The Virginia Defenders’ statement supporting Palestinian hunger striker Hisham Abu Hawash. Hawash, who will now be released in late February, resorted to a hunger strike in order to protest his imprisonment under administrative detention. Administrative detention is a tool by which Israeli military courts imprison Palestinians without charge or trial, for indefinite periods.
The significance of Princess Blanding’s run for governor: A Defender analysis
A Defenders analysis on the campaign of progressive third-party candidate Princess Blanding.
Statement by the Virginia Defenders on the Taking Down of the Richmond Statue of Robert E. Lee
Statement from the Steering Committee of the Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality, regarding the September 8, 2021 removal of Richmond’s Robert E. Lee statue.
Statement by The Virginia Defenders on the Ongoing Attacks Against the Palestinian People by the Israeli Government
Yet another Palestinian town in East Jerusalem, Silwan, is under threat of ethnic cleansing through systemic dispossession by Israel.
Defenders’ Statement on the Current Crisis in Occupied Palestine
On April 22, mobs of Israeli settlers gathered in Jerusalem, Occupied Palestine, chanting “Death to Arabs!” and brutalized Palestinains in the Bab Al-Aboud and Bab Al-Sahira neighborhoods.
Lessons from the Attack on the Capitol
Commentary on the January 6 takeover of the U.S. Capitol: what it was, what it means, and what we need to do about what comes next.
Why did Trump Pardon Four Blackwater Criminals and What Does This Mean for U.S. Foreign Policy?
On December 22nd 2020, outgoing President Donald Trump pardoned four Blackwater mercenaries convicted of attacking Iraqi civilians in the 2007 Nisour Square massacre. Was this move just more cruelty for its own sake? Or was there another motive?
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