One year ago, Anas Al-Sharif’s final words were: “I Entrust You With Palestine.” We are honored to join #palestinianyouthmovement in their week of action.
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Jews for Palestinian liberation & Judaism beyond Zionism. JVP Action is now doing business as JVP, as a 501c4. Our 501c3 work continues in JVP Lab. https://linktr.ee/jvp
Dr. Salaman Khan, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University’s Irvine Medical Center, takes his oath to do no harm very seriously.
As for-profit companies battle over ICE contracts, immigrants are caught in the middle
As for-profit companies battle over ICE contracts, immigrants are caught in the middle
“There is so much money right now in detaining people.”
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New York Police Department investigators deployed an extensive array of high-tech surveillance and investigative tools to identify the alleged vandal, according to documents from the court case provided exclusively to The Intercept.
Over the weekend, a premature fetus was recovered from the rubble after an Israeli airstrike killed its pregnant mother. In another strike, 4 people were killed in their car.
Yesterday marked James Baldwin’s birthday and the beginning of Black August. In his honor, we remember his enduring words: “I am anti-Zionist. I don’t believe [Zionists] have the right, after 3,000 years, to reclaim the land with western bombs and guns.”
Settler violence escalates, with illegal outposts and frequent attacks reported across Ramallah, Hebron and Nablus.
Palestinian children among those detained in Israeli West Bank raids
Settler violence escalates, with illegal outposts and frequent attacks reported across Ramallah, Hebron and Nablus.
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🇵🇸A 15-year-old Palestinian boy remains unconscious in intensive care & may lose his right foot after Israel denied him treatment in prison as his health collapsed, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said. Mohammed Hamid developed scabies in Israeli custody, but prison authorities withheld necessary...
Quincy Institute: 17 new firms registered under FARA to work for Israeli interests in 2024 and 2025. quincyinst.org/research/the...
The Eighth Front: Inside Israel’s $1 Billion Influence Campaign
The Israeli government has spent more than $1 billion in direct expenditures on public diplomacy since the Hamas–led attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, a dramatic escalation in such spending. This represents…
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A year after a killing, a siege worsens: A dispatch from the memorial for the slain Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen. jewishcurrents.org/a-year-after...
What borders are mostly protecting is stolen wealth and stolen land and the insecurity that comes with knowing that the theft was unjust.
Borders Are Drawn to Protect Stolen Wealth. They Are a Process, Not a Place.
From Europe to the US, politicians are expanding the violence of border policing and scapegoating migrants.
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99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa
My latest republished in @truthout.org. "Florida is really ground zero for how much immigration enforcement is changing and expanding." - @silkys13.bsky.social
How Do We Sustain Momentum for the Anti-ICE Movement Over Time?
Silky Shah, executive director of Detention Watch Network, discusses how the fight against ICE has entered a new phase.
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And our full conversation, where we talk about the parallel mechanisms for carrying out genocide from here to Palestine, is here on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lGT...
The 250-Year History of American Fascism
YouTube video by Jewish Voice for Peace
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It is more crucial than ever that we reckon with this history, including histories of resistance that offer us a path forward as organizers. The full podcast series is out now, and it’s riveting, so please take a listen.
Understanding what is happening today — an authoritarian government that is cracking down on free speech, stripping trans rights, deporting, detaining, and killing immigrants, and funding Israeli genocide in Gaza — requires understanding how this country has treated Native people since its founding.
It was an honor to sit down a few weeks back with the brilliant, Cherokee Nation journalist @rebeccanagle.bsky.social to talk about her new podcast, First America, which is about the 250 year history of American fascism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lGT...
The 250-Year History of American Fascism
YouTube video by Jewish Voice for Peace
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“For the first time in my life, I felt completely helpless. There was only one of me and more than 40 of them, backed by the occupation forces. They threw stones at me as I ran; I had no idea if some of them were carrying guns."
🧵 20 years since the passing of Nicola Ziadeh, one of the foremost Palestinian historians, educators, and intellectuals of the twentieth century. Through decades of scholarship and teaching, he helped shape the study of Arab and Palestinian history across the region: palquest.org/en/biography...
Nicola Ziadeh - Scholars and Historians (1907 - 2006)
Biography - Nicola Ziadeh was born in Damascus, where his father worked as an assistant engineer on the Hijaz Railway. His father was Abduh Ziadeh from Nazareth...
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“Workers are being killed and murdered everyday by Israel.” @uaw.org member Navruz Baum spoke about why rank-and-file workers pushed their union to divest from Israel, ultimately voting to sell $400,000 in Israel bonds. @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social on the vote & the organizing behind it.
United Auto Workers Divests From Israel
At the 39th Constitutional Convention, delegates voted to divest $400,000 worth of bonds in historic first.
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US-Israel defence cooperation spans decades, including a $33bn, 10-year memorandum of understanding signed in 2016.
How US defence aid shaped Israel's military developments since Oct 7, 2023
US-Israel defence cooperation spans decades, including a $33bn, 10-year memorandum of understanding signed in 2016.
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Via @theimeu.bsky.social: “This week, Netanyahu is making his eighth visit to the White House since Trump took office in January 2025. The last time Netanyahu was here, he lobbied Trump to start a disastrous war that has cost the American people over $100 billion."
The US and Israeli governments are colluding to implement the next phase of Israeli genocide in Gaza: the ghettoization and concentration of Palestinians.
AIPAC has spent a record amount in this race to elect my opponent because she'll be a reliable vote to a foreign government that is aiding, arming, and abetting a genocide. I want your tax dollars spent on schools in Michigan, healthcare in Michigan, and roads in Michigan.
#OTD more than a century ago, thousands of Black men, women and children marched silently down Fifth Avenue in #NYC. It was considered the first major public protest of racial violence in the nation. Much like today, anti-Black violence is UNJUST! #TheMarchContinues
This is Israel’s deliberate policy of ongoing Nakba. To maintain business as usual with the genocidal state of Israel or any of its complicit companies and institutions is to be complicit too. We need you to channel your rage, frustration, and grief into effective, strategic BDS action now.
Today marks one year since Awda Hathaleen was killed by an Israeli settler. May Awda’s memory be a revolution.
Via @theimeu.bsky.social: "Almost every day across the Palestinian West Bank, armed mobs of Israeli settlers brutally invade Palestinian towns, cities, and farmlands"
We speak with Salah Sarsour, a Palestinian community leader in Wisconsin, president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee and a legal permanent resident of the United States for over 30 years. He faces possible deportation after being arrested in March and detained in an ICE jail for 80 days.
Meet Milwaukee Muslim Leader Salah Sarsour. ICE Detained Him for 80 Days
We speak with Salah Sarsour, a Palestinian community leader in Wisconsin, president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee and a legal permanent resident of the United States for over 30 years. He faces ...
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