Youngkin’s questionable track record on anti-Semitism isn’t actually improved by his new reactionary proposal.
SOLIDARITY WITH THE MAPPING PROJECT AND BOSTON BDS
Our statement in solidarity with The Mapping Project and the members of Boston BDS, who face attack for opposing the occupation of Palestine and its intersection with Western imperialism.
Statement on the Murder of Palestinian Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by Israeli Forces
Statement regarding the May 11 murder of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
DEFENDERS’ EDUCATIONAL WEBINAR: NATO & UKRAINE; PALESTINE & YEMEN; FRANCE & MALI; EYEWITNESS CUBA
This Friday, March 11, at 7pm, the Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality are holding an online webinar via Zoom.
STATEMENT SUPPORTING HISHAM ABU HAWASH AND OTHER PALESTINIAN HUNGER STRIKERS
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.
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.
MASSIVE RICHMOND PROTEST DECLARES: ‘WE STAND WITH PALESTINE!’

In the largest antiwar protest this city has seen in nearly 20 years, more than 1,500 people turned out May 19 to defiantly declare, “We Stand with Palestine!”