HISTORY & FUTURE

In the wake of Hamas's deadly rampage of October 7, some Israelis are remembering Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's previous attempts to "keep Hamas alive" as a counterweight to more moderate Palestinian groups.

Since the state of Israel’s founding, its leaders and supporters have sought acceptance among other states as a peer, and legitimacy in the eyes of the

At Home and Abroad Police in America need a great deal of reform, a project that translates to freeing them from the racist nature of U.S. culture while

Day by day, for a year, the Israeli military waged an unrelenting campaign of extermination against Palestinians in Gaza. Day by day, people of conscience tried to stop it.

Shirel Golan, a survivor of the Hamas massacre at the Nova music festival, was found dead in her apartment on her 22nd birthday.

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Three days ago, Israel’s leading newspaper, Haaretz, published the results of its thorough, comprehensive investigation into what actually

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The United Nations and other organizations have presented credible evidence that Hamas militants committed sexual assault during their Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel. But some accounts from that day proved untrue. Two testimonies by volunteers with the Israeli search and rescue organization ZAKA, have been debunked. Still, they have helped fuel a global clash over whether sexual violence occurred during the attack, and on what scale. Some allege the accounts of sexual assault were purposely concocted. ZAKA officials and others dispute that. Regardless, AP’s examination of ZAKA’s handling of the now-debunked stories shows how information can be clouded and distorted in the chaos of the conflict.

Ethnic cleansing of Palestinians has always been Israeli policy. Here, we present a brief history of the past year.

Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs both want the same land. And a compromise has proven difficult to find.

Myth-busting documentary finally breaks the stranglehold of Israel and its western media acolytes over the story of what happened on 7 October

Myth-busting documentary finally breaks the stranglehold of Israel and its western media acolytes over the story of what happened on 7 October.

I'm not worried about being too Utopian, I'm worried we aren't being Utopian enough.

A brief history of the region and some of the roots of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Answers to your questions about what happened, when it happened, and how many people have been killed, injured, or taken hostage as of this writing.

Comrades, For the time being, my writing on here will be entirely free. If you have the means, and believe in paying for good writing, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Below, an essay on the manipulation of truth and Gaza. For most of us, telling the truth means making a statement which fits the facts. If I say, “I am now on the island of St Helena observing Napoleon’s residence” - this statement is true if I am in fact really there, observing Napoleon’s residence. The so-called postmodernists proceed in a different way: they reduce truth to a discursive “truth-effect.” For example, Michel Foucault’s notion of truth can be summed up by the claim that truth/untruth is not a direct property of our statements but, in different historical conditions, alternative discourses produce their own specific truth-effects, i.e., they imply their own criteria of what values as “true”:

Palestinian leaders have responded to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection of a two-state solution, saying there will be "no security and stability" in the region until a fully sovereign Palestinian state is established.

The horror of the past has returned in a new guise, and the comparison of the Jewish ghetto under Nazism with the Gaza ghetto under Israel’s current fascistic authority must cease to be sacrilegious.

The US press and politicians are trying to fit the attacks on Gaza into a Zero Dark Thirty mold, but it’s something much simpler—and sinister.

US professors detected unusual trading activity on Tel Aviv and US stock exchanges before 7 October

A call from the families of hostages contains the seed of true safety.

On Tuesday morning, October 10, the Associated Press reported that the death toll in the Israel/Hamas War had reached 1600. At least 900 Israelis and 700 Palestinians, according to AP, had died since Hamas' terrorist attacked on Israel on October 7. One of the Israelis who survived was journalist Am...

The tragic scenes unfolding in Palestine and Israel are a chilling reminder of the horrors that occupation creates — and the urgency of dismantling Israel’s blockades and apartheid system.

Thousands of young people were partying at dawn when Palestinian militants opened fire