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Battlefield Palestine rocks the world, how cold wars work, secrets of pop, and more

How words like ‘apartheid,’ ‘land theft,’ and ‘ethnic cleansing’ have entered the mainstream conversation

Israel has reached apartheid, the antithesis of Judaism’s long tradition of social justice.

The latest Palestinian uprising firmly rejects the conquest and division of our people legally and geographically, into separate, besieged, apartheid parcels of land similar to the Bantustans of Apartheid South Africa.

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The continuing battles in Palestine and Colombia — and major wins in Chile

Twisting, fudging and danger in the media world

Palestinians disconnected from each other have struggled immensely to maintain a national project with clear objectives. Now, struggling together across the entire geography of historic Palestine, the Palestinian body is coming back together.

As Israeli lynch mobs roam the streets attacking Palestinians, and as Israeli war planes drop bombs on Gaza, it’s essential to understand how we arrived at this moment.