‘Complete surrender’: How gaza defeated Israel and what it means—analysis

January 17, 2025

Ramzy Baroud

Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir accused the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu of “a complete surrender to Hamas,” calling the Gaza ceasefire agreement a “surrender deal.”

 

 Hamada Shaqoura, a Palestinian man who used to be a food blogger, distributes food to children after cooking a meal for displaced people, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on January 16, 2025. BASHAR TALEB / AFP via Getty Images

Dozens of Columbia University law faculty demand inquiry into professor's 'termination'

January 17, 2025

Over 45 Columbia Law School professors have signed a letter calling for a Columbia University Senate inquiry into the controversial departure of their colleague Katherine Franke, marking an escalation in the dispute over academic freedom and protest rights on campuses.

 

 'Persecution': Outpouring of anger after 'termination' of pro-Palestine Columbia professor

Want to defend immigrant workers in your contract? Here are some suggestions.

January 17, 2025

Natascha Elena Uhlmann and Sarah Lazare

The following language was compiled from a series of unions and labor activists. It is intended as a resource for workers looking to include pro-immigrant provisions in their collective bargaining agreements.

 

 Unionized teachers with ASPIRA charter school network rally outside an ASPIRA high school to convince the company's management to come to terms on a contract on March 9, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images

The Fatal Despair of Exile: An Iran they could neither Live in nor Leave Behind

January 17, 2025

Fariba Amini

Nothing takes me from the butterflies of my dreams

to my reality: not dust and not fire. What

will I do without roses from Samarkand? What

will I do in a theater that burnishes the singers with its lunar

stones? Our weight has become light like our houses

in the faraway winds. We have become two friends of the strange

creatures in the clouds … and we are now loosened

from the gravity of identity’s land. What will we do … what

will we do without exile, and a long night

that stares at the water?   — Mahmoud Darwish