World-Outlook (W-O) recently published the article “‘Jewish Jihad’ Has Seized Control of Israel.” It consisted of an introduction to a Haaretz article along with the Israeli daily’s story itself. Two World-Outlook readers expressed discomfort or outright disagreement with the “Jewish Jihad” term in the headline. In this Discussion with Our Readers column, W-O explains why it agreed with the criticism and changed the headline.
This article documents the forced displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank by Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The Israeli military is not permitting those displaced to return to their homes more than six months since they were forced to flee on the pain of death.
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On August 12, the White House took control of the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., and deployed 2,200 National Guard troops and hundreds of federal agents in the city. For working people and the vast majority in the United States the military takeover is among the most dangerous steps taken by the Trump administration so far. It is part of a rapidly developing pattern leading toward one-man rule.
This article reports on an important protest on August 23 in Tel Aviv by thousands of Palestinians and Jews, calling for an end to Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and for stopping the spreading starvation in the Gaza Strip.
Through virtual tours of medical facilities in Gaza, the authors of this article document in horrifying detail the situation in which thousands of children suffer from severe acute malnutrition. “What we saw was of catastrophic proportions,” they say. They provide evidence showing that this catastrophe is the direct result of deliberate Israeli government policy and practice.
In this opinion column, the Israeli daily Haaretz’s correspondent for the occupied territories, Amira Hass, describes frankly the coming slaughter the Israel Defense Forces are unleashing in Gaza City, as they start to force 1.5 million Palestinians crowded there to the Strip’s south — with the goal of eventually expelling from Gaza as many of its 2.3 million inhabitants as they can.
This article reports on protests by Palestinians in Gaza City on August 18, 2025, against the Israeli army’s plan to take over their city and transfer the population southward. Until this point in the war, the 700,000 residents of Gaza City have not faced displacement, and it is now home to an additional half a million Palestinians displaced from Gaza’s north. Similar protests are expected the rest of this week, although intensified Israeli air strikes make their organization uncertain.
This article reports on the large protests that took place in Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities, alongside a partial strike across many sectors of Israel’s economy, on Sunday, August 17, 2025. Protesters demanded that Netanyahu’s government agree to a ceasefire deal to bring home the remaining hostages and end the war in Gaza.
In this article, Amira Hass — the Haaretz correspondent for the occupied territories — documents the intensifying violence by the Israel Armed Forces (IDF) against Palestinians in the West Bank. Combined with horrific attacks by right-wing settlers, the IDF assaults have resulted in the deaths of nearly 1,000 Palestinians, while injuring more than 7,000, over the last two years. Palestinians in the West Bank have also been effectively banned from cultivating their land.
This article reports on a call by Avraham “Avrum” Burg “for one million Jews worldwide to join a collective legal complaint at the International Court of Justice, accusing Israel of crimes against humanity in Gaza.” As it notes, “Burg, 70, served as Knesset speaker from 1999 to 2003 and previously headed the Jewish Agency and World Zionist Organization.” Burg’s own call is included in this post.
This was the lead article in the Israeli daily Haaretz on August 7, 2025. In an expansive interview reported in this essay, Assaf David provides a glimpse of the destructive impact on Israeli society from Israel’s ongoing slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. Through the accounts of many Gazans he is in direct contact with, David describes the Israeli-caused starvation epidemic in Gaza and calls for an immediate end to Israel’s onslaught. His account is more compelling given David’s biography. He grew up in a religious Zionist home in the urban settlement of Kiryat Arba, abutting Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, later served in the Israeli army for 11 years, was seriously wounded in one of Hamas’ first suicide attacks, and for years was an adviser for the Israeli prime minister’s office.
This is an open letter by Rashid Khalidi to the administration of Columbia University, where the renown Palestinian American historian served as the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies for 23 years. “Although I have retired, I was scheduled to teach a large lecture course on this topic in the fall as a ‘special lecturer’ but I cannot do so under the conditions Columbia has accepted by capitulating to the Trump administration in June,” Khalidi explains.
As part of an International Day of Action, more than 1,000 people rallied in front of the United Nations headquarters in New York City on July 25 to demand “Stop Starving Gaza Now!” The rally, and subsequent march through midtown Manhattan, was organized by the local chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement, with the support of many partner organizations, such as Jewish Voice for Peace. This eyewitness photo montage provides a vivid representation of this protest, one among many, frequent pro-Palestinian actions in New York City over the last 20 months.
This report by the Associated Press, which includes disturbing eyewitness photo coverage, documents how Israel is deliberately starving children and adults alike in Gaza. It is part of the mounting evidence of the magnitude of the humanitarian catastrophe that Israel — with the aid and complicity of the U.S. and other imperialist governments — has unleashed in Gaza.
