May 19, 2017
On Friday, 19 May, Palestinian prisoners entered their 33rd day of the collective hunger strike launched by 1500 Palestinian prisoners – out of a total of over 6300 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails – on 17 April 2017, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. (more…)
By Jonathan Cook on May 15, 2017
Bombing of SS Patria in 1940
Jonathan Cook’s article here is important background to the ongoing concerted effort to label any support for the Palestinian struggle for self determination as being anti-Semitic. Huge sums of money are flooding onto college campuses in the U.S. to undermine the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and to pressure state legislatures to oppose it. Seventeen states have passed laws against any boycott of Israel. If there is one thing that the U.S. Congress agrees on it is its unanimous support of the Zionist state of Israel; the most loyal outpost in the Middle East for U.S. Imperialism that they have armed to the teeth with conventional and nuclear weapons. – Resumen editorial (more…)
Presentation at the 5th International Seminar for Peace and the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases in Guantanamo Cuba
*By Bassel Ismail Salem on May 6, 2017
Bassel Ismail Salem, Photo: Bill Hackwell
The illegal and deceitful Balfour Declaration will soon be 100 years old. This imperial agreement made by the British government ceded Palestine to become a Jewish national homeland with total disregard to the will of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living there. (more…)
May 15, 2017
Calling the situation “catastrophic,” Dominik Stillhart, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Director of Operations, told RT from Yemen that with 11,000 confirmed cases the hospitals he personally visited in the capital, (more…)
Despite heavily financed Zionist opposition, support for the Palestinian prisoner hunger strike and the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel continues to grow on university campuses in the U.S. Here is an example of that struggle at San Francisco State University.
By Diana Block on May 10, 2017
Edward Said mural at SFSU. Lead Artists: Fayeq Oweis and Susan Greene.
At a March 2017 conference of the National Association of Ethnic Studies held at San Francisco State University (SFSU), President Leslie Wong boasted about the University’s role as a sanctuary campus. (more…)
May 15, 2017
Classic Palestinian Poster
As Palestinians and their supporters around the world mark the 69th anniversary of the Nakba, the catastrophe of the occupation of Palestine and the forced displacement of over 750,000 Palestinian refugees from their homes, (more…)
By Daniel Haiphong on May 12, 2017
One of the most peculiar features of the United States is the presence of a rabidly pro-war leftism that poses as “independent” politics. (more…)
By Paul Larudee on April 21st, 2017
There is an anomaly among the evidence that the Syrian chemical weapons attack at Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province on April 4, 2017 was a “false flag” operation, designed to provoke a US attack on Syria. (more…)