Skip to main content

This Week in People’s History, Feb 11–17, 2026

Portside
Photo of a poster with the words, All Gave Some, Some Gave All, Some Had Bone Spurs, Veterans Against Trump Hell No We Won’t Go! (1966), A Titan of a President (1809), What Part of ‘War Crime’ Don’t You Understand? (1976), Bringing NYC to Its Knees (1946), Kidnappers Go to Hell! (1851), A Woman in Revolt (1986), ‘No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger’ (1966)

Policies of Denial

Sara Roy, interviewed by Max Nelson The New York Review of Books
“What I sense most powerfully from my friends in Gaza is a feeling of abandonment. Quiet is not the absence of conflict nor is it peace.” Plans for the “day after” in the Strip impose forms of governance that exclude Palestinians as political agents

U.S.-Backed Ceasefire Is Cover for Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & West Bank

Interview with Sari Bashi by Amy Goodman Democracy Now!
Israel has announced it will reopen the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt in the next few days as part of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire. However, the border will only open in one direction: for Palestinians to exit.

Palestinians Offer a Much Clearer Path to Peace

Dahlia Scheindlin Haaretz
A 51-page document by a group of Palestinian scholars and policy thinkers lays out a visionary path to Middle East peace that is much clearer than the UN resolution or Trump's 20-point plan
Subscribe to West Bank