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Israeli Journalist Decries Gaza Genocide

Gideon Levy, an Israeli journalist long critical of his nation鈥檚 apartheid state, offers moral clarity on the first anniversary of the genocide in Gaza.

| Oct 17, 2024

Cop Cities Meet Growing Resistance Nationwide

Faced with the spread of militarized police training facilities known as "cop cities," grassroots activists are taking the call to #DefundPolice to cities nationwide.

Victoria Valenzuela | Oct 4, 2024

"Just as olive trees embody Palestinian identity and deep connection to place, pine trees represent Jewish claims and settlement expansion."

My Innate Connection to Stolen Land

From the U.S. to Palestine, Indigenous people have been pushed off their land in the name of conservation. It鈥檚 time we decolonize our relationships鈥攚ith the Earth and each other.

Vanessa Chakour | Sep 26, 2024

What Do Young Voters Want From Kamala Harris?

Gen Z voters are cautiously optimistic about the vice president. But they want her to end the Gaza genocide.

Lajward Zahra | Sep 18, 2024

Can U.S. Voters End the Gaza Genocide?

Votes are power, and many protestors are declaring that without an arms embargo on Israel, no candidate will get their vote.

Arun Gupta | Sep 16, 2024

How Zionism Wove Itself Into U.S. Politics

In the wake of AIPAC鈥檚 ouster of two pro-Palestine congressional Democrats, a Jewish American digs into the reality of Zionist influence in American politics.

Shane Burley | Sep 5, 2024

Disrupting the DNC for Palestine

Breaking the DNC blackout on Gaza, Codepink's Jodie Evans joined other activists working to keep Palestinians on the Democratic Party鈥檚 radar.

| Aug 28, 2024

Torture Inside a Secret Israeli Concentration Camp

Video now circulating in Israeli media corroborates allegations from Palestinian detainees that Israeli agents at Sde Teiman detention center rape and torture prisoners.

| Aug 14, 2024

The Quiet Success of the Israel Divestment Movement

The United States has historically provided hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign aid to Israel. The flow of taxpayer funds to Israel鈥檚 military has only increased since Israeli forces

Marianne Dhenin | Aug 6, 2024

Nurturing Seeds of Freedom in Palestine

Surrounded by a 26-foot-high separation wall, barbed wire, and a watchtower, a group of young Palestinians prepares a 3.5-acre piece of land for the growing season in spring. The noise

Marta Vidal | Aug 5, 2024

Where Communal Art Is Resistance

In Tijuana, Uganda, and Gaza, refugees facing dispossession, displacement, and constant violence are finding moments of solace in the art of dance.

Ari Honarvar | Jul 17, 2024

Analysis | Gaza | Philippines

Little Gaza鈥檚 Kitchen Brings a Taste of Home to Displaced Palestinians

Palestinian refugees are settling in the Philippines, and bringing their cultural foods with them.

Gabes Torres | Jun 27, 2024

Murmurations: Queering Abolition

鈥滱toms Never Touch鈥� offers a revolutionary premise: The love between trans women is the key to the new world we imagine.

micha c谩rdenas | Jun 25, 2024

Lessons From Pitzer鈥檚 Gaza Solidarity Encampment

鈥淏y raising the Palestinian flag we force our universities to confront their complicity in Israeli apartheid and the ongoing genocide in Gaza,鈥� writes recent graduate Bella Jacobs.

Bella Jacobs | Jun 13, 2024

Zahra Billoo, a prominent civil rights lawyer and executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, San Francisco Bay Area, spoke with YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about the Rafah strike and House hearings.

Israel Attacks Rafah Refugee Camp, Killing Dozens

CAIR鈥檚 Zahra Billoo analyzes Israel鈥檚 latest actions in Gaza, including the bombing of displaced Palestinians living in tents in a refugee camp.

| May 29, 2024

Campus Protests Continue as ICC Issues Arrest Warrants

Investigative reporter Arun Gupta analyzes the latest news on Israel鈥檚 genocide in Gaza.

| May 22, 2024

Professors Lift Up Student Protests

Some educators are using their institutional positions to help create safe spaces for student activism and challenge policies that restrict free speech.

Nadra Nittle | May 17, 2024

UCLA Faculty Defend Student Activists

UCLA professor Robin D. G. Kelley offers insight on how faculty are supporting pro-Palestine students who are facing violence from Zionists and the LAPD.

| May 9, 2024

Inside a Free Gaza Campus Hub

In a special report from Cal State LA鈥檚 newly established Free Gaza encampment, a student and a community activist speak out.

| May 8, 2024

Why So Many Young Asian Americans Stand With Palestine

This Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, let鈥檚 celebrate anti-war organizers.

Cathi Choi | May 8, 2024

A Jewish American student takes us inside the Free Gaza encampment at Bryn Mawr College, part of the student uprising demanding an end to Israel鈥檚 genocide in Gaza.

Jewish Students Central to Free Gaza Campus Protests

A Jewish American student takes us inside the Free Gaza encampment at Bryn Mawr College, part of the student uprising demanding an end to Israel鈥檚 genocide in Gaza.

| May 2, 2024

Two students from San Francisco State University's Free Gaza encampment spoke with YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about why they are protesting and give a visual tour of the encampment.

Students Speak Out From Free Gaza Encampment

Students at San Francisco State University鈥檚 Free Gaza encampment share why they are demanding divestment from Israel.

| May 1, 2024

Shana L. Redmond, a professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity at Race at Columbia University, speaks with YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about campus repression and false accusations of antisemitism.

Inside the Campus Uprising for Palestine

Students and faculty at colleges nationwide are walking out, occupying their campus grounds, and demanding an end to the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza.

| Apr 24, 2024