Dave Zirin FIFA has chosen to say nothing while Israel massacres Palestinian soccer players, coaches, and sports officials.
A bilingual Arizona bookstore canceled its family-friendly “Drag Show for Palestine” following backlash over the planned performance, with critics noting that drag shows — as well as any sort of LGBTQ expression — are strictly prohibited in Palestinian-controlled areas, with offenders risking their very lives.
Comic artist Joe Sacco’s work has reached millions of readers for the past thirty years or so because his descriptions of wartime scenes, from Gaza and the West Bank to the Balkans, have so effectively captured the voices of those struggling to survive. Famously and notoriously, he has planted himself on the scenes, interviewing, observing More
It’s coming up on Purim, the Semitic St. Paddy’s, Yiddishe Mardi Gras or Hebraic Halloweenof masquerade, storytelling (Purim shpiels), games, pranks, music, wine and a special Spring holiday dessert called “hamantaschen.” These triangular, fruit jelly-stuffed pastries are said to represent the pirate-style hat of the Purim story’s villain, that quintessential antisemite Haman the Agagite, Biblical More
At least 75 Rohingya refugees have been saved from drowning after their wooden boat began to sink off the coast of Aceh Province, Indonesia.
It’s important to understand that the majority of people who go into this work are compassionate, caring people. They want to help. They want to do everything possible to ensure that our new arrivals succeed.
For generations to come, 7 October will be memorialized on Palestinian calendars as the first day of their liberation. For Palestinians living in Gaza, blockaded by Israel for 16 years, every day began and ended in a large open-air prison. For them, the act of resistance that began on that day was the point of no return—there More
Women in Pakistan's major cities, such as Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, and Multan, rallied on International Women’s Day, demanding gender equality, justice, and safety, challenging patriarchal norms for the seventh consecutive year.
The 18 families don’t have legal residence and face restrictions in jobs and education – and now fear being sent to China.
Refugee settlement agency COA is spending an estimated €4 million a week putting asylum seekers up in hotels because of the shortage of alternative accommodation, the Telegraaf said on Monday. In total, some 8,000 asylum seekers are living in 50 different hotels and holiday parks, the paper said. At the same time, the bill for failing to limit the number of people sleeping at the Ter Apel reception centre, has risen to over €270,000 – money which the COA has
East Palestine choir director and assistant band director Anthony Chiporo died early Thursday morning.
A photography exhibit detailing East Palestine following the February 2023 train derailment will be on display later this month.