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Recognition of Palestine Is Not Enough

Aida Touma-Suleiman Jacobin
Israeli Knesset member Aida Touma-Suleiman argues that in order for the growing recognition of the state of Palestine to be meaningful, it must be accompanied by sanctions for Israel’s permanent illegal occupation.

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The Most Important Book of 2025

Paul Buhle Portside
If denial of collective self-determination of a people is a sin of the modern age, as Israeli defenders often repeat, what of the self-determination of Palestinians? Palestinian violence falls and rises when the hopes for autonomy...[are] crushed...

38 Million Lives

Progressive International
A study by the Center of Economic and Policy Research has revealed that, between 1971 and 2021, US and EU sanctions killed 38 million people around the world.

Tidbits- July 31-Readers Comments: Trump Screwing Country, World, Climate, Gaza, Now Ready To Make Deal With Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell; McCarthyism and Its Victims; Keep ICE out of MLB Stadiums; Israelis Call for Crippling Sanctions on Israel

Portside
Readers Comments: Trump Screwing Country, World, Climate, Gaza, Now Ready to Make Deal with Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell; McCarthyism and Its Victims: Here We Go Again; Keep ICE Out of MLB Stadiums; Israelis Call for Crippling Sanctions on Israel

Viet Thanh Nguyen Broke a BDS Rule. Now He Is Its Vocal Advocate.

Edo Konrad and Alaa Salama +972 Magazine
The Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen reflects on his ‘mea culpa’ with Israeli publishers, the diminishing power of Israeli and U.S. propaganda, and why cultural figures must take a public stance on Palestinian rights.

How US Sanctions Torpedoed Kamala Harris

Arun Gupta Jacobin
The Biden administration’s sanctions on Russia didn’t just tank global markets; they also helped Kamala Harris lose the election. The Democrats’ fate was sealed by a Wall Street–fueled commodity frenzy that sent gas prices and grocery bills soaring.
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