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Disgraceful, Cruel, Iniquitous War (1846), When Klan Attacks, Where's the Cops? (1961), Picketing the White House (1966), Violence Against the Left (1966), ‘A Shame to Our Country’ (1860), Lynching News Sells Newspapers (1936), Victim-Blaming (1961)

A professor of Holocaust and genocide studies comes to a painful conclusion about Israel’s actions in Gaza. My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people.

Israel’s defense minister has laid out plans to force all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp on the ruins of Rafah, in a scheme that legal experts and academics described as a blueprint for crimes against humanity.

It is the first instance in the court's 22-year history it has issued arrest warrants for western-allied senior officials. The Court also issues a warrant for Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif, six months after request by prosecutor Karim Khan,

Debates over how to describe conflicts in Gaza, Myanmar and elsewhere are channeling a controversy as old as the word itself. The Genocide Convention emerged as an immediate response to World War II-today its being renegotiated to bring it up to date

75 years ago today the United States unleashed nuclear destruction on Japan and the world. “Nuclear war is a raging, insatiable beast whose instincts and appetites we pretend to understand but cannot possibly control.” Nothing justifies these weapons

Israel has demolished a record number of homes in occupied East Jerusalem in 2019, the most in the past 15 years, Israeli rights group B’Tselem reported on Thursday.

The great linguist and political critic remains hopeful that we can overcome global warming and other threats

Donald Trump and his administration are cruelly separating children from their families. But we won't allow it to continue. June 30 we're rallying in Washington DC and around the country to tell Donald Trump stop separating kids from their parents.