A clear and powerful rebuke of Greenblatt and the ADL, written with heart and fire, from a Jewish organization that is well-respected among left and liberal Jews far beyond anti-Zionist circles, as well as in the broader organizing ecosystem. We're witnessing a sea-change.

✊ brilliant leadership and organising from UCL students UCL Action for Palestine. Today's rally followed a 34-day peaceful occupation on campus, holding UCL to account and calling for an end to silence and complicity

We call for the the Freedom Flotilla Coalition to be allowed safe passage to Gaza. The Isr. blockade and occupation is wrong and illegal. Moreover, countries should not hold up the Freedom Flotilla and support in any way that they can.

Huge if it happens.

This would give the ICC jurisdiction over crimes committed on Lebanese territory (by, say, the IDF) and crimes committed by Lebanese nationals (like, say, Hezbollah).

My latest for Al Jazeera English…

“As the genocide rages on, Gaza continues to teach the world many things, and among them is that the Palestinian people cannot be “siphoned off into Bantustans” and forgotten about. Indeed, partition will never be a sustainable or long-term solution…

Breaking: Lebanon set to accept Int'l Criminal Court jurisdiction over serious crimes committed in Lebanon since Oct 7, a 'landmark step [to] create pathway for victims of war crimes—including those committed by Israeli forces—to obtain justice.' Preparators put on notice. Human Rights Watch reacts.

All this brutality to support slaughter.

Nasty article, and shame on PEN America for sharing it. The implication that Palestinians and those in solidarity with them are hysterically using the term genocide is insulting, inhumane, and lacking in any sense of moral consciousness. Nossel and Boylan need to resign.

Excellent statement from the Gaza Soldarity Encampment at Columbia University Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine

.@PENAmerica announced today that they have cancelled this year’s World Voices Festival that was scheduled to be held May 8 - 11 in New York City and May 8 - 18 in Los Angeles.

The move came after dozens of authors withdrew from PEN America events in an unprecedented act of…

Morehouse students grill their President on having Biden @ graduation
'There's a possibility of a genocide happening & we're seeing our government continually sending more & more weapons.'
'We the students telling you we see it as 'that's being complicit!''

I've seen and heard from several people in Gaza similar sentiments about the campus protests:

Yale faculty to Yale administration: hands off our students.