Palestine
Detroit Police Escalate Repression of Pro-Palestinian Protests
On April 15, Detroit Police cracked down on a pro-Palestine car caravan. This show of force was a message to protestors and an attempt to slow the momentum of the movement by intimidating people off the street and tying them up in court.
Brian H. Silverstein
April 18, 2024Labor Notes Must Call on Unions to Mobilize for Palestine on May Day
As the genocide in Gaza rages on, the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions has called on workers around the world to mobilize against the genocide on May 1. Labor Notes, one of the leading organizers of the U.S. labor movement, must heed this call and use their influence in the labor movement to call on unions to join the mobilization
Julia Wallace
April 18, 2024Workers at Google Fired for Standing with Palestine
Google has fired 28 workers who staged a sit-in and withheld their labor. The movement for Palestine must take up the fight against repression.
Left Voice
April 18, 2024The Movement for Palestine Is Facing Repression. We Need a Campaign to Stop It.
In recent weeks, the movement in solidarity with Palestine has faced a new round of repression across the U.S. We need a united campaign to combat this repression, one that raises strategic debates about the movement’s next steps.
Tristan Taylor
April 17, 2024U.S. Imperialism is Pushing Tensions in the Middle East to a Boiling Point
U.S. Imperialism's support for Israel is driving the tensions behind Iran's attack and the escalations in the Middle East. It is all the more urgent for the working class to unite with the movement for Palestine against imperialism and chart a way out of the crisis in the region.
Samuel Karlin
April 15, 2024Thousands of Police Deployed to Shut Down Congress on Palestine in Berlin
This weekend, a Palestine Congress was supposed to take place in the German capital. But 2,500 police were mobilized and shut down the event before the first speech could be held. Multiple Jewish comrades were arrested.
Nathaniel Flakin
April 12, 2024Liberal Towns in New Jersey Are Increasing Attacks on Pro-Palestine Activists
A group of neighbors in South Orange and Maplewood have become a reference point for pro-Palestine organizing in New Jersey suburbs. Now these liberal towns are upping repression against the local activists.
Samuel Karlin
April 12, 2024“We Shouldn’t Let this Stop Us”: Suspended Columbia Student Activist Speaks Out
Aidan Parisi, a student at Columbia University’s School of Social Work, was recently suspended and has been threatened with eviction from their graduate student housing for pro-Palestinian activism on campus. Aidan talked to Left Voice about the state of repression, the movement at Columbia, and the path forward for uniting the student movement with the labor movement and other movements against oppression.
Left Voice
April 11, 2024Fired by a German University for Solidarity with Palestine — Interview with Nancy Fraser
The University of Cologne canceled a guest professorship with the philosophy professor from The New School. In this interview, she speaks about Germany dividing between "Good Jews" and "Bad Jews," her politicization in the civil rights movement, and her time in an Israeli kibbutz.
Nathaniel Flakin
April 10, 2024Pro-Palestine Activists in France Get Summons from Anti-Terrorist Police
As part of a repressive campaign against the movement for Palestine in France activists have gotten summons from “anti-terrorist” police. The movement for Palestine in the United States must oppose all repression of our movement here and in Europe.
Samuel Karlin
April 9, 2024