U.S. colleges and universities across the United States are using trainings, programming, and campus rules designed to “combat antisemitism” to directly contribute to a larger Zionist, right-wing trend that normalizes racism, Islamophobia, and the silencing of radical political thought rooted in liberation. The latest example of how this works was seen on June 5, when The Guardian broke the story…
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In a CNN interview earlier this week, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani discussed his decision to skip the city’s annual Israel Day parade, stating that his choice was not rooted in antipathy toward Jewish New Yorkers but rather opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Mamdani said that he still played a role in ensuring that the parade was safe for participants. “My job [as mayor] was…
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Israel has killed over 260 journalists and media workers in Gaza and 29 in Lebanon since October 7, 2023. Irish filmmaker Seán Murray investigates Israel’s killings of journalists in his new feature documentary Journacide: The War on Truth. He says the term “journacide” applies to Israel’s military actions because of the “explicit nature of the targeting and killing of journalists” as a way to…
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On May 21, activists with the Philadelphia chapter of the youth-led environmental justice group Sunrise Movement began a protracted hunger strike, vowing to starve themselves until Mayor Cherelle Parker committed to spending an extraordinary $1.19 billion municipal budget surplus on community programs. They were demanding investments in renewable energy alongside demands not traditionally…
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FIFA has proposed a match between Israel and Palestine as the opener for a youth tournament set to begin in the U.S. in September in the international body’s latest reactionary move. The tournament will be for soccer players aged 15 and under, and is open to all of FIFA’s member states. This includes Russia, which has been banned from FIFA tournaments since the start of its invasion of…
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After the so-called ceasefire was implemented in Gaza in 2025, I did not at first have the courage to return to Gaza City, which I had not seen since before October 2023. All the other Palestinians who went back described with deep sorrow the experience of reentering a city they no longer recognized. The beautiful Gaza City they once knew had become strange to them — unfamiliar to both their eyes…
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