Social Justice

Pro-Palestine Protests Heat Up At UCLA

The Israel-Affiliated Organization Leading the Backlash Against Student Protests The Israel-Affiliated Organization Leading the Backlash Against Student Protests

The Israeli-American Council has worked in tandem with Israeli intelligence agencies for years. Last month, its leaders vowed to shut down the encampment at UCLA.

May 16, 2024 / James Bamford

The Media Keeps Asking the Wrong Questions About Biden and the “Uncommitted” Vote The Media Keeps Asking the Wrong Questions About Biden and the “Uncommitted” Vote

Expecting voters to support the person with the power to stop the killing of their families, but who refuses to use it, is asking the impossible. This is about now, not November.

May 14, 2024 / Phyllis Bennis

A protester waves a Palestinian flag from the roof of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University on April 30, 2024.

The Anti-War Movement Needs to Claim Its Victories The Anti-War Movement Needs to Claim Its Victories

There’s no need to accept the churlish narrative of Biden and the establishment. The administration’s shift on Israel is a gain that can—and must—be built on.

May 13, 2024 / Jeet Heer

The Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University

The Student Protesters Are Demonstrating Their Bravery, Not Antisemitism The Student Protesters Are Demonstrating Their Bravery, Not Antisemitism

The real threat to American Jews comes not from students but from the MAGA Republicans who are shouting about antisemitism the loudest.

May 10, 2024 / Helen Benedict

Famine as Weapon of Mass Destruction

Famine as Weapon of Mass Destruction Famine as Weapon of Mass Destruction

Gaza now.Visit World Central Kitchen, International Rescue Committee, Save the Children, and Doctors Without Borders to help.

May 10, 2024 / Steve Brodner

Left: Nazi propaganda poster from the early 1940s depicts Jews as conspiring to provoke a war with Germany. Right: Just as the Nazis recycled medieval antisemitic tropes, this 21st-century update, featured in a “Jerusalem Post” story on vaccine resistance, incorporates the visual vocabulary of the Nazi era.

Antisemitism, Then and Now: A Guide for the Perplexed Antisemitism, Then and Now: A Guide for the Perplexed

A short history of the origins, uses, and abuses of a long hatred.

May 10, 2024 / Feature / Omer Bartov

Students wrap Palestinian flag and Keffiye around the statue of George Washington at the George Washington University encampment protest.

Palestine Is Everywhere, and It Is Making Us More Free Palestine Is Everywhere, and It Is Making Us More Free

More letters from the apocalypse.

May 10, 2024 / George Abraham and Sarah Aziza

Members of the Original Big Seven Social Aid & Pleasure Club march in the 7th Ward on June 1, 2013, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The second line parade was rescheduled after 19 people were shot and one more injured fleeing the scene on Mother's Day.

Racism Can Kill Black People Even When a Black Finger Pulls the Trigger Racism Can Kill Black People Even When a Black Finger Pulls the Trigger

Wounded in the biggest mass shooting in modern New Orleans history, African American activist Deborah Cotton embodied a true-crime parable of America’s Obama-Trump era.

May 10, 2024 / Mark Hertsgaard

A campus police officer stand stands at the ready as protesters demonstrate at the University of Chicago on May 3, 2024.

Campus Police Are Among the Armed Heavies Cracking Down on Students Campus Police Are Among the Armed Heavies Cracking Down on Students

While some of the worst behavior has come from local and state police, university police have shown themselves to be just as capable of brutality.

May 9, 2024 / Alex S. Vitale

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Woke Woke

They said.

May 8, 2024 / OppArt / Jen Sorensen

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