Armored National Guard trucks rumbling down Sunset Boulevard. The mayor declaring a citywide curfew. LAPD officers in riot gear firing flash bangs and rubber bullets. Street medics rushing to neutralize tear gas. I watched all this unfold on the streets of Los Angeles five years ago — in June 2020, when I lived in the...
As images of burned children, starving families, and bombed hospitals in Gaza become the constant soundtrack of daily life, the Palestinian communities that survived the Nakba and stayed in the lands that were occupied by Israel in 1948 (hence called “’48 Palestinians”), are filled with anger, frustration, and a sense of hollowness and disempowerment. Against...
As conditions in the United States grow increasingly unstable — with federal agencies unraveling and Trump unleashing reckless economic chaos — many have turned their attention away from Palestine and the Palestine solidarity movement. Meanwhile, the situation in Gaza is deteriorating rapidly. On March 2, Israel broke a two-month-old ceasefire agreement, resuming its bombardment of...