If you think the Israel-Palestine conflict is too complex to understand, think again. Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire, written without academic jargon by author and activist Richard Becker, provides a solid introduction to key events in the history underlying...
Massacres were indispensable to creation of the Israeli state
Editor's note: We're republishing this article from 2018 to provide context to the ongoing Israeli massacre against the Palestinian people. Today, May 15, 2021 marks the 73rd anniversary of al-Nakba, or the Catastrophe. To make way for the creation of the Israeli...
Palestinian women: the backbone of resistance
Based on a talk delivered by Eman Khaleq at a meeting of the Union of Palestinian American Women on Nov. 7 Lately we’ve been seeing a lot of images of women and girls, both old and young participating in protests and clashes with the Israeli Occupation Forces. A lot...
The long history of Black and Palestinian solidarity
International solidarity in the face of racism The acquittal of racist murderer George Zimmerman sparked outrage and demonstrations not only in the United States, but all around the world—including in Palestine. Many Palestinians circulated pictures of themselves...
Leila Khaled: Palestinian fighter, Marxist revolutionary
"I have a cause higher and nobler than my own, a cause to which all private interests and concerns must be subordinated." —Leila Khaled Palestinian women have been participating in all forms of resistance, including armed resistance, for as long as the Palestinian...