Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing

Jibril Rajoub, head of the Palestine Olympic committee, sits for an interview in Paris on July 27, 2024.

The Man Using Sports to Fight Israeli War Crimes The Man Using Sports to Fight Israeli War Crimes

Jibril Rajoub, the head of the Palestine Olympic Committee, says sports can be a nonviolent tool to resist occupation.

Aug 13, 2024 / Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff

Photo of a historical inscription in the Remterkeller of Halberstadt Cathedral.

Their Atrocities—and Ours: Thinking About the Wrong Side of History Their Atrocities—and Ours: Thinking About the Wrong Side of History

Can a cause still be just, even if atrocities have been committed on its behalf?

Aug 12, 2024 / Bruce Robbins

NBC News' Raf Sanchez embeds with the Israeli military to travel into the Gaza Strip.

The Rotten Partnership Between the US Media and the Israeli Military The Rotten Partnership Between the US Media and the Israeli Military

Even as their colleagues in Gaza are deliberately massacred, Western journalists continue to play along with the IDF.

Aug 12, 2024 / Séamus Malekafzali

An unexploded ordnance is seen in a damaged UNRWA school in Khan Yunis, Gaza, on June 14, 2024.

Israel’s Bombs Will Go On Killing Gazans Long Into the Future Israel’s Bombs Will Go On Killing Gazans Long Into the Future

Even when the war is technically declared over, thousands and thousands of unexploded munitions will remain, waiting for their chance to do harm.

Aug 9, 2024 / Mary Turfah

Kamala Harris looking at Joe Biden

Joe Biden’s Lame-Duck Foreign Policy Is a Threat to Kamala Harris—and the World Joe Biden’s Lame-Duck Foreign Policy Is a Threat to Kamala Harris—and the World

A lame-duck president averse to diplomacy poses grave dangers at home and abroad.

Aug 5, 2024 / Jeet Heer

Palestinians try to get away from the area as smoke and dust rise following the Israeli army attack a building in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in Deir al-Balah, Gaza,

On Surviving a Massacre in One of Gaza’s “Safe Zones” On Surviving a Massacre in One of Gaza’s “Safe Zones”

The Nuseirat refugee camp was supposed to be a place of relative safety for Gaza’s besieged residents. Then the skies filled with Apache helicopters.

Aug 5, 2024 / Heba Alhaddad

Displaced Palestinian children queue to receive food distributed by aid organizations in Beit Lahia, Gaza, on July 18, 2024.

Israel Is Using Starvation as a Weapon of War. Where Is the Outrage? Israel Is Using Starvation as a Weapon of War. Where Is the Outrage?

President Biden and other allies of Israel need to use their leverage to end the Gaza famine. The alternative is mass starvation and death.

Aug 2, 2024 / Yousef Aljamal

Benjamin Netanyahu and Kamala Harris shake hands during a meeting in the Vice President's Ceremonial Office in Washington, DC, on Thursday, July 25, 2024.

Kamala Harris Will Shift on Gaza Only if We Make Her Kamala Harris Will Shift on Gaza Only if We Make Her

The vice president’s ascension provides an opening for a new approach to the horror in Palestine. But it won’t happen without sustained political pressure.

Jul 26, 2024 / Y.L. Al-Sheikh and Nickan Fayyazi

Palestinians walk next to the remains of Al-Azhar University in Gaza City on February 10, 2024.

Every University in Gaza Has Been Destroyed. So Have These Students’ Dreams. Every University in Gaza Has Been Destroyed. So Have These Students’ Dreams.

The class of 2024 was supposed to graduate this year. Instead, they are trapped in the hell of Gaza, and their futures are unknown.

Jul 26, 2024 / Sondos Fayoumi

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to speak before addressing a joint meeting of Congress at the US Capitol on July 24, 2024.

Netanyahu’s Theater of the Grotesque Netanyahu’s Theater of the Grotesque

Yesterday, Congress lauded and applauded the Israeli prime minister, who has been accused of war crimes by the ICC, even as his victims continued to die in Gaza.

Jul 25, 2024 / Ahmed Moor

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