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United for Peace and Justice here provides statements, analysis, and commentary from a variety of organizations, news sources, and analysts, including statements from United for Peace and Justice member groups and other organizations to inform and encourage discussion. Inclusion here does not indicate endorsement by UFPJ.
Organization Statements and Petitions
Human Rights and International Law
News and Commentary
History and Background
Webinars and Video
ORGANIZATION STATEMENTS AND PETITIONS
Refusing Complicity in Israel’s Literary Institutions hundreds of authors and other literary workers), October 28, 2024.
Joint Statement: Defend UNRWA from Israeli Ban and Prevent Catastrophic Consequences for Palestinians (multiple organizations), October 26, 2024
NAACP Urges Biden-Harris Administration to Stop Shipments of Weapons Targeting Civilians to Israel, Push for Ceasefire, June 6, 2024.
Unions Stand in Solidarity with Campus Protesters, May 20, 2024.
Statement by Americans for Peace Now on The Antisemitism Awareness Act, May 1, 2024.
Veterans Call Out Biden Again for Violations of Federal Law by Shipping Weapons to Israel, Veterans for Peace, April 18, 2024.
International lawyers calling for ceasefire in Gaza and respect for international law, Global Justice in the 21st Century, April 17, 2024.
New national labor network formed to “end the death and devastation” in the Israel-Hamas war, National Labor Network for a Ceasefire, February 16, 2024.
Veterans Demand Termination of Weapons to Israel, Veterans for Peace, Antiwar.com, February 13, 2024.
Veterans For Peace Condemns US Bombing of Yemen, January 10, 2024.
“We Support South Africa’s Genocide Convention Case Against Israel,” Progressive International, Statement with organization sign-ons, January 8, 2024.
Declaration of Conscience and Concern of Global Intellectuals on Gaza Genocide, Global Justice in the 21st Century, December 20, 2023
Resist the dehumanization of Palestinians and Israelis, Pro-Human Camp Network and Amnesty International Israel, December 13, 2023.
End the Siege of Gaza; Stop the Killing and Forced Displacement; Unconditional Ceasefire Now! Focus on the Global South, November 17, 2023.
The US Labor Movement Calls for Ceasefire in Israel and Palestine, November 2023.
An open letter from Jewish students, The Brown Daily Herald, November 7, 2023.
Statement by Principals of the UN Inter-Agency Standing Committee, on the situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, “We need an immediate humanitarian ceasefire,” November 6, 2023.
Ukrainian Letter of Solidarity with Palestinian people, Ukraine-Palestine Solidarity Group, November 2, 2023.
Health Care and Public Health Professionals’ Call to Immediate Action to Address the Violence in Israel and Gaza and Its Health Consequences, initiated by the Peace Caucus in affiliation with the American Public Health Association, October 27, 2023.
Brooklyn For Peace Calls for a Ceasefire, De-escalation, & Addressing the Root Causes of Violence in Palestine & Israel, Brooklyn for Peace, October 26, 2023.
Public Statement: Scholars Warn of Potential Genocide in Gaza, Third World Approaches to International Law Review, October 15, 2024.
Veterans For Peace Hamas-Israel Statement, Veterans for Peace, October 12, 2023.
Jewish Voice for Peace calls on all people of conscience to stop imminent genocide, Jewish Voice for Peace, October 11, 2023.
Statement from the Leadership of Religion and Public Life on the Current Spate of Violence in Palestine/Israel, Harvard Divinity School Religion and Public Life, posted by New Politics, October 11, 2023.
Adalah’s Statement following the Extreme Violence in Gaza and in Israel since Saturday 7 October 2023, Adalah, October 11, 2023.
Joint Statement on the Recent Israel-Palestine Escalation, The International Peace Bureau (IPB), Middle East Treaty Organization (METO), and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), October 10, 2023.
Statement on the Israeli-Hamas War, Campaign for Peace, Disarmament, and Common Security, October 8, 2023.
CODEPINK’s Statement on the Call for War in Palestine: Peace comes with Justice, not War, CODEPINK, October 8, 2023.
Statement from the Oldest Peace Group in the U.S. on the Outbreak of Another Gaza War, Fellowship of Reconciliation, October 7, 2023.
HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
Statement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC on the issuance of arrest warrants in the Situation in the State of Palestine, International Criminal Court, November 21, 2024.
Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, International Criminal Court, November 21, 2024.
Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I issues warrant of arrest for Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri (Deif), International Criminal Court, November 21, 2024.
ICC Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu vs. Putin: A Case Study in US Hypocrisy, Prem Thakker, Zeteo, November 21, 2024.
Norway to ask ICJ for advisory opinion condemning Israel’s stance on Unrwa, Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, November 19, 2024.
Israel’s Crimes Against Humanity in Gaza, Human Rights Watch, November 14, 2024.
UN special committee likens Israeli policy in Gaza to genocide, Julian Borger, The Guardian, November 14, 2024.
Briefing on Risk of Famine in Northern Gaza, Security Council Report, November 11, 2024.
Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee – Stop the assault on Palestinians in Gaza and on those trying to help them, November 1, 2024.
Israeli laws blocking UNRWA – devastating humanitarian impact for Palestinians? UN News, October 31, 2024.
UNRWA cannot be replaced, say UN top officials in response to Knesset ban, UN News, October 29, 2024.
“Ethnic Cleansing”: Israeli Group B’Tselem Calls for World to Stop Israel’s Siege of Northern Gaza, Democracy Now, October 24, 2024.
Civilians and peacekeepers at risk, amid escalating Lebanon conflict, UN News, October 23, 2024.
Gaza at a ‘critical juncture’ as top UN officials call for a ceasefire now, UN News, October 18, 2024.
The Middle East, including the Palestinian Question: Briefing and Consultations on the Situation in Northern Gaza, Security Council Report, October 16, 2024.
Israel attacks UN peacekeepers in Lebanon: Why it’s such a big deal, Sarah Shamim, Al Jazeera, October 11, 2024.
Lebanon: Israel’s evacuation ‘warnings’ for civilians misleading and inadequate, Amnesty International, October 10, 2024.
Israel: New law blocking UNRWA ‘would be a catastrophe’, Guterres warns, UN News, October 8, 2024.
Lebanon: Israeli Strikes Impede Fleeing Civilians, Aid, Human Rights Watch, October 7, 2024.
War Is Spreading in the Mideast, but Don’t Forget About Gaza: Q/A With MSF Boss, Kasmira Jefford, October 7, 2024
A Trip to Israel by UN’s Boss Is Normal. Now the Current Secretary-General Is Banned, Evelyn Leopold, PassBlue, October 3, 2024.
Explainer: What is Security Council resolution 1701? Eileen Travers, UN News, October 1, 2024.
The situation in the Middle East – Security Council, 9733rd meeting, Video, UN TV, September 25, 2024.
The situation in the Middle East: Emergency Meeting on Lebanon, What’s in Blue/Security Council Report, September 25, 2024.
Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee on the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory – These atrocities must end, World Health Organization, September 23, 2024.
Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories, September 20, 2024.
The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question – Security Council, 9730th meeting, Video, UN TV, September 20, 2024.
The Middle East, including the Palestinian Question: Meeting on the situation in Lebanon, What’s in Blue/Security Council Report, September 19, 2024.
Germany has stopped approving war weapons exports to Israel, source says, Riham Alkousaa, Reuters, September 19, 2024.
UN General Assembly demands Israel end ‘unlawful presence’ in Occupied Palestinian Territory, UN News, September 18, 2024.
War on Gaza: UK has ‘no legal justification’ to continue licensing parts for Israeli F-35s, 37 MPs say, Dania Akkad, Middle East Eye, September 13, 2024.
Israel/OPT: Israeli military must be investigated for war crime of wanton destruction in Gaza – new investigation, Amnesty International, September 5, 2024.
Comment by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on explosions across Lebanon and in Syria, September 18, 2024.
Gaza: UN warns of worsening humanitarian disaster as ceasefire talks continue, UN News, August 19, 2024.
Yemen: Israeli Port Attack Possible War Crime, Human Rights Watch, August 19, 2024.
Detention in the context of the escalation of hostilities in Gaza (October 2023 – June 2024) – Thematic Report by OHCHR, United Nations, Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner, July 31, 2024.
How Israel plans to whitewash its war crimes in Gaza, Dan Owen, +972 Magazine, July 24, 2024.
Netanyahu Visit Highlights US Officials’ Liability Risk: Policymakers Could Be Complicit in Gaza War Crimes, Human Rights Watch, July 23, 2024.
