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Naomi Shihab Nye: Every day as a wide field, every page

And there were so many more poems to read!
Countless friends to listen to.
We didn’t have to be in the same room—
the great modern magic.

December 7, 2025 · 10 Comments

Marianne Dhenin: Educators Worry Palestine Censorship Could Reshape Public Education Entirely

New efforts to shut down honest discussion of Palestine could restrict everything from literature to science classes

November 30, 2025 · 11 Comments

Adam Patric Miller: A Chill in American Classrooms

I’m trying to be a good teacher, listening carefully to my students so I can make the ten-thousand micro-adjustments in what I’m presenting to them so they will feel how much I really want them to learn.

October 8, 2025 · 10 Comments

Hend Salama Abu Helow: Olive Trees Tie Palestinians to Our Homeland. Israel Treats Them as a Threat

They feared the olive trees — the trees that know, more than anyone, who the true owners of this land are.

September 7, 2025 · 11 Comments

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies: How the UN Can Act Decisively to End Genocide in Gaza

What is urgently needed is for the General Assembly to hold an Emergency Special Session to vote on a UN protection force, as well as a UN-led arms embargo, trade boycott, and divestment from Israel. 

September 4, 2025 · 5 Comments

Emanuel Fabian: Israeli Settlers Beat American to Death in Illegally Occupied West Bank

US State Department said it was “aware of reports of the death of a US citizen in the West Bank.”

July 15, 2025 · 3 Comments

Video: The commencement address that Harvard suppressed for mentioning genocide

Who are the people who remind you of your worth and give you the courage to try again? And who are the people who sit with you as we witness the moral injuries of our time?

July 11, 2025 · 17 Comments

Claudia Lefko: Dear Refaat Alareer | A Letter of Gratitude

As per your wishes we’re striving to live—hopefully a deeper and more reflective life, including a life of action against the genocide in Palestine.

May 23, 2025 · 5 Comments

Zeina Azzam: My love, how can I contact you? حبيبي، كيف بدي اتصل فيك؟

They handcuffed him, didn’t listen when he’d speak,
callously severing him from his home
as his wife cried, حبيبي، كيف بدي اتصل فيك؟

April 18, 2025 · 3 Comments

Dr. Noor Abdalla: Letter to My Husband, Mahmoud Khalil 

As she prepares to welcome her first child with husband Mahmoud Khalil, Dr. Noor Abdalla writes to her husband one month after he was unlawfully detained for exercising his free speech rights.

April 18, 2025 · 4 Comments

Aviva Chomsky: The Colonial View of the World Never Dies

Who are the barbarians?

April 17, 2025 · 6 Comments

Arun Gupta: 10 Organizing Principles for Defeating Trumpism 2.0

Here are the organizing lessons I learned from movements for worker organizing, immigrant rights, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, climate justice, Palestine solidarity, and abortion rights. These lessons may serve us well under Trump 2.0.

April 9, 2025 · 2 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

Angele Ellis: The life and legacy of Palestinian writer Refaat Alareer (1979-2023)

Refaat Alareer stands in a field in Gaza, holding a container of freshly picked strawberries. What evokes the earth’s sweetness more fully than a ripe berry? The expression on his face—scholarly, bespectacled—is gentle and tender.

March 4, 2025 · 7 Comments

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