Israel’s war on Palestine did not begin after Oct. 7, but that day will forever be marked as a bloody turning point in history—not just for Israel and Palestine, but for the world.
A man pushes a bicycle along as he walks amid building rubble in the devastated area around Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital on April 3, 2024. Photo by AFP via Getty Images
Following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks, in which nearly 1,200 Israelis were killed and over 200 hostages captured, Israel’s scorched-earth assault on the Gaza Strip has wreaked a kind of devastation unseen in the 21st century. In the 12 months after Oct. 7—with unconditional political, financial, and military support from the United States—Israel has leveled Gaza and perpetrated a full-blown ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. In what has been referred to as “the most documented genocide in history,” Israel has displaced 90% of the population of the Gaza Strip, killing 41,900 Palestinians and wounding more than 97,300, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry (though research published in the journal Lancet notes that the real death toll is likely much, much higher). This is to say nothing of the violence, death, devastation, and displacement that has resulted over 75 years of Israel’s brutal occupation of historic Palestine and Palestinians’ resistance to the occupation.
Israel’s war on Palestine did not begin after Oct. 7, but that day will forever be marked as a bloody turning point in history—not just for Israel and Palestine, but for the world. From makeshift schools in Gaza’s refugee camps to neighborhoods in the West Bank raided by the IDF; from professional athletes protesting Israel’s genocidal war on Palestinians to mass marches for a ceasefire in Washington, DC; from students and labor unions fighting to disrupt the war machine to anti-Zionist Jews fighting to end the occupation; from Israel’s invasion of Lebanon to corporate media’s role in laundering and perpetuating the politics of genocide; you will find compiled on this page a living archive of all the original coverage TRNN has published since October 2023 related to Israel, Palestine, and anti-war and Palestine solidarity movements around the world.
Students, NGOs, and workers from over 200 unions across Spain waged a nationwide general strike to demand the Spanish government cut ties with Israel and end all forms of military aid.
Waleed Samer assisted The Real News with filming in the West Bank over the past year. Now forced to leave home by Israel’s violence, he hopes to study abroad.
Israel’s relentless bombing of Gaza has left nothing untouched—schools, hospitals, homes, and hundreds of mosques. Yet the faithful remain steadfast amid the rubble.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip speak frankly about the worst year of their lives, from the effects of bombing to lack of sanitation and rampant unemployment.
Before Oct. 7, these Palestinian workers from Gaza had jobs beyond the strip. Now Israel has stripped them of their work permits and trapped them in the West Bank.
Israel’s deliberate destruction of Gaza’s sanitation and healthcare infrastructure has left millions without clean water or waste disposal—the consequences are already dire, and could get much worse.
As UK government policies gradually infringe on the British public’s right to freedom of speech, thousands defiantly took to the streets of London this week to show solidarity with Palestinians and demand an end to the Israeli Occupation. Nadia Péridot reports on the ground from London.
Over 100,000 people filled the streets of Washington, DC, on Nov. 4 to demand a ceasefire and an end to US aid to Israel. TRNN was there on the ground.
‘They call us terrorists. Who planted terrorism? Wasn’t it they? As long as there is occupation there is no future for the people. There will be no future unless they let us live.’
From beatings to arbitrary arrests, Germany’s crackdown on all those who dare defy the country’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza targets everyone from Palestinian refugees to anti-Zionist Jews.
In the south of the Gaza Strip, families displaced by Israel’s bombing campaign must fend for themselves in tents without running water or electricity.
The Real News reports from the ground in DC, speaking with Palestinian Americans marching for their loved ones killed by Israel, and their allies who have hit the streets in solidarity.
“We, the people of Yemen, say to America, the Big Satan, that any actions and aggression will only increase our commitment and joy in achieving our goal of ending the aggression and siege on the people of Palestine.”
The Real News reports from Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm, where the IDF recently killed 14 Palestinians and destroyed a neighborhood, including a local school.
The theft of Palestinian land by Zionist settlers forces many Palestinians to turn to unregulated and dangerous electronic recycling factories in the West Bank as their only option for employment.
Student encampment organizers have shone a light on SOAS’s investments in companies that produce white phosphorus, an internationally banned incendiary weapon frequently used by the IDF.
Thousands of protesters demonstrated in Washington, DC, on Wed, Jul. 24, in protest of Netanyahu’s address to Congress amid Israel’s ongoing genocidal assault on Gaza.
By permitting Israel to compete at all, the Olympics are “sportswashing” the pariah country’s international image and helping to normalize the genocide in Gaza.
Israel’s systematic destruction of Palestinian schools and universities has not deterred teachers from teaching, or students from seeking an education.
Rabbi Arik Ascherman speaks frankly on Jewish settlers’ assault on the West Bank, and how extreme the dehumanization of Palestinians has become in Israel.
