A group of White House staffers sent a letter of dissent on Monday over the Biden administration’s decision not to enforce its own ultimatum over the Israeli government’s restriction of humanitarian aid to Gaza. With just weeks until President-elect Donald Trump begins his second administration, the letter is a plea for President Joe Biden to […]
LAST WEEK, police at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland arrested four students on felony vandalism charges in relation to protests against Israel’s war on Gaza. The students were transferred to the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, jail, a detention facility subject to calls for closure over inhumane conditions, abuse by jail staff, and the use of […]
On October 13, the Biden administration sent a strongly worded letter to Israel with a simple message: Allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza within 30 days, or we may pull away our military support. At the time, Israel was in the early stages of its siege on northern Gaza, where thousands of civilians had been […]
By the time Sharifa Aldremly’s family arrived in Rafah last December, her children had been without school for nearly three months. Israel had bombed their Gaza City home two days into the military’s assault on the besieged Strip, forcing them to take shelter in a hospital for a grueling month. Once that hospital came under […]
One day before the U.S. election, Israel told the United Nations that it would be cutting ties with UNRWA, its aid agency for Palestinian refugees. On Election Day itself, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed Defense Minister Yoav Gallant — who had challenged him on his approach to a ceasefire and the return of hostages. […]
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, on July 16, 2018. Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP In May 2016George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, told Alexander Downer, an Australian diplomat, that Russia had damaging information about Trump’s political rival Hillary Clinton. […]
ITV, the broadcaster of the British version of the reality series “Big Brother,” edited an episode of the show to remove all shots of a shirt worn by one of the contestants which featured a watermelon — a symbol of Palestinian solidarity. Watermelon iconography has been associated with Palestine since at least the 1960s but […]
Activists target the Elbit Systems offices in Merrimack, N.H., blocking entrances and painting the facility red, on Nov. 20, 2023. Photo: Maen Hammad In mid-November, four young women will start two-month jail sentences for an action attempting to halt operations last November at a weapons factory in Merrimack, New Hampshire, operated by Elbit Systems, Israel’s […]
Members of the Middle Eastern community in Dearborn, Mich., hold a candlelight vigil on the anniversary October 7 attacks in Israel, on Oct. 7, 2024. Photo: Dominic Gwinn/Middle East Images via AFP In July, while playing golf with my dad in Michigan, a woman called out to me after seeing “Deira” printed in Arabic text […]
A billboard depicting Iranian ballistic missiles with text in Persian that says “Israel is weaker than a spider’s web,” in Tehran on April 15, 2024. Photo: Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images If you ask the average citizen of any country whether their leaders should start wars, almost all would give a resounding “No.” The public, […]
