"The only recognizable feature of hope is action" - Grace Paley
In late October, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a statement saying that Oct. 7 “did not happen in a vacuum.” At the same time, he added “the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify...
The new Israeli government has moved quickly to implement its agenda to subvert the independence of the Supreme Court, and expand the illegal settlement program in the West Bank. At the same time, it...
In 1982, Connecticut was the first state to pass legislation requiring divestiture from South Africa for its practice of apartheid. In June of 1994, members of the former Connecticut Anti- Apartheid Committee got together...
The threatened eviction of Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. The invasion of the Al Aqsa mosque by Israeli troops, firing rubber coated steel bullets, tear gas and stun grenades....
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” – Martin Luther King in Birmingham jail, 1963 Our right...
Stanley Heller is executive director of the Middle East Crisis Committee (CT). He can be reached at mail@thestruggle.org. Our former vice president [of Middle East Crisis Committee], Mazin Qumsiyeh, is in Naples, Italy on...
From the U.S.-Mexico border to Palestine, the U.S. and Israel are separating kids from their families and imprisoning them. Decent people are outraged by the Trump administration’s abusive treatment of children, ripping them from...
The visit this week of former Israeli U.N. Ambassador Ron Prosor to the Slifka Center at Yale is a good time to reflect on Israel’s management of its relationship with Gaza since it “ended...
The hunger strike of Local 33 at Yale makes me think about a much larger hunger strike going inside the prisons of Israel. A few weeks ago Omar Barghouti’s Gandhi Peace Award acceptance speech...
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