The legal fight to open Gaza to foreign press has failed. It’s time to change course
As Israel’s Supreme Court continues enabling the government’s foreign media ban, Palestinian journalists are paying the price. Further legal efforts are futile.
Category: Columns
Don’t forget Gaza
Hideous new data underlines the scale of this abomination
MSF statement on staff registration and the continuation of medical care in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
To avoid being forced to suspend our operations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory from 1 March 2026, following unreasonable demands to hand over personal information about our staff, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has informed Israeli authorities that, as an exceptional measure, we are prepared to share a defined list of Palestinian and international staff names, subject to clear parameters with staff safety at its core.
UNRWA Commissioner-General: Unprecedented Violation of UN Premises and International Law in East Jerusalem
From Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter)
SILENT NIGHT: A People’s Tribunal against silence and genocidal censorship
State-genocidal violence shamelessly exposes what it does, producing the uninhabitable, but its internal machinery feeds on secrecy to make that explicit violence possible. Secrecy is woven through complicities that seek opacity. In response, this Tribunal constructs a counternarrative to secrecy, reveals opacity, confronts us with our violent undercurrents, and maps our cruelty. (Peoples’Tribunal on the Complicity within the Spanish state with the Genocide in Palestine (PTCGP-25), Session 2, Conclusions, point 26).
Harvard’s Ouster of Mary Bassett Is a Revolting Act of Cowardice
The public health icon was brutally removed from her job for one reason: her opposition to genocide in Gaza.
“Like the Living Dead” – Gaza’s Children Are Too Hungry and Traumatized To Learn
Gaza’s children are losing not just school, but hope, identity, and belief in a future worth reaching.
Statement from Birzeit University on the Israeli military invasion of its campus and shooting of students
As part of its ongoing assault on Palestinian life and institutions, the Israeli occupying army carried out a military invasion of Birzeit University during official working hours, at a time when the campus was filled with students, faculty members, and staff. The invasion was premeditated and coincided with a student union protest against the settler-colonial army’s violence against our people and its policy of mass political imprisonment.
B’Tselem : The genocide is not over
B’Tselem: “Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza did not end with the “ceasefire” declaration. Blocking humanitarian aid, alongside ongoing airstrikes and shootings, is a direct continuation of the assault on Gaza’s population.”
An Educational Crusade in East Jerusalem
Under the pretext of “national security,” Israel is ramping up its longstanding attacks on Palestinian education in the city.