There are two separate Sheikh Jarrah stories – one read and watched in the news and another that receives little media coverage or due analysis. The obvious story is that of the nightly raids and violence meted out by Israeli police and Jewish extremists against Palestinians in the devastated East Jerusalem neighborhood. For weeks, thousands…
Ten years ago, I walked down a tiled pathway in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood and was led into a room where an old woman was sitting amid a pile of boxes and packed suitcases. What kept Rifqa al-Kurd there, sitting among her boxes? She gave a one word reply: ‘Sumud’, which roughly translates as steadfastness The first…
A young Palestinian woman carrying the flag of Palestine during the Great March of Return, which was actually already the start of the third intifada. The Great March of Return, started in March 2018, was a statement made by the Palestinian people who want their freedom, their children out of jail, the end the Israelian…
It’s been less than a week since British Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered two patrol vessels to the Channel Islands port of St Helier in an escalation of tensions with France. Amid front-page banner headlines and media fanfare, government sources accused Paris of sinking lower than Jersey’s Nazi occupiers during the Second World War. According to…
Listen to this article: “Twenty-four people, including nine children, were killed in Gaza overnight, most of them in Israeli strikes,” reads a new report from AP. Nine children, killed with the help of United States funding to the tune of $3.8 billion a year. Remember kids, the US loves Muslims and just wants to protect their…
The World Socialist Web Site emphatically condemns the Israeli onslaught against the population of Gaza, as well as the ethnic cleansing operation in Jerusalem which preceded the conflict and set a match to it. The workers of the entire world, including the Israeli working class, must oppose the ongoing aggression against the Palestinian people. Dozens…
