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Alfred Corn: Instagram posts of Dr. Ali Tahrawi (second gathering)

We are dying in the longest nightmare in the history of humanity, with the most disgusting and immoral generation in human existence, witnessing the most human abusing and destructive period.

October 8, 2024 · 5 Comments

Arlene Weiner: Ghazal

When parting or meeting we wish each other peace.
We show with every greeting that we are lovers of peace.

October 7, 2024 · 10 Comments

Alfred Corn: Instagram posts of Dr. Ali Tahrawi

Tired as if we were dead and lived again and suffered all kinds of pains and died again and again every day, in this hell of life, as if this is it, forever, as if this genocide would never end, and as if death is the only way out!

September 16, 2024 · 20 Comments

Hiba Abu Nada: I Grant You Refuge

I grant you refuge in knowing
that the dust will clear,
and they who fell in love and died together
will one day laugh.

September 2, 2024 · 12 Comments

George Yancy: The Violent “Othering” of Palestinians

Anti-Arab, anti-Muslim and political racism overlap in othering of Palestinians, says Palestinian scholar Yasmeen Daher.

September 2, 2024 · 1 Comment

Olivia Rosane:  ‘Is This a Joke?’ Tlaib Blasts Blinken for Geneva Convention Remarks Amid Gaza Carnage

“You supported sending more U.S.-made bombs being used to commit war crimes… How can you say you are for respecting international human rights laws?” Tlaib asked.

August 15, 2024 · 5 Comments

Brett Wilkins: ‘I Am Not a Terrorist’: Letters From Gaza Children Decry Daily Horrors of Israeli Assault

A U.K.-based humanitarian group on Tuesday delivered “heartbreaking” letters from two Palestinian girls—including one who lost her arm in an Israeli attack—imploring new Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer to intervene.

July 17, 2024 · 6 Comments

Brett Wilkins: UN to Warn Half a Million Gazans Facing ‘Catastrophic’ Food Insecurity

“The international community must apply relentless pressure to achieve a cease-fire and ensure sustained humanitarian access now,” said one advocate.

June 26, 2024 · 14 Comments

Abby Zimet: To See Our Humanity

Israeli forces just dropped U.S.-made bombs on displaced Gazans, mostly women and children, sleeping in a UN school in Nuseirat refugee camp, killing at least 40 and injuring hundreds in yet another massacre of innocents that “contradicts all human values.”

June 11, 2024 · 4 Comments

Video: Bernie Sanders Rips Colleagues for Attacking Student Protesters Instead of Netanyahu

‘It is not antisemitic or pro-Hamas to point out that in almost seven months Netanyahu’s extremist government has killed 34,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 77,000 – seventy percent of whom are women and children.’

May 3, 2024 · 10 Comments

Michael Simms: A note to our readers concerning Vox Populi’s coverage of the war on Gaza

I’ve received a number of complaints that Vox Populi’s coverage of the current conflict in Gaza is one-sided, and I have to admit it is true.

May 1, 2024 · 64 Comments

Juan Cole: The US House Just Gave Israel $26 Billion for Its War on Gaza’s Children

The enormous windfall will allow the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to continue to kill or wound a Palestinian child in Gaza every 10 minutes.

April 22, 2024 · 4 Comments

Bob Kunzinger: Moral Absolutism | Do Not Kill Children

Starvation is rampant and the conditions in Gaza have been called by Save the Children one of the “slowest, cruelest deaths” on record. It is a holocaust…

April 5, 2024 · 10 Comments

Joanne Durham: Becoming Educated 

No one spoke
of their exodus, how they fled homes
stolen or burned

March 28, 2024 · 2 Comments

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