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![President Joe Biden delivers remarks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on December 6, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/12/2023_1208-joe-biden-k-400x300.jpg)
Biden Risking Losing Wave of Young Voters With Gaza Policy, IfNotNow Leader Says
“I have seen distrust and disappointment in President Biden reach an all-time breaking point,” she wrote.
![Activists protest against what they call the sham of carbon offsetting on day eight of the COP28 climate conference at Expo City Dubai on December 8, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/12/2023_1208-cop28-400x300.jpg)
Carbon-Trading Plans Are Thinly Veiled Land Grabs That Displace People Globally
The COP28 climate summit is in danger of codifying carbon-trading schemes that often displace Indigenous people.
![Shopping carts with the Walmart logo are seen outside a Walmart store in Burbank, California, on August 15, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/12/2023_1208-walmart-400x300.jpg)
Walmart Is Selling Hanukkah Candles That Fund Anti-Arab Discrimination in Israel
The candles benefit the Jewish National Fund, the largest private landowner in Israel, which refuses to lease to Arabs.
![People wear yarmulke with Ceasefire Now written on it during a Jewish Shacharit morning prayer service near the U.S. Capitol on Capitol Hill on November 13, 2023. Rabbis for Ceasefire held a prayer service to pray for a ceasefire in Gaza.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/12/2023_1207-ceasefire-protest-400x300.jpg)
Jewish Groups Plan Massive NYC Ceasefire Protest for First Night of Hanukkah
Organizers are expecting over 500 people to attend the event as Israel’s assault enters its third month.
![President Joe Biden holds a press conference following a solidarity visit to Israel, on October 18, 2023, in Tel Aviv.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/12/2023_1207-joe-biden-israel-400x300.jpg)
Over 500 Staff at Over 140 Jewish Organizations Call for Gaza Ceasefire
“[N]either Jewish safety nor Palestinian liberation can be achieved if they are pitted against one another.”
![Gaza Poet Describes Being Stripped, Jailed and Beaten by Israeli Forces](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/12/guest-Mosab-400x300.jpg)
Gaza Poet Describes Being Stripped, Jailed and Beaten by Israeli Forces
“I felt … terrorized by this army because they were ordering us to do everything at gunpoint,” says Mosab Abu Toha.
![Protesters demonstrate in support of Gaza on November 11, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/12/2023_1207-free-gaza-400x300.jpg)
Hanukkah Is a Time for Palestine Solidarity, From Fasting to Public Disruption
This holiday of feasts begins as people starve amid genocide in Gaza. Activists are fasting weekly for a ceasefire.
![Movement Memos, a Truthout Podcast - banner featuring guest Rana Barakat and host Kelly Hayes](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/12/2023_1206-movement-memos-400x300.jpg)
“Palestine Is About Living in Spite of Everything”
“Hope is what the history of Palestine has taught me,” says Palestinian feminist Rana Barakat.
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Gaza Aid Worker Describes “Horror” of His Family’s Third Forced Relocation
Yousef Hammash’s family, like thousands of other Palestinians, have now resorted to living in a makeshift tent.
![A man wearing a lab coat and stethoscope walks down a hallway carrying an inflated globe](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/12/2023_1206-cop28-400x300.jpg)
Public Health Finally Gets a Platform at COP28, But Will Real Action Follow?
As prior COPs have shown, making commitments is often the easy part — actually seeing them through is much harder.