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Alan Moore's appeal for democracy

Zionism emerged in response to 19th-century European antisemitism — but its aims in Palestine drew upon Western colonial ideologies. To present the current conflict as a timeless feud denies both European responsibility and Palestine’s multiethnic hi

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When Palestinians resist oppression in ethical ways — by calling for boycotts, sanctions and the application of international law — the U.S. allies work to ensure those efforts fail, which convinces Palestinians that ethical resistance doesn’t work

To say that Hamas’ attack was a war crime does not excuse or divert attention from Israel’s history of war crimes, or equate what Hamas did with what Israel has been doing for 75 years.

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.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s return to power with a narrow, extreme right-wing coalition has shattered even the illusion of a two-state solution. His government has not been shy: a Greater Israel in which law enshrines Jewish supremacy over all Palestinians