Palestine
Tempest’s articles relating to Palestine, Palestinian resistance and solidarity.
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.
The (not so) new red scare
Dana Cloud describes the crackdown on scholars in the Cal State system as an example of the broader pattern of weaponizing the charge of “antisemitism” against faculty and students who have spoken out against the Zionist genocide in Gaza.
Convergence of labor and Palestine on campus
Interview with two striking grad workers at Dartmouth College, part of GOLD-UE’s newly formed Palestine caucus.
Campus encampments and beyond
Please join us for the upcoming virtual Tempest event next Tuesday, May 28 at 7 pm. EDT on the rise of student protests erupting on college campuses.
From student revolt to workers’ power
As California academic workers prepare to strike against repression of pro-Palestine activism, Helen Scott discusses the connection between student struggle and workers’ action.
Defend the encampments!
Julian Lin reports on the mob assault on UCLA’s pro-Palestine encampment and argues that the assailants were fascists—and the movement needs to respond with militant self-defense.
Building grocery power
Paul KD interviews three leaders of the independent New Seasons Labor Union which has organized 11 out of 20 stores in the Portland, Oregon-based natural foods chain New Seasons Market and now represents over 1000 workers.
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