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This Isn’t a Civil War, It Is Settler-Colonial Violence Israeli security forces walk in Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound, the third holiest site of Islam, on May 14, 2021. Ahmad Gharabli / AFP via Getty Images By Earlier this week, massive protests erupted in ’48 Palestinian towns and cities. ’48 Palestinians (known as “citizens” of Israel) had mobilized to protest the threat of expulsion facing Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem, and in protest of Israel’s attack on al-Aqsa Mosque. As Israel escalated its violence against the families in Sh...

Palestinians are showing enormous bravery during this moment of horror. Now we need the world to respond with corresponding acts of courage and support.

The Nakba Demands Justice THE GANGS of Israeli teenagers grip their oversized machine guns as they patrol the Damascus Gate, tossing their stun grenades and hearing the stones roar back in the original Arabic: “Jerusalem for the Palestinians.” What scenes those steps have borne witness to—a Nakba, a catastrophe. A shattering of history, a rending of Palestinian masses, now reunited and marching steadfastly along Route 1 toward Al-Aqsa Mosque on one of the last evenings of Ramadan to protect their city, to defend it from Israeli attempts to cleanse it of Palestinian life. In Jerusalem, a...

Palestinians carry the shrouded body of the toddler Ibrahim Alrantisi before his burial in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 14, 2021. Alrantisi was one of the more than Palestinians who have been killed in Israeli air strikes this week. (Photo: Abed Deeb/APA Images) I am writing this letter looking at my terrified 6-year old son, who keeps putting his hands over his ears trying block the sounds of Israel’s bombardment, my two daughters, aged 13 and 10 and my wife. These faces show the anxiety of not knowing where they can be safe now. My two older sons, 16 and 15, sit stunned...

Fear stalks streets of Israeli city where Jews and Arabs mixed freely Israeli policemen gather as they inspect a partially torched police station in the Arab-Jewish mixed coastal city of Acre, Israel May 13, 2021. REUTERS/Rami Ayyub reuters_tickers This content was published on May 13, 2021 - 20:20 May 13, 2021 - 20:20 By Rami Ayyub ACRE, Israel (Reuters) - In the mixed Arab and Jewish city of Acre, the holiday festival of Eid al-Fitr that marks the end of Ramadan would normally see families mingling freely and taking their children to fairs and on boat rides along the coast. But fear and mis...