Home » Racism and Self-Determination » PFLP calls for boycott of U.S. elections The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Central Media issued the following statement on Nov. 4, 2024, at Resistance News Network. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine calls for a boycott of the Democratic and Republican parties and emphasizes…
Home » Racism and Self-Determination » Philadelphia: Robert Jones – say his name! Philadelphia In response to the killing of Robert Jones by an off-duty Philadelphia cop, family members and community activists held a protest rally at City Hall on Nov. 2. Robert Jones’ aunt Marcia decries police killing of her nephew at rally demanding…
The Sabra and Shatila massacre was no accident. Nor should it have come as a surprise to anyone. It had to have been well planned in advance and demanded a great deal of cooperation between the forces involved. The logistics had to have been worked out first. Closure of the camps, providing supplies and ammunition…
Ain Al-Hilweh is known as the “Capital of Palestinian Shatat.” The term might not stir many emotions among those who do not fully understand, let alone experience the harrowing existence of ethnic cleansing and perpetual exile – and the tremendous violence which followed. ‘Shatat‘ is roughly translated into “exile” or “Diaspora.” However, the meaning is…
French President, Emmanuel Macron, is in no position to pontificate to Lebanon about the need for political and economic reforms. Just as thousands of Lebanese took to the streets of Beirut demanding “revenge” against the ruling classes, the French people have relentlessly been doing the same; both peoples have been met with police violence and arrests.…
No words can appropriately describe the horror that has befallen Beirut. Whether this massive explosion was the result of reckless negligence, stupidity, an act of terrorism, or a combination of all of the above – it was horrifying. As the people of Beirut pick up the pieces, our thoughts and our hearts are with them.…
Welcome to MintCast — an interview series featuring dissenting voices the establishment would rather silence– I’m your host Mnar Muhawesh Adley. Lebanon is reeling from a blast that destroyed much of the capital Beirut on Tuesday, August 4. 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate in the city’s port is thought to have caught fire and exploded, killing…
On August 4, hours before a massive explosion rocked the Lebanese capital, Beirut, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, issued an ominous warning to Lebanon. “We hit a cell and now we hit the dispatchers. I suggest to all of them, including Hezbollah, to consider this,” Netanyahu said during an official tour of a military facility in central…
A massive explosion rocked Beirut on Tuesday, flattening much of the city’s port, damaging buildings across the capital and sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky. More than 100 people are feared dead and thousands injured, with bodies buried in the rubble, officials said. It was not clear what caused the blast, which struck…
Lebanon’s Prime Minister Hassan Diab today called for a day of national mourning after a massive explosion ripped through the capital Beirut yesterday, killing at least 100 people and injuring at least 4,000 others. The extent of the damage is immense; the city’s governor Marwan Abboud estimated that up to 300,000 have immediately been made homeless…
Heinous racism. That is how the Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor described a recent decision by Lebanese authorities to bar Palestinian refugee expats from returning to Lebanon. Lebanon’s restrictions on its ever-diminishing population of Palestinian refugees is nothing new. However, this event is particularly alarming as it may be linked to a long-term official policy regarding…
BEIRUT — Economic sanctions are not only a very important topic in present international relations but have also come to pepper daily news headlines. Sanctions have become an increasingly prevalent measure for disciplining a state’s “unacceptable behavior” by banning trade with said state and disrupting its financial relations for political purposes. Economic sanctions can be…
During a conference hosted on Tuesday by the Mossad-linked Shurat HaDin or Israel Law Center (ILC), Israel’s Public Security and Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan demanded that international laws on warfare be amended because current international law pertaining to warfare “serves terrorists.” Erdan claimed that groups like Lebanon’s Hezbollah use existing international laws of war…
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) announced suddenly on Tuesday morning the start of a massive military operation along the border with Lebanon. The reason, said the IDF, is to search for “offensive” tunnels dug by Hezbollah which, according to a report on Israeli Army Radio, are “penetrating Israeli soil and have been prepared for carrying out terror…
Home » Racism and Self-Determination » PFLP calls for boycott of U.S. elections The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Central Media issued the following statement on Nov. 4, 2024, at Resistance News Network. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine calls for a boycott of the Democratic and Republican parties and emphasizes…
Home » Racism and Self-Determination » Philadelphia: Robert Jones – say his name! Philadelphia In response to the killing of Robert Jones by an off-duty Philadelphia cop, family members and community activists held a protest rally at City Hall on Nov. 2. Robert Jones’ aunt Marcia decries police killing of her nephew at rally demanding…
New York City Since 1992 the United Nations General Assembly has voted annually on the criminal U.S. blockade of socialist Cuba. Each year the vote has been overwhelming for ending this blockade that began in 1962 as a weapon wielded by U.S. imperialism to prevent other countries from trading vital goods and parts with this…
Home » Racism and Self-Determination » Palestinian feminists expose Democrats’ attempt to hijack reproductive justice in New York The following report was issued on the Palestinian Feminist Collective Facebook page on Oct. 23, 2024. Proposition 1 is a referendum appearing on the Nov. 5, 2024, ballot in New York to support adding abortion rights to…