Chicago

Poet Kevin Coval: young Jews should stand with Palestine

Alexander Billet
Chicago
10 June 2013

Poet Kevin Coval denounces Israeli rap star for “making Zionism chic.”

We must never forget the massacre in Deir Yassin

Dina Elmuti
Chicago
8 April 2013

Thirty-seven members of my grandmother’s family were killed by Zionist forces on 9 April 1948.

Glenn Greenwald skewers US injustices in compelling latest book

Maureen Clare Murphy
28 August 2012
Columnist Glenn Greenwald’s most recent book demonstrates “how the law is used to destroy equality and protect the powerful” in the United States today.

The future of Palestine's grassroots struggle: Nilin activist Saeed Amireh interviewed

Maureen Clare Murphy
Chicago
23 August 2012
Saeed Amireh tells The Electronic Intifada about Nilin village’s decade of struggle against Israel’s wall and where the movement must go next.

Madonna sings for apartheid; yet campaign to boycott Israel grows stronger

Alexander Billet
Chicago
12 June 2012
It can’t be denied that Madonna’s tour launch in Israel was a victory for the apartheid state. What also can’t be denied is the growth of the movement for BDS.

"Every third child in Gaza stunted by hunger": interview with renowned doctor Mads Gilbert

Sami Kishawi
Chicago
7 June 2012
Dr. Mads Gilbert shares accounts of his work treating patients during Israel’s attacks on Gaza in 2008-09 in order to encourage others to remain steadfast in their solidarity work for Palestinian rights.

The undercover persecution of Muslim Americans

Maureen Clare Murphy
Chicago
13 April 2012
The case of a Muslim man in Pittsburgh arrested one day before he was to publicly state he was the target of an FBI sting operation exposes the injustices in domestic terror prosecutions.

Why is Palestine solidarity being criminalized on California campuses?

Kristin Szremski
Chicago
3 April 2012
Cooperation between academic authorities at the University of California at Davis and influential Zionist organizations could have an adverse impact on Palestine solidarity work there and on college campuses across the country.

Asking Israel why it tortured my friend

Joy Ellison
Chicago
25 February 2012
When I heard that Israeli Sergeant Benjamin Anthony would be speaking at DePaul University in Chicago yesterday, I had one question for him: why did its army torture my friend?

Never mind Johnny Rotten, real punks boycott Israel

Alexander Billet
Chicago
20 February 2012
Working with the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, Punks Against Apartheid follows a firm tradition of anti-racism within the punk movement.

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