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Editorial PhilosophyHamas was formed in the late 1980s as an armed wing of the Gaza branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood, a…
In a conversation in 2020 with Princeton Professor Emeritus, Richard Falk, he told me that historically, colonized nations that have won the legitimacy war…
The easiest way to cope with the news is to shrivel it into an us-vs.-them abstraction and, thus, to extract as much…
In one of the most violent cities in the Western hemisphere, we meet with immigrants in a shelter trying to make their way…
It has long been a particular irony of imperialist aggression in the Middle East that, thanks to decades-old geopolitical arrangements known as…
The Israeli genocide in Gaza will be remembered as the moral collapse of the West. As soon as the Israeli war began,…
Israeli forces killed more than a hundred Palestinians and wounded more than 700 on February 29, 2024 during a distribution of food aid in…
For the past five months, in every part of the globe, millions of people have participated in protest actions. They have been…
Aaron Bushnell the 25-year-old USAF active duty member who set himself on fire to renounce “aiding and abetting genocide” in Gaza, was…
Left to its own devices, Israel would never grant Palestinians their freedom. In the past, some, whether ignorantly or not, claimed that…
“We will destroy everything not Jewish.” —–Theodore Herzl[i] “We have no solution, you shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever…
For quite some time now, many company bosses, managers, trade unions, academics, journalists, and workers in Europe have been talking about the…
Although the popular new Netflix film, Einstein and the Bomb, purports to tell the story of the great physicist’s relationship to nuclear weapons,…
“Brazilian diplomatic tradition relies on solving problems. The ‘incident’ with Israel takes the opposite direction and affects not only the image of…
Guess who threatened them? The Girl Scouts of the United States. Stories abound of retaliation against those who express concern over Israeli ethnic cleansing – from censoring news…
I recently participated in a brief email exchange about “privilege” and it made me think a broader discussion might prove worthwhile. Does…
Dear Z Community, Everyone who is a regular reader of Z has experienced the feeling of disbelief and exasperation when trying to…
Aaron Bushnell just couldn’t take any more. He couldn’t bear to see any more people eviscerated and incinerated by American bombs dropped…
The Palestinian city of Rafah is not only older than Israel, it is also as old as civilisation itself. Rafah has existed…
The way we build our structures and organize our cities can have a significant impact on the way we live, interact, and…
This week, February 24, 2024 marks the beginning of the third year of the war in Ukraine. Hundreds, if not thousands, of…
Driving at 90 toward the cliff–that is such an irresponsible teen image. That’s the current Republican party. Thanks to the past fiscal…
In 1947, Karl Jaspers published a short book entitled The Question of German Guilt (Die Schuldfrage)[1]. It was the time of a…
For its victims, war is . . . yes, hell. For the rest of us — the onlooking and supportive patriots —…
Streaming television channels these days are increasingly inserting advertising into their paid subscriber content. Thus, I recently found myself sitting through several…
The stories we do and don’t tell about ourselves and these times in which we’re living shape the direction of our lives…
Did you see Trump say police incinerate homeless people? Did you see, Biden forgot his own name? Might AI deceptions so flood…
It is horribly uncanny to witness how much of my world—my white, progressive world filled with nonprofit professionals and Unitarian Universalists and…
One of the dominant placards carried in the hundreds of Palestinian solidarity marches held in Ireland in recent weeks reads ‘No Shamrocks…
If the nations of the world–particularly the United States and the Arab countries–wanted to stop Israel’s slaughter, torture and ethnic cleansing in…
The problem is not the absence of a Palestinian state, but Zionism itself. What is the use of a Palestinian state, if…
France is faced with the reality of medical deserts, and finds itself unable to offer all its citizens sufficient medical coverage. A…
It is a historical fact that powerful elites do not wish to be diverted from pursuing their selfish interests by the public.…
The news that Silicon Valley titans have quietly purchased over 50,000 rural acres in Solano County to build a new city called…
Recent calls to weaponize terrorism laws against Palestinian rights activists part of decades-long push Opposition to Palestinian rights has shaped U.S. federal…
As we mark two full years since Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian government forces have withdrawn from Avdiivka, a town they first captured…
Following the whirlwind of the 2022 ACT-UAW 7902 Part-Time Faculty strike at The New School, Aarya Kini and Emily Li have had…
“If you try to break the mold, you’re not going to last long,” famed linguist and cultural critic Noam Chomsky wrote in…
The American sense of a rigged or broken economic system has been erupting across the political spectrum. Encampments that occupied Wall Street…
As Israel’s war on Gaza continues unabated, the United States, which holds great leverage over Israel’s conduct, is seemingly helpless in stopping…
In the first phase of the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza, it was clear that the Palestinian Authority was caught off guard.…
Yahav Erez is an International Advocacy Coordinator at an Israeli organization Yesh Din. She talks about the apartheid regime, ideologically motivated violence,…
“We are coming together to stop one of the largest fossil fuel buildouts in the world,” said a spokesperson for the #StopLNG…
On February 8, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was in Washington on an official visit, aimed at working jointly with the United States to…
Unions are once again playing a significant role in a presidential election. Joe Biden joins striking auto workers on a picket line in Michigan;…
Changing the leadership, structure, or functioning of any U.S. labor organization is no easy task. Activists and experts have long argued about…
On the 3rd of February 2024, the late E. P. Thompson who was the seminal intellectual and historian on social struggle would…
For more than four months, President Biden has been the main enabler for Israel’s mass murder of Palestinian people in Gaza. Every…
For months the mainstream media and Washington Pols have been pushing the metaphor that the US economy is a plane on its…
Even before anti-AfD rallies took place all over Germany, banning Germany’s most outspoken Neo-Nazi party, the AfD, was one of the most…