Memo to Trump: How Dumping 2.2 Million more Palestinians on Jordan would Destabilize the Middle East even More than the Iraq War Did

January 28, 2025

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – First, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet proposed ethnically cleansing Gaza of its Palestinian inhabitants in the fall of 2023, following many years of such calls from the Israeli equivalent of neo-Nazis.

 

What a 20th-century revolutionary can teach us about resisting genocide today

January 27, 2025

Dana Miles

On Jan. 12, thousands joined an annual commemorative march in Berlin to honor the memory of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht — two revolutionaries murdered 106 years ago on Jan. 15, 1919 by centrist-backed proto-fascists. For decades, the march has taken place on the second Sunday of January, bringing together activists, trade unionists, feminists, and others who make up the German radical left. Among the marchers, those who perhaps best embodied Luxemburg’s spirit of anti-imperialism were a bloc of pro-Palestinian demonstrators who walked through the streets chanting, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” before being attacked by German police officers.

 

 Rosa Luxemburg addressing a crowd during the International Socialist Congress, in Stuttgart, 1907. (Wikimedia Commons)

Palestine Through the Lens

January 28, 2025

Jamal Kanj

This is a review of an exceptional photobook, Images of Palestine (1898-1946). The book is a collection of photographs that spans nearly five decades, captured in the period leading up to the Palestine Nakba. Together, these black-and-white images chronicle a vibrant and diverse Palestinian society, highlighting its connection to the land, its achievements in commerce, architecture, and civil society, and its development into a modern socio-political entity chafing to break free from colonial domination.

Auschwitz’s hierarchies of villains and victims

January 27, 2025

Declan Hayes

When I visited Kraków for some dental treatment in late January 2022 just before Putin sent his peace-keeping forces into Ukraine, I made a point of not visiting either Auschwitz or Schindler’s factory for the same reason I did not visit Jerusalem’s Holocaust Museum on the two occasions I visited Zion. Quite frankly, not only have I a gut full of hearing about Anne Frank, the boy in the striped pyjamas and Holocaust survivors who, like the old soldiers that they are, refuse to die, but I hate having propaganda of any sort rammed down my neck.

 

PFP statement on Los Angeles wildfires of 2025

January 26, 2025

The tragic wildfires that have taken place since Tuesday, January 7, 2025, have destroyed thousands of homes and structures across Los Angeles, leaving tens of thousands homeless. The death toll continues to rise as bodies are discovered under the ashes of homes. While the corporate mainstream media spotlights the rich who have been impacted, Peace & Freedom Party members have been on the ground, day after day, providing aid and relief to the thousands of working-class families who have lost everything.

Could the Carrington Event happen again?

January 24, 2025

Laura Baisas

On a hot and humid Florida night in late August 1859, the sky suddenly lit up. But it was not from fireflies or a fireswamp. Instead, it was the Northern Lights–or aurora borealis. The aurora is usually seen in far more northern latitudes, but it had somehow reached the subtropics and danced across the night sky. Reports of the aurora came in from as far south as Central America and some in the Rocky Mountains even believed it was morning because the sky was so bright.

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هوشنگ فاضلی

نزدیک به پنجاه سال پیشدر خانه‌ای دو طبقه در قیطریه شمیران سکونت داشتم. طبقهٔ بالا در اختیار خانواده‌ام بود و طبقهٔ پائین را اجاره داده بودم. یکبار مستاجر جدیدی از طریق آژانس املاک مراجعه، و خود را مهندس وحدتی، مدیر یک شرکت ساختمانی معرفی‌ نمود. قرار شد که وی و همسر و یک دخترش در این طبقه سکونت نمایند. در مورد میزان اجاره هم حساسیتی نشان نداد و گفت می‌تواند اجارهٔ شش ماه را هم یکباره پرداخت نماید.ا

LIVE BLOG: Israel Closes Netzarim | Mobilization on Lebanese-Israeli Border – Day 478

January 26, 2025

Israel continues to maintain a closure around Netzarim despite earlier commitments to withdraw.

Meanwhile, heightened military mobilization along the Israeli-Lebanese border is accompanied by Israeli forces opening fire on civilians attempting to return to their towns.

 

Thousands of displaced Palestinians seek to return to northern Gaza. (Photo: via social media, QNN)

Female Israeli soldiers 'wave and smile' during release by Hamas in Gaza

January 25, 2025

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas released four female Israeli soldiers on 25 January, while Israel is releasing some 200 Palestinians as part of a ceasefire agreement aimed at ending Israel's war on Gaza.

