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Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation
We can't look away from Israel’s genocidal violence against Palestinians — or the movement for a free Palestine.
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![Students from New York University hold signs that read "Divest" and chant during a rally as students call for a ceasefire in Gaza, in New York, on October 25, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/11/2023_1102-divest-400x300.jpg)
Advocacy for Palestinians Has Been Outright Criminalized, Warns Academic
U.S. students and faculty are facing harsh reprisals for speaking out against Israel’s mass killing of Palestinians.
![A woman holds a protest sign of a Palestinian mother holding the shrouded body of her deceased child](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/11/2023_1101-palestine-mother-400x300.jpg)
Calls Grow for Prisoner-Hostage Exchange as Israel’s War on Gaza Escalates
Thousands of Palestinians are arbitrarily arrested and imprisoned under the occupation’s military court system.
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Judith Butler: Palestinians Are Not Being “Regarded as People” by Israel and US
Judith Butler calls for immediate ceasefire, Palestinians’ right of return and the dismantling of colonial structures.
![Burning lights rain down on bombed Palestinian buildings below](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_1030-palestine-bombs-400x300.jpg)
Palestinians Face Genocide. Now Is Not the Time for Academic Neutrality.
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor,” Desmond Tutu once warned us.
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Biden’s Backing of Israeli War Crimes Carries on a Sordid US Tradition
This is not the first time the U.S. has used disinformation to justify a political ally’s targeting of civilians.
![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken make statements to the media, inside The Kirya, which houses the Israeli Ministry of Defense, after their meeting in Tel Aviv on October 12, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/GettyImages-1719919909-400x300.jpg)
Israel Is Using Disinformation and Deflection as a Foreign Policy Stratagem
Israel is using defamatory attacks against its critics and a strategic deployment of disinformation to shape discourse.
![A march, organized by Solidarity Campaign, Friends of Al-Aqsa, and Stop the War Coalition demanding an end to the siege of the Gaza Strip, passes over Waterloo bridge on October 28, 2023, in London, England.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/GettyImages-1761588372-400x300.jpg)
International Pressure Is the Only Way to Halt Israel’s Devastation of Gaza
Tariq Kenney-Shawa of Al-Shabaka warns Palestinians are being deemed “subhuman” by Israel and the U.S.
![Israeli soldiers arrest a Palestinian man during a search operation in Baita village in the occupied West Bank, on August 21, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_1027-idf--400x300.jpg)
Israel Has 10,000 Palestinian Prisoners and Faces Allegations of Rampant Abuse
Two recently arrested Palestinian men died in Israeli prisons this week as the number of political prisoners explodes.
![Palestinians search for survivors and the bodies of victims through the rubble of buildings destroyed during Israeli bombardment, in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 26, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_1026-gaza-a-400x300.jpg)
Genocide Is Underway in Gaza. US Leaders Can No Longer Say “We Didn’t Know.”
I can’t stop thinking of all the children in Gaza who can’t understand why no one is coming to their rescue.
![Ofer Cassif holds a poster bearing the Palestinian flag as he participates in an outdoor demonstration](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_1025-ofer-cassif-400x300.jpg)
Israel Is Arming Fascist Militias to Suppress Dissent, Knesset Member Warns
Leftist Israeli Knesset member Ofer Cassif warns Israel is carrying out an annexation-oriented “subjugation plan.”