators against students supporting Palestinian victims of Israeli genocide, students exercising their constitutional right of free speech. He traces this repression back to the influence of wealthy pro-Israeli financial donors, and shows how their influence (a new McCarthysim) is…
April 5, 2024 Press Release Media Contact: Melissa Garriga | melissa@codepink.org CODEPINK’s Ann Wright and Medea Benjamin Join a Coalition of Human Rights Activists on International Civilian Aid Flotilla to Break the Siege of Gaza INTERNATIONAL – CODEPINK’s Ann Wright, Medea Benjamin and hundreds of other human rights activists with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition are due to…