Apartheid

House Progressives Implore Biden State Dept. to Center Palestinian Rights

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) wears a protective mask while walking through the Canon Tunnel to the U.S. Capitol on January 12, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images)

Rep. Jamaal Bowman Calls On Israel to Vaccinate Occupied Palestinians Against Coronavirus

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

"Israel, as an occupying power, has a responsibility to provide vaccines to the Palestinian people," the first-term congressman asserted in a letter to Israel's acting consul general.

Human Rights Campaign Launched to Prevent Facebook From Adding Word "Zionist" to Hate Speech Policy

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

"Facebook must stop harming and silencing Palestinians living under apartheid and start cracking down on white supremacist groups—like the Proud Boys—that have used their platform as a recruitment site," said Lau Barrios of MPower Change. (Photo: Jewish Voice for Peace via Twitter)

"Treating 'Zionist' as a proxy for 'Jew' would undermine efforts to dismantle...

Prominent Rights Group Says Israeli Rule Must Finally Be Seen 'For What It Is: Apartheid'

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

A Palestinian boy sits on a chair with a national flag as Israeli authorities demolish a school site in the village of Yatta, south of the West Bank city of Hebron on July 11, 2018. (Photo: Hazem Bader/AFP via Getty Images)

"This sobering look at reality need not lead to despair, but quite the opposite...

"Proudly Pro-BDS": Jewish-Led Groups Condemn Pompeo for Declaring Boycott-Divestment Movement Anti-Semitic

CodePink Defends Georgia Senate Candidate Raphael Warnock After GOP Opponent's 'Anti-Semitism' Smear

'Enshrining Apartheid Into Law,' Israeli Legislature Approves Bill Making Nation's Palestinian Arabs Second-Class Citizens

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Palestinians to Mandela: Our Freedom Seems Possible Because You Reached Yours

A moving open letter from Marwan Barghouthi, revered Palestinian unifier, political prisoner and leader of the 1st and 2nd Intifadas, now serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison, in honor of Nelson Mandela and his fierce " capacity to defy oppression and apartheid (and) choose justice over vengeance...(who) was "not only writing history, but contributing to the triumph of light over darkness." This, in contrast to a U.S. complicit in today's apartheid over 20 years of keeping...