The D.C.-Metro chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace held a protest March 12 outside a D.C. hotel where Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, an extremist settler leader, was speaking to the Israel Bonds’ leadership.
An opinion piece on life in Gaza from Ahmed Nasser, a young Palestinian man who was raised and lives in the Gaza Strip. Gaza has been under Israeli military blockade since 2006.
Jacqueline Luqman provides her analysis of an antiwar demonstration coming up in Washington DC this Sunday. Read her piece, “Why The Rage Against The War Machine Rally Is #AntiwarSoWhite,” at Black Agenda Report.
A prominent Berlin antiwar activist, Heinrich Bücker, gave a speech this June in which he criticized the German government’s support for neo-Nazi organizations in Ukraine. As a result, he is now facing charges which carry the possibility of years in prison.
On April 15, Israel carried out a violent assault on Palestinians congregating at the al-Aqsa masjid in East Jerusalem, the third holiest site for followers of Islam. It was a Friday, the Muslim day of worship, in the holy month of Ramadan.
The U.S. media is full of stories about what it calls political repression in other countries, but it’s strangely silent when it comes to Ukraine.
A reiteration of our January 26, 2022 statement on the Saudi-led war against Yemen, with additional information on two upcoming actions in March 2022.
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