Repression
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, 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, 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, 2024The U.S. is Putting Journalism on Trial: Interview with Kevin Gosztola
Left Voice spoke with journalist Kevin Gosztola about the political nature behind the trial of Julian Assange, the threat that extradition poses to international press freedom, and how the Biden administration has advanced other attacks on press freedom.
Samuel Karlin
February 28, 2024Attacks on the Pro-Palestine Movement Are Attacks on the Right to Protest
As the movement for Palestine against Israel’s brutal military invasion of Gaza and attacks on the West Bank continues at a lower intensity than last fall, the State is cracking down on the leaderships of the movement and rolling back gains made by the Black Lives Matter uprising of 2020. The movement must grow in order to fight back against repression and protect our democratic right to protest.
Carmin Maffea
February 10, 2024