By Ramzy Baroud in Common Dreams, December 31, 2025 Suppose we accept the fiction that none of us expected Israel to launch a full-scale genocide in Gaza—a premeditated campaign to erase the Strip and exterminate a significant portion of its inhabitants. Let us pretend that nearly 80 years of relentless…
What if Gaza agrees to surrender its weapons? Will Israel leave the Palestinians alone? Will the prospects of a just peace and Palestinian freedom increase exponentially? By Ramzy Baroud in Common Dreams, December 14, 2025 US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” is reportedly set to be announced before the…
On June 5th 2024, students, alumni and one student reporter from Stanford University were arrested in a sit-in of then-President Richard Saller’s office in protest of Stanford’s complicity with Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Now, 11 of them have been indicted on two grand jury charges, making them the first out of…
by Julia Conley in Common Dreams, October 7, 2025 Tuesday marked two years since the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel that killed more than 1,100 people and provoked the Israeli military’s slaughter of over 67,000 Palestinians in Gaza, and a new report provides an accounting of the United States’ support…
by Ismail Salahuddin in Middle East Monitor, Sept 14, 2025 In an age where our phones glow with the endless stream of breaking news, short videos, and curated feeds, genocide itself has been transformed into consumable content. We live not simply in an era of wars but in what might…
"Israel has lost the support of the world, including the American people," said policy analyst Jeffrey Sachs. By Stephen Prager, Common Dreams, August 20, 2025 As the US backs Israel's plans to occupy Gaza and expand illegal settlements in the West Bank, a solid majority of Americans say the world…
Members of Congress introduced the first ever bill that proactively seeks to prevent the U.S. from sending some of the worst weapons to the Israeli military. The Gaza Healthy Ministry confirmed 59,219 people have been killed in Gaza by the Israeli military since October 7, 2023, with human rights organizations…
Palestine is not a symbol. It is a real place, under siege. And to see it clearly, we must burn the language that keeps us blind. by Masood Haque in Common Dreams, June 6, 2025 Metaphors kill. Not with bullets or bombs, but with confusion. They blur what demands clarity.…
Emerging generations learned that moral concerns about their country’s engagement in faraway wars meant little to policymakers in Washington. by Norman Solomon, Apr 30, 2025 in Common Dreams Eight years before the U.S.-backed regime in South Vietnam collapsed, I stood with high school friends at Manhattan’s Penn Station on the…
by Dr Mustafa Fetouri in Middle East Monitor, April 24, 2025 What happened to six-year-old Hind Rajab on 29 January, 2024, is a haunting echo of the horror that befell nine-year-old Kim Phuc in the Vietnamese village of Trảng Bàng more than half a century ago. In both cases, the…