This report “documents the Israeli assault for what it is: a deliberate, cumulative, and ongoing dismantling of Gaza’s healthcare system — and of the population’s ability to survive. Its meaning: genocide.” It was issued on July 28, 2025, by Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI): an Israel-based human rights organization working to advance the right to health for all under Israel’s control, including Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
World-Outlook is taking a break for the remainder of the summer. Other than Spanish-language translations of articles already published, we do not plan to post new materials over the next five weeks. During this period, if a major event occurs in the world, we may try to respond, if possible. We plan to resume publication in September.
This is a statement by the U.S.-Cuba Normalization Coalition. It outlines how the Trump administration — by canceling Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants — is targeting many Cuban Americans for deportation. These are the same people that successive U.S. governments for decades have tried to lure to leave Cuba as “victims of Communism” seeking freedom.
This article reports on the decision by the Harvard Educational Review’s (HER) publisher to cancel on June 9, 2025, an entire special issue of HER’s journal it had commissioned more than a year ago on education in and about Palestine. The last-minute cancellation is a new development in a mounting list of examples of censorship of pro-Palestinian speech.
This article explains that, far from “protecting” Jewish students, those attacking pro-Palestinian student protests are the ones endangering Jews. Its author, Elijah Kahlenberg, is the president and founder of Atidna International, a university-based peace group uniting Jewish and Arab students. Kahlenberg, who is Jewish, graduated this spring from the University of Texas (UT) at Austin. Last year, he took part in UT student protests condemning Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and demanding the school divest from entities that do business with Israel.
This opinion column was published on Facebook on July 16, 2025. The author, Isaac Saney, is on faculty at the College of Continuing Education, Dalhousie University, and an adjunct professor of International Development Studies at Saint Mary’s University, both in Halifax, Canada. The essay is one among many articles and posts by revolutionaries in Cuba and supporters of the Cuban Revolution in other countries addressing a public debate that erupted in Cuba in the middle of July 2025. The controversy was triggered by contentious remarks that Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera, Cuba’s former Minister of Labor and Social Security, made on July 14 at the National Assembly, the country’s parliament, dismissing begging and homelessness as fictitious problems.
This essay was first published on Facebook on July 18, 2025. The author, Ernesto Limia Díaz, is First Vice-president of the Writers Association of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba. His essay is part of a public discussion that has swept Cuba over the last week. The debate broke out into the open in the aftermath of the resignation of Cuba’s Minister of Labor and Social Security, Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera, on July 15.
This article, published on July 15, 2025, on the website of the Presidency of the Cuban government, reports on the response by Miguel Díaz-Canel, Cuba’s president, to controversial remarks a day earlier by the country’s Minister of Labor and Social Security, Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera. On July 14, Feitó Cabrera told Cuba’s parliament that there are no beggars in Cuba, that the island’s beggars are faking poverty in search of easy money, and that those cleaning windshields on the streets or collecting rubbish from trash bins are actually collecting raw materials without paying taxes. Her televised remarks went viral on social media, causing an uproar by the public and government officials alike. Feitó Cabrera resigned her post on July 15.
In this essay, author Adam Shatz raises important issues that deserve further discussion in light of the gruesome October 7, 2023, attack led by Hamas that targeted civilians in Israel, the genocidal war Israel unleashed in retaliation on the entire population of Gaza, and a new wave of violence by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Zionist settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank. Shatz also examines political developments in the Mideast and beyond after the recent U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. He spells out the implications of last year’s Israeli invasion of Lebanon, which decimated the Iranian-backed Hezbollah and caused a substantial death toll among the broader civilian Lebanese population, and of the overthrow of the Assad dictatorship in Syria. This is the second of two parts.
In this essay, author Adam Shatz raises important issues that deserve further discussion in light of the gruesome October 7, 2023, attack led by Hamas that targeted civilians in Israel, the genocidal war Israel unleashed in retaliation on the entire population of Gaza, and a new wave of violence by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Zionist settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank. Shatz also examines political developments in the Mideast and beyond after the recent U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. He spells out the implications of last year’s Israeli invasion of Lebanon, which decimated the Iranian-backed Hezbollah and caused a substantial death toll among the broader civilian Lebanese population, and of the overthrow of the Assad dictatorship in Syria. This is the first of two parts.
This article documents the Israeli government’s recently unveiled plan to force 600,000 displaced Palestinians into a “humanitarian city” to be established on a strip of land where the city of Rafah, in southern Gaza, once stood. It aptly describes such a plan for what it really is: creating a concentration camp designed to crowd displaced Palestinians in a tiny area with the intention of eventually forcing them out of their destroyed homeland. “It’s forced displacement on pain of death or starvation, as a prelude to expulsion.”
