LIVE BLOG: Massacres in Khan Yunis, Rafah | Political Crisis in Israel Deepens – Day 534

March 23, 2025

• Israel carried out more massacres in Gaza, killing at least 30 people, including women and children, in heavy strikes on Khan Yunis and Rafah.
• Meanwhile, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange opened with sharp declines, reflecting the impact of the country’s deepening political and constitutional crisis.
• Since the resumption of violence in Gaza on Tuesday morning through Saturday, Israel has killed 650 Palestinians and injured 1,172 others, the majority of whom are women and children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

 

Hundreds of Palestinians were killed in Israel's latest attacks on Gaza. (Photo: via QNN)

Gaza is being starved and bombed again. Why are we allowing it?

March 22, 2025
Emina Hodžić
Watching Western governments cover up Israeli crimes has been exhausting. But I refuse to surrender and accept injustice. 

 

 Palestinians wait to receive food distributed by charitable organisations at al-Mawasi in Khan Younis, Gaza, on March 21, 2025 [Hani Alshaer/Anadolu Agency]

Here’s How the Right Is Packaging Its Conspiracies in Environmentalism

March 22, 2025
Schuyler Mitchell
When public health problems aren’t met with structural solutions, conspiracies cloaked in green rhetoric can flourish.

 

 A child wears a "Make America Healthy Again" hat during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center on February 21, 2025, in Oxon Hill, Maryland.Kayla Bartkowski / Getty Images

Why was I investigated for sharing an article critical of Zionism by the ‘free speech’ organization PEN America?

March 22, 2025
Kori Davis
Working at PEN American has given me a firsthand look at how liberal institutions suppress pro-Palestinian voices.

 

 A banner hanging at the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on March 2, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/ PEN America)

Abducting Bodies, Silencing Dissent: Mahmoud Khalil and the Rise of State Terror

March 21, 2025
Henry Giroux
Introduction
The abduction of Mahmoud Khalil is not an isolated event—it is a chilling testament to the authoritarian turn in the United States, where dissent is met not with debate but with brute force, and the machinery of state terror moves with ruthless precision. In his own words, Khalil, a Columbia University graduate, an activist for Palestinian freedom, and a permanent U.S. resident, was seized by ICE agents without warning—handcuffed, dragged from his apartment lobby, shoved into an unmarked black car, and disappeared. In minutes, his rights were violated and his body made vulnerable and disposable. Khalil instantly became another casualty in the Trump administration’s escalating war against those who refuse to kneel before its politics of white supremacy, settler-colonial violence, ominous threats, and unchecked lawlessness. His disappearance is both a precedent and a warning—a stark reminder that in regimes built on repression, silence is coerced, and resistance is a crime.

How a war with Iran (for Israel) could crash the US economy

March 21, 2025
Shivan Mahendrarajah
As Trump eyes war with Iran to bolster his legacy and appease his pro-Israel backers, Tehran’s likely retaliation could crash global markets, spike oil prices, and bring economic pain directly to the American public – turning support for apocalyptic politics into a crisis at the checkout line.

Scenes from a Ramadan massacre

March 20, 2025
Ahmed Ahmed
Palestinians in Gaza City describe collecting body parts from the street and fending off stray dogs as they awaited ambulances amid Israel's attacks.

 

 Oday Al-Zaigh looks out of his front door at the damage caused by Israeli airstrikes, Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, March 18, 2025. (Ahmed Ahmed)

Teachers Say 'See You In Court' as Trump Tries to Abolish Department of Education

March 20, 2025
Brett Wilkins
"We won't be silent as anti-public education politicians try to steal opportunities from our students, our families, and our communities to pay for tax cuts for billionaires," said the head of the nation's largest labor union.

Demonstrators gather outside of the U.S. Department of Education headquarters in Washington, D.C. on March 13, 2025 to protest mass layoffs and budget cuts at the agency, initiated by the Trump administration and Department of Government Efficiency. (Photo: Bryan Dozier/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall – from the West down to the East

March 19, 2025
Pepe Escobar
Let’s start with that phone call. The Kremlin readout is quite sober – but it does reveal a few nuggets. There is no comprehensive deal – yet – between Moscow and Washington. Far from it: we are just in the initial tentative stage of talking and talking about several interconnected dossiers.

