Month: April 2022

Marching in a recent Ithaca, New York, demonstration in solidarity with Palestine was one of the truly gratifying moments of my life as an internationalist. “How Black Lives Matter reenergized Black-Palestinian solidarity”

Last week, no one had heard of Emily Wilder. Then she became the focus of a national campaign to get her fired. Days later, she “Journalists can tweet about Black Lives Matter but not about Palestine”

Last week, Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire in a conflict that claimed nearly 250 lives. But the underlying status quo makes another round “In defense of the two-state solution”

As the Israel-Gaza war raged, President Joe Biden made clear to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that there was a problem. Full-throated support for Israel “The progressive foreign policy moment has arrived”

Secretary of State Antony Blinken had a choice to make. It was mid-May, and in a few days he’d travel to Europe for talks with “Why Biden’s team didn’t go all-in on Israel-Gaza”

For decades, American Jewish institutions have made it a priority to teach kids about Israel. Learning about the Jewish state is a key part of “The incomplete education of American Jews”

As the world increasingly speaks out against China’s genocide of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, the quietest voices continue to belong to the leaders of Muslim-majority “China is buying Muslim leaders’ silence on the Uyghurs”

In late June, Canada’s minister of infrastructure and former minister of environment and climate change, Catherine McKenna, raised eyebrows when she announced she’d be leaving “One of Canada’s top climate officials is trying to save the planet — by leaving government”

The assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise has sent the country into shock and turmoil, sparking discussions in the international community on how to help “What the assassination of Haiti’s president means for US foreign policy”

After historic rainfall caused devastating flooding that killed more than 100 people in northwestern Europe and left more than 1,000 missing, officials and scientists aren’t “How climate change fueled the devastating floods in Germany and northwest Europe”