‘Israel always sold the occupation as legal. The ICJ now terrifies them’, Interview with Palestinian lawyer Diana Buttu, +972 Magazine, July 23, 2024.
Gaza Humanitarian Response Update, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, July 21, 2024.
Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice, July 19, 2024. Press release Summary
Observations from Gaza by Head of UN Human Rights office for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Ajith Sunghay, July 19, 2024.
Will the ICC Act? The Netanyahu/Gallant Arrest Warrants are a Truth or Dare Moment? Richard Falk, Global Justice in the 21st Century, July 17, 2024.
Continued Arms Exports to Israel in the Face of Constructive Notice, Akshaya Kumar, Lawfare, June 25, 2024.
States and companies must end arms transfers to Israel immediately or risk responsibility for human rights violations: UN experts, United Nations, Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner, June 20, 2024.
Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory Concludes that Israeli Authorities and Hamas Are Both Responsible for War Crimes, United Nations, Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner, June 19, 2024.
Gaza: UN rights chief slams ‘unconscionable death and suffering,’ UN News, June 18, 2024.
The international criminal court should investigate Israel’s hostage rescue raid, Kenneth Roth, The Guardian, June 13, 2024.
Gaza: Hamas, Israel committed war crimes, claims independent rights probe, UN News, June 12, 2024.
Gaza: Security Council adopts US resolution calling for ‘immediate, full and complete ceasefire’, UN News, June 10, 2024.
Surveillance and interference: Israel’s covert war on the ICC exposed, Yuval Abraham and Meron Rapoport, +972 Magazine, May 28, 2024.
Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) – Request for the modification of the Order of 28 March 2024 – The Court reaffirms its previous provisional measures and indicates new measures, May 24, 2024. Press Release Order
Symposium on the International Criminal Court and Israel-Hamas War, Just Security, May 25, 2024.
Nuts & Bolts of Int’l Criminal Court Arrest Warrant Applications for Senior Israeli Officials and Hamas Leaders, Just Security, May 20, 2024.
Statement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC: Applications for arrest warrants in the situation in the State of Palestine, May 20, 2024.
State Department Issues Arms Transfer Assurance Report, Lawfare, May 10, 2024.
US says Israel’s use of weapons may have violated international law, Humeyra Pamuk and Simon Lewis, Reuters, May 10, 2024.
Is the UN Failing in Gaza? Dawn Clancy, PassBlue, May 6, 2024
Palestine, Iran, and Populist Resistance: The Limits of Law, Morality, and the UN, Richard Falk, Global Justice in the 21st Century, May 3, 2024.
Attorneys inside and outside the administration urge Biden to cut off arms to Israel, Joseph Gedeon, Politico, April 29, 2024.
What will happen if the ICC charges Netanyahu with war crimes? Kenneth Roth, The Guardian, April 29, 2024.
Exclusive: Some US officials say in internal memo Israel may be violating international law in Gaza, Humeyra Pamuk, Reuters, April 27, 2024.
Report of the Independent Task Force on National Security Memorandum-20 Regarding Israel, Noura Erakat and Josh Paul, Just Security, April 24, 2024.
UN Human Rights Chief deplores harrowing killings of children and women in Rafah, United Nations, Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner, April 23, 2024.
UNRWA 2.0: How the Agency Serving Millions of Palestinian Refugees Can Survive, Dulcie Leimbach, PassBlue, April 22, 2024.
Final Report for the United Nations Secretary-General, Independent Review of Mechanisms and Procedures to Ensure Adherence by UNRWA to the Humanitarian Principle of Neutrality, United Nations, April 20, 2024.
The Middle East, including the Palestinian Question: Ministerial-level Open Debate and Possible Vote on the Palestinian Application for UN Membership, Security Council Report, April 17, 2024.
Briefing Paper for States that have Endorsed the Political Declaration on the Use of Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas Regarding Israel’s Use of Explosive Weapons in Gaza, Ray Acheson and Laura Varella, Reaching Critical Will, April 2024.
Occupied Palestinian Territory/Israel: Vital need to ensure humanitarian aid and protect humanitarian workers, United Nations, Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner, April 5, 2024.
Human Rights Council Adopts Five Resolutions, including a Text Calling for an Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza, Urging States to Prevent the Continued Forcible Transfer of Palestinians Within or From Gaza, and Calling on States to Cease the Sale or Transfer of Arms to Israel, United Nations, Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner, April 5, 2024.
UK government lawyers say Israel is breaking international law, claims top Tory in leaked recording, Toby Helm, The Guardian, March 30, 2024.
Gaza Strip Interim Damage Assessment, Summary Note, the World Bank, the European Union, and the United Nations, March 29, 2024.
Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel): Order of 28 March 2024, Request for the modification of the Order of 26 January 2024 indicating provisional measures. Separate declarations and opinions of the judges and prior proceedings in the case can be found here.
The Middle East, including the Palestinian Question: Yesterday’s Adoption and Today’s Briefing and Consultations, Security Council Report, March 26, 2024.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 2728, The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, March 25, 2024.
Why US ceasefire proposal failed at UNSC: Russia and China vetoed language which did represent a shift for Biden — but the devil is in the details, Trita Parsi, Responsible Statecraft, March 22, 2024.
Russia and China veto US resolution stating imperative of ‘immediate and sustained ceasefire’ in Gaza, UN News, March 22, 2024.
Ending Impunity for the Crimes Against Palestinian and Israeli Civilians, A to Z, Mona Ali Khalil, PassBlue, March 7. 2024.
Dozens address UN world court hearings on Israeli practices, UN News, February 23, 2024.
Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, Latest Developments, International Court of Justice (updated as proceedings occur).
Monitoring food security in Palestine and the Sudan, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP), February, 2024.
Arms exports to Israel must stop immediately: UN experts, United Nations, Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner, February 23, 2024.
Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee – Civilians in Gaza in extreme peril while the world watches on: Ten requirements to avoid an even worse catastrophe, The Inter-Agency Standing Committee, February 21, 2024.
US vetoes another UN Security Council resolution urging Gaza war ceasefire, AlJazeera, February 20, 2024.
At World Court, Palestinians seek end to Israeli occupation, Anthony Deutsch and Stephanie van den Berg, Reuters, February 20, 2024.
Gaza and the End of the Rules-Based Order, Agnès Callamard, Foreign Affairs, February 15, 2024.
U.S. and U.K. Submit Article 51 Letters to the U.N. Security Council on Middle East Operation, Matt Gluck and Maya Nicholson, Lawfare, February 2, 2024.
The Broader Significance of the ICJ’s Ruling on Genocide in Gaza, Thomas Obel Hansen, E-International Relations, January 30, 2024.
UNRWA’s lifesaving aid may end due to funding suspension, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, January 27, 2024.
Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) – The Court indicates provisional measures, International Court of Justice, January 26, 2024. Order Summary
Defense for Children International-Palestine v. Biden, Motion for Preliminary Injunctive Relief, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, January 26, 2024.
Why International Law Matters even if Israel Refuses to Comply with ICJ Provisional Measures Ruling, Richard Falk, Global Justice in the 21st Century, January 17, 2024.
Acts Harmful to the Enemy: Within the paradigm of international humanitarian law, waging a revolutionary war will always be illegal, Jake Romm and Dylan Saba, N+1, January 12, 2024.
‘Nothing will stop this suffering, except an order from this court’ — SA sets out the evidence against Israel, Peter Fabricius, Daily Maverick, January 12, 2024.
South Africa’s Legal Quest at the World Court Could Further Banish Israel, Damilola Banjo, PassBlue, January 10, 2024.
The Promise and Risk of South Africa’s Case Against Israel, Alaa Hachem and Oona A. Hathaway, Just Security, January 4, 2024.
Stakes high as South Africa brings claim of genocidal intent against Israel, Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, January 4, 2024.
Israeli public figures accuse judiciary of ignoring incitement to genocide in Gaza, Emma Graham-Harrison and Quique Kierszenbaum, The Guardian January 3, 2024.
Israel to appear before ICJ to counter South Africa’s Gaza case, Reuters, January, 2, 2024.
The Republic of South Africa institutes proceedings against the State of Israel concerning alleged violations by Israel of its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Press Release, International Court of Justice, December 29, 2023.
Application by South Africa Instituting proceedings
GAZA STRIP: Hostilities leave the entire population highly food insecure and at risk of Famine, The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, December 21 2023.
