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Dear Editor, Bruce Ticker states that Amani Barakat “has been listed as chair of the national coordinating committee of Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition which proclaims on its website “that the Palestinian Arab people…are entitled to live anywhere in Palestine which encompasses present-day ‘Israel’, the West Bank and Gaza Strip.” (“War and Peace: The Shape of Teachers’ Anti Israel Drive“, Bruce Ticker, July 1, 2021). The Palestine Return Coalition wants the rig...

So much for “the peaceful solution” and “this very peaceful way.” Amani Barakat must be joking when she twice touts the “peaceful” tactics of an anti-Israel drive among West Coast teachers’ unions. Simultaneously, Barakat continues in a leading role in an organization that seeks the right of return for Palestinians to Israel, a mission that could readily lead to war. Such a contradiction stands out with news that the leadership of the Los Angeles teachers’ union will vote in Sep...

Hundreds of workers and community members gathered today in the port of Oakland to stop the Volans, a ship contracted by Israeli shipping company ZIM,

Protesters in front of Duty Free Americas headquarters in Hollywood, Florida, June 2, 2021. (Photo: JVP South Florida) This week a group of Palestine activists gathered in front of Duty Free Americas headquarters in Hollywood, Florida to protest the company’s connection to illegal Israeli settlements. “As we witness the horrifying violence against the Palestinian people at the hands of the Israeli government and settlers, we demand that Duty Free Americas stop funding Israeli aparthe...

May 26—Phillip Agnew's 2015 trip to Palestine forever changed his view of conflict in the Middle East. There, the prominent Miami-based social justice advocate saw what he describes as "cold, calculating racism and ethnic cleansing" by the Israeli government: checkpoints that divided mosques; markets with overhead netting to protect Palestinians from having feces or urine thrown on them; a ...

Pro-Palestinian thugs beating a Jewish man in Manhattan’s Times Square on May 20, 2021. Photo: Screenshot. A New York-based coalition of Palestinian organizations that advocates the elimination of Israel as an independent Jewish state has raised nearly $20,000 to fund legal expenses for Palestinian protestors who participated in antisemitic demonstrations in midtown Manhattan last week that descended into violence against Jews. On Monday, the “Palestine Freedom Fund” — which describes i...

USA TODAY On todays episode of 5 Things: National correspondent Marc Ramirez explains how transgender killings in Puerto Rico are a result of anti-transgender political rhetoric in the U.S. and in Latin America. Plus, youll hear about the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which President Biden will sign into law today, and the mounting calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza. Hit play on the podcast player above and read along with the transcript below. Taylor Wilson: Good morning, Im Taylor Wi...

Marc Ramirez explains how Puerto Rico is the epicenter for transgender violence in the U.S. Plus, President Biden will sign the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act into law, pressure builds on Israel for a cease-fire, Thursday is Global Accessibility Awareness Day.

Hundreds of people gathered in downtown Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday as a follow up to massive demonstrations in Miami over the weekend in solidarity with Palestine after a week of intense violence in the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel.

Seventy-three years after al-Nakba, or “the Catastrophe,” Palestinians and their supporters from all around the world took to the streets to stand wit