Palestine

Al-Awda conference
International News

Palestinian Human Rights Leaders Blocked from Traveling to U.S. for Major Conference

May 3, 2022 fwstaff
Al-Awda Press Release Palestinian human rights leader Ubai Aboudi, featured speaker at AL-AWDA NY “Rising to Return” conference, blocked from traveling to US along with colleague Sahar Francis Registration and information: alawdaconference.org Twitter: @alawda Instagram: […]
International News

Palestinian BDS National Committee Statement on Ukraine

March 19, 2022 fwstaff
From the editors: The following statement is from the Palestianian BDS National Committee on the war in Ukraine. BDS leads a campaign to boycott, divest from and sanction apartheid israel because of genocide and settler-colonialism […]
Sudan demonstration on Jan. 17, 2022
International News

Imperialism Coordinates Effort to Prevent People’s Revolution in Sudan

January 21, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Two United States envoys from the State Department visited the Republic of Sudan on January 19 in their continuing campaign to neutralize the mass democratic movement which is demanding the exit of […]
mage by Mohammed Sabaaneh
Domestic News

The Great Palestinian Escape of 2021

January 2, 2022 fwstaff
By Diana Block, CounterPunch magazine Reprinted from https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/24/the-great-palestinian-escape-of-2021-reflections-from-the-u-s-abolitionist-landscape/ On September 6, 2021, six Palestinian political prisoners escaped from Gilboa prison, one of the highest security prisons of the Israeli apartheid state.  They escaped through a […]
Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi
Domestic News

SFSU President Overrules Her Own Faculty Panel

November 12, 2021 fwstaff
By Rabab Abdulhadi  PRESS RELEASE: November 5, 2021 – FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION In an outrageous and insulting decision, President Lynn Mahoney of SFSU [San Francisco State University] has disregarded the legitimate reprimand of a faculty […]
Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi
Domestic News

SFSU Faculty Hearing Committee Upholds Grievance by Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi

October 19, 2021 fwstaff
PRESS RELEASE: October 14, 2021 – FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION ACADEMIC SPEECH AND FREEDOM ON PALESTINE – IMPORTANT RULING AGAINST SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY CONCERNING THE POWER OF BIG TECH OVER ACADEMIA In a decision with […]
Block the Boat NY-NJ action
International News

NYC/NJ activists picket Port of New York to block Israeli-operated cargo ship

July 30, 2021 fwstaff
By Terri Kay Elizabeth, New Jersey – Sunday, July 25 at 6am, about 100 pro-Palestine community activists in the New York metropolitan area picketed Israeli shipping giant ZIM in an attempt to block their cargo […]
Domestic News

International Block the Boat Campaign

June 28, 2021 fwstaff
BTB Shows the way to move BDS actions beyond individual consumer activism, striking blows with costly community/labor mass direct action initiatives By Terri Kay, a community organizer with Block the Boat Oakland and Block the […]
Detroit Says Block the Boat rally in Romulus on June 8, 2021
Domestic News

Detroit Says “Block the Boat”

June 17, 2021 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff There was a demonstration on Tuesday, June 8, 2021 in Romulus, Michigan, located west of Detroit and near the Metropolitan Airport. The location of the protest was at an office of […]
Palestinian refugees in flee in the aftermath of the 1948 war
International News

Einstein Warned About Zionist “Fascism”

June 15, 2021 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff This is a letter written and signed by Albert Einstein and several other prominent Jews to the NY Times on December 4, 1948 about the massacre at Deir Yassin that same […]