We Are No Strangers to Human Suffering, but We’ve Seen Nothing Like the Siege of Gaza, Michelle Nunn, Tjada D’Oyen McKenna, Jan Egeland, Abby Maxman, Jeremy Konyndyk and Janti Soeripto, The New York Times, December 11, 2023.
What’s UN Resolution 377A, can it help in efforts to stop Israel-Gaza war? The resolution empowers member states to make collective recommendations, but it is legally nonbinding, Maziar Motamedi, AlJazeera, December 11, 2023.
Security Council Fails to Adopt Resolution Demanding Immediate Humanitarian Ceasefire in Gaza on Account of Veto by United States, United Nations Security Council, December 8, 2023.
Letter by the Secretary-General to the President of Security Council invoking Article 99 of the United Nations Charter, Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary General, December 6, 2023.
Court hears suit to stop Netherlands exporting F-35 parts to Israel, Stephanie van den Berg and Toby Sterling, Reuters, December 4, 2023.
The End of Humanism: How the violence of October 7 and its aftermath are transforming the international community, Dubravka Žarkov, Foreign Policy in Focus, December 1, 2023.
Speaking out on Gaza / Israel must be allowed: UN experts, press release, United Nations, November 23, 2023.
Israel/OPT: Urgent call for an immediate ceasefire by all parties to end unprecedented civilian suffering, Amnesty International, November 22, 2023.
The Harvard Law Review Refused to Run This Piece About Genocide in Gaza, Rabea Eghbariah, The Nation, November 21, 2023.
Gaza/Palestine: States have a Duty to Prevent Genocide, International Commission of Jurists, November 17, 2023.
The international order has failed the Palestinians, Diana Buttu, The Globe and Mail, November 16, 2023.
UN security council backs resolution calling for humanitarian pause in Gaza, Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, November 15, 2023.
More than Genocide, A. Dirk Moses, Boston Review, November 14, 2023.
Measuring Israel by the Just-War Yardstick, A. Walter Dorn, The New York Times, November 12, 2023.
The Middle East, including the Palestinian Question: Open Briefing, Security Council Report, November 10, 2023.
Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel | Flash Update #34, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, November 9, 2023.
Hamas and Israel Should Be Held Accountable to International Law, Bill Blum, LA Progressive, November 7, 2023.
The UN Chief Must Demand a Full Ceasefire in Gaza and Nothing Less, Moncef Khane, PassBlue, November 6, 2023.
UN Secretary-General’s Press Conference – on the Middle East: The nightmare in Gaza is more than a humanitarian crisis, It is a crisis of humanity, United Nations, November 6, 2023.
United Nations Secretary-General’s statement – on the situation in Gaza, UN News, October 31, 2023.
Top UN official in New York steps down citing ‘genocide’ of Palestinian civilians, Ed Pilkington, The Guardian, October 31, 2023.
Law and Survival in Israel and Palestine, Janina Dill, Just Security, October 26, 2023.
Israel/OPT: Urgent call for an immediate ceasefire by all parties to end unprecedented civilian suffering, Amnesty International, October 26, 2023.
Gaza crisis: Deadlock deepens as Security Council rejects competing resolutions by US and Russia, UN News, October 25, 2023.
Israel/OPT: Türk says humanity must come first, urges humanitarian ceasefire, United Nations, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, October 23, 2023.
Damning evidence of war crimes as Israeli attacks wipe out entire families in Gaza, Amnesty International, October 20, 2023.
We Are Seeing Urgent Signs of More Mutual Mass Atrocities to Come in Israel and Gaza, Omar Shakir, Yasmine Ahmed, and Akshaya Kumar, Human Rights Watch, October 20, 2023.
UN experts say rights of victims of terrorism must be protected, insist counter-terrorism cannot be basis to breach international law, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, October 19, 2023.
Israel-Gaza crisis: US vetoes Security Council resolution, UN News, October 18, 2023.
Israel’s Unfolding Crime of Genocide of the Palestinian People & U.S. Failure to Prevent and Complicity in Genocide, Emergency Legal Briefing Paper, Center for Constitutional Rights, October 18, 2023.
On Strategy, Law, and Morality in Israel’s Gaza Operation, Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare, October 17, 2023.
Public Statement: Scholars Warn of Potential Genocide in Gaza, Third World Approaches to International Law Review, October 17, 2023.
Carnage at Gaza hospital ‘totally unacceptable’ says UN’s Türk, as warring sides blame each other, UN News, October 17, 2023.
UN expert warns of new instance of mass ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, calls for immediate ceasefire, United Nations, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, October 14, 2023.
We Must End Violence to End Violence, Ray Acheson, First Committee Monitor, Reaching Critical Will, October 14, 2023.
“The Crimes Are Plenty”: A conversation with Palestinian human rights attorney Noura Erakat on the need for a political solution, Boston Review, October 13, 2023.
Gaza: Nowhere to go, as humanitarian crisis reaches ‘dangerous new low’, UN News, October 13, 2023.
Israel/OPT: Appalling Gaza “evacuation order” must be rescinded by Israel immediately, Amnesty International, October 13, 2023.
Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Press briefing notes, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, October 13, 2023.
Israel and the Occupied Territories: Hospitals risk turning into morgues without electricity; hostages must be released immediately, International Committee of the Red Cross, October 12, 2023.
Israel: White Phosphorus Used in Gaza, Lebanon, Human Rights Watch, October 12, 2023.
Real or Fake? Verifying Video Evidence in Israel and Palestine, Human Rights Watch, October 11, 2023.
The use of heavy explosive weapons in Israel and Palestine must stop, International Network on Explosive Weapons, October 10, 2023.
UN Human Rights Chief urges States to defuse “powder keg” situation in Israel and OPT, as incalculable suffering, massive death tolls take hold, United Nations, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, October 10, 2023.
Hamas-Led Attack in Southern Israel Kills Hundreds: All Parties to Conflict Must Abide by Laws of War, Human Rights Watch, October 10, 2023.
Commission of Inquiry collecting evidence of war crimes committed by all sides in Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories since 7 October 2023, The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, October 10, 2023.
NEWS AND COMMENTARY
Senate Rejects Sanders-led Effort to Block Arms Sales to Israel, Prem Thakker, Zeteo, November 20, 2024.
Pope Francis’ claim that Israel action in Gaza could be ‘genocide’ draws criticism, Kate Quiñones, Catholic News Agency, November 18, 2024.
Trump’s pro-Israel cabinet picks upset Muslims who voted for him, Andrea Shalal, Reuters, November 16, 2024.
Trump’s unfinished business for ‘Greater Israel’, Jonathan Adler, +972 Magazine, November 13, 2024.
Smotrich says Trump’s victory an opportunity to ‘apply sovereignty’ in the West Bank, Sam Sokol, Times of Israel, November 11, 2024.
Protesters Shut Down Tel Aviv — Again, Lisa Goldman, New Lines Magazine, November 8, 2024.
Benjamin Netanyahu calls Donald Trump’s election victory ‘history’s greatest comeback’, Jerusalem Post, November 6, 2024.
UNRWA’s ‘Darkest Hour’ Will Go Bleaker Under Trump’s Presidency, Damilola Banjo, PassBlue, November 6, 2024.
The Groups that Actually Run the Middle East,Ameer Al-Auqaili, Foreign Policy in Focus, November 5, 2024.
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu fires Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, Al Jazeera, November 5, 2024.
Tlaib, Bush Lead War Powers Letter to President Biden, Press Release, Office of Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, November 1, 2024.
‘The Iranian Period Is Finished’, Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic (via MSN) October 31, 2024.
The Israeli military has used Palestinians as human shields in Gaza, soldier and former detainees say, Mick Krever, Jeremy Diamond and Abeer Salman CNN, October 24, 2024.
After Nasrallah, Adam Shatz, London Review of Books, October 24, 2024.
In Gaza, Palestinians Reflect on Yahya Sinwar’s Death, Inkstick, October 23, 2024.
Inside the siege of northern Gaza, where ‘death waits around every corner’, Mohammed R. Mhawish, Ola Al Asi and Ibrahim Mohammad, +972 Magazine, October 23, 2024.
War likely to wipe 9% off Lebanon’s GDP, with fallout set to exceed 2006 conflict, Maya Gebeily and Michelle Nichols, Reuters, October 23, 2024.
Conversing as unequals: Jewish-Palestinian partnership at a crossroads, Meron Rapoport, +972 Magazine, October 23, 2024.
The Post-Zionist Jew, Eli Zaretsky, London Review of Books, October 18, 2024.