“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” says Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University, in this essay. Among other essential points, Bartov answers the grotesque claim by many vociferous supporters of the state of Israel that recognizing the reality of the horror in Gaza is “antisemitic.”
This article describes protests by supporters of the Gaza Youth Committee, a group of Palestinians in Gaza opposing the gruesome character of the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks on Israel that killed about 1,200 Israelis, including children. The Gaza Youth Committee is collaborating with Standing Together, a peace organization of Jews and Palestinians in Israel promoting an end to the genocidal war by the Zionist state. These actions are a much-needed antidote to the brutality of Israel’s unrelenting war on the Palestinian people in Gaza and to the reactionary character of Hamas and its October 7 assault on Israel, which provided an opening to Israel’s right-wing government to launch the devastating war on Gaza.
“Strangers in the Land” tells the story of a people who, beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, migrated by the tens of thousands to a distant land they called Gum Shan – Gold Mountain. Americans initially welcomed these Chinese arrivals, but, as their numbers grew, horrific episodes of racial terror erupted on the Pacific coast. The history described by the book’s author, Michael Luo, a writer for the New Yorker magazine, is echoed in what millions of working people face in the United States today.
This article describes a pro-immigrant protest in Los Angeles on July 4. It was a fitting way to mark U.S. Independence Day, given the Trump administration’s intensified workplace raids and deportations of undocumented immigrants. L.A. has been the epicenter of many such protests over the last month since the White House picked the city to launch its aggressive dragnet, carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, targeting millions of workers across the country.
This article, based on interviews with Israeli troops, is a devastating report on the deliberate killing of at least hundreds, and the injuring of many thousands, of Palestinians waiting to receive humanitarian aid in Gaza. According to soldiers and officers who spoke to the Israeli daily Haaretz, commanders instructed them to open fire on people seeking food at aid distribution points despite knowing they posed no threat.
In the early morning hours of Sunday, June 22, the U.S. government joined Israel’s unprovoked aerial war on Iran, aimed — primarily — at destroying the country’s uranium enrichment facilities. This imperialist war has further destabilized the Middle East, set back any prospects for the Iranian people to eventually rid themselves of the oppressive regime in Tehran, and may contribute to new blows against the Palestinian people in Gaza and beyond.
This article, first published by the Los Angeles Public Press, documents a new form of the multi-faceted resistance by immigrant rights supporters to the Trump administration’s workplace raids and deportations of undocumented workers.
On June 14, U.S. president Donald Trump watched over a military parade in Washington, D.C. The lackluster spectacle was designed to celebrate Trump’s birthday, which coincided with the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army, and thus advance the process of establishing one-man rule in the United States. The same day, over 5 million people took part in “No Kings” rallies and marches across the country. These registered the growing opposition to intensifying workplace raids by heavily armed federal agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and to the danger that these — and other actions by the White House — pose to due process, civil liberties, and democratic rights. These protests followed a weeklong social explosion in Los Angeles in response to a spike of ICE raids.
This opinion column, which first appeared in the Washington Post on June 14, 2025, tackles an important cultural dimension of the recent protests in Los Angeles against the Trump administration’s intensified wave of workplace raids and deportations of undocumented immigrants.
On Friday afternoon [June 5, 2025], military-gear-clad ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] agents launched aggressive raids throughout Los Angeles. At one location, SEIU-USWW President David Huerta was assaulted, injured and detained while advocating for immigrant workers. While he has been released from the hospital, he remains in federal custody. Since then, the Trump administration has only escalated its attacks on the Los Angeles community, deploying the military against our own people. This is a clear attack on our communities, workers and our First Amendment rights. Demand that David Huerta be freed and ICE raids end immediately. The SEIU-USSW is organizing rapid-response rallies around the country [on Monday, June 9] to show that we stand with him and all workers targeted by ICE. There are already rallies popping up. Check to see if there’s one near you or organize your own! seiu.co/FreeDavid
This article reports on the campaign by SMART and other trade unions to return to the United States Kilmar Alberto Garcia, a sheet metal worker the Trump administration deported to El Salvador without due process, and to defend the rights of other immigrant workers.
Today, May 19, is the centenary of the birth of African American leader Malcolm X. To celebrate his life and legacy, we publish below excerpts from one of his most famous speeches, “The Ballot or the Bullet.” Malcolm X emerged as the outstanding leader of the popular struggle for Black liberation in the United States. The post-World War II rise of that struggle was one of the most important political developments in the last half of the 20th century. (The other such development, advancing revolutionary prospects for the exploited and oppressed, was the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959).
