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Abby Zimet: No One Cares We Grieve When We Bury Our Children

Of over 600 Palestinians killed this week in savage new US-funded Israeli bombings, officials say over 40% were children in the bloodiest few days of a bloody campaign Israeli leaders call “only the beginning.”

March 23, 2025 · 11 Comments

George Yancy: How Should We Rethink Our Relationship to US Violence Around the World?

Democracy-destroying forces thrive off militarism. We have to resist both. A conversation with Norman Solomon.

March 21, 2025 · 4 Comments

Sam Carliner: How pro-Palestine student activists are fighting increasing repression

As universities and the government crack down on the student movement for Palestine, activists are organizing broad campaigns to get their charges dropped.    

March 17, 2025 · 5 Comments

Naomi Shihab Nye: The Words Under the Words

My grandmother’s days are made of bread,
a round pat-pat and the slow baking.
She waits by the oven watching a strange car
circle the streets. Maybe it holds her son,
lost to America.

March 16, 2025 · 24 Comments

Nasser Rabah: The War That Just Won’t End

In wartime the heart expands, becomes a boat for little kids.
An hour of peace and quiet is pure heaven for writing.

March 16, 2025 · 13 Comments

Julie Bruck: Two Poems

Whose earth is this?
It’s borrowed, leases are revocable,
minute to minute. Just ask the man
on a rooftop in Gaza

February 26, 2025 · 11 Comments

Philip Terman: Too Much Already

Among the ruins, Nasser, dark in the shadows, hands gesturing in all directions. He speaks in a measured Arabic to the backdrop of rifles and bombs.

February 10, 2025 · 4 Comments

Noelle Canin: War Watching

I know what blood looks like, she said.
I know what a home looks like
after a bomb.

January 26, 2025 · 11 Comments

Kathryn Levy: Tomorrow & The Subject of Flowers

And the children who run
from hiding place to
hiding place? Let them
cover their eyes and
count out their seconds,
as the wagon man watches

January 20, 2025 · 19 Comments

Alice Rothchild: Zionist Fragility

The time is long overdue for liberal Zionists to find the courage to take a long hard look at their uncritical support for the actions of the Israeli state as it becomes increasingly indefensible.

January 16, 2025 · 4 Comments

Sara Hegy: Even the Longest Winters End

Winter in a Refugee Camp, Gaza

January 14, 2025 · 3 Comments

American Friends Service Committee: New York Times rejects Quaker ad for calling Israel’s actions “genocide”

Many human rights organizations, legal scholars, genocide and holocaust scholars, and UN bodies have determined that Israel is committing genocide or genocidal acts in Gaza.

January 10, 2025 · 12 Comments

Ramzy Baroud: ‘We Lost Everything, But We Are Still Standing’ | Letters from Gaza

None of those who communicated with me throughout the war have ever questioned their faith, and have often, if not always, begun their messages by checking on me, and my children.

January 8, 2025 · 21 Comments

Adam Patric Miller: Next Year’s Words

I scroll down and am stunned to see a large ad sponsored by The Jewish Agency for Israel featuring a former student who is going to share his “powerful story of strength, sacrifice, and service” fighting as “a lone soldier” for the IDF.

December 30, 2024 · 5 Comments

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