The Mainstream Israeli Media’s Coverage of Sinwar’s Death, Lisa Goldman, New Lines Magazine, October 18, 2024.
The UN Is Unsure If Hamas Leader’s Death Will Mean a Ceasefire in Gaza, Damilola Banjo, PassBlue, October 17, 2024.
Yahya Sinwar: The Hamas leader committed to eradicating Israel is dead, Samia Nakhoul, Reuters, October 17, 2024.
US stealth bombers strike underground Houthi weapons sites in Yemen, Reuters, October 17, 2024.
US demands proof that Israel does not have starvation policy in northern Gaza, Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, October 16, 2024.
US tells Israel to improve Gaza humanitarian situation or risk military aid, Humeyra Pamuk, Matt Spetalnick and Simon Lewis, Reuters, October 16, 2024.
Netanyahu mulls plan to empty northern Gaza of civilians and cut off aid to those left inside, Julia Frankel, Associated Press, October 14, 2024.
Anti-Zionist beliefs ‘worthy of respect’, UK tribunal finds, Matthew Weaver and agencies, The Guardian, October 14, 2024.
France’s Macron calls for an end to arms exports used in Gaza and Lebanon, Reuters, October 12, 2024.
US-made munition used in Israeli strike on central Beirut, shrapnel shows, William Christou, The Guardian, October 11, 2024.
Why has Israel detained American journalist Jeremy Loffredo? Seth Stern, The Guardian, October 11, 2024.
The extraordinary risk of targeting regional energy assets, Colby Connelly, Middle East Institute, October 9, 2024.
How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war, Naomi Klein, The Guardian, October 5, 2024.
Carnegie nuclear expert James Acton explains why it would be counterproductive for Israel to attack Iran’s nuclear program, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, October 5, 2024.
Failing Gaza: Pro-Israel bias uncovered behind the lens of Western media, Al Jazeera, October 5, 2024.
Special Report: Emails show early US concerns over Gaza offensive, risk of Israeli war crimes, Humeyra Pamuk, Reuters, October 4, 2024.
Israel’s Bloody Endgame, Rickard Falk, Global Justice in the 21st Century, October 4, 2024.
Must the Sword Devour Forever? Seth Anziska, Jewish Currents, October 2, 2024.
Target: Iran, John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus, October 2, 2024.
How does Hezbollah function – and what arsenal does it have? Simon Speakman Cordall and AJLabs, Al Jazeera, October 1, 2024.
US boosts air support and hikes troop readiness to deploy for Middle East, Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali, Reuters, September 29, 2024.
End of an Era: What Hassan Nasrallah’s Assassination Spells for the Middle East, Hassan Hassan and Kareem Shaheen, New LInes Magazine, September 28, 2024.
UN General Assembly 2024: Diplomats walk out in protest against Netanyahu address, Middle East Eye, September 27, 2024.
Why Israelis Do and Don’t Want War with Hezbollah, Ori Goldberg, New Lines Magazine, September 27, 2024.
All Talk, No Ceasefire, Tom Stevenson, London Review of Books, September 26, 2024.
Israel Deliberately Blocked Humanitarian Aid to Gaza, Two Government Bodies Concluded. Antony Blinken Rejected Them, Brett Murphy, Pro Publica, September 24, 2024.
Netanyahu’s lethal bombs will turn Lebanon into another Gaza. He must be brought down now, Simon Tisdall, September 24, 2024.
Ex-CIA chief: Pager blasts in Lebanon are ‘terrorism’, Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, September 23, 2024.
Press groups condemn Israel closing Al Jazeera office in Ramallah, Al Jazeera, September 22, 2024.
Hezbollah: 10 Things You Need To Know, Elia Ayoub, Hauntologies, September 21, 2024.
What Israelis don’t want to hear about Iran and Hezbollah, Edo Konrad interviews Ori Goldberg, +972 Magazine, September 20, 2024.
The Pager Attack, Adam Shatz, London Review of Books Blog, September 19, 2024.
A Ceasefire Is Not Enough in Gaza, John Feffer, Foreign Policyin Focus, September 18, 2024.
Walkie-talkie blasts: attacks on Hezbollah kill 20 as Israel says military focus shifting north, William Christou, Lorenzo Tondo, and Andrew Roth, The Guardian, September 18, 2024.
War on Gaza: Can the world unite to save Palestine from US-Israeli genocide? Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J S Davies, Middle East Eye, September 18, 2024.
Second wave of device explosions rocks Lebanon; 14 dead, Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, September 18, 2024.
Exploding pagers, psychological warfare: Israel’s attack on Hezbollah, Justin Salhani, AlJazeera, September 18, 2024.
A plan to liquidate northern Gaza is gaining steam, Meron Rapoport, +972 Magazine, September 17, 2024.
MIT Coalition for Palestine Announces Major Divestment Win, National Lawyers Guild, Massachusetts chapter, September 17, 2024.
Palestinian poll finds big drop in support for Oct 7 attack, Ali Sawafta, Reuters, September 17, 2024.
War Upends Southern Lebanon, New Lines Magazine, September 16, 2024.
Globe and Mail censored criticism of Israel by award-winning Indian author, Martin Lukacs, The Breach, September 16, 2024.
Classrooms turned to rubble: UNRWA official describes realities of life in a war zone, Ezzat El-Ferri, UN News, September 16, 2024.
Why Most Israelis Believe the Conflict Can Never Be Resolved, Rida Abu Rass, New Lines Magazine, September 16, 2024.
‘She came here out of love’: Palestinians, allies honor activist slain by Israeli army, Oren Ziv, September 10, 2024.
UK: Tens of thousands march for Palestine towards Israeli embassy in London, Areeb Ullah, Middle East Eye, September 7, 2024.
The Gaza war is an environmental catastrophe, Nathalie Rozanes, +972 Magazine, September 5, 2024.
As furious protesters take to the streets, Netanyahu may well have reached his political dead-end, Alon Pinkas, The Guardian, September 2, 2024.
‘This is also America’s war’: Why the U.S. isn’t stopping Israel’s Gaza onslaught, Meron Rapoport, +972 Magazine, September 2, 2024.
Protests in Israel and strike called amid eruption of outrage over Gaza war, Julian Borger and Quique Kierszenbaum, The Guardian, September 1, 2024.
How Much Longer Can We Survive Like This? An Aid Worker in Gaza Cries Out, Damilola Banjo, PassBlue, August 27, 2024.
Left analyses of imperialism must stand against ‘campism’, Elia J Ayoub, Red Pepper, August 25, 2024.
Israeli society’s dehumanization of Palestinians is now absolute, Meron Rapoport, +972 Magazine, August 23, 2024.
Here Is the Speech That the Uncommitted Movement Wants to Give at the DNC, Noah Lanard, Mother Jones, August 22, 2024.
Israel Will Collapse Within a Year if the War of Attrition Against Hamas and Hezbollah Continues, Yitzhak Brik, Naaretz (via Portside,) August 22, 2024.
Democratic Convention protesters to Harris: Israel arms embargo or no vote, Ali Harb, AlJazeera, August 19, 2024.
Activists prepare to defy Israeli naval blockade of Gaza, Reuters, August 16, 2024.
Report: Israelis using Gaza civilians as human shields, Aaron Sobczak, Responsible Statecraft, August 14, 2024.
Stop Israeli & Iranian Militarism, Frieda Afary, New Politics, August 8, 2024.
‘We’ve lost everything, for what?’: Gazan anger at Hamas grows as war drags on, Mahmoud Mushtaha, +972 Magazine, August 6, 2024.
Smotrich: It may be ‘justified’ to starve 2 million Gazans, but world won’t let us, Times of Israel, August 5, 2024.
Palestinian prisoners describe systemic abuse in Israel’s jails: Guardian interviews back up report by rights group B’Tselem, which says jails should now be labelled ‘torture camps’, Bethan McKernan, Emma Graham-Harrison, Quique Kierszenbaum and Sufian Taha. The Guardian, August 5, 2024.
Welcome to Hell: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps, B’Tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, August 2024.
‘Order from Amazon’: How tech giants are storing mass data for Israel’s war, Yuval Abraham, +972 Magazine, August 4, 2024.
Netanyahu, Defiant, Appears to Have Gone Rogue, Risking a Regional War, Steven Erlanger, The New York Times, August 4, 2024.
Rashida Tlaib: A Profile in Courage, Common Dreams, August 2, 2024.
Gaza and the death of Western journalism, Mohamad Elmasry, AlJazeera, August 2, 2024.
