#palestinian-rights

#palestinian-rights

The Metropolitan Police announced they will impose strict conditions on routes and gathering points to “prevent serious disruption and serious disorder.” It is expected to lead to an increased police presence in the capital, with demonstrators and activists taking to the streets becoming a regular occurrence in recent months. The force’s approach centers on controlling where people can gather and how marches move through London to reduce the risk of disorder and major disruption.

The Anti-Defamation League, the advocacy group he led for 28 years, confirmed his death on Sunday, calling him an outspoken, passionate, and tireless advocate for the Jewish people and Israel. A Holocaust survivor, Foxman helped shape the conversation around Israel and anti-Semitism in the US for decades. ADL Board Chair Nicole Munchnik said Foxman helped build the modern liberal era of America, describing him as a longtime adviser to US presidents and world leaders.

Elghandour said the engineering school's dean, Alberto Cuiti&ntil;o, had informed him that he was no longer scheduled to give the commencement address after a "few" students told the administration they would not attend the graduation in protest of Elghandour's online advocacy for Palestinian rights.

The consequences of [Palestine Action's] proscription are severe. It has caused, as intended, the total destruction of a protest group with considerable popular support, which seeks to prevent atrocity crimes by Israel against Palestinians.

Qusay told Al Jazeera that the settlers divided themselves into groups to attack the Palestinian tents. Five of the settlers attacked his tent where he had been asleep and began beating him severely with their hands and sticks.

Kordia was arrested in 2024 during the Gaza solidarity protests at Columbia University. The charges against her were dropped the next day, but she was detained in March 2025 by ICE during a routine immigration check-in.

The report claims that torture in detention has been used on an unprecedented scale as punitive collective vengeance, inflicting profound and lasting scars on the bodies and minds of tens of thousands of Palestinians.

The Venice Biennale's complicity with the attempted destruction of Palestinian life must end. No artist or cultural worker should be asked to share a platform with this genocidal state.

Multiple contemporary definitions of antisemitism all share the recognition that antisemitism involves hostility, prejudice, discrimination, harassment, hatred, or violence against Jews as Jews, citing multiple organizations, including the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).

Last Tuesday afternoon, Dean Andrea Baccarelli at the Harvard School of Public Health sent out a brief message announcing that one of the country's most experienced and accomplished public health leaders, Dr Mary T Bassett, would step down as director of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights. The email struck a polite, bureaucratic tone, thanking her for her service and offering an upbeat rationale for a new focus on children's health.

In 2022, AIPAC's PAC spent $2.1 million supporting Foushee, with Democratic Majority for Israel chipping in an additional $300,000 to back the Democrat. They sought to defeat Allam, who has been outspoken in support of Palestinian rights, and who was the first Muslim woman elected to public office in the state. This funding, as well as a $1 million injection from the PAC funded by crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried for Foushee, made the race the most expensive Democratic congressional primary in state history. Foushee ultimately won by nine points over Allam in 2022, with 46 percent of the vote.

Immigration officials sparked outrage after they detained a British and Muslim commentator who frequently speaks out for Palestinian rights amid his speaking tour in the U.S. on Sunday. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) reports that Sami Hamdi was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at San Francisco International Airport on Sunday morning. The State Department confirmed that Hamdi was in custody, and that officials have revoked his visa and are working to deport him.

Ireland's new president, Catherine Connolly, is a proud leftist who has served for almost a decade as an independent socialist member of the Irish parliament (Dáil Éireann), a blunt critic of the failures of neoliberalism and corporate globalization, and a visionary advocate for the sort of dramatic interventions that are needed to address the economic inequality that has made life increasingly unaffordable for working-class families.

In what was initially seen as a radical fusion of Judaism and political activism, he engaged in civil disobedience - he was arrested more than two dozen times, including outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility during the first Trump administration - and wrote books that bridged the secular and spiritual, with titles including "Handbook for Heretics and Prophets: A New Torah for a New World" and "Down-to-Earth Judaism: Food, Money, Sex, and the Rest of Life."

Marc Lamont Hill speaks with Mahmoud Khalil about detention, dissent and the fight for Palestinian rights. After fleeing Syria's civil war, Palestinian Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil was detained in the United States for more than 100 days after protesting against Israel's genocide in Gaza. He says his arrest was meant to silence dissent and intimidate others from speaking out.

Three Israeli police checkpoints frame the entrance to Damascus Gate, through which most Palestinians access the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. They enter and leave through the impressive gate of the Ottoman era, apparently oblivious to the presence of the Israelis. Since October 2023, I practically never go to Damascus Gate. I use other entry points. I feel better if I don't see the police stationed there, marking the territory, making us feel so unsafe and vulnerable.

Amnesty International has accused Israel of enacting a deliberate policy of starvation in Gaza as the United Nations and aid groups warn of famine in the Palestinian enclave.

Itamar Ben-Gvir has called for Israel to 'fully occupy' the entire Gaza Strip, a statement made during a visit to the Temple Mount, a disputed holy site.

The partnership between Zohran Mamdani and New York City Comptroller Brad Lander doesn't just showcase an unusual alliance. It provides a road map for Democrats, whose future success will require a different kind of politics than the left currently favors: one that sets aside purity tests and commits to building coalitions across ideological divides.

The entire debate over the EU-Israel Association Agreement is simply a sham that deflects criticism and fails to address Israel's breaches of international law.