 

Trump’s assault on immigrants is coming—here’s what you need to know

January 25, 2025

Taya Graham and Stephen Janis

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised that, if elected, “On day one, I will launch the largest deportation program of criminals in the history of America.” Trump’s administration has wasted no time since re-entering the White House on Monday, and communities around the US are currently bracing for a wave of ICE raids. In plans that were publicly leaked ahead of Trump’s inauguration, the city of Chicago was identified as a key target for immigration raids, putting immigrant residents and their neighbors on high alert. To discuss the impending threat to Chicago and cities around the country, and how communities can fight back, The Real News speaks with Moises Zavala, Workplace Justice Campaigns Organizer for Arise Chicago, and Natascha Elena Uhlmann, a writer for Labor Notes and immigrant rights activist from Sonora, Mexico.

 

As Gaza Ceasefire takes hold, Israeli Forces turn to Jenin – a regular Target seen as a Center of Palestinian Resistance

January 24, 2025

Maha Nassar

(The Conversation) – Just two days after a shaky ceasefire took hold in the Gaza Strip, Israel on Jan. 21, 2025, launched a large-scale incursion of the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.

 

Russia and the Trump Doctrine: Adapting to the ‘Rules of the Strong’

January 24, 2025

Sergey Strokan

The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States is this week’s main news story, not only in America but also in domestic Russian politics. Though all eyes on that day were fixed on Trump, it is telling that he also became the subject of intense discussions in this country, ranging from political circles to ordinary kitchen conversations. This is no anomaly — it is entirely logical.

A federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s executive order redefining birthright citizenship

January 23, 2025

SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order denying U.S. citizenship to the children of parents living in the country illegally, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional” during the first hearing in a multi-state effort challenging the order.

 

Israel continues Jenin raid as two Palestinians killed in West Bank

January 23, 2025

Israeli soldiers have killed two more Palestinians in the occupied West Bank as they continue a military assault on the city of Jenin and its refugee camp.

 

Palestinian women sit across from the rubble of a house where two Palestinians were killed during an Israeli raid in Burqin village near Jenin in the occupied West Bank. [AFP]

For optimists: On the impossibility of global peace under capitalism

January 23, 2025

Murat K. Girgin

Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, as the founders of the theories of Capitalism and Imperialism, explained the dynamics of historical events–once perceptible only as patterns–through the lens of “the science of political economy.” Therefore, when discussing concepts like war or peace, it becomes essential to lend an ear to these two figures and their successors, dust off their books from the shelves, and start revisiting their ideas.

 

Death toll in Gaza rises as ceasefire allows rescuers to search rubble

January 22, 2025

Mera Aladam

As people in Gaza scour what remains of their homes and land following the ceasefire that took effect on Sunday, victims of Israel's heavy bombardment campaign since 7 October 2023 are being recovered from beneath the rubble. 

 

A boy rides his bicycle past destroyed infrastructure east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on 21 January 2025 (Bashar Taleb/AFP)

Sanders Blasts Trump for Ignoring 'Virtually Every Important Issue Facing Working Families'

January 22, 2025

Jake Johnson

On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump posed in a garbage truck and performed a staged shift at a McDonald's as he postured as a champion of the working class.

 

 U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is pictured at President Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Trump Reportedly Resuming Shipments of 2,000-Pound Bombs to Israel

January 21, 2025

Sharon Zhang

President Donald Trump is slated to resume shipments of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, reports say, despite the fragile Gaza ceasefire deal having been implemented the day before his inauguration on Monday and Israel’s extensive use of the bombs on civilian areas.

 

 Smoke rises from a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike at the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on January 12, 2025. Eyad Baba / AFP via Getty Images

Palestinians Dig 68 More Bodies Out of Gaza Rubble, Raising Death Toll

January 21, 2025

Dave DeCamp

On Tuesday, Palestinians in Gaza continued digging bodies out of the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israel as the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas entered its third day.

Palestinians search building rubble in a destroyed neighborhood of Rafah, Gaza, on January 21, 2025, as residents return following a ceasefire deal (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Reuters Connect)

In the West Bank, Palestinian unemployment is now Israeli policy

January 21, 2025

Haitham S.

Ever since the beginning of Israel’s assault on Gaza in October 2023, Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have been suffering from an acute unemployment crisis. In the first six months of the war, the unemployment rate nearly tripled, with over 300,000 workers losing their main source of income. 

 

Israeli settlers harass Palestinian residents of Khirbet Zanuta, South Hebron Hills, occupied West Bank. (Oren Ziv)