Look Inside the May Issue
Exile, Occupation, Apartheid, Ethnic Cleansing, Plausible Genocide: A Doctor’s Perspective

Dr. Swee Ang reflects on the decades of medical care she has provided to Palestinians. Despite all they have endured, Palestinians still possess an unbreakable spirit, she observes: "I saw it in Shatila in 1982 when destitute, homeless orphans defiantly raised their hands to make the victory sign in the face of death, and I see it now in Gaza." 

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Freedom for My One and Only Brother

Sara Serria's brother has been held hostage by Israel for months. She shares the emotional toll his disappearance has taken on her family:

On March 23, 2024, our father received a call. By then it had been 13 days since Obaida went missing. The call came from a hostage held with my brother who had been released. My brother gave him our phone number and asked him to call us. And he gave us the news. “Obaida’s being held by Israel, in Ofer Prison.” Two months ago another detainee held with my brother called us to say Obaida is in Negev Prison. This is the last news we have heard.

The combination of the horror of realizing the terrible circumstances he might be in and the relief that he was still alive was too much to handle.

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Israel’s “End Game” in the West Bank

"What explains the rapid escalation in Israel’s use of lawfare, home demolitions and land theft to remove West Bank Palestinians from their land?" Catherine Baker asks. "In a word: impunity."

“Palestinians have no right to resist, and settlers have no fear of being arrested. You put that together, and you begin to understand the terror that Palestinians live with every minute of every day.”

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Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza

The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth 

Ida Audeh reviews two new short books that outline how Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza poses an existential risk to all of humanity. 

"That Israel was allowed to commit genocide in Gaza for more than a year in plain sight, that it was aided in that most heinous of crimes by major powers, provides a precedent for what is considered tolerable," she writes. "As Andreas Malm and Didier Fassin demonstrate so succinctly and powerfully, that spells disaster for any population living in a geography with resources to be exploited by transnational capitalism."

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