Kathy Kelly

Chicago, Salisbury

Writer at CounterPunch

Writer at TRANSCEND

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Articles

We Were So Close: Life After Conscience and the Abraham Accords

1 week ago | counterpunch.org | Kathy Kelly

“We were so close,” Cassandra Dixon wrote, from Malta -where she had hoped to board Conscience, the aptly named Freedom Flotilla ship which two weaponized drones bombed on May 2, 2025, almost certainly launched by Israel. Cassandra had traveled to Malta after spending six weeks in Masafer Yatta, the West Bank region where, for two months, she lived among villagers whom local Israeli settlers constantly persecuted.
We Were So Close: Life After Conscience and the Abraham Accords

1 week ago | original.antiwar.com | Kathy Kelly

“We were so close,” Cassandra Dixon wrote, from Malta -where she had hoped to board Conscience, the aptly named Freedom Flotilla ship which two weaponized drones bombed on May 2, 2025, almost certainly launched by Israel. Cassandra had traveled to Malta after spending six weeks in Masafer Yatta, the West Bank region where, for two months, she lived among villagers whom local Israeli settlers constantly persecuted.
We Were So Close: Life After Conscience and the Abraham Accords

1 week ago | f.mtr.cool | Kathy Kelly

“We were so close,” Cassandra Dixon wrote, from Malta -where she had hoped to board Conscience, the aptly named Freedom Flotilla ship which two weaponized drones bombed on May 2, 2025, almost certainly launched by Israel. Cassandra had traveled to Malta after spending six weeks in Masafer Yatta, the West Bank region where, for two months, she lived among villagers whom local Israeli settlers constantly persecuted.
We Were So Close: Life After Conscience and the Abraham Accords

1 week ago | znetwork.org | Kathy Kelly

“We were so close,” Cassandra Dixon wrote, from Malta -where she had hoped to board Conscience, the aptly named Freedom Flotilla ship which two weaponized drones bombed on May 2, 2025, almost certainly launched by Israel. Cassandra had traveled to Malta after spending six weeks in Masafer Yatta, the West Bank region where, for two months, she lived among villagers whom local Israeli settlers constantly persecuted.
Pope Francis’s Lesson of Love and Peace

3 weeks ago | counterpunch.org | Kathy Kelly

During the current war, beginning in 2023, Pope Francis developed a strong relationship with parishioners of the Church of the Holy Family in Gaza. By holding virtual gatherings with the hundreds of people sheltering in the church, he was able to stay in daily touch with the realities they faced under Israel’s siege and bombardment. On days when he learned that the bombing was particularly heavy, Pope Francis would call to check in on them as many as five times a day.
The Real Outrage in Yemen

1 month ago | dissidentvoice.org | Kathy Kelly

Members of the Fifteenth Street Meeting of Friends and the New York Catholic Worker gather for a weekly vigil against the bombing of Yemen in New York City on February 3, 2024Since March 15, the United States has launched strikes on more than forty locations across Yemen in an ongoing attack against members of the Houthi movement, which has carried out more than 100 attacks on shipping vessels linked to Israel and its allies since October 2023.
The Real Outrage in Yemen

1 month ago | counterpunch.org | Kathy Kelly

Beginning in March of 2017 and for the following eight years, at 11:00 a.m. on every Saturday morning, a group of New Yorkers has assembled in Manhattan’s Union Square for “the Yemen vigil.” Their largest banner proclaims: “Yemen is Starving.” Other signs say: “Put a human face on war in Yemen,” and “Let Yemen Live.” Participants in the vigil decry the suffering in Yemen where one of every two children under the age of five is malnourished, “a statistic that is almost unparalleled across the...
Resisting Riviera of the Middle East

Feb 10, 2025 | counterpunch.org | Kathy Kelly

“There is something sick and rotten about states and societies that not only support and enable mass killings but also make money off of them.”– Pankaj Mishra, January 30, 2025At a February 4th, 2025, press conference in Washington, D.C., President Trump, standing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, announced U.S. intent to turn the Gaza Strip into something that could be phenomenal…the Riviera of the Middle East.
International Community Expresses Outrage at Donald Trump’s Latest Real Estate Plan

Feb 8, 2025 | progressive.org | Kathy Kelly

At a February 4 press conference in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump, standing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, stated his intent to turn the Gaza Strip into what he called “The Riviera of the Middle East.” “We have an opportunity to do something that could be phenomenal,” Trump said as he announced that the U.S. would “take over” the Gaza Strip.
Dr. Martin Luther King's Prophetic Warning, Denouncing the Merchants of Death

Jan 20, 2025 | original.antiwar.com | Kathy Kelly

Over the past three years, a collective of volunteer researchers, lawyers, and commentators created The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal, dedicated to holding accountable four weapon manufacturing corporations based in the U.S. Their tribunal amassed copious evidence to prove that Boeing, Lockheed Martin, RTX (formerly Raytheon) and General Atomics (a company which manufactures weaponized drones) are guilty of committing war crimes.