The Middle East Is Inching Toward Another War, Trita Parsi, Time, August 1, 2024.
Israel has all but declared war in the Middle East – a conflict it cannot hope to win, Simon Tisdall, The Guardian, July 31, 2024.
Gaza: Fresh evacuation orders compound misery for enclave’s displaced, UN News, July 29, 2024.
The decimation of Gaza’s academia is ‘impossible to quantify’, Ibtisam Mahdi, +972 Magazine, July 26, 2024.
We’re protecting you: Full text of Netanyahu’s address to Congress, Times of Israel, July 25, 2024.
Key takeaways from Netanyahu’s speech and the protests outside US Congress, Al Jazeera, July 24, 2024.
Rethinking Holocaust Memory after October 7, Marianne Hirsch, Public Books, July 15, 2024.
There Is Trauma on Both Sides of My Family but Historically They Don’t Meet: Interview With Palestinian-Ukrainian Analyst Rita Adel, Commons (Ukraine), July 9, 2024.
Five journalists killed as Israel steps up bombardment across Gaza, AlJazeera, July 6, 2024.
US has sent Israel thousands of 2,000-pound bombs since Oct. 7, Humeyra Pamuk and Mike Stone, Reuters, June 29, 2024.
Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse around Gaza war, Lee Fang and Jack Poulson, June 24, 2024.
‘All of the rats in the Knesset’: Mass antiwar protest in Israel, AlJazeera, June 22, 2024.
Israeli foreign minister says decision on all-out war against Hezbollah is near, Peter Beaumont, The Guardian, June 18, 2024.
Hunger-Time, Alma Igra, Los Angeles Review of Books, June 16, 2024.
Netanyahu denounces tactical pauses in Gaza fighting to get in aid, James Mackenzie, Reuters, June 16, 2024.
‘Absolute priority’: UN agencies must work unhindered in Gaza, G7 says, AlJazeera, June 14, 2024.
UN Security Council backs Israel-Hamas ceasefire plan, Michelle Nichols, Reuters, June 10, 2024.
Neither the river nor the sea: Interview from Tel Aviv University, Transnational Social Strike Platform, June 5, 2024.
US state department falsified report absolving Israel on Gaza aid – ex-official, Julian Borger, The Guardian, May 31, 2024.
‘I Will Throw Them Out’: Trump Tells Jewish Donors He’ll Deport Pro-Palestinian Protesters, , Haaretz (via Portside,) May 28, 2024.
These inhumane attacks on Rafah are no accident. They’re central to the IDF’s brutal, losing strategy, Paul Rogers, The Guardian, May 28, 2024.
Ireland, Spain and Norway to recognise Palestinian state, Rory Carroll and Sam Jones, The Guardian, May 22, 2024.
Israel’s War Is Not About Bringing Down Hamas, Guy Laron, Jacobin, May 21, 2024.
‘Dark Times’: Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé Detained, Interrogated by FBI, Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams, May 16, 2024.
The Media Keeps Asking the Wrong Questions About Biden and the “Uncommitted” Vote, Phyllis Bennis, The Nation/MSN, May 13, 2024.
Israel Continues Unfettered Colonization of the West Bank Amid Genocide in Gaza, Daniel Falcone, Truthout, May 13, 2024.
More than 800 faculty and staff at UCLA call for chancellor’s resignation, Sam Levin, The Guardian, May 10, 2024.
Biden Puts Arms Shipment to Israel on Hold Amid Dispute Over Rafah Attack, Peter Baker, The New York Times, May 7, 2024.
Watching the watchdogs: How US media weaponised campus protests coverage, Rami G. Khouri. AlJazeera, May 6, 2024.
Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices in ‘dark day for the media,’ Jason Burke, The Guardian, May 5, 2024.
Student encampments have the potential to strengthen US democracy, Jan-Werner Müller, The Guardian, May 4, 2024.
Governing Gaza After Genocide, Richard Falk, Global Justice in the 21st Century, May 4, 2024.
‘None go forward without the others.’ US mega-deal would tie together the futures of Saudi Arabia, Israel and Gaza, Becky Anderson, Mostafa Salem and Jennifer Hansler, CNN, May 3, 2024.
The state as blunt force – impressions of the Columbia campus clearance, Adam Tooze, Chartbook, May 1, 2024.
Will they crush the biggest student movement since Vietnam? Jewish Voice for Peace, May 1, 2024.
I’m a Jewish student at Yale. Here’s what everyone is getting wrong about the protest, Ian Berlin, CNN, April 27, 2024.
The Student-Led Protests Aren’t Perfect. That Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Right, Lydia Polgreen, The New York Times, April 26, 2024
Israeli pressure delayed Freedom Flotilla’s departure for Gaza: Organisers, Federica Marsi, AlJazeera, April 26, 2024.
The Crackdown on Campus Protests Is Happening Everywhere, The Nation, April 26, 2024.
Columbia leadership rebuked by faculty panel for police crackdown on protesters, Julia Harte and Kia Johnson, Reuters, April 26, 2024.
Columbia University’s “crisis” – a political economy sketch map, Adam Tooze, Chartbook/Substack, April 26, 2024.
Underhanded Israeli Tactic Delays Flotilla Departure, Freedom Flotilla Coalition, April 25, 2024.
We need an exodus from Zionism, Naomi Klein, The Guardian, April 24, 2024.
Will the Freedom Flotilla Sail to Gaza? Medea Benjamin, Counterpunch, April 23, 2024.
What Is Really Going On at Columbia University? Aymann Ismail, Slate, April 22, 2024.
The pro-Israel groups planning to spend millions in US elections, Chris McGreal, The Guardian, April 22, 2024.
Columbia, Free Speech and the Coddling of the American Right, Lydia Polgreen, The New York, Times, April 19, 2024.
Norm Breaking at Columbia, David Pozen, Balkinization, April 19, 2024.
US vetoes Palestinian request for full UN membership, Julian Borger, The Guardian, April 18, 2024.
Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory,” Jeremy Scahill an Ryan Grim, The Intercept,
April 15 2024.
Iran launches risky attack on Israel, Trita Parsi, Responsible Statecraft, April 14, 2024.
Words and history: the trouble with “Genocide Joe,” Fred Glass, The Stansbury Forum, April 14, 2024.
Nancy Pelosi joins House Democrats in urging Biden to halt arms to Israel, Ramon Antonio Vargas and Chris Stein, The Guardian, April 6, 2024.
Germany’s murderous history should give it clarity about the Middle East. Instead, it is paralysed, John Kampfner. The Guardian, April 5, 2024.
‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza, Yuval Abraham +972 Magazine, April 3, 2024.
Tens of thousands of Israeli protesters call for Netanyahu’s removal, Lorenzo Tondo and Quique Kierszenbaum, The Guardian, April 1, 2024.
The Two-State Solution Is an Unjust, Impossible Fantasy, Tareq Baconi, The New York Times, April 1, 2024.
The Nuclear Explosion That Makes US Aid to Israel Illegal, , The Nation (via Portside), March 31, 2024.
US reportedly approves transfer to Israel of bombs and jets worth billions, Reuters, The Guardian, March 30, 2024.
Video shows Michigan congressman appear to call for nuclear bombs to be dropped on Gaza, Todd Spangler, USA Today, March 30, 2024.
Why do Israelis feel so threatened by a ceasefire? Meron Rapoport, +972 Magazine, March 29, 2024.
‘Famine is setting in’: UN court orders Israel to unblock Gaza food aid, Peter Beaumont, The Guardian, March 28, 2024.
‘Madness’: Netanyahu’s handling of US relations under scrutiny after UN vote, Peter Beaumont, The Guardian, March 26, 2024.
The Marginal Realists of Standing Together, The American Prospect, March 25, 2024.
US Has Redefined “Human Shields” to Enable Israel’s Slaughter of Gaza Civilians, Stephen Zunes, Truthout, March 22, 2024.
The Great Rupture in American Jewish Life, Peter Beinart, The New York Times, March 22, 2024.
EU and US pile on pressure for Gaza ceasefire, Julian Borger, Lisa O’Carroll, and Peter Beaumont, The Guardian, March 21, 2024.
Sergey Lavrov and Vulgar Anti-Imperialism, Howie Hawkins, Against The Current, March/April 2024.
Documents reveal alleged pattern of Israeli harassment of UNRWA workers on West Bank, Jason Burke, The Guardian, March 19, 2024.
Two conceptions of Jewish identity, Rohini Hensman, Polity, March 18, 2024.
