Al-Azhar University Liberated Zone – A Critique and Reflection
Róise Uí Mhartain reflects on the strengths and weaknesses of Al-Azhar University Liberated Zone, a Palestine solidarity encampment in the Netherlands. Introduction This text is …
Palestine
The Meaning of International Law
Examining the ICJ’s prosecution of Israel for its war crimes in Gaza and the long history of international law, Noah Emke argues that the failure …
Left-Communism, Palestine, and National Liberation
RJ Park critiques the supposed “internationalism” of adherents of the left-communist tendency that reject support for Palestinian national liberation. By and large, Marxists around the …
Letter: The Jewish State Organization
Note: Graphic content ahead. We shall never be rough and heartless when it is not necessary, that is clear. We Germans, who are the only …
A Call to All Socialists
Shuvu Bhattarai urges all socialists to endorse the People’s Conference for Palestine and help build a Mass Socialist Party. Protestors at the January 13 March …
Letter: The Gaza Ghetto
The crime now taking place in Gaza is fast approaching its sixth month and there is no indication that it will end any time soon. …
The Carnage in Gaza is the Last, Desperate Act
Yoav Haifawi argues that the ongoing brutality in Gaza is the final effort in a failed Israeli-U.S. attempt to preserve hegemony over the Middle East. …
Letter: To the Public – William Lloyd Garrison
As I write, the Gaza Genocide enters its 142nd day. The official death toll reported by the Gaza Ministry of Health is 29,692 people but …
Hamas: From Candidate Enforcer to Implacable Foe
Assaf Kfoury covers the history of Hamas from its origins as a politically quietist Islamic charitable society to its transformation into an armed national liberation …
Letter: The Death of Aaron Bushnell
Aaron Bushnell, an active-duty airman wearing his uniform, poured gasoline on himself and set himself alight on February 25th outside of the Israeli embassy in …
Sino-Palestinian Relations: From Anti-Imperialist Solidarity to Pragmatism
Mark Reid traces the history of diplomacy between post-Revolutionary China, the Palestinian liberation movement, and Israel, arguing that the PRC’s current status-quo position on the …
Letter: On Lazare’s Mischaracterization of the Gaza Crisis
Lazare’s most recent letter, being a response to a response, et cetera, is somewhat disjointed, and any attempt to follow its own train of logic …
Letter: Another Response to Ross
I was reasonably well disposed toward Peter Ross until I reached the part of his latest letter on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which he accuses …
Letter: On Academic Marxism, “The Masses,” and Bourgeois Nationalism
Dan Lazare sums up his analysis in the following words: “The international proletariat must defend Palestinians against the ravages of Israel, but at the same …