Three weeks ago, a group of young American Jews gathered outside the New York offices of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the umbrella organization founded in the 1950s and which claims to speak for a consensus…
Anti-war activist Kait McIntyre appeared in Cook County Judicial Circuit court on the morning of Aug. 1. McIntyre was one of five activists arrested in a civil disobedience protest action July 16 to oppose Boeing Company providing weapons to…
Displaced Palestinians are baking traditional holiday cakes under Israeli bombardment, to bring joy to their children. Gaza City – When Elham Elzanin fled her home in Beit Hanoun, she only had time to grab her terrified children and evacuate. Now…
Norman Finkelstein has put out a call for at least 100 people to commit civil disobedience tomorrow at the Israeli mission at the UN in New York City. If 100 people agree to do it, it will happen. After writing…
Thousands of businesses across the country join strike in protest over the Israeli offensive on Gaza. The main commercial street in this majority-Palestinian city was shuttered on Monday, as residents joined a general strike and staged protests against the two-week-old…
Rachel Corrie was killed in 2003, but her passion for peace lives on in her writings. «This has to stop. I think it is a good idea for us all to drop everything and devote our lives to making this…