Let’s Name It: Not Just Islamophobia, but Anti-Palestinianism, Hani Sabra, The Intercept, March 18, 2024.
“Zionism Über Alles”, Hans Kundnani, Dissent, March 15, 2024.
What the French evisceration of Algeria has to do with Gaza today, Sean Tomlinson, Resonsible Statecraft, March 11, 2024.
Gaza as Twilight of Israel Exceptionalism: Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Unprecedented Crisis to Unprecedented Change, Raz Segal and Luigi Daniele, Journal of Genocide Research, March 5, 2024.
I met the Israeli settlers Biden placed sanctions on. They’re bad – but part of a rotten system, Zak Witus, The Guardian, March 4, 2024.
Lives Ended in Gaza, Ben Hubbard, Lauren Leatherby, Hiba Yazbek, Abu Bakr Bashir, Raja Abdulrahim and Emma Bubola, The New York Times, March 4, 2024.
Israeli director receives death threats after officials call Berlin film festival ‘antisemitic’, Philip Oltermann, The Guardian, February 27, 2024.
Making It Work From the River to the Sea, Matthew Teller, New Lines Magazine, February 26, 2024.
The Erasure of Palestinian Society, Wendy Pearlman, New Lines Magazine, February 20, 2024.
‘The most popular Palestinian leader alive’: Releasing Marwan Barghouti could transform territories’ politics, Oliver Holmes and Peter Beaumont, The Guardian, February 17, 2024.
Examples of Shared Israeli-Palestinian Actions: The war is terrible, but there are also signs of a new social order emerging, Louis Kriesberg, Foreign Policy in Focus, February 14, 2024.
Propaganda vs. Truth: Israeli Propaganda and Palestinian Demonisation,Tamara Tamimi and Daniela Suárez Vargas, E-International Relations, February 13, 2024.
Israeli settlements stand in the way of peace. Biden can defund them all, Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man, The Guardian, February 12, 2024.
Violence in the Middle East: Targeted killings and tit-for-tat exchanges, Lawrence Freedman, Comment is Freed (Substack), February 13, 2024.
What Happens When You Teach at Columbia and Reject Hamas, Shai Davidai and Yardenne Greenspan, Tablet, February 13, 2024.
Denouncing critics of Israel as ‘un-Jews’ or antisemites is a perversion of history, Kenan Malik, The Guardian, February 11, 2024.
UNRWA staff accused by Israel sacked without evidence, chief admits, Emine Sinmaz, The Guaridan. February 9, 2024.
What the Israeli Public Doesn’t See, Elisheva Goldberg, Jewish Currents, February 7, 2024.
As Donors Suspend Critical Funding to UNRWA, Allegations Against Staff Remain Murky, Jessica Le Masurier and Damilola Banjo, PassBlue, February 5, 2024.
CNN staff say network’s pro-Israel slant amounts to ‘journalistic malpractice’, Chris McGreal, The Guardian, February 4, 2024.
Why a Faction of BDS Is Attacking Standing Together,
US city councils increasingly call for Israel-Gaza ceasefire, analysis shows, Aurora Ellis, Reuters, February 2, 2024.
UK, US and other countries to pause funding for key UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees, The Guardian, January 28, 2024.
In Gaza We Are Witnessing the 21st Century Version of How the West Was Won, Joseph Gerson, Common Dreams, January 24, 2024.
Israeli police repressing anti-war protests with ‘iron fist,’ say activists, Oren Ziv, +972 Magazine, January 24, 2024.
The Houthis are not a group that can be bombed into extinction – here’s why, Amal Saad, The Guardian, January 23, 2024.
‘War hurts our hearts’: silent multi-faith peace walk held in London, Emine Sinmaz, The Guardian, January 24, 2024.
‘Different rules’: special policies keep US supplying weapons to Israel despite alleged abuses, Stephanie Kirchgaessner, The Guardian, January 18, 2024.
Hundreds of thousands march for Gaza as world demands cease-fire, Jon Queally, Nation of Change, January 15, 2024.
Gaza Cease-Fire Now! No Wider War, Joseph Gerson, Common Dreams, January 13, 2024.
Houthi Attacks: What Happens Next? Lawrence Freedman, Comment is Freed/Substack, January 13, 2024.
Why conspiracy theories are corrosive to social movements — and what to do about it, Shane Burley, Waging Nonviolence, January 12, 2024.
Nobel winner joins push to boycott German cultural institutions over Gaza, Jad Salfiti, AlJazeera, January 11, 2024.
Living Inside a Psyop: Three months at Harvard, Walter Johnson, N+1, January 10, 2024.
Memory Failure, Pankaj Mishra The London Review of Books, January 4, 2024.
Will Israel Drag the US Into Another Ruinous War? Trita Parsi, The Nation, January 3, 2024.
Another letter of dissent: A group of aides hired to reelect President Joe Biden is breaking with him on the conflict between Israel and Hamas, Ben Johansen, Lauren Egan and Myah Ward, Politico, January 3, 2023.
Watching the watchdogs: US media reporting from Gaza, Rami G Khouri, AlJaZeera, December 31, 2023.
Despite backlash, Masha Gessen says comparing Gaza to a Nazi-era ghetto is necessary, NPR Morning Edition, December 22, 2023.
Conflating antisemitism and anti-zionism emboldens the far right, Aaron Winter, Open Democracy, December 19, 2023.
Some Facts for the Unconvinced: Why We Need a Gaza Ceasefire Now, Phyllis Bennis, Foreign Policy in Focus, December 18, 2023
In the West Bank, I saw how peace will require confrontation with Israel, David Ignatius, The Washington Post, December 16, 2023.
Amid Gaza War, Jordan’s King Faces Legitimacy Crisis at Home, William Christou, Instick, December 15, 2023.
Don’t Look Away, Selma Dabbagh, London Review of Books blog, December 13, 2023.
Biden says Netanyahu ‘has to change,’ accuses Israel of ‘indiscriminate bombing’, Lauren Egan, Politico, December 12, 2023.
Harvard faculty rally around beleaguered university president Claudine Gay, Brad Brooks, Reuters, December 11, 2023.
Gaza humanitarian crisis deepens as fighting rages on across the Strip, UN News, December 11, 2023.
In the Shadow of the Holocaust: How the politics of memory in Europe obscures what we see in Israel and Gaza today, Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, December 9, 2023.
Saudi Arabia urges US restraint as Houthis attack ships in Red Sea, Aziz El Yaakoubi and Parisa Hafezi, Reuters, December 6, 2023.
Gaza, Biden, and a Path Forward, Max Elbaum and Bill Fletcher Jr. , The Nation, December 1, 2023.
What I Learned While Trying to Get to the Rafah Border Crossing, Gerry Condon, Peace and Planet News, Fall, 2023.
University of California professors push back on UC president’s call for ‘viewpoint-neutral’ history of Middle East, Eric Levenson, CNN, November 30, 2023.
The “New Antisemitism” and the Logic of Whiteness, Megan Wachspress, Los Angeles Review of Books, November 29, 2023.
Interrupting Genocide: Humanity Challenged as Never Before, Richard Falk, Global Justice in the 21st Century, November 25, 2023.
Watching the watchdogs: America’s reckoning with Israeli media manipulation, Rami G Khouri, Al Jazeera, November 22, 2023.
Gaza Massacre could lead to Nuclear War, Veterans for Peace (via Common Dreams), November 20, 2023.
The Dangers Only Multiply: Could Israel’s War on Gaza Go Nuclear? Joshua Frank, TomDispatch, November 19, 2023.
Here’s what the mass violence in Gaza looks like to a scholar of genocide, Raz Segal, The Los Angeles Times, Nov. 19, 2023.
When Anti, Anti-Zionism Becomes Anti-Semitism, Counterpunch, November 17, 2023.
Towards a Left Critique of Indiscriminate Violence, Anatoly Kropivnitskyi, Posle Media, November 15, 2023.
For all its military might, Israel succumbed to its most fatal weakness, Lev Grinberg, +972 Magazine, November 15, 2023.
More Than 500 U.S. Officials Sign Letter Protesting Biden’s Israel Policy, Maria Abi-Habib, Michael Crowley and Edward Wong, The New York Times, November 14, 2023.
A tribute to Vivian, Samah Salaime, +972 Magazine, November 14, 2023.
Protests sweep around the globe as Israel’s war in Gaza grinds on, Prasanta Kumar Dutta, Reuters, November 13, 2023.
US officials sign memo criticizing White House for ‘unwillingness to de-escalate’ Israel-Hamas war, Ed Pilkington, The Guardian, November 13, 2023.
