Western recognition of Palestine may have been a symbolic victory, but in the absence of enforcement, it changes nothing on the ground. Strongmen like Trump ensure that such gestures remain hollow, easily dismissed, and politically inert. Ronny P Sasmita Donald Trump’s 23 September speech at the United Nations General Assembly was never going […]
The working class will not remain silent in the face of the atrocities committed by the Israeli state. Groundxero | Sep 14, 2025 The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), representing over 110 million workers in 134 countries, has called on workers around the world, to intensify their solidarity this week (15-22 September, 2025) with demonstrations, […]
For the past two years, Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have continued Indigenous practices in the face of deprivation and foreign occupation. Samar Awaad Sep 12, 2025 Food—and the denial of it—has come into sharp focus with the Israeli occupation’s mass starvation and genocide in Gaza and the increasing violence against Palestinians in […]
“We pledge not to screen films, appear at or otherwise work with Israeli film institutions—including festivals, cinemas, broadcasters and production companies—that are implicated* in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people,” declared the filmmakers, actors, and film industry workers. Groundxero | Sep 10, 2025 In a historic action, Oscar, BAFTA, Emmy, Cannes, Berlin, Venice, César, […]
The genocide in Gaza has exposed the weaponization of the Holocaust as a vehicle not to prevent genocide, but to perpetuate it, not to examine the past, but to manipulate the present. Chris Hedges Sep 10, 2025 Nearly all Holocaust scholars, who see in any criticism of Israel a betrayal of the Holocaust, […]
The hosting of Smotrich by New Delhi is not simply a diplomatic faux pas. It is a deliberate act that aligns India’s domestic trajectory of majoritarian authoritarianism with Israel’s colonial occupation. Arkadeep Goswami Groundxero | Sep 9, 2025 On 8 September 2025, New Delhi became the stage for a moment of profound moral abdication. India’s […]
“We believe that it is our responsibility to extend solidarity and support to those facing violence and dispossession in whatever way we can. The successful petition to suspend Israel from the IOAA is a small step in that direction,” wrote two of the signatories to the petition. Groundxero | Sep 1, 2025 Hundreds of […]
Western reporters are full partners in the genocide. They amplify Israeli lies, which they know are lies, betraying Palestinian colleagues who are slandered, targeted and killed by Israel. CHRIS HEDGES 31 Aug, 2025 There are two types of war correspondents. The first type does not attend press conferences. They do not beg generals […]
Israel’s razing of Gaza is not only about ethnic cleansing. It is about the erasure of a people, a culture and a history that expose the lies used to justify the Israeli state. Aug 22, 2025 By CHRIS HEDGES As Israel ticks off its list of Nazi-like atrocities against the Palestinians, including mass […]
Photographs coming out of Gaza since October 2023 have communicated the severity of the destruction: collapsed buildings, bodies in shrouds, dead and maimed children, and bombed-out hospitals and shelters. But none of these galvanised the public as much as the photographic evidence of Israel’s systemic starvation of Gazans. Sara Oscar and Cherine Fahd The […]
Israel is not the only government in history to cut off access to food and water as a tool of war. As an Indigenous scholar who studies Indigenous history, I know that countries – including the United States and Canada – have used starvation to conquer Indigenous peoples and acquire their land. Rosalyn R. LaPier, University of […]
Gaza is infinitely small when judged by its geography, economic worth, or political import. Yet, it has proven to be the most significant global event defining this generation’s political consciousness. By Ramzy Baroud August 17, 2025 Via Common Dreams The consequences of the Israeli genocide in Gaza will be dire. An event of this degree of […]
We have endured more suffering and psychological pain than mountains could bear. By Muhammad Jihad Ismael Aug 08, 2025 Via Common Dreams Since this war began, I am living a life like Robinson Crusoe’s. He faced an existential ordeal on his island, but fought brilliantly for his survival: Here in the ruins of Gaza, […]
Mike Johnson said at the event that the Judea and Samaria mountains are the legal property of the Jewish people. He criticizes Israel’s “friends” who call for the recognition of a Palestinian state. By Brett Wilkins Aug 04, 2025 The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson on Monday led a high-level […]
To challenge the atrocity of enforced famine, we must also dismantle the economic and political order that finds in crisis not failure, but opportunity. By Peter Bloom Jul 31, 2025 In Gaza, starvation has become strategy. According to the United Nations and humanitarian groups on the ground, two key famine conditions now exist in Gaza and are […]