If I Must Die
By Refaat Alareer If I must die, you must live to tell my story to sell my things to buy a piece of cloth and some strings, (make it white with a long tail) so…
Conflict
Don’t Make Your Voters Step Over Dead Bodies
Joe Biden’s own recklessness is risking a return of Trump Commentary by Hamilton Nolan The biggest barrier to honest political analysis—one that the press and voters alike are susceptible to—is the natural tendency to hold…
Hamas Didn’t Attack Israelis Because They Are Jewish
Commentary by Anna Baltzer I had just returned from a Jewish gathering calling for a ceasefire in Gaza when I received a startling text from a dear friend, Elena: “Anna, I went to Jewish services…
5 Things You Need to Know About What’s Happening in Israel and Gaza
By Michael Merryman-Lotze On Oct. 7, Palestinians from Gaza carried out attacks in Israel that killed at least 1,200 Israelis, injured thousands more, and took an estimated 200 hostages. Israel immediately launched attacks on Gaza….
Opening the Rafah Border is not a Solution
By K.R. Kamphoefner Some people think the easy solution of Israel bombing 2.3 million civilians in Gaza is to simply open the Rafah checkpoint, which leads to Egypt. But like most “easy solutions,” it won’t…
Dispatches from the West Bank
By Mustafa, Luna, Mariam, Ghassan Najjar, and Sabri As told to Maya Rosen, Amos, and Shira Wolkenfeld For Palestinians living in the West Bank, settler violence has long been a relentless facet of everyday life….
Western Media’s Islamophobic Rhetoric
Commentary, by Andrew Mitrovica Israel has waged war on Palestinians for decades. That fact may come, I suspect, as a surprise to many people whose grasp of the world is shaped by their exclusive consumption…
Fear In Newsrooms Silences Pro-Palestine Voices
Commentary by Rami G Khouri The Palestinian-Israeli conflict that now enters its second century is fought on two parallel battlefields. The first comprises the violence on the ground which has reached new heights in recent…
US Asks Qatar to Censor Al Jazeera News
By Robert Tait The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has reportedly asked Qatar to moderate Al Jazeera’s coverage of Israel’s war against Hamas, amid concerns within the Biden administration that the channel is inflaming…
Colombian Indigenous March
Indigenous and social organizations march against violence in Bogotá by Peoples Dispatch Over 15,000 Indigenous people from 10 departments of Colombia arrived in the capital Bogotá between September 25 and 27 to draw the national…