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What were the top BDS victories of 2017?

Nora Barrows-Friedman Electronic Intifada
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2017 saw artists, performers, athletes, politicians, cultural workers, faith-based organizations, students, academics, unions and activists grow the movement for Palestinian rights.

Trump's Year in Islamophobia

Maha Hilal Alternet
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Five ways the administration has waged war on Muslims at home and abroad in its first year.

Ten Awesome High School Protests that Defied the Trump Agenda in 2017

Dawson Barrett Truthout
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On a wide range of issues, high schoolers across the United States opposed the Trump agenda this year, both directly and in principle. At the end of a bleak political year, here are ten stories about awesome high schoolers who led the charge in 2017. Plus five youth organizing victories in 2017 in California.

“How Can Political Shift to the Right Be Stopped?”

Immanuel Wallerstein The Stansbury Forum
This is the question people left of center have been asking for some time now. In different ways, it is being posed in Latin America, in much of Europe, in Arab and Islamic countries, in southern Africa, and in northeast Asia. The question is all the more dramatic because, in so many of these countries, this follows a period when there were significant shifts leftward.

Calorie Counts on Menus Make a Difference

Editor, University of Technology Sydney University of Technology Sydney
Calorie counts make a difference! Listing them on menus influences consumer choices.

The Role of the Norwegian Left

Ellen Engelstad, Marie Sneve Martinussen Jacobin
Norway's parliamentary elections on Monday, September 11, 2017 will point the way forward for the country's left.

Netanyahu’s Son Removes Anti-Semitic Meme From Facebook Following Outcry

Ruth Eglash The Washington Post
Yair Netanyahu, the son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, removed an anti-Semitic meme from his Facebook page on Sunday after an outcry from Israeli politicians and Jewish community leaders in the United States. The image, posted by Yair Netanyahu on Friday, appeared to be a local take on a classic anti-Semitic cartoon suggesting that Jews control the United States. It has appeared widely on extreme alt-right websites.

Gerrymandering in Front of the Supreme Court

Michael Li, Thomas Wolf Brennan Center for Justice
With Gill v. Whitford, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken the most important case in decades dealing with how Americans are represented in Congress and state legislatures.