This festive season, Gaza is starving

December 18, 2024

Esraa Abo Qamar

Winter has now come to the Northern Hemisphere and has ushered in a festive mood in many places. In Gaza, it has brought more misery. The cold weather and rain have made the lives of the 1.9 million Palestinians displaced in Gaza that much more unbearable.

 

 Palestinian children wait for a food portion at a distribution centre in south of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on December 17, 2024 [Bashar Taleb/AFP]

Now Is the Time to Protect Progressive Organizations

December 18, 2024

Mattie Armstrong-Price

The coming year promises to be a dangerous time for progressive groups. Last month the House passed resolution 9495, which would grant the executive branch extraordinary powers to designate nonprofit organizations as terrorist supporting and thereby to revoke these organizations’ 501(c)3 status unilaterally and without due process.

 

Hundreds of activists gather for an encampment on the University of Michigan's campus calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, on April 24, 2024 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.(Photo: Adam J. Dewey/Anadolu via Getty Images)