By Akin Olla | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – The pro-Palestinian divestment movement has erupted across the country, after over a decade of bubbling and stirring under the guidance of organizations like Students for Justice in Palestine. Students have built encampments, led walkouts and passed student government resolutions demanding that their universities cease investing […]
Columbia Students are Sick at Heart, just as we were in ’68
Mark Rudd ( Waging Nonviolence ) – What is the ethical response to witnessing a great moral crime? Turn away and allow oneself to be distracted? Pretend it doesn’t exist? Or acknowledge the crime for what it is, and take some sort of action to try to stop it? Students at Columbia in 1968 understood […]
Gun Culture, Israeli Style
Mitchell Plitnick ( Waging Nonviolence ) -Firearms are not uncommon in Israel. Armed security guards have long been a routine sight at shopping malls, clubs, and other large gathering spaces that present potential targets for attacks by militants. Police are heavily armed, and off-duty soldiers are constantly seen with their weapons in public as they […]
Against genocide: A conversation with Ofer Cassif
Stephanie Van Hook
Nonviolence in the Holy Land: Fear, Love and Palestine with Sami Awad
Nonviolence Radio Nonviolence Radio Team Former Holy Land Trust Executive Director Sami Awad. (Facebook/Sami Awad) Subscribe to “Nonviolence Radio” on Apple Podcasts, Android, Spotify or via RSS. ( Waging Nonviolence) – As a Palestinian, Sami and his family have suffered directly under the long Israeli occupation and more acutely now, from the […]
The leading ‘Day After’ Plans for Palestine-Israel are doomed: Progressives can Do Better
Andy Bichlbaum The Palestine solidarity movement has been an important voice for justice in recent months. It has mobilized millions behind the call for a desperately needed ceasefire, and has successfully pressured some key politicians, like Bernie Sanders, to take a stronger stand against Israel’s relentless bombing of Gaza. That said, the Palestine solidarity movement, […]
Why ending military Control over Palestinians is a Necessity for Israel
Tom Mehager ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Until Oct. 7, the Israeli state managed to maintain an “enlightened” and democratic facade among Western powers and media. Amid decades of military control over the Palestinian people, the continued entrenchment of the apartheid system, and a founding story of Palestinian displacement and dispossession, Israeli society has been […]
We can end Mass Atrocities in Gaza and Beyond
Shimri Zameret ( Waging Nonviolence ) – In the past few weeks, the number of innocent Palestinian civilians killed in attacks by the Israeli government has reached unprecedented levels. Both a majority of people around the world and a majority of governments oppose the mass atrocities against civilians in Gaza. Why is this common-sense view […]
From BLM to Gaza: Inside the Youth-led fight for a Demilitarized Future
By Alessandra Bergamin | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – In January 2020, Dissenters — a grassroots, youth-led antiwar movement — began with the mission to connect violence against Black and brown communities in the U.S. to the systems of oppression that fund, arm and enable global militarism. While born from the legacy of the […]