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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 right for Palestinians to live anywhere they want including within Israel, yet the Palestinian Authorit...

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 September on a resolution to “express our solidarity” with the Palestinians. This move is revealing...

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 apartheid,” said Jewish Voice for Peace member Martha Schoolman at the protest. “The Palestinian people...

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 ...