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Dec 11, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Shireen Akram-Boshar
Less than two weeks after a surprise rebel offensive began to retake areas of Syria for the first time in nearly a decade, the Assad regime fell on December 8. Once seen as entrenched and immovable, the government’s collapse came 53 years since Assad family rule began in Syria and nearly 14 years after the start of an uprising that called for its overthrow. The rebel takeover was rapid, and met with minimal resistance from the Syrian state or its allies.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
newpol.org | Shireen Akram-Boshar |Phil Gasper
Throughout the past year of Israel’s war on Gaza, China has repeatedly called for a return to the peace process and the implementation of the long-discussed two-state solution. But this rhetoric is far from signaling opposition to and defiance of Israel.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Shireen Akram-Boshar
China’s Ties With Israel Are Hindering the Palestinian Struggle for Freedom China is pushing a flawed peace process while deepening economic ties with Israel.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
portside.org | Rick Perlstein |Shireen Akram-Boshar |Akbar Ahmed |Shane Burley
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – October 8, 2024 Published October 8, 2024 Leaving MAGA for the LeftSquaring Off Over Palestine“Immigrants” or “Migrants”?
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Shireen Akram-Boshar
This August, during Z’s fundraising drive, we are asking you to take action with us. It’s time to get up and stand up, not just in opposition to all the horrors unfolding around us, but to stand up FOR something in unity and strength. To provide a forum and tools for diverse activists to propose, not just oppose, has been Z’s mission for nearly 50 years.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Shireen Akram-Boshar
This semester at U.S. universities, campuses are being transformed from centers of struggle against the genocide in Gaza to epicenters of repression against student activism.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Shireen Akram-Boshar
After months of cross-border attacks and a week of heavy bombardment, Israel has announced a ground invasion in Lebanon in the latest stage of its war against the country. “Israel has been trying to carpet bomb the south as much as possible before invading,” Sintia Issa, editor-at-large of Beirut-based publication, The Public Source, told Truthout.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Shireen Akram-Boshar
Part of the SeriesStruggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian LiberationFor months, Lebanon has been on edge as cross-border strikes between Israel and Hezbollah rattle the country. On October 8 of last year, Hezbollah fired rockets into Israel to show its support for Hamas; in the months that followed, its objectives changed to pressuring Israel to end the war on Gaza.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Shireen Akram-Boshar
Palestine Solidarity Activists Fear Harris Will Not Change Course on GazaWill Kamala Harris’s remarks about ceasefire turn out to be lip service? Activists share their thoughts and fears.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Shireen Akram-Boshar
Part of the SeriesStruggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian LiberationIn the days after October 7, 2023, the U.S. mainstream media and political establishment — both the Republicans and Democrats — launched once again into anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic rhetoric. Ignoring the conditions of siege, occupation and settler colonialism under which Palestinians in Gaza already lived, Joe Biden’s administration offered full diplomatic, military and financial backing to Israel.