Journalist Ruwaida Amer, who has produced numerous documentary reports from Gaza for TRNN, shares an honest portrait of her life and the lives of her fellow Palestinians in the midst of genocide.
Fake behind-the-scenes maneuvering, supposed electoral necessity: all cover to avoid the unseemly fact that Biden simply supports genocide in Gaza because he thinks it’s justified.
As leaders of Jewish institutions opt for the path of imperialism and war, everyday Jewish people must reach for the traditions of justice enshrined in our culture and faith.
Israel’s genocide has killed the parents or caretakers of at least 17,000 Palestinian children in Gaza, who must now find a way to survive the war without them.
With over a million people displaced by Israeli bombs, Lebanese society is rising to the occasion to provide shelter and food to those who’ve lost everything.
For Rabbi Brant Rosen, combatting Zionism in the Jewish community begins with building the mass movement for Palestine, rather than becoming entrenched in insular debates.
Countless Jewish progressives and youth have answered the call for solidarity with Palestine, and the community’s entrenched political, religious, and cultural institutions are determined to punish them for it.
Facing increased repression in North America as Israel escalates its genocidal assault on Gaza, organizers with the Palestinian Youth Movement and Labor for Palestine discuss how they’re adapting their methods of resistance.
Author Norman Solomon explains how images of the ongoing carnage in Gaza have exposed the horrors of war that the US worked to make invisible in the post-9/11 era.
Canada-based Israeli filmmaker and journalist Lia Tarachansky joins The Marc Steiner Show to discuss the dark forces shaping Israelis’ support for the occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
Israel has tried twice before to subdue Lebanon and failed. Despite stunning acts of terror and the assassination of Nasrallah, the resolve of the Lebanese people remains.
For decades, the Palestinian Farmers’ Union has used agriculture as a form of resistance, organizing to keep land in the hands of Palestinians in the West Bank.
The DNC showed how the ruling establishment and corporate media work together to curate a fantasy version of reality, especially when it comes to whitewashing the Biden-Harris Administration’s support for Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
In a letter to President Biden, seven major labor unions called for an end to US military aid to Israel, linking the genocide in Gaza to the flow of arms and funding from Washington.
After winning a historic strike in the auto industry and being among the first major unions to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, the UAW has emerged as a different kind of political player in the election.
Liano Sharon and two other activists dropped a banner at the DNC calling for an end to arms shipments to Israel. Their fellow delegates responded with violence.
The former member of the Weather Underground reflects on the 1968 Chicago DNC, when police rioted against anti-imperialists and socialists marching against the Vietnam War and racism.
From battles over permits to march routes, the city of Chicago has put up every obstacle to keep the March on DNC from delivering a pro-Palestine message within sight and sound of the convention.
The head of the Palestinian Olympic Committee explains how Palestinian athletes’ participation in the Olympics advances the Palestinian fight for self-determination.
Two activists, one Palestinian, and the other Israeli, spoke in Congress to offer a vision of reconciliation and peace in defiance of Netanyahu’s call to “finish the job.”
Within 12 hours, Israel bombed Beirut and assassinated the political head of Hamas. why is the media lauding Harris’ empathy-speak and appeals to ‘ceasefire negotiations’?
In an exclusive interview, Dave Zirin speaks with Fadi Deeb, the only Paralympian athlete from Gaza, about what it means for him to represent Palestine in this year’s Olympics.
For 63 days, students, faculty, and community members occupied UofT until a court injunction forced them out. Where does Canada’s pro-Palestine movement go from here?
At Labor Notes 2024, the labor movement showed it won’t abandon militancy, Palestine, or each other—as some cops who tried to arrest pro-Palestine protesters learned.
Arik Ascherman speaks on the work of Torat Tzedek, which works to assist Palestinian shepherds in protecting their land from settlers in the West Bank.
Jen Perelman’s unapologetically anti-Zionist, pro-Palestinian views have made her a potent challenger to incumbent Wasserman Schulz in the race for Florida’s 25th congressional district.
Nearly 300 Pro-Palestine activists with Jewish Voice for Peace blockaded entrances and occupied an intersection outside a Biden campaign fundraiser in Los Angeles.
In the face of threats of expulsion and termination, students and faculty are standing strong for Gaza. And they’ve got labor unions, First Nations, and community organizations on their side.
Despite prior warnings that an invasion of Rafah would be a ‘red line,’ Biden continues to ply Israel with weapons and funding for its genocide in Gaza.
As student encampments against western governments’ support for the Israeli genocide in Gaza spread around the world, so does the backlash. Where does the movement go from here?
As university administrations use students’ tuition dollars to crack down on student dissent and the Biden administration uses taxpayer dollars to fund Israel’s genocidal onslaught, student debtors and the Debt Collective led a direct action in Washington DC to say enough is enough.
