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Collateral Damage Comes Home: Lebanon, Palestine, Iran to Michigan

David Finkel — 2026-03-21T20:14:31Z

The already unbearable horrors engulfing the peoples of the Middle East exploded into U.S. domestic news on March 12 with the attack in suburban Detroit at Temple Israel, the country's largest Reform Jewish congregation.

- IVP614 - March 2026 / United States (USA)

Bloody Amputation: Trump's “Peace” for Ukraine

David Finkel — 2025-08-20T09:33:52Z

THE TRAJECTORY WAS always clear to anyone who was paying attention, and knew how to filter out the noise of Donald Trump's empty threats of “severe sanctions to destroy Russia's economy,” let alone 500% tariffs on Russia's oil customers, if there weren't an “immediate cease-fire” in the Ukraine war.

- IVP607 - August 2025 / United States (USA), Russia, Ukraine

Catastrophe in Palestine and Israel: Apartheid on the Road to Genocide

David Finkel — 2023-11-17T21:50:18Z

“Demanding an immediate cease-fire for Gaza has become the global movement's central driving priority.”

- IV586 - November 2023 / Palestine, United States (USA), Israel

From Ukraine to Palestine: The Poisons of Denialism

David Finkel — 2023-04-30T09:58:57Z

“The left must not be diverted: First and foremost in Ukraine and Palestine, the struggle is about the rights of peoples and nations, and the poisonous consequences when those rights are denied.”

- IV579 - April 2023 / Palestine, United States (USA), Russia, Ukraine, Israel

Biden in the Middle East: Gross Imperial Spectacle

David Finkel — 2022-07-31T06:32:00Z

“Indeed, all the regimes in this swirl of regional and imperial rivalries — Egypt and Sudan, Iran and Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Eritrea, Russia and China, Israel and the United States — are engaged in the most vicious and anti-democratic oppression. May the rulers sink together in the Red Sea.”

- IV570 - July 2022 / United States (USA), MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Israel

Implosion: U.S. Politics since the J6 Riot

David Finkel — 2022-01-29T11:28:53Z

“The potential of rightwing domination of federal and state legislatures, of the judiciary, and after 2024 possibly the White House, is truly appalling and terrifying with its implications for everything from white supremacy to climate apocalypse.”

- IV564 - January 2022 / United States (USA)

Why Do Socialists Oppose Zionism?

David Finkel — 2021-09-15T08:09:36Z

“We believe that a socialist transformation will be needed in order to tear down the state structures of oppression and racism that political Zionism has created — which are now inextricably intertwined with Israeli and regional capitalism — and to open a future of national equality, democracy and freedom from oppression for Arab Palestinians, Jewish Israelis and minority communities in historic Palestine.”

- IV560 - September 2021 / Palestine, Marxism, Israel

Conceiving Decolonization

David Finkel — 2021-07-08T08:31:45Z

THIS IS A powerful and challenging text that poses as many questions as it answers — particularly at the terrible moment of Israel's May 2021 assault on the all-Aqsa mosque, the pending ethnic cleansing of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem, and the latest round of murderous bombing of Gaza.

- Reviews section / Palestine, Israel, Reviews

Ethnic Cleansing Escalates in Palestine: U.S. Says “Stay Calm”

David Finkel — 2021-05-13T13:47:18Z

“In the real world where Palestinians are desperately fighting to hold onto their homes and their homeland, it's the global grassroots response that matters.”

- IV556 - May 2021 / Palestine, United States (USA), Israel

Grand Theft Election?

David Finkel , Solidarity National Committee — 2021-01-08T17:14:50Z

“For the left and the social movements, all the more important to remain active and mobilized to fight for what we need, not for a few crumbs. Celebrating Trump's self-destruction is certainly in order; a leftwing honeymoon for Biden most certainly is not.”

- IV552 - January 2021 / United States (USA)