A witness account of the Sabra and Shatila massacre: “painful questions need to be answered. Not why they died, but why were they massacred as refugees? After 69 years, has the world already forgotten?”
Washington had explicitly guaranteed their safety—and recently declassified documents reveal that US diplomats were told by the Israelis what they and their allies might be up to.
To effectively resist Trump, Democrats must not only remove their support from the Israel Anti-Boycott Act but also reassert Americans’ fundamental constitutional right to freedom of expression.
Gaza’s Mediterranean coast is about 25 miles long, but nearly 73% of the coastline (18 miles) have been designated as highly polluted areas due to untreated sewage being pumped into the sea.
Michael Bennett’s refusal to become a tool of Israeli propaganda has arguably been the most explicitly political stance, to date, by a high profile athlete.
Why a broad sporting boycott of Israel hasn’t emerged despite major successes for the movement in other arenas such as academia, entertainment, and business.
By exploring an elite of modernizing, patriotic Mandate Palestinian capitalists in the 1930s and 1940s, Seikaly forces scholars of Palestinian history and political economy to abandon simplistic categories.
