Hundreds of San Jose residents spoke up at the December 5, 2023 meeting of the San Jose City Council to ask that a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Israel's bombardment of Gaza be put on the Council's agenda. The City Council took no action. They claimed that this matter…
by Jessica CorbettCommon DreamsApril 5, 2024 As Israel continues to starve Palestinians to death in the Gaza Strip, an international coalition on Friday was preparing to set sail with humanitarian aid and human rights observers "to challenge the ongoing illegal Israeli blockade." Israel has limited the flow of people and…
by Jake JohnsonCommon Dreams The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, an organization named after the Polish lawyer who coined the term genocide, issued what it called an "urgent SOS warning" on Tuesday for Palestinians in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where more than half of the enclave's population is…
Statement by National Labor Network for a Ceasefire. We, members of the American labor movement, mourn the loss of life in Israel and Palestine. We express our solidarity with all workers and our common desire for peace in Palestine and Israel, and we call on President Joe Biden and Congress…
If the international community does not finally develop the will to stop Israel, this horrific crime will, by far, prove worse than all the crimes that have already been committed. by Ramzy Baroud published in Common Dreams The Palestinian city of Rafah is not just older than Israel, it is…
by Barbara Taft "There were no guns in Palestine." During the bombardment of Gaza by Israel in October/November of 2023, those words came back to me. I was sitting in the dining room of a small Palestinian home in East Jerusalem. It was the summer of 1985. My host, a…
Press release from the SFBA Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR): The San Francisco Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SFBA), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today applauded the Santa Clara County Board of Education (SCCBOE) for its principled stand in passing a comprehensive Gaza ceasefire resolution.…
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, January 26, 2024 The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel must cease its warmaking in Gaza — cease committing and inciting genocidal acts — and that the case charging Israel with genocide must proceed. DETAILS OF THE RULING: By 15-2: Israel shall…
University of California alumni are pledging to withhold donations until the Board of Regents calls for a ceasefire, divests from militarism and Israeli apartheid, and protects pro-Palestine students. Their Instagram has a link to the letter for alumni to sign on.
San Jose, CA — Saturday, January 13, 2024 — The Santa Clara County Democratic Party voted late Thursday night to adopt the following resolution: A Call for Immediate Cease-fire in Gaza and Provision of Humanitarian Aid WHEREAS we recognize the Holocaust, Nakba and forced displacement of peoples with ties to…
