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How to express the human meaning of the destruction Israel has inflicted?

Never before has a government repressed its citizens’ free speech and academic freedom so brutally in order to protect an entirely different country.

If the ceasefire lasts, it is at best a temporary and palliative solution.

Saree Makdisi writes on the student protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Members of UCLA’s Task Force on Anti-Palestinian, Anti-Muslim, and Anti-Arab Racism describe the deep roots of the violence against those who support Palestinian rights.

Prof. Saree Makdisi diagnoses how the university, the police, and the media have failed our students protesting on behalf of Gazan lives.

The implication is: You may speak, but only I get to determine the meaning of your words.

Whatever horrors are unfolding take place in darkness veiled from the world.

How can a person make up for seven decades of misrepresentation and willful distortion in the time allotted to a sound bite?

The conflict has shattered many myths about Israel’s invincibility—and shown once more that the only lasting solution is true equality for all.

It’s become so predictable: Palestinians try to gather at a university and all hell breaks loose.

Israeli apartheid is more obvious than ever, and liberal supporters of Zionism are being confronted with a reality that they have tried for so long to deny.

Saree Makdisi looks deeply at Netflix’s “Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror.”

From gas lines to medicine shortages, Lebanon is suffering the fallout of years of political and financial corruption.

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With the explosion of Israeli violence this last week, Palestinians are experiencing a level of terror that is both new and painfully reminiscent of the terror of 1948.

From the administration’s perspective, Palestinian suffering doesn’t count because Palestinians themselves don’t count.

It is not anti-Semitism to criticize a state for enshrining inequality.

The breach in the wall at Rafah dramatized the fact that an imprisoned population is at the point of starvation.

Zionism has run its course, and in doing so has killed any possibility of a two-state solution.