On April 12 Facebook removed the event page for a panel on Palestine. The next day the tech company shut down the page for the academic program that sponsored it. Ironically, the open classroom is about free speech. The sponsor of the event is the...
Related topics: Facebook, Social Media
Over the weekend, two rockets were fired at Israel's southern communities and although the Jewish state did respond by attacking sites belonging to militants in the Gaza Strip, residents feel frustrated that their pleas for security continue to fall...
Related topics: Israel, Gaza Strip
I’m Sam Bahour, a writer and entrepreneur from Palestine. I hope you’ll listen to my brief message encouraging you to join me in supporting Mondoweiss. Mondoweiss covers the movement for Palestinian rights in the context of what’s...
Netizens earlier posted videos of the IDF airstrikes, claimed to be filmed from the ground in Gaza itself. The Israeli military claims to have targeted a training facility, an anti-aircraft missile launcher post, and a concrete production plant...
Related topics: Israel, World Videos, Gaza Strip, Military
By Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association.
To: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Minister of Education Yoav Galant, Minister of Higher Education Ze’ev Elkin, Minister of Justice Avi Nissenkorn, Brigadier General...
Related topics: Protests, Benjamin Netanyahu
The pro-Palestine resolution that passed this weekend at Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) convention was a significant step forward; the struggle now is to make sure it is implemented and followed, not lost in some bureaucratic abyss as...
Related topics: Israel, Debate, Canada
Recently it was announced that 7,000 Gaza workers will be inoculated and thus will be allowed to resume their work in Israel, which closed its crossing with the exclave as a result of the pandemic.
Related topics: Gaza Strip, Israel
By Eman Abusidu | –
The humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip is worsening as health officials report more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases daily. They warn of a healthcare catastrophe under an Israeli-led blockade that restricts medical...
Related topics: Gaza Strip
The group Palestine Legal has filed a civil rights complaint against Florida State University (FSU) for allegedly tolerating and intensifying an anti-Palestinian environment on campus. It’s believed to be the first ever anti-Palestinian...
Recently, a group of Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activists in Gaza, namely the Gaza Voice team, commemorated Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) which is an annual event that was first launched in Canada in 2005 and is held by more...
Related topics: Facebook, Social Media, Censorship, Gaza Strip, Activism, Apartheid, Canada
Manchin rules out filibuster reform; Palestine — AOC blames both sides in word salad; MSM accuses Hezbollah in US intel collaborator’s death
Related topics: Hezbollah, Intel
My latest in PJ Media: According to a Thursday report in Al-Monitor, Biden State Department wonk Ned Price claimed at a press conference: “It is a historical fact that Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights after the 1967...
Related topics: Joe Biden, Israel, Gaza Strip
The Biden administration has announced its plans to reinstate millions of dollars in aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), nearly three years after the Trump administration halted US...
Related topics: Joe Biden
Earlier this year Jerusalem-based journalist and analyst Nathan Thrall called out the Zionist left for promoting the fiction that as long as Israel refrains from annexing occupied Palestinian land, it does not cross the line into apartheid. The...
Related topics: Israel, Jerusalem, Apartheid
UNRWA employees wear face masks outside a UN clinic in Deir El-Balah, in the center of the Gaza Strip, on April 3, 2021. (Photo: Ashraf Amra/APA Images) Palestinians are recording higher daily rates of new coronavirus cases and COVID-19 related...
Related topics: Ramadan, Gaza Strip, World Photos
Earlier this year, Mondoweiss contributing writer Sarah Doyal reviewed the new book, Except For Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics, from authors Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick. Sarah wrote: “Delving into the phenomenon...
Related topics: Podcasts
275,479 Palestinians tested positive for COVID-19; 236,633 recoveries; 2,917 deaths Of Palestinians who tested positive, 179,039 live in the West Bank, 67,854 live in Gaza, and 28,586 live in East Jerusalem 833,707 Israelis tested positive for...
Related topics: Gaza Strip, Israel, Jerusalem
The Biden State Department doesn’t know, or doesn’t want you to know, that the “West Bank” and Gaza were part of the original Mandate for Palestine, set aside for a Jewish national home. Not only that, but between 1949 and...
Related topics: Joe Biden, Israel, Gaza Strip
After months of torture and interrogations in a Hamas prison, Palestinian activist Rami Aman says he was offered an unconventional proposition: Divorce your wife and you are free to go.Aman had recently signed a marriage contract with the daughter...
Related topics: Gaza Strip, Activism, Hamas
JDA Debate Since its development the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism has been used as a cudgel to stifle and suppress Palestine activism. It infamously asserts that some criticisms of...
Related topics: Debate, Activism, Israel