Israel-Palestine war: Israelis in fear and denial as society slides towards fascism, Meron Rapoport, Middle East Eye, November 10, 2023.
Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Yossi Klein Halevi, The Ezra Klein Show, The New York Times, November 10, 2023.
Nuclear Tensions Loom Over War Zones, Thalif Deen, InDepthNews, November 9, 2023.
October War, Tim Sahay interview with Guy Laron, Phenomenal World, November 9, 2023.
Inside the Israeli Crackdown on Speech, Masha Gesson, The New Yorker, November 8, 2023.
IIT Bombay Cancels Talk By Former Delhi University Professor On Israel-Palestine Conflict, Outlook, November 8, 2023.
The Israel-Hamas war again shows that we need to stop thinking there are military solutions to political problems, Paul Rogers, The Guardian, November 8, 2023.
Hamas’s Horrific Miscalculation & Israel’s Horrific Response, Mark LeVine, Tikkun Magaizen, November 7, 2023.
Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Amjad Iraqi, The Ezra Klein Show, The New York Times, November 7, 2023.
Israeli minister’s Gaza nuclear comments spotlight opaque arsenal, Jesse Johnson, The Japan Times, November 6, 2023.
Roses Dressed in Black: America’s War Economy and the Urgent Call for Peace in the Middle East, Liz Theoharis, TomDispatch, November 5, 2023.
Bernie Sanders says Senate should use aid package to force Israel to change, David Cohen, Politico, November 5, 2023.
Protesters mass outside Netanyahu’s house as anger grows, Reuters, November 4, 2023.
Where are the tears? The catastrophe that is Gaza can only be addressed when the world community grapples with the humanity of Palestinian people, Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler and Ariel Gold, Fellowship Magazine, November 3, 2023.
The Left as Israel’s Sacrificial Lamb, Lynn Feinerman, Counterpunch, November 3, 2023.
A tribute to Khalil, +972/The Landline, November 3, 2023.
Vengeful Pathologies, Adam Shatz, London Review of Books, November 2, 2023.
We Need to Hear More Palestinian Voices, Sarah Gertler, Foreign Policy in Focus, November 1, 2023.
Prayers of Peace for Palestine and Israel, Nejoud Al-Yagout, November 1, 2023.
Seeking Meaning, Seeking Justice in a Post-Cold War World, Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy in Focus, October 31, 2023.
Past Lies About War in the Middle East are Getting in the Way of the Truth Today, Zeynep Tufekci, The New York Times, October 31, 2023.
Open hatred of Jews surges globally, inflamed by Gaza war, Andrew Macaskill and Estelle Shirbon, Reuters, October 31, 2023.
Palestine and Ukraine: how the 21st century empires wage war, Simon Pirani, People and Nature, October 30, 2023.
The Free Speech Exception: Support for Palestinian rights is facing a McCarthyite backlash, Radhika Sainath, Boston Review, October 30, 2023.
Gaza, the West, and the Rest, Gilbert Achcar, New Politics, October 29, 2023.
Calls for a Ceasefire Get Little Traction in Congress, Alex Kane, Jewish Currents, October 27, 2023.
Why Ukrainians should support Palestinians, Daria Saburova, Commons, October 27, 2023.
Is the Two-State Solution Dead? Noah Lanard, Mother Jones, October 27, 2023.
I run the UN agency for Palestine refugees. History will judge us all if there is no ceasefire in Gaza, Philippe Lazzarini, The Guardian, October 26, 2023
The Enduring Limits of American Power: America can’t determine outcomes on the ground in Israel and Ukraine, John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus, October 25, 2023.
Letter from Israel, In the aftermath of October 7, Oded Na’aman, Boston Review, October 23, 2023.
Imagine You’re a Palestinian Youth…, Walden Bello, Foreign Policy in Focus, October 23, 2023.
Hamas hostages: what we know so far, Reuters, October 20, 2023.
Biden Has It So Wrong—And It’s Killing Thousands, Da LaBotz, Foreign Policy in Focus, October 20, 2023.
Israel’s War on Palestinians: Language in the Service of the Unspeakable, Achin Vanaik, The Wire, October 19, 2023.
‘Do not use our pain to bring death’: plea to Israel from peace activists’ grieving families, Emma Graham-Harrison and Quique Kierszenbaum, The Guardian, October 19, 2023.
US official resigns over Biden’s ‘destructive, unjust’ arms to Israel, Adam Gabbatt, The Guardian, October 19, 2023.
Why Ukrainians should support Palestinians, Daria Saburova , Open Democracy, October 19, 2923.
Israeli Progressives Speak Out on War, The Shalom Center, October 18, 2023.
Progressive American Jewish Groups Lead Cease-Fire Rally Near White House, Jarod Facundo, The American Prospect, October 17, 2023.
The U.S. Should Think Twice About Israel’s Plans for Gaza, Rashid Khalidi, The New York Times, October 15, 2023.
Biden refuses to talk ‘ceasefire’ though it could prevent a regional war, Trita Parsi, Responsible Statecraft, October 15, 2023.
A Jewish Plea: Stand Up to Israel’s Act of Genocide, Stefanie Fox, Boston Review, October 14, 2023.
Israeli army and settler attacks against Palestinians in West Bank increase, Ayman Nobani, AlJazeera, October 14, 2023.
There Is a Jewish Hope for Palestinian Liberation. It Must Survive,
We must say an emphatic ‘no’ to Hamas a thousand times, Reverend William Barber, The Guardian, October 13, 2023.
I’m Going to War for Israel. Palestinians Are Not My Enemy, , The New York Times, October 13, 2023.
Progressives press Biden on Israel’s plans for Gaza, Andrew Solender, Axios, October 13, 2023. Congressional letter to President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken, October 13, 2023.
Stunning State Department Memo Warns Diplomats: No Gaza ‘De-Escalation’ Talk, Huffpost, October 13, 2023.
The Hamas Attacks and Israeli Response: An Explainer, Alex Kane, Mari Cohen, Jonathan Shamir, and Isaac Scher, Jewish Currents, October 10, updated October 13.
Gaza rescue workers scared and exhausted under Israel’s air strikes, Nidal Al-Mughrabi, Bassam and Masaoud, Reuters, October 13, 2023.
Watching the watchdogs: Babies and truth die together in Israel-Palestine, Rami G Khouri, AlJazeera, October 13, 2023.
The deadly Hamas rampage across southern Israel, David Clarke and Sophie Meyer, Reuters, October 12, 2023.
Both Israelis and Palestinians Are Victims of Israel’s Apartheid System, Phyllis Bennis, Foreign Policy in Focus, October 12, 2023.
The Catastrophic Moral Failing of Those Who Won’t Condemn Hamas, Sasha Abramsky, The Nation, October 12, 2023.
Israel warns half of Gaza’s population to move south, UN says, Michelle Nichols, Reuters, October 12, 2023.
Israeli Settlers Aren’t Pausing the Expulsion and Dispossession in the West Bank, Amira Hass, Haaretz (reposted by Portside), October 12, 2023.
In Gaza and Israel, side with the child over the gun, Naomi Klein, The Guardian, October 11, 2023.
Hamas, Israel, and the U.S. Have Learned Nothing, Stephen Zunes, The Progressive, October 11, 2023.
Have We Learned Nothing? David Klion, N+1 Magazine, October 11, 2023.
Fanon’s conception of violence does not work in Palestine, Mark LeVine, AlJazeera, October 10, 2023.
A Surprise Attack–but Nothing Surprising About It, Dan La Botz, Foreign Policy in Focus, October 10, 2023.
What Does It Mean to Stand With Israel? Emily Tamkin, Slate, Oct 10, 2023.
As Israel and Gaza erupt, the US must commit to ending the violence — all the violence, Phyllis Bennis, The Hill, October 8, 2023.
HISTORY AND BACKGROUND
Israel Gaza Crisis, United Nations, regularly updated compilation of UN news and materials.
Emergency Special Sessions of the United Nations General Assembly on Illegal Israeli actions in occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, current 10th Special Session and compilation of materials from past sessions.
Study on the Legality of the Israeli Occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem, The United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, United Nations, 2023.
United Nations, The question of Palestine, history and documents.
Standing Together –a grassroots movement mobilizing Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel in pursuit of peace, equality, and social and climate justice.
Democratic South Africa’s relations with Israel and Palestine, Na’eem Jeenah, Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection, March 20, 2024.
