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Tal Mitnick is a courageous 18-year-old Israeli citizen who was jailed after refusing to serve in the army - in protest at the war on Gaza, and the oppression of the Palestinian people. Here he tells me absolutely shocking truths - but also explains why there is hope. - Owen...
In September 2001, in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, people gathered by the thousands across the country of Iran in spontaneous demonstrations and candlelight vigils to show support for America in its hour of grief. At one football match in Tehran, sixty thousand...
Could British ministers - and British civilians who fought with the Israeli Defence Forces - face prosecution for aiding and abetting Israel's war crimes? A new legal case has been launched - including a criminal complaint alleging UK government ministers' complicity in war...
Criminalizing Dissent: The Attack on BDS & Pro-Palestinian Speech, a panel featuring Cornel West, Linda Sarsour, Shaun King, Omar Barghouti, Tim Wise, and Dima Khalidi, was held at the UMass-Amherst Fine Arts Center on Nov. 12, 2019 in front of a capacity crowd despite being...
"This is the true patriotism—no revenge wars and calls for extermination, no unnecessary bloodshed, and no sacrifice of kidnapped citizens and soldiers in false wars," said KM Ofer Cassif
Over the past two-plus decades, the Media Education Foundation has produced and distributed documentary films, and organized a series of high-profile events and talks, to counter U.S. media narratives that have dehumanized the Palestinian people.
"Even if you've been closely following Israel's war crimes, South Africa's legal team provided overwhelming, utterly devastating evidence of genocide against the Palestinian people. I go through the key points and claims here - and why the Israeli state has no leg to stand...
Distinguished historian John H. Bracey Jr. offers a provocative analysis of the devastating economic, political, and social effects of racism on white Americans. In a departure from analyses of racism that have focused primarily on white power and privilege, Bracey trains his...
“Never Again didn’t mean only for Jews, it means Never Again for EVERYONE”
Official reports state that a worker falls victim to toxic chemical poisoning in the manufacturing process every five hours, though the actual toll is suspected to be much higher. Captured discreetly over a span of three years, 'Complicit' chronicles the journey of Yi Yeting...
An intimate look at life inside the Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
In this 1998 film based on his paradigm-shifting book, Edward Said excavates and deconstructs deeply rooted Western perceptions of the Middle East as a mysterious land of exotics, villains, and terrorists, and argues that this caricatured cultural heritage continues to blind...
I'm delighted to interview Ofer Cassif, an Israeli politician of the leftist Hadash party. He has signed a petition backing South Africa's genocide claim against Israel - and he explains why he's done so, the horrors currently enveloping Gaza, the attempt to silence him, the...
From 7th October 2023, it's been clear that media coverage about Palestinians has been defined by racism: that their lives are considered to have little value. That's not simply an assertion. A detailed study has gone through the BBC's coverage in depth - and it has exposed...
International law is officially dead.
South Africa has filed a case against Israel in the International Court of Justice, accusing it of genocide in Gaza. The 84 page document offers an absolutely terrifying and overwhelming case.
Israel will appear triumphant after it finishes its genocidal campaign in Gaza and the West Bank. But by the time Israel achieves its decimation of Gaza, it will have signed its own death sentence.
In this illustrated 2017 talk, Rutgers University media scholar Deepa Kumar, one of America's foremost experts on Islamophobia, looks at how Arabs and Muslims have become the predominant face of terror in U.S. news and entertainment media -- even though terror attacks by...
In this powerful 2013 documentary, award-winning filmmaker Abdallah Omeish chronicles the experiences of Al Jazeera's Cairo-born, Arab-American Ayman Mohyeldin and Arab-British Sherine Tadros as they report from Gaza City throughout the devastating assault. With...
Many of you feel you have watched the horror of Israel's onslaught against Palestinians in Gaza and felt fury and grief - but helplessness. You may have participated in large demos, tweeted about it, peacefully occupied a train station, yelled at your computer screens and...
Hammam Farah is a Palestinian Christian based in Toronto - and right now, he faces unimaginable horrors. His family are sheltering in the besieged Holy Church in Gaza - and his relatives have been brutally killed by Israel's onslaught.
"During the first six weeks of the war in Gaza, Israel routinely used one of its biggest and most destructive bombs in areas it designated safe for civilians, according to an analysis of video evidence by The New York Times." This is a clip from our show SYSTEM UPDATE, now...
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In the Bible’s first semi-mythic story of what we now call the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Abraham dies decades after he has endangered the lives of his two sons, Ishmael and Isaac. His two sons come together to mourn and bury their dangerous father. As a result, Isaac goes...
Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza is being witnessed in real time, with Palestinian civilians broadcasting their own bombardment; Israeli soldiers streaming sadistic acts of humiliation - proof of an historic crime. The question Palestinians are asking - urgently - is whether...
