Monthly Archives: October 2023

Child Detainees Updated 2024-08-24 2024-07-23 Israeli Forces Post Pictures of Stripped Detained Palestinian Children Online      Israeli forces have taken pictures of Palestinian children they have abducted into their torture camps and posted them online with humiliating captions, a report finds … Continue reading →

Canary Mission Updated 2023-10-29 2023-05-22 Canary Mission Blacklists Pro-Palestinian Activists, Chilling Free Speech Rights     Pro-Palestinian activism—including the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement that works to peacefully pressure Israel to obey international law and respect Palestinians’ human rights—has become … Continue reading →

Black Lives Matter Updated 2023-11-21 2023-11-21 US universities have spent years sowing seeds of today’s antisemitism     American colleges have been hotbeds of racial grievance and enablers of violence since the 1960s.   It should come as no surprise, then, that college … Continue reading →

Antisemitism Real Update 2024-03-25 2023-10-27 Kanye West to Jewish Adidas employee: ‘Kiss a picture of Hitler every day’     An explosive new investigation in the New York Times details how Adidas employees experienced frequent anti-Semitism from Grammy Award-winning rapper and Yeezy … Continue reading →

Activists Attacked 2024-02-23 2024-01-11 ‘Protest Is the Tool by Which We Realize Our Democracy’    CounterSpin interview with Chip Gibbons on the right to protest.  So at Defending Rights & Dissent, we like to say that we defend your right to … Continue reading →

Fri, Oct 27 at 11:44 PM UPDATE:  FASTING for CEASEFIRE at Pelosi’s SF Home, Oct. 27-29.             Co-sponsored by CODEPINK & World Beyond War Day 1:  Excellent first day!  Many interactions with people walking in Pelosi’s neighborhood. Overwhelmingly, the majority share our position, … Continue reading →

World War III Updated 2023-10-27 2023-10-27 Thou Shalt NOT Kill – DENNIS KUCINICH   We are cartwheeling towards a massive East v. West war with religious and ethnic overtones.  This seemingly inexorable March of (nuclear) Folly, will ultimately pit the United … Continue reading →

United States Complicity Updated 2024-08-29 2024-08-11 Palestinians Say US Responsible for Latest ‘Massacre’ of Children in Gaza    The office of the Palestinian Authority’s president is holding the U.S. government responsible for a weekend bombing in Gaza that killed an estimated … Continue reading →

Rwanda Updated 2023-10-27 2023-02-22 The Israel of Africa Rwanda is often referred to as “the Israel of Africa” and it has had a very special relationship with Israel ever since the Tutsi army led by Paul Kagame defeated Rwanda’s Hutu … Continue reading →

Rashida Tlaib Attacked Updated 2024-08-29 2024-08-02 Rashida Tlaib: A Profile in Courage    During the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., famously said, “The time is always right to do what is right.”  While she may have been a … Continue reading →