Israel’s Renewed Gaza Genocide on Black Tuesday: 420 Dead (175 Children) and 540 Wounded

March 19, 2025
Juan Cole
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that Israeli airstrikes shattered the supposed ceasefire in Gaza on Tuesday, dropping heaving munitions on inhabited apartment buildings and killing entire extended families who lived in them, with a death toll of at least 420, and over 500 wounded. Many bodies were still under the rubble and uncounted.

How U.S. plans to bleed Europe dry while waging war on China

March 19, 2025
Sharon Black
The theatrical events of the previous week between Volodymyr Zelensky, Donald Trump, and JD Vance have been grist for all manner of bourgeois media lies designed to obfuscate events. 

Trump’s threats reignite talk of nuclear bombs in Iran

March 19, 2025
Maziar Motamedi
Trump is still met with defiance from the leadership in Tehran as he threatens military strikes against Iran.

Astronauts return to Earth after months stranded in orbit

March 19, 2025

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams spent nine months in space instead of eight days, as was originally planned

سیاست‌های غرب در ایران

سیاست‌های کشور‌های غربی در ایران از قرن سیزدهم آغاز شد، این زمانی‌ بود‌ که ادوارد اول پادشاه انگلستان سفیری به نام جفری لنگلی به ایران، برای برقراری مناسبات سیاسی‌ فرستاد. در آن زمان ایلخانیان بر ایران حکومت می‌کردند و کشور ایران را با نام پارس می‌شناختند. البته در این دوران، یعنی‌ قرن سیزدهم، کشور‌های غربی قدرت و پیشرفت امروز را نداشتند، و دیدار این شخص از ایران بیشتر به منظور مشاهده و ثبت پیشرفت‌های ایران بود. دست درازی غرب به کشور‌های خاور‌میانه پس از کشف نفت آغاز شد. نفت در قرن بیستم به منبع انرژی ترجیحی در سطح جهانی تبدیل شد، و گرچه این ماده قبل از قرن بیستم کشف شده بود، ولی‌ ارزش جهانی‌ آن در این قرن مشخص شد.ا

Israel resumes its war on Gaza, killing over 400 people in one night

March 18, 2025
Tareq S. Hajjaj
After two weeks of systematic Israeli violations of the tenuous ceasefire agreement, Israel has officially resumed its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip. Despite Israel's killing of over 400 people, Hamas remains committed to completing the ceasefire.

 

 The bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza at the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, after Israel resumes war on Gaza, ending ceasefire, March 18, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)

Trump lobs new threats at Iran over Yemen's pro-Palestine operations

March 17, 2025

Sanaa has warned that there are 'no red lines' as long as Israel's policy of starvation against Palestinians continues

March 18, 2025
Chris Walker
Trump’s call for the judge to be impeached came after his administration blatantly ignored one of the judge’s orders.

Fasting while starving, Gazans struggle to mark Ramadan

March 17, 2025
Ruwaida Kamal Amer and Ibtisam Mahdi
As Israel continues to prevent the entry of food into the Strip, Palestinians are gathering with surviving family members to observe the holiday in the rubble.

 

 Gazans light fireworks over the ruins of Khan Younis to celebrate Ramadan, with Israel’s blockade causing an ongoing electricity blackout, southern Gaza Strip, March 12, 2025. (Doaa Albaz/Activestills)

Stay Silent and Stay Powerless Against Trump’s Tyranny?

March 17, 2025
Ralph Nader
There are reasons why influential or knowledgeable Americans are staying silent as the worsening fascist dictatorship of the Trumpsters and Musketeers gets more entrenched by the day. Most of these reasons are simple cover for cowardice.

Stories of Resistance: The Saint Patrick’s Battalion

March 17, 2025
Michael Fox
On St. Patrick’s Day, Mexicans celebrate in honor of the Irish battalion that defended their country against the invading United States Army in the 1840s. 

There is a wall in Mexico City with a memorial plaque for the Irish.

 

 Supporters of the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick in the streets of the Coyoacan municipality in Mexico City hold flags during a march to commemorate St. Patrick's Day, patron saint of Ireland, and to remember the Irish who fought alongside the Mexican army in 1846 against the United States. Photo by Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto via Getty Images.