Dave Reed

2 weeks ago | mondoweiss.net | Dave Reed

This week, the Trump administration’s attacks on free speech, especially for those advocating for Palestinian freedom, continued to escalate. We have seen an increasingly aggressive effort to silence dissenting voices, from pro-Palestinian students to organizations working to end the occupation and the apartheid regime that the Israeli government maintains.

1 month ago | mondoweiss.net | Dave Reed

As global attention is drawn elsewhere, Israel has resumed its full-scale assault on Gaza. Tareq Hajjaj reports on the deepening catastrophe: water and electricity have once again been cut off to over 2 million Palestinians, plunging Gaza into darkness pierced only by the flash of Israeli bombs. On the ground, Palestinians face a grim ultimatum: death or displacement. Chris Hedges describes it as the “final stage of genocide”—a campaign of total erasure. This push is not just military.

1 month ago | mondoweiss.net | Dave Reed

Israel resumed its assault on Gaza this week with a devastating wave of airstrikes, killing more than 400 Palestinians in a single night. The attacks, which reportedly target Hamas’s civil leadership, are part of a strategy Haaretz described as designed to sow chaos by dismantling social order and paving the way for criminal gangs to take control.

2 months ago | mondoweiss.net | Dave Reed

The big story dominating U.S. news about Palestine this week is the arrest, detention, and attempted deportation of Mahmoud Khalil. By now readers of Mondoweiss likely know about this story. Khalil is a recent graduate of Columbia University, having finished a Master’s degree. He was a prominent figure in the student protests that erupted last year, first on Columbia’s campus, and then spreading around the country.

2 months ago | mondoweiss.net | Dave Reed

This week brought increased repression of the pro-Palestine student movement. The Trump administration canceled $400 million dollars worth of grants and contracts to Columbia University, where last year’s student encampment protests started. The Department of Justice released a list of ten schools, including Columbia, that the Federal Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism will be visiting to look into allegations of anti-semitism on campus.