palestine
Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law
“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”
By Lex McMenamin
Journalist Plestia Alaqad Is Publishing Her Diaries From Gaza: "A Dystopian World"
"Every time I read it, I just feel disbelief — is this real? Did I really live that? Are there still thousands of people in Gaza living that?”
By Lex McMenamin
This Gen Zer Is Going Viral for Calling Out Her Republican Politician Dad
“He is clearly not somebody who has his constituents’ best interests in mind.”
By Fortesa Latifi
From Famine in Gaza to Trump Cutting SNAP, Child Hunger Is an American Pastime
"At home and abroad, the US government is participating in starving people, particularly children, and calling it policy."
By Dom Kelly
Students Are Protesting For Palestine — And Being Punished — At Graduations
“There was just never any point where I was not going to say something,” one punished student told their student paper.
By Lex McMenamin
Radicalized White Men Like the FSU Shooter Are the Real Threat to College Campuses—Not Peaceful Student Protesters
"The alleged gunman is a quintessentially American school shooter."
By Lex McMenamin
This New Documentary Gets at What the Columbia Encampments Were Actually About
"We were like, 'Wow, we're sitting on a movie that is ready to go, that debunks everything that Trump is saying.'"
By Lex McMenamin
Who Was Mahmoud Khalil Before ICE Took Him Away?
We spoke to the former Columbia grad student’s friends and former coworkers.
By Anvee Bhutani
The Story Behind the Most Powerful Speech at the Oscars, From Palestinian and Israeli Filmmakers
“No Other Land reflects the harsh reality we have been enduring for decades and still resist.”
By Lex McMenamin
Netflix’s Mo Revolutionized Palestinian Representation. We Can’t Let It End.
Mo wasn’t just Palestinian-led — it was Palestinian through and through, in humor, heart, and defiance.
By Bilal Hassam
I Live in Gaza and There Are Almost No Schools Left Here
The United Nations has described what’s happening as “scholasticide.”
By Esraa Abo Qamar
Schools Like Harvard and Michigan Are Declaring Themselves ‘Neutral’ on Social Issues
Schools from Harvard to the University of Michigan are adopting “institutional neutrality” policies.
By Anvee Bhutani
Young Uncommitted Voters Reflect on the 2024 Election — and the Upcoming Trump Era
“They need[ed] to earn our votes, not the other way around.”
By Sarah Akaaboune and Jane Houseal
If You're Blaming Young Progressives for the Trump Win, You're Wrong
They offered Democrats a path to winning if they moved on Gaza and climate change. Now we get Trump instead.
By Lex McMenamin
Kamala Is Not Our Savior. But a Trump Win Would Be Catastrophic.
Voting Harris is our best chance of stopping the irreversible damage of another Trump presidency.
By Versha Sharma
These Are Kamala Harris’s Best (and Worst) Policy Proposals
There’s some good stuff in there for young voters.
By Rebecca Fishbein
Jewish Protesters Target Wall Street Over U.S. Funding Israel's War on Gaza
“As Gaza is bombed, Wall Street booms,” Bottoms director Emma Seligman told Teen Vogue from the action.
By Lex McMenamin
One Year Later, Oct. 7 Survivors Are Still Reliving Trauma from Nova Fest Attack
Survivors of the Hamas attack on the Nova music festival tell their stories to combat denials and help each other heal.
By Danielle Campoamor
Mustafa Talks Palestine, Confronting Grief, and New Album Dunya
"I tried to make maybe the purest thing that I can make, and all that I could do is hope that it finds legs."
By Ayan Artan