Students organizing for divestment from Stanford, Indiana University, University of Michigan, and other schools share experiences and lessons from the ground.
Joining students at over 100 campuses and encampments on every continent, students, grad students, and faculty at the University of Michigan join the call for divestment.
Surgeons Osaid Alser and Simon Fitzgerald speak about supporting surgeons at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis—where mass graves of Palestinians massacred by Israeli soldiers have since been discovered.
Gianni Infantino once declared, “Today, I feel Arabic,” to defend FIFA’s selection of Qatar as the host nation of the 2022 World Cup. Does Infantino not also feel Palestinian?
Israel’s genocide in Gaza is spiraling into a regional war against the Resistance Axis—a force that wouldn’t exist without decades of US intervention and atrocities.
The lawsuit, currently being appealed, was filed on behalf of Palestinian plaintiffs, and accuses President Biden of complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Bushnell’s anarchist and anti-Zionist views are being characterized as ‘extremist’ positions by some calling for an investigation into left-leaning US soldiers.
Israeli claims of Hamas committing mass rape and beheading babies traveled far and wide through corporate media before being discredited. Why is our media so susceptible to Zionist propaganda?
International media claims Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and other armed groups in the region are nothing more than Iranian puppets. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Student organizers at UC Davis recently passed a landmark BDS bill in the student Senate, and Stanford students just ended the longest sit-in in university history.
In an exclusive interview for The Real News, the Irish activist explains why she called for her country’s hoops team to boycott its game against Israel.
Recently returned from Al Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Dr. Thaer Ahmad describes the desperate situation facing millions of Palestinians and the medical workers fighting to save who they can.
As we seek solutions to America’s mass shooting epidemic, we should look at the genocidal foundations of this country—a history celebrated by the Chiefs’ racist name.
Dr. Ahmed Alhussaina, Vice President of the now-destroyed al-Israa University, speaks out against Israel’s systematic targeting of Palestinian educational and cultural institutions.
The billionaire, personal friend and financier of Trump, and owner of the New England Patriots has a long record of business deals and political support for Israel.
The charge of antisemitism against supporters of Palestine is wielded with particular bile against Arabs and Muslims, with the aim of using anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia to silence Israel’s critics.
Former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber says the support of powerful western countries for Israel could qualify for the crime of complicity in genocide.
From dismissals of faculty to ‘skunk’ bomb attacks on student activists, attempts by university administrations and outside agitators to silence pro-Palestine organizing presents a major threat to academic freedom.
Sacco, whose graphic novels marry illustration with cutting-edge journalism, speaks on his career reporting on Palestine and what it means to bear witness as a journalist committed to justice.
Miko Peled, author and former member of IDF Special Forces, explains how Israel indoctrinates its citizens in anti-Palestinian racism from the cradle to the grave.
Since the early days of this war, the conflict has not been contained to Gaza. Is a regional conflict with Iran, Hezbollah, and other actors on the horizon?
Israeli historian Ilan Pappé reframes ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’ as a colonizing force that is inherently undemocratic due to its necessary subjugation of Palestinians.
The Biden administration’s performative hand wringing over the slaughter of Palestinian civilians hasn’t stopped the slaughter, so what’s the point of all this Concern Theater?
From the physical elimination of sports facilities to the suppression of Palestinian identity in international sporting events, soccer fans and professionals have much to speak out against.
As Antony Loewenstein explains, Palestine has been a testing ground for repressive technologies exported around the world, from spy software to killer drones.
Senator Schumer referenced an article of mine from The Nation as an example of anti-Semitism. As an anti-Zionist Jew, I’d like to challenge him to a debate.
Historian Rashid Khalidi reframes the ‘Israel-Palestine Conflict’ in light of the 1917 Balfour Declaration and beyond, breaking down the myth of an ancient and eternal Jewish-Arab antagonism.
Karim Zidan walks us through the varied responses of the international sports world to Israel’s genocide in Gaza—and the role of sports in amplifying change.
The narrative that equates Palestinian resistance with ISIS-style terrorism obscures a simple reality: Palestinians are fighting for a hopeful future, and Hamas and other armed factions have achieved far more than Gaza’s devastation might suggest.
The Dutch soccer player, who was fired for using the phrase “From the river to the sea,” should be emulated and admired by fellow athletes who’ve remained silent thus far.
In a seemingly unprecedented move, the NY Supreme Court just granted a temporary restraining order preventing members of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys – UAW Local 2325 from even voting on a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Bumfuzzled by losses among young voters, media outlets obscure how much Biden’s lockstep support of Israel is harming his prospects in the 2024 election.
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Israel’s War on Palestine
by TRNN, The Real News Network October 7, 2024
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