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Morocco sentenced the Palestine solidarity activist to prison just for protesting. But the trail of his persecution runs from Israel across the Atlantic to New Jersey and Texas.
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Jan 22, 2025 / StudentNation / Fatimah Azeem
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Jan 22, 2025 / Books & the Arts / David Yaffe
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Jan 22, 2025 / John Nichols
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Jan 22, 2025 / Ann Larson
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How We Got Here, and Thanking the Undocumented How We Got Here, and Thanking the Undocumented
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Jan 22, 2025 / Podcast / Jon Wiener
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Fighting endless wars in distant lands is not the solution here. It’s the problem.
Jan 21, 2025 / William Astore
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Jan 21, 2025 / Podcast / Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison