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'The pro-human camp coalition' opposes the 'atrocities committed on October 7' and also stands against identifying all Gazans with Hamas 'used by them to rationalize indiscriminate killing and denial of humanitarian aid'

Si, Se Puede! (in 2008), Exposing FBI Crimes (1973), Bartenders Win Half a Loaf (1948), Great Art at Greater Prices (1933), Don't Forget the Genocide Convention (1948), Don't Forget Human Rights, Either (1948), $1 Million Is Chump Change

The recent arrests of opposition candidates, students, and professors have a haunting resonance in Latin America. Nearly three dozen journalists, activists, judges, prosecutors, investigators, and former government officials have been forced to flee.

The occupation has been the vehicle to colonise, brutalise, arbitrarily arrest, detain and carry out summary executions against Palestinians. You can stand in solidarity with the Palestinians and still condemn the atrocities that Hamas committed.

Left responses to the Gaza siege, and news and analysis from all over

The U.S. Senate must reject Abrams’ nomination. Diplomacy should be guided by individuals who prioritize human rights, transparency and accountability, not by those who have enabled atrocities.

Some continue to minimize massacres of Israeli civilians - this only fuels militant Zionism. What could lessen its power, drain it of some of that fuel? True solidarity. Humanism that unites people across ethnic and religious lines.

The Jewish community is now with a profound moral challenge. Even as we mourns our dead in Israel, we must acknowledge and protest the genocide Israel is currently perpetrating in their memory in no uncertain terms.

There are still 30 detainees at Guantánamo. Sixteen of them have been deemed no longer threats to the United States and cleared for release, but arrangements have yet to be made to transfer them... Now there are tiny steps toward closure.