On May 14, Logan Rozos, a student at New York University (NYU), gave a brief but powerful speech during the graduation ceremony of Gallatin, a liberal arts school within NYU. In his remarks (transcribed by World-Outlook from the video of Rozos’ speech, and published in this post), the student condemned the U.S.-backed Israeli war on the Palestinian people in Gaza. NYU immediately announced it is withholding the student’s diploma as it pursues disciplinary actions against him, in the latest flashpoint between free speech principles and punishment for pro-Palestinian advocacy on U.S. college campuses.
The National Network on Cuba and the U.S.-Cuba Normalization Coalition have announced a campaign that combines raising money to send crucially needed cardiac pacemakers to Cuba with boosting efforts to end Washington’s economic war against Cuba, defend Cuba’s internationalist medical missions, and remove Cuba from the U.S. State Department State Sponsor of Terrorism (SSOT) list. That designation makes it almost impossible for Cuba to buy pacemakers commercially.
About 5.3 million people, nearly half of the country’s population of 11 million, filled the streets of cities, towns, and municipalities across the Caribbean island today to celebrate International Workers’ Day. “A sea marched toward Revolution Square this May Day,” began the report in Trabajadores, the daily newspaper of the Confederation of Cuban Workers, covering the mobilization of 600,000 in Havana. “It was certainly a sea of workers and other people, men, women, old, young, teenagers, and kids who came together to form this multicolored and enthusiastic stream, showing the world once again that Cubans defend their revolution and won’t be intimidated by blockades and other threats.”
The recent sweeping tariffs the Trump administration imposed on goods imported from dozens of countries across the globe pose important questions: What’s in the best interests of working people, free trade or protectionism? Do tariffs really benefit U.S. workers, as most top labor union officials claim? This editorial tackles these questions.
This article reports on successful protests in Sackets Harbor, upstate New York, which forced Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release three kids, and their mother, wrongly arrested during an ICE raid in the nearby North Harbor Dairy Farm in late March. The story offers an example of what can be done to resist some of the most extreme assaults on working families caught in the mass-deportation dragnet the Trump administration has unleashed since taking office in January.
In this essay, Palestinian American scholar Rashid Khalidi describes how Columbia is gagging students and faculty who have opposed Israel’s mass slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, as university officials are moving further to the right under pressure from the Trump administration. The university became the epicenter of student encampments and other protests that swept the country last spring opposing the U.S.-backed Israeli war in Gaza and demanding that schools divest from businesses benefiting the Israeli regime.
In this interview, Ukrainian socialist Denys Pilash outlines a working-class perspective on what the embattled people of Ukraine face today, after three years of a devastating war that is still raging. He also discusses how a real peace with justice can be achieved, which has to include the right of Ukraine to national self-determination.
This article by Helen Yaffe outlines the essential facts on Cuba’s internationalist medical programs. It also exposes the hypocrisy and cruelty of the escalating U.S. campaign aimed at tarnishing Cuba’s revolutionary example and undermining its medical missions around the world at the cost of countless lives.
This is a statement by the Amazon Labor Union – International Brotherhood of Teamsters (ALU-IBT Local 1) defending immigrant workers from government and employer attacks. The ALU represents Amazon workers at the company’s JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York.
This article reports on the arrest on March 8 of Mahmoud Khalil by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents. Khalil just graduated from Columbia University in New York City. He is among the thousands of students who have protested the U.S.-backed Israeli war on the Palestinian people and have denounced the disciplinary measures — including suspensions and expulsions — university authorities have carried out against such students to clamp down on pro-Palestinian advocacy. Khalil is an Algerian citizen of Palestinian origin and a legal immigrant to the United States. DHS agents reportedly told Khalil the government “had revoked his student visa,” even though he does not have a visa but a green card that gives him permanent resident status in the United States. Public protests and a letter writing campaign demanding Khalil’s immediate release are already underway.
In a lopsided loss, Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment (CAUSE) failed to secure a majority in a union vote held February 10-15 in Garner, North Carolina. The vote was 2,447 against to 829 for joining the union. About 76% of the approximately 4,300 workers eligible to vote cast ballots. Based on an interview with CAUSE co-founder and vice president Mary Hill, this article explores the reasons for this setback and what comes next.
This article reports on efforts by residents of Lincoln Heights, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, to defend themselves against provocations by neo-Nazi thugs and Ku Klux Klansmen by organizing counter-mobilizations and an armed watch. Nearly 83% of the town’s approximately 3,000 residents are African American. Lincoln Heights was the first self-governing Black community to be founded north of the Mason-Dixon line, which divided the Union from the Confederate South during the U.S. civil war.