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Apr 4, 2026
Mosab Abu Toha Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Mosab Abu Toha, May 5, 2025
Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha amongst 2025 Pulitzer winners
Middle East Eye Staff, 6 May 2025
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Democrats Push To Censor Palestine Lessons In California
Shaanth Nanguneri, The Intercept, April 28, 2025
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2025.01.25: “War Isn’t Over When It’s Over” Online with Kathy Kelly
The stories of lives forever altered by U.S. “forever wars”
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Not Another Bomb
Why as a Jew I Stand with Palestinian Liberation BY MARC ROSENTHAL, THE PROGRESSIVE, DECEMBER 18,…
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In Masafer Yatta, our very right to education is under fire
Amid Israeli settler attacks, military raids, roadblocks, and an economic crisis, simply getting to school…
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The West Bank villages wiped off the map by Israeli settler violence
Since October 7, over 50 rural Palestinian communities have been forced to abandon their homes…
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Israel is the exception to “politically motivated investment” KA (JESSICA) BURBANK, DROP SITE NEWS, NOV…
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Between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Me
‘The Message’ cuts to the human heart of the situation in Israel-Palestine, refusing to contort…
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‘Project Esther’: A Plan to Crack Down on America’s Pro-Palestine Movement
The Trump-aligned Heritage Foundation is now going after what they call the “Hamas Support Network”…
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We’ve Taught Our Children Well TOM BOSWELL, OCTOBER 20, 2024 On the afternoon of September 5,…
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“No Propaganda on Earth Can Hide the Wound That Is Palestine”
“The US and Israel’s unflinching and ongoing televised genocide in Gaza and now Lebanon in defence of…
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How extremist settlers in the West Bank became the law
Mobilisation of violent settlers has intensified Palestinians’ fears of attacks and displacement Alison Killing, Chris Campbell and Peter Andringa in…
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Universities Act to Silence Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators
September 16, 2024 Dr. James J. Zogby President, Arab American Institute In the 1960s, social critic…
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What is Christian Zionism?
Key points in theology, history, and politics by Rev. J. Mark Davidson, Executive Director of Voices…
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Sandra Whitehead, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, Apr 9, 2024
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Radha Surya, Znet, March 22, 2024
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Bryan Pietsch and Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, October 16, 2023 One of the UNRWA schools housing displaced people…
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Within moments of the International Court of Justice issuing a preliminary finding on Friday morning…
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At a press conference in D.C. on December 14, UAW president Shawn Fain called for…
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TAA UW-MADISON, NOVEMBER 22, 2023 The following statement was written and approved by the general…
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2023.10.21: Film Israelism Online
Rochester Witness Palestine Film Festival Israelism (2023) Saturday, October 21, 2023 at 3:00 pm ET/2:00…
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Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, 12 October 2023
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WASHINGTON—In a controversial 6-3 decision regarding religious freedom, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that public…
Palestinian civil society calls for sanctions to stop Israel’s annexation and apartheid
The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council renews the call for targeted sanctions Palestinian Human Rights…
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Brian Hauss, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, November 30, 2017
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Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept, January 31 2018 A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that a…
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Mark Your Calendars for Sunday Afternoon Annual Rachel Corrie Commemoration Featuring Dessert and a Program…
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Stop conflating anti-Zionism and criticism of the State of Israel with anti-Semitism Rya Inman /…
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Rafah Children in the Samira Project at the Rachel Corrie Memorial Library. (Photo: Jeff Bright)…
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Gaza Mental Health Foundation At the request of the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), the…
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Jennifer Loewenstein, CounterPunch, November 15, 2006
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NORMAN FINKELSTEIN, CounterPunch, NOVEMBER 13, 2006
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2005 United Church of Christ Synod Tear Down the Wall – Resolution of Witness Submitted…
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The Palestine Monitor, 2 Sep 2003 Aya Fayad was one little girl out of one…