Israel, the United States, and the Rhetoric of the War on Terror, From September 11, 2001, to October 7, 2023 (and Beyond), Maha Hilal, TomDispatch, January 25, 2024.
Regional War: An Explainer: Answers to common questions about the broadening war in the Middle East, Alex Kane and Jonathan Shamir, Jewish Currents, January 17, 2024.
On Human Shields, Neve Gordon, London Review of Books blog, December 1, 2023.
From Bin Laden to Gaza: Here’s how the U.S. position in the Middle East unraveled, Walden Bello, Foreign Policy in Focus, November 20, 2023.
Blood and Oil in the Orient: A 2023 Update, Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan, Real World Economics Review Blog, November 10, 2023.
Why Israel wants to erase context and history in the war on Gaza, Ilan Pappe, AlJazeera, November 5, 2023.
Palestine and Israel: Historical, Legal and Moral Issues, Rohini Hensman, The India Forum, October 24, 2023.
Bridging the divide: 12 groups working for Israel-Palestine peace, Gavin Haines, Positive.News, October 19, 2023.
Gaza, beyond de-development to disposability and destruction, Adam Tooze, Chartbook 245, October 14, 2023.
Beyond Moral Condemnation, Rajan Menon, Boston Review, October 11, 2023.
WEBINARS AND VIDEO PRESENTATIONS
Panel discussion entitled “1948-2024: The Ongoing Palestinian Nakba” convened by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), ECOSOC Chamber, United Nations Headquarters, New York
Speakers:
Ambassador Cheikh Niang Representative of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People Permanent Representative of Senegal to the United Nations,
Ambassador Riyad Mansour Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine To the United Nations
Ms. Zeina Azzam Palestinian-US Poet
Mr. Ardi Imseis, Assistant Professor and Academic Director, Queen’s University, Canada
Ms. Karameh Kuemmerle, Assistant Professor and M.D., Harvard Medical School, USA
Ms. Nadia Abu El-Haj, Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College and Columbia University, USA
Ms. Phyllis Bennis, Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington D.C., USA
Occupation, Encampment & Divestment on Campus: Students’ Voices Must Be Heard, Massachusetts Peace Action, May 13, 2024.
A conversation and dialogue with students from Massachusetts universities, including University of Massachusetts Amherst, Smith College, Northeastern University, MIT, and others. Students’ voices must be heard, and this forum will provide a platform to student organizers leading the effort in protesting U.S. complicity in the genocide in Gaza and inform the broader public what they can do to support and move forward the students’ agenda.
Will the Freedom Flotilla sail to Gaza? Hassan Ghani, April 23, 2024.
A short video report on the Freedom Flotilla, and the dangers the aid mission faces as they seek to embark for Gaza.
William Hartung on U.S. Arms Sales and Transfers Policy, Washington Journal, CSPAN, April 9, 2024.
Against genocide: A conversation with Ofer Cassif, Metta Center for Nonviolence, April 1, 2024.
Ofer Cassif, a voice for peace and nonviolence within the Israeli parliament, speaks with Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, Ela Gandhi, Michael Nagler and Mubarak Awad.
Gaza, Protest, Repression and Germany’s Conundrum, United for Peace and Justice, March 17, 2024.
The global wave of protest against Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza has drawn crackdowns on speech from the streets to university campuses. One place government repression aimed at individuals and groups supporting Palestine has been particularly notable has been Germany. On March 17, United for Peace and Justice presented a panel featuring a variety of voices from Germany, and accounts of similar experiences in the United States. Learning about what is happening in Germany, a country with a history of official regulation of how the Holocaust can be discussed and how “anti-Semitism” should be defined, could provide new insights into the challenges we face in promoting a fair and open discussion of the Gaza crisis, and the history that has led us here.
Speakers:
Wieland Hoban, Executive Director of Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost (Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East), Germany
Yasmeen Daher, Palästina Spricht (Palestine Speaks), GermanyAmira Nasereddin, PA_Allies (Palestinians & Allies), Germany
Adam Broomberg, Artists + Allies x Hebron (AAH), Germany
Barbara Dougan, ESQ., Legal Director, Center on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), Massachusetts, USA
Moderators: George Friday, National Coordinator, United for Peace and Justice, and MaTT De Vlieger, Facilitator, Ceasefire Action Committee, Berlin, and Former United for Peace and Justice National Coordinator
The Impact of the War on Gaza, on Health Care and Human Rights, Brooklyn for Peace, February 29, 2024.
On February 29th Brooklyn for Peace presented a forum titled the Impact of The War on Gaza on Health and Human Rights. The speaker was Dr. Alice Rothchild, author, filmmaker, and physician. She has made many trips to Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, most recently in August 2023. She is a member of Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council, the mentor liaison for “We Are Not Numbers,” and on the board of the Gaza Mental Health Foundation. The Forum addressed the state of health care in Gaza before the October assault, highlighted the impact on of massive bombing and dislocation on civilians in Gaza, and the international human rights laws violations that are occurring.
National Labor Network for a Ceasefire National Event, February 22, 2024.
This webinar was hosted by Juan González of Democracy Now and featured NEA President Becky Pringle, UAW President Shawn Fain, US Rep. Rashida Tlaib, US Rep. Summer Lee and Northwestern Professor Wendy Pearlman.
Understanding Genocide, Jewish Voice for Peace Bay Area, January 22, 2024.
What makes a catastrophe a “genocide,” and why do we use this word to identify the current Israeli assault on Palestinians in Gaza? As both South Africa and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) file cases against Israel and the US based on the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, please join JVP-Bay Area for a crucial discussion about the history, meaning, and current importance of the term “genocide.” Webinar presenters were Professor Barry Trachtenberg, historian of modern Jewry and the Nazi Holocaust, member of the Academic Advisory Board of JVP, and one of the scholars who submitted expert testimony on the lawsuit filed by the CCR seeking an emergency order to stop military and diplomatic support for Israeli government’s genocidal assault on Gaza; Professor Adrienne Pine, medical anthropologist and one of the conveners and co-coordinators of the International Coalition to Stop Genocide in Palestine; and moderator UC Berkeley Lecturer and JVP-Bay Area organizer Brooke Lober.
Public Meeting: Apartheid Israel, The Left Berlin, January 17, 2024.
A meeting for activists and academics to discuss and analyse Israeli apartheid, with particular focus on comparisons with South Africa, With Nadija Samour (Palestinian lawyer), Patrick Bond (South African academic and activist) and Barbara Schreiner (South African activist and Executive Director of the Water Integrity Network).
Debrief: South Africa v. Israel CODEPINK Congress Capitol Calling Party, January 16, 2024.
As the International Court of Justice considers South Africa’s case against Israeli genocide, CODEPINK explores the legal and political implications of putting Israel on trial for genocide. Former National Lawyers Guild President Marjorie Cohen and Adriennes Pine give an overview of recent World Court hearings on South Africa’s case, discuss statements from other countries–Bolivia, Venezuela, Cuba, Jordan, Malaysia–in support of South Africa’s case, and explore the impact on the Biden administration should the court rule that Israel is guilty of genocide.
Joseph Gerson on Gaza & Ukraine Wars, Asian Common Security, New Hampshire Peace Action Webinar, Oct. 23, 2023
Joseph Gerson is President of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, Convener of Peace & Planet International Network, and co-chair of the Committee for a Sane U.S.-China Policy. He works closely with peace organizations and advocates across the United States, Asia-Pacific and Europe. His books include Empire and the Bomb: How the U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World and With Hiroshima Eyes.
The crucial context of Israel’s war on Gaza, Al Jazeera, October 14, 2023.
Contributors: Mariam Barghouti – Writer and Journalist; Daniel Levy – President, US/Middle East Project; Mouin Rabbani – Co-editor, Jadaliyya; Meron Rapoport – Editor, Local Call; Sarah Leah Whitson – Executive Director, DAWN.
Understanding The Recent Escalation In Gaza And Questioning Whether It Was Unprovoked, Arabic Hour, October, 11, 2023.
Moderator: Prof. Atif Kubursi, a distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics and former Undersecretary of The United Nations. Featured Guests: Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies; Ambassador Charles Freeman, Visiting Scholar in International and Public Affairs, Watson Institute, Brown University and a former U.S. assistant secretary of defense, ambassador to Saudi Arabia, and principal deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs; Dr. Joseph Gerson, President of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security (CPDCS), Co-chair of the Committee for a Sane U.S.-China Policy, Co-Convener of the International Peace and Planet Network and is former Vice President of the International Peace Bureau.
