Palestine
Tempest’s articles relating to Palestine, Palestinian resistance and solidarity.
Solidarity across borders
Jayna Ahsaf of the FreeHer VT campaign for the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls in a talk given earlier this year discusses the urgency of global struggles against state violence and incarceration from the United States to Palestine.
A year into the genocide
Tempest Collective editorial on the anniversary of October 7, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and Isreal’s escalating war crime in Lebanon.
The perplexing smiles of the children of Palestine
Poet and activist Marcellus Williams was murdered by the state of Missouri by lethal injection on September 24, 2024. In the last year of his life, among his poetry was this piece, written in solidarity with the people (and children) of Palestine, other victims of state sanctioned murder. Tempest re-runs the piece here in…
Rebuilding the Palestine Solidarity Movement
Brian McDougall on behalf of the Tempest Collective Palestine Solidarity Working Group reflects on debates over strategy and tactics within the Palestine Solidarity Movement.
Lesser-evilism is not a vote–it’s a strategy
Tempest’s Natalia Tylim explains how pinning our hopes on the presidential candidacy of Kamala Harris against Trump is misguided and how the task is to build an infrastructure of resistance to both parties of capitalism and empire and make the case for a socialist horizon.
Palestine and political repression in Argentina
Tempest’s Anderson Bean and brian bean sat down with Argentine left-wing political leader Alejandro Bodart to discuss his criminal case and the attempt to silence those who defend the Palestinian struggle and silence all criticism of the state of Israel and its policy of apartheid, settler-colonialism, and genocide.
Solidarity with Argentine Palestine activists
Tempest encourages its readers to sign the solidarity petition in support of Alejandro Bodart, a leader of the International Socialist League in Argentina, facing criminal prosecution as a result of his Palestine activism.
Complicit academia: Israel and the US
Keith Rosenthal reviews Towers of Ivory and Steel. Maya Wind’s new book details the active service that Israeli universities have always given to the project of settlement and the repression of Palestinian perspectives and resistance.
Ode to an encampment
Tempest’s Sam Friedman offers this ode to faculty, students, staff and others who have camped in solidarity with Palestine.
South Africa’s case against Israel
Helen Scott explains the significance of South Africa’s genocide case against Israel and reflects on the comparison between anti-apartheid struggles in the two countries.
Answering the call to fight injustice
Tempest’s Ashley Smith interviews groundbreaking Black feminist Barbara Smith about uprisings both present and past.
BDS is about justice, not antisemitism
Historian Barnaby Raine examines the myths Israel creates in order to perpetuate its occupation of Palestine – including the myth that anti-Zionism is antisemitism.
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