Tag: Israel-Gaza War
Rafah Is in Panic as the Israeli Invasion Begins
Israel’s long-threatened invasion of Rafah has begun. Under cover of intense aerial bombardment Tuesday morning, Israeli forces moved into Gaza’s southernmost city, which has become a shelter for 1.5 million Palestinians with nowhere else to go. This is the moment they most feared, carrying the potential for a catastrophe greater than anything we’ve seen so far. Gazans counted on the world to stop this invasion, and the world let them down.
Residents of Rafah have long been in a state … Read more
Campus Protesters Were Right to Spurn Peggy Noonan, Emblem of Media Obtuseness
Our narcissistic media elite doesn’t understand why their lies have made young people wary.
The first important fact about Peggy Noonan is that she belongs to the media aristocracy: a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush (for whom she coined the famous phrase “a thousand points
Save Us All From The Atlantic’s Protest Coverage
The magazine has unleashed its top writers on the Palestine student movement. The results have been as dire as you might imagine.
The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg.
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During the wave of moral panics and racial paranoia that crashed through the 1990s, one media-powered social myth that stuck was “wilding.” The term first surfaced in earnest to characterize the alleged sociopathic, thrill-seeking conduct of the five Black and brown teenagers whom the police and the press falsely
War, Genocide, Violence, and the Gospel’s Response
The following sermon by Bishop William J. Barber, II was delivered on April 26 at the Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, North Carolina.
As we are gathered together on the edge of a university campus this evening, protests are interrupting the end of the school year at colleges and universities across the country.
As scenes of conflict in places we’re familiar with fill our screens, people are arguing about tactics, about the responses from administrators and local law enforcement, … Read more
The Student Encampments Aren’t a Danger to Jews. But the Crackdown Is.
The narrative of protesters endangering Jewish students has been used to justify police repression. But at the Columbia encampment, I saw a commitment to confronting antisemitism.
A view of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University in New York City on April 23, 2024.
(Selcuk Acar / Anadolu via Getty Images)
On Wednesday morning, all that was left of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on Columbia University’s lawn was a patchwork of green and yellowed grasses, marking where tents
Columbia’s Violence Against Protesters Has a Long History
The Student Crackdown Didn’t Start Last Week. Months of Repression Got Us Here.
We are witnessing the culmination of a months-long effort by universities to smother pro-Palestinian activism.
A pro-Palestinian protester is arrested at the University of Texas in Austin on April 29, 2024.
(Suzanne Cordeiro / AFP via Getty Images)
This piece was written by Alaa Hajyahia, Rachel Vogel, Saifeldeen Zihiri, Chloe Miller, Mehrdad Dariush, Chisato Kimura, Alaa Hachem, and Andrew Rikard, all of whom are students at Yale Law School.
Over the past two weeks, US college campuses have
Can We Build a Shared Homeland for Israelis And Palestinians?
A Land for All is an organization of Palestinians and Israeli Jews working on a long-term political solution. UCLA professor David Myers calls it “a group that engages in precisely the kind of political imagination we need right now.” May Pundak is an Israeli Jew, a feminist and lawyer, and a longtime anti-occupation activist who is a co–executive director of the group.
This interview has been edited and condensed. The full audio and transcript can be found at the Start … Read more
The White House Press Corps Should Be Ashamed of Itself
Partying with the president who has stood by as Israel slaughters journalists in Palestine is repulsive.
Members of the media and guests walk past protesters posing as slain Gaza journalists outside of the Washington Hilton ahead of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 27, 2024.
(Amanda Andrade-Rhoades / The Washington Post via Getty Images)
This past Saturday, some of America’s leading journalists gathered to let their hair down and hear President Biden tell jokes at the annual
The Freedom Flotilla Is Sailing Into Its Most Dangerous Waters Yet
The humanitarian convoy is trying to deliver vital aid to Gaza at a time when the stakes—and the risks—could not be higher.
Bread is carried on board as workers prepare a ship from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition while it anchors in the Tuzla seaport, in Istanbul on April 19, 2024.
(Yasin Akgul / AFP via Getty Images)
The voyage of the Free Gaza Movement began in 2008 when two small fishing boats carrying 44 passengers sailed toward the