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![Palestinian women hold placards as they gather for a demonstration in support of Palestinian woman prisoners in Israeli jails in front of the International Committee of the Red Cross building in Gaza City, Gaza, on November 6, 2019.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/05/2021_0715-palestinian-women-protest-400x300.jpg)
Palestinian Feminists Are Resisting Colonization by Fighting Sexual Violence
Sexualized violence invoked in service of the Israeli state furthers settler-colonialism through domination and control.
![There is now a growing movement in Brazil to reclaim sacred objects and collections from museums, such as the São Paulo Cultural Center (CCSP), the triangular building that appears on the left in this photo of São Paulo, Brazil.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/07/GettyImages-583808808-400x300.jpg)
Police Stole Sacred Objects From Afro-Brazilian People. Now Museums Hoard Them.
There is now a growing movement in Brazil to reclaim sacred objects and collections from museums.
![Activists lead an Anti-Columbus Day Tour at the American Museum of Natural History on October 8, 2018, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/06/GettyImages-1229039144-400x300.jpg)
Growing Movement Pushes Museums to Cut Ties With Colonialism and Apartheid
Museums have profited from colonial violence for centuries. Strike MoMA and other activists worldwide say, “no more.”
![As Black and African people, our power is in organizing ourselves globally, says Black radical scholar Kehinde Andrews.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/06/Headshot-Dr.-Kehinde-Andrews-400x300.png)
UK’s First Black Studies Professor Calls on African Diaspora to Unite
Radical scholar Kehinde Andrews is part of a broad movement calling for renewed internationalism and Pan-Africanism.
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Israel Arrests Hundreds and Continues Colonial Violence in Occupied Palestine
Palestinian organizer Mohammed El-Kurd says Israeli aggression against Palestinians has continued despite the ceasefire.
![Smoke billows above buildings after an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City in the Gaza Strip early on May 15, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/05/GettyImages-1232892569-400x300.jpg)
My Grandparents Lived Through the Nakba. Now It’s Happening Again.
The Israeli military is committing atrocities in Sheikh Jarrah and Gaza. This is the unending Palestinian catastrophe.
![A demonstrator raises a hand with the victory gesture while holding a Palestinian flag outside the Haifa District Court in Israel's northern Mediterranean coastal city on February 27, 2021, during a protest by Arab Israelis in solidarity with Palestinians.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/05/GettyImages-1231419606-400x300.jpg)
Protests Across Israel Signal Growing Palestinian Solidarity
More Palestinian citizens identify themselves as belonging to one people collectively resisting settler-colonial rule.
![Epic New Documentary Series, Exterminate All the Brutes, Exposes Brutality of European Colonialism Worldwide](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/05/Exterminate-All-the-Brutes-400x300.jpg)
Epic New Documentary Series Exposes Brutality of European Colonialism Worldwide
“Exterminate All the Brutes” has been described as an unflinching narrative of genocide and exploitation.
![An Asian woman wears a mask with "I AM NOT YOUR FETISH" written across it](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/05/2021_0323-asian-women-400x300.jpg)
Attacks on Asian Women Are Fueled by Criminalization, War and Economic Injustice
The mass shooting in Georgia also exposes the violence of imperialism, economic exploitation and immigration policy.
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Anti-Asian Violence Finds Roots in US Colonialism and Anti-China Rhetoric
Anti-Asian racism in the United States is “not anything new,” says Vietnamese author Viet Thanh Nguyen.