The One Speech The World Needs To Hear
We discuss President Joe Biden's "full support for a scorched-earth campaign" in Gaza with The Intercept's Jeremy Scahill, who says the U.S. is providing "political cover and rushing weapons there and giving support to the most pernicious lies that Israel [is] telling."
The U.S. Congress and elite colleges and universities are flipping reality upside down. Students are protesting to stop a genocide against Palestinians, but are accused of promoting one against Jewish people.
Jeremy Scahill is one of the top US investigative journalists - a founder of The Intercept and a bestselling author - and here he takes apart Israel's propaganda, the devastating US role in Gaza atrocities, and why Palestine's history matters.
Yanis Varoufakis is one of the world’s most important thinkers. Here we discuss Gaza - including the question of genocide, the world order, history - and whether there is any hope at all.
"This is one of the most important revelations since the war began. Journalists at an Israeli-Palestinian media outlet have exposed claims that the Israeli military seeks to avoid civilian casualties - by interviewing those at the heart of the military intelligence...
When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the brutal way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns. They join a movement of young American Jews battling the old guard to redefine Judaism’s relationship with Israel...
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Gaza was a free-fire zone on Saturday and Sunday, with UN officials saying that no place in the Strip is safe. Hundreds were killed, almost all of them innocent noncombatants, and including a worrisome number of children. Although Israel tried to pull the stunt of issuing a...
It will result in even higher levels of death and destruction.
Millions of people worldwide are being uprooted from their homes and communities. Central Americans are fleeing from economic precarity, climate disaster as well as state and criminal violence. Most head towards Mexico and the United States in search of a livable life. The...
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We look at a new report that reveals how Israel is using artificial intelligence to draw up targets in its military assault of Gaza. The report's author, journalist Yuval Abraham, has found that the IDF's increasing use of AI is partly a response to previous operations in...
Israel killed 21 members of Ahmed Alnaoulq's family. He doesn’t hold back.
"Comparing a state or people with Nazi Germany has a powerful and compelling effect on many people. It achieves the goal of dehumanizing an entire civilian population."
Lowkey uncovers the powerful past of New York’s most famous racist ranter
I was invited to watch a screening - organised by the IDF - of the Hamas atrocities committed on 7th October. Here's my response in detail.
On 16 November 2023, The Elders delivered an open letter to the President of the United States, Joe Biden, on Israel and Palestine.
The opening instalment of an unprecedented multi-part documentary series, filmed primarily from the vantage point of their children, close associates, and witnesses to their assassinations. Four Died Trying considers the "turning” President John Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin...
Over 5,000 beautiful children erased from this Earth forever.
"Imagine, for a moment, if you will, the United States, in the present day..."
For the past month, Israeli bombardment of Gaza has been presented to the world as if it hasn’t already happened repeatedly (five times to be exact) since Gaza was put under brutal siege in 2007. “We will teach them a lesson that they will never forget” is a popular slogan by...
Despite the popular notion that only men can be patriarchal, the truth is that women can be patriarchal as well. In our society, patriarchy is internalized. It lives inside of us, in the psyche of both men and women.
Renowned physician and author Dr. Gabor Mate joins The Grayzone to offer his reflections on Israel's gruesome military operation in the besieged Gaza Strip.
With a comparison between apartheid South Africa and the Israel/Palestine conflict, this documentary traces the future of one conflict from the past of another. Weaving the history of apartheid into the complex issues facing Israelis and Palestinians, it highlights the...
”We are being no platformed, we are being cancelled, we are being denied the freedom to express legitimate points of view”
Andrew Feinstein on why it is not controversial to say so. (Feburary 2023)
Some people say our calls to #CeaseFireNow should be directed towards Hamas rather than Israel. But there’s a good reason for focusing on Israel, which I’ll pose with a question: which crim
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has shocked the conscience of the entire world, with an endless flow of videos and images of Palestinian children cut into pieces by American bombs dropped by Israeli warplanes deliberately intended to destroy a civilian population.
The Government™ has made an ad about what's happening in Israel & Gaza and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, activist and spokesman for Neturei Karta, talks to Al Jazeera
“Our education was so entrenched in believing that you should support Israel and that being Jewish meant loving and supporting Israel that I didn’t know there was another way to be Jewish.” Jewish-American activist, Maya Edery, from Jewish Voice for Peace, speaks to MEE...
Rabbi Michael Lerner spoke at Muhammad Ali's memorial service in 2016 and received a roaring standing ovation for sharing a message that deserves to be heard around the world today.
"I just want to wake up from this nightmare"
Despite growing international condemnation, Israel has rejected calls for a ceasefire of its continued assault on Gaza. "Israeli forces carried out indiscriminate attacks, killing and injuring civilians, and in some cases that we documented, … entire families